Jin Young Ko picked up her fourth birdie on the par-5 16th and closed with two pars for a 2-under 69, giving her a four-shot lead Saturday at the Founders Cup as she tries to win for the third time this year.
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There's been a Tiger Woods sighting, as he was seen watching his son, Charlie, at a junior event this weekend.
Spain's Rafa Cabrera Bello surged into a two-shot lead with a faultless seven-under 64 as compatriot and world No. 1 Jon Rahm slipped six shots off the pace after carding a one-over 72 in the third round of the Spanish Open on Saturday.
Chad Ramey, making his third start of the year and fifth in his PGA Tour career, and Sungjae Im each closed their Friday afternoon rounds with birdies on the par-5 ninth to lead the Shriners Children's Open by a stroke.
Jin Young Ko had a three-stroke lead with four holes left Friday when second-round play in the LPGA Tour's Cognizant Founders Cup was suspended because of darkness.
Phil Mickelson shot a 6-under 66 on Friday for a share of the first-round lead with Matt Gogel in the PGA Tour Champions' Constellation Furyk & Friends Invitational.
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The big crowds following Jon Rahm in his return to Spain are starting to bother the world's top-ranked golfer.
Former NBA player J.R. Smith will make his collegiate golf debut for North Carolina A&T next week at the Phoenix Invitational hosted by Elon.
The Maxfli Tour/Tour X are arguably the most underrated premium golf balls on the market.
As our resident ball expert Tony Covey asserts: “The bottom line is that Maxfli Tour absolutely belongs in the conversation with the leading direct-to-consumer balls on the market and there’s a strong argument to be made that it’s one of the most consistent balls that doesn’t have a Titleist logo on it. For golfers looking to save a few bucks, the Maxfli Tour is an exceptional offering.”
With all of that said, we’d like to get feedback from MyGolfSpy readers.
TESTERS WANTED
We’re looking for four testers to try the 2021 Maxfli Tour/TourX balls and report back.
Sung Kang eagled his final hole Thursday in the Shriners Children's Open for a 10-under 61 that gave him a two-shot lead after the first round.
Jin Young Ko, coming off a one-shot loss in last week's LPGA Classic, shot an 8-under 63 on Thursday to build a three-shot lead at the Founders Cup.
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Jon Rahm was 6-under-par through his first eight holes before making his only bogey before the turn and finishing with three more birdies on his back nine at the Spanish Open, day one.
Arccos Caddie 2022 Updates – Key Takeaways
Arccos Caddie is getting some key updates this fall.Smart Club Distances better reflects how far your best shots go.Weather and Location Scenarios adjust Smart Club Distances.New putting analytics include second and third putts in Putting Strokes Gained.The new Arccos 2022 updates remind me of the old Satchel Paige quote: Don’t look back; something might be gaining on you.
When it comes to golf data and analytics specific to your game, Arccos Caddie is the industry’s gold standard. Provided, that is, if you don’t mind toting your phone around (if you do, the wrist-mounted ShotScope is the data-collector of choice). Never one to stand still, Arccos Caddie is enhancing a couple of important features and adding a new one.
So, if you love analyzing your golf game and bringing those analytics to the course, read on, my friends.
Arccos Caddie 2022 Updates
What ol’ Satch was saying is really a business truism. If you’re the industry leader and want to stay the industry leader, don’t stand still. Sometimes the moves are truly beneficial advancements. Other times, they’re just something new and different. Whether the new Across 2022 updates are the former or the latter will ultimately come out in the wash. But the important thing for Arccos is to keep moving forward.
The first upgrade, by itself, is a nice little enhancement. Smart Club Distances is an improvement to the existing Smart Distance Club Average feature. Essentially, Smart Club Distances tells the golfer how far his or her well-struck shots go with each club. It accounts for mishits and other outliers and is similar to ShotScope’s P-Average function.
We often hear the debate about distance and control to lower the scores for pros but is that relevant for your game? We all know that longer drives will get you closer to the green and shorter approach shots are easier to make than longer approach shots. But the real solution to take your scores below 100 or 90 or 80 for Weekend Warriors and Aging Hackers really lies in your ability to make consistent shots.
Bryson DeChambeau is the perfect example of a player who may be a little misguided. His efforts to build strength and distance are not helping his consistency in hitting greens and sinking putts. Mind you his driving distance as a pro is far more important than yours where YOU can choose a tee to suit YOUR game. You should be playing from a tee that allows you to hit the green in regulation on par 4’s and 5’s.
Where Distance is Critical
If you play with friends who chide you into playing longer tees because they are younger or stronger and love to hit longer drives, you have 3 choices: (1) Learn to hit longer drives, (2) improve the accuracy of your drives and approach shots OR (3) IGNORE THEM and play from the tee that suits your game.
The longer you try to drive your balls the more miss-hits you can expect to make and the more your drives will fly deep into the rough. Long ball driving contests are the perfect example. The harder they swing the greater the chance they have to miss their target grid (AND THEY OFTEN MISS ON MOST OF THEIR 8 TRIES).
Check out the pipes on Kyle vs Bryson. It takes a lot of work to build the right body if you want to be a long ball hitter (ref. Golf Magazine Blog).
Kyle Berkshire won the recent longest driver contest. It’s not a great idea to try to duplicate what he is doing. First he is athletic but not overly muscular like Bryson DeChambeau. His plan for speed and power takes years to develop. He trains his body for speed by hitting at least 50 balls as fast as he can about 3 days every week and he works on adding arm and body strength without adding a lot of body mass.
Brooks Koepka kept the focus not on his made-for-TV match with Bryson DeChambeau, but on DeChambeau's hitting, saying his ability to hit great lengths would "change the game of golf forever."
Jon Rahm is hopeful that he can emulate compatriot Seve Ballesteros by becoming only the second three-time winner of the Spanish Open.
On the last day of this year’s golf ball test, we had a little bit of extra time to run a few smaller experiments. Near the top of our list was mud balls. We wanted to find out what happens, or at least what you should expect to happen, when mud finds its way onto your golf ball.
It also seemed like the perfect opportunity to try and answer another question we get asked all the time: Does cover damage, whether that’s from the cart path, a crisp bunker shot, a tree or anything else that leaves a mark, impact the performance of the golf ball?
The original plan was for two separate articles but it turns out that the severity of the real-world implications is driven by the extent of the damage or disruption. In general, whether it’s mud on the cover or some sort of other disruption or damage to the cover, the resulting ball flight is basically the same. Not good, but the same.
So, with that said, let’s look at what we found.
Key Takeaways
It doesn’t take much damage to have an impact
It turns out that even the kind of thing most of us would overlook can cause performance issues. Anything that alters the prescribed shape and depth of the dimples, whether that comes from filling them with mud or scraping bits of them away with a crisp wedge shot out of a bunker (or a not-so-crisp drive that hits a cart path or tree), can be problematic. When you mess with the golf ball’s aerodynamic structures (dimples), bad things can, and often will, happen.
Bryson DeChambeau hinted at it during the Ryder Cup, and now it is going to happen: a golf match between DeChambeau and adversary Brooks Koepka. The 12-hole match between the two golfers who feuded for much of 2021 will take place Nov. 26 in Las Vegas.
