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Jennifer Kupcho and Lexi Thompson share the lead in the Pelican Women's Championship heading into the weekend.

Defending champion Antoine Rozner claimed a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Dubai Championship.

If Tiger Woods is going to return to competitive golf from his February car crash, Justin Thomas says he believes the 15-time major winner will have to feel like he can "play well."

The PXG 0211 Z is designed for less skilled or lower swing speed golfers.The new lineup includes a driver, fairway, hybrid and hybrid irons.Available now.

The pitch for the new PXG 0211 Z was simple and straightforward. “I would love to send you a set of clubs for someone in your life who is golf-interested and has a very low skill level,” the email read.

I had but one thought …

“Honey …”

A little background here: My wife has been threatening to take up golf for a few years. A time or two, she’s asked me to get her clubs and, once or twice, I almost did. Ultimately, I didn’t and I’m none the worse for it. But when the opportunity arose to try clubs explicitly designed for the golf-interested with very low skill, something just felt right. In hindsight, I shouldn’t have said a word. I could have saved the clubs for her birthday. She’d never have known the difference. Total lack of foresight on my part.

Marc Leishman, Russell Henley, Talor Gooch and Luke List shared the lead Thursday in the suspended first round of the Houston Open, with List still on the course when darkness stopped play.

Phil Mickelson shot a 6-under 65 while season points leader Bernhard Langer battled through a balky for a 68 in the opening round of the Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

Leona Maguire hit every fairway and took only 24 putts on Thursday to finish at 8-under 62 for a two-shot lead in the Pelican Women's Championship.

Denmark's Joachim B. Hansen eased into a two-shot lead after the opening day at the Dubai Championship on Thursday as he signed off for a flawless 63 at Jumeirah Golf Estates.

Q3 Financial Reports – Key Takeaways

Big Q3 sales numbers for Acushnet, even bigger numbers for CallawayCallaway’s $826 million in sales is a company record, paced by TopgolfAcushnet sales hit $521 million despite a drop in ball salesCallaway expects to top $3 billion in sales in 2021

If the Q3 financial reports for golf’s two top companies tell us anything, it’s this:

It’s a one-horse race, baby.

Callaway and Acushnet have battled neck and neck in terms of overall size, sales and profits. But with Callaway merging with/acquiring Topgolf this year, it’s no longer even a contest.

The top line tells the story: Acushnet is reporting Q3 sales of $521.6 million. A nice eight-percent jump over Q3 of last year and a full 25 percent better than the pre-pandemic Q3 of 2019.

Callaway? Try $826 million in Q3 sales.

Rory McIlroy has switched back to long-time coach Michael Bannon, who is now allowed to travel to the United States from Northern Ireland following COVID-19 restrictions.

Technology in the advancement of the golf ball design over the past 70 years has been revolutionary for the game of golf. But, you need to take advantage of the technology that fits your game. Your swing speed is the key factor in determining the ideal ball for your game, so you should choose wisely.

In the 1950’s, golf balls normally ended their life with a deep cut through the cover. As a kid I spent hours cutting off the skin of those damaged balls, finding the end of the single strand of elastic and running out hundreds of yards of elastic banding to get to the rubber core of the ball. I was amazed at the elastic stretching and wrapping process that must have been used to create those balls.

More recently balls are made from multiple cores of rubber with various formulations for durability and flexibility. One manufacturer tried to change the manufacturing concept by using a metal ball bearing for the core of the ball. The PGA never approved that design even though the manufacturer argued that it had superior features of length and control over other balls. In my experience I could never get that ball to draw and constantly hit fades with it until I deepsixed it in a pond.

You may have seen slow motion videos where a club deforms a ball at the point of impact, but this video shows a 150 Mile Per Hour impact of a ball on a steel plate. It’s incredible that the ball returns to a round shape after this impact.

I included this video to help you understand that you need a swing speed of at least 100 MPH to compress the 3 part Titleist Pro V-1 golf ball. Bryson DeChambeau has a swing speed of 133 MPH. The typical swing speed of 20 to 50 year old golfer can be over 100 MPH. That’s the minimum swing speed needed to benefit from the 3 part Pro V-1.

 

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As part of this year’s golf ball test, we included the popular Reload brand of refurbished golf balls. While we know many of you are more than willing to pay the full ride for a premium golf ball, we also know that our audience is rife with bargain hunters.

There’s no shame in trying to save a few bucks and, when it come to golf balls, if golfers are buying it—particularly if it has a urethane cover—we want to know how it performs.

To that end, the Reloads were treated like every other ball in our test. The robot hit the full complement of shots at all three swing speeds for driver and irons.

While the performance was eye-opening (and not in a good way), we also quickly realized that performance was only part of the story.

Longtime PGA Tour rules official Slugger White becomes the most prominent person after Greg Norman to join LIV Golf ahead of its planned league launch in 2022.

Who STRUGGLES with downhill lies?

This quick tip will sort ya out and get you hitting LASER DINGERS.

Let me know if you do this, or will give it a try in the comment

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STRUGGLE WITH SLICING OR HOOKING YOUR DRIVES?

Try this little NUGGET to straighten out your drives and hit those DINGERS

LET ME KNOW IF THIS DRILL WORKS FOR YOU

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Struggle with bunker shots? Do this!

If you struggle with bunker shots, you should try this to help you get it out of the bunker EVERY SINGLE TIME
Trust me, this makes a MASSIVE difference for your bunker game

How To Do It

1⃣ Follow the steps in the video
2⃣ For the short bunker shot you have your weight 20/80 on your left side but you bend your right leg more and keep your center of gravity in the center even though the weight is 20/80. You also need to swing slightly slower on the way down but still accelerate through. This is the hardest bunker shot because you do the opposite of the other two bunker shots

Just give it a try, you have nothing to lose

LET ME KNOW IF THIS DRILL WORKS FOR YOU

STRUGGLE with chipping into the grain?

This little gem will make a MASSIVE difference in your chipping game

LET ME KNOW IF THIS DRILL WORKS FOR YOU

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This putting drill WILL get you addicted

A quick but difficult putting drill helps you dial in your 6 foot range This will make a MASSIVE difference to your putting game

How To Do It

1⃣ Set up stations 6 foot from the hole at 4 different locations
2⃣ Have 5 balls ready to use
3⃣ Start at whatever station you want
4⃣ You must make all 5 putts before moving on

This might seem easy but let me tell ya…it isn’t. Once you get this down and becomes automatic, increase distance by a foot or add more balls

LET ME KNOW IF THIS DRILL WORKS FOR YOU