WGANC Legacy Fifties-Sixties  | Valley of the Moon  | September 27-28, 2021

The WGANC Age Tournaments have had many names throughout the years.  Before 1953, it was called the Seniors & Grandmothers Tournament, but it was changed to the Seniors Tournament in 1953 (ages 50 and over).  In 1970 another age tournament was added, called Nifty-Fifties (50-59) and the Seniors Tournament was now 60 and over.  Due to the oversubscription of the Nifty-Fifties and the Seniors Tournament, more age groups were added in 1977:  Junior-Senior (ages 50-55), Mid-Seniors (ages 56-62), Seniors (ages 63 and over).

In 1983, a new age group was added – 49ers (ages 18-49)

In 1997, the Super Seniors Tournament was added (ages 72 and over)

In 2000, the age tournaments were reorganized again and the tournament for players 70 years old and up was named Swingin’ Seniors.

Finally in 2018, Sassy Sixties was renamed Fifties-Sixties, to include a larger age group.

WGANC Legacy The Eclectic  | Canyon Oaks  | August 23-24, 2021

 

ENTRIES OPEN: July 12, 2021

ENTRIES CLOSE: July 26, 2021

ENTRY FEE: TBA

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WGANC Legacy Swingin’ Seniors  | Oakhurst & Discovery Bay  | August 3-4, 2021

 

ENTRIES OPEN: June 21, 2021

ENTRIES CLOSE: July 5, 2021

ENTRY FEE: TBA per Team

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WGANC Legacy Team Challenge  | Marin & Bay Club Stone Tree  | July 14-15, 2021

 

ENTRIES OPEN: May 24, 2021

ENTRIES CLOSE: July 14, 2021

ENTRY FEE: TBA

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WGANC Legacy Stroke Play  | Sequoyah & Contra Costa | June 15-16, 2021

 

ENTRIES OPEN: May 3, 2021

ENTRIES CLOSE: May 17, 2021

ENTRY FEE: TBD per 2-Person Team

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It has been nearly two years since we last asked you to take what we call the One Word Survey. As brand perception surveys go, it’s simple and doesn’t leave much room for nuance. It’s more a word association game than a deep introspection into your feels about the leading brands in golf. (We’ll do that one later).

Despite its simplicity, the results are compelling and never fail to capture the attention of the golf equipment industry.

Given the rollercoaster the industry has ridden through COVID and all of 2020, we thought it was time to do it again.

As we sift through the results, we’ll not only look at what you had to say this time around but we’ll take a closer look at how perceptions have changed over the three surveys in this series.

Which brands are trending up? Which brands are trending down? Those are the questions we hope to answer.

Greg Norman said on Sunday he tested positive for the coronavirus and is getting treatment.

Greg Norman shared photos on social media Friday of a visit to the hospital. On Thursday, he posted a video on Instagram saying he was experiencing coronavirus symptoms.

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Have you ever experienced an Out of Body SENSATION during your golf swing? It’s that moment when you get everything in sync for the perfect shot. Your subconscious mind seems to picture your swing in slow motion as it takes control of your body. I now realize that my brute force in my External Game of Golf is limiting my lower scores.

I decided to share these thoughts after I finished reading “The Inner Game of Golf”. Improve your game by letting your subconscious mind take control.

So many golfers, including myself, rush our backswing during the transition and never give our body time to start the shift of our weight to our leading foot at the top of our swing. Are you experiencing the following in your iron swings?
1/ You finish your swing falling back on your trailing foot.
2/ You rarely take any divot after the point where your ball rests.
3/ Your divot starts before your ball.
4/ The direction of your divot is never running up your target line.

Practical-golf.com provided this image. Impact your ball and then take your divot.

You need to slow down your transition and accelerate from the top of your swing. Danny Maude refers to this motion as swinging from “high to low” as your club falls DOWN through the ball. Your rushed, brute force swing from the top of your swing is killing your game.
a. Add rhythm to your swing by thinking 1, 2, 3 (with “2” at the top of your swing).
b. Force yourself to start the press forward (instead of backwards) at the top of your swing so that you WILL take a divot (or at least some grass) after the point where your ball is at rest.
c. Force yourself to finish your swing so that you are balancing on your leading foot and watching the amazing hit that you just made.

I know that many, including Tiger Woods, shift their minds into a yoga like trance where their subconscious takes over their swing. I’m not sure that I have described this correctly but I do know that it’s a subconscious experience. It’s that strange awareness when your mind takes control of your brute-force swing. Pros get this feeling on almost every shot.

It’s generally accepted that nine out of every 10 drivers sold come from Callaway, TaylorMade, PING, Titleist and Cobra – the so-called Big Five. It’s a ratio that hasn’t moved much, if at all, this century. Sure, there have been individual clubs that have stood out for a season or two but, by and large, the status quo remains unthreatened.

The Big Five’s domination is so complete that there’s precious little room at the table for the “challenger brands.” Companies such as Wilson, Cleveland-Srixon, Mizuno, PXG and every other company that makes drivers are fighting and scrapping for just a sliver of that last 10 percent of the driver market.

As far as the Big Five are concerned, the challenger brands are more of an annoyance than anything else.

Against that backdrop, Tour Edge’s five straight years of record sales and 33 straight years of turning a profit are, on the face of it, remarkable. At the very least, it’s worth a deeper dive to find out why.

Tour Edge: A Little Background

David Glod started Tour Edge in his garage outside of Chicago in the mid-1980s. A college teammate of Lee Janzen and Rocco Mediate, Glod was equal parts golf pro and entrepreneur. Like any good entrepreneur, he found a large gaping hole in a lucrative market: high-quality, low-cost clubs for the average recreational golfer. By 2000, Glod decided to expand into premium equipment aimed at the better player and in 2005 introduced the ultra-premium Exotics line.

New Sub 70 Forged Wedges

Key Takeaways

Two new wedges for two different styles of play.286 Forged wedge is for the player with a steeper angle of attack; features a more rounded sole.JB Forged wedge offers more versatility – for players with a shallower angle of attack who hit a variety of shots around the green.Both are available now on Sub 70’s website.

Sub 70’s new 286 Forged and JB Forged wedges represent new ground for the direct-to-consumer brand. It’s one thing to offer a wedge because, well, you have to if you want to be a full-line company. It’s another thing entirely to offer wedges aimed at specific types of play.

And while it’s a far cry from the plethora of grinds, shapes, styles and grooves the usual suspects offer, the new Sub 70 286 Forged wedge and JB Forged wedge give you something you haven’t had before from DTC brands.

Options.

Sub 70 286 and JB Wedges – How Do You Play?

“Instead of heaving 14 grinds like Vokey has, we’re going to offer two options,” says Sub 70 owner, founder and guiding spirit Jason Hiland. “One is for the creative player with low-bounce options and more heel relief. The other is for the golfer who is more straightforward with his wedge game and wants a traditional, rounded sole.”

WGANC-Legacy Champion of Champions  | Ruby Hill  | April 21, 2021

 

ENTRIES OPEN: March 8, 2021

ENTRIES CLOSE: March 22, 2021

ENTRY FEE: TBA

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WGANC-Legacy Team Match Play  | Fort Washington | May 3-4, 2021

 

ENTRIES OPEN: March 22, 2021

ENTRIES CLOSE: April 5, 2021

ENTRY FEE: TBD per 2-Person Team

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WGANC Legacy Two Person Scramble I  | Auburn Valley  | May 5-6, 2021

 

ENTRIES OPEN: April 12, 2021

ENTRIES CLOSE: May 6, 2021

ENTRY FEE: TBA

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December 21, 2020

2021 LPGA Women’s Golf: Back-to-Back On the Bay

The LPGA Tour will feature a back-to-back visit to the Bay Area in 2021.

Things will start off June 3-6 with the playing of the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open on The Lake Course at The Olympic Club. The championship will mark the first time a major women’s competition will be held on the elite layout.

The following week (June 10-13)  and just 4 miles away, Lake Merced Golf Club will host the annual LPGA MEDIHEAL Championship.

“Lake Merced is such a special place to me, both as the site of my first LPGA Tour win as a professional in 2014 and for my eagle in a playoff in 2018, which is definitely one of the highlights of my career,” said 15-time LPGA Tour winner Lydia Ko. “I always love going to San Francisco, and to add the opportunity to play a major at The Olympic Club is just amazing. Thank you to the USGA for bringing us to one of the most iconic venues in the country.”

Lee Westwood was voted as the European Tour's golfer of the year for 2020 on Monday, winning the award for the fourth time in his career after ending the season as the Race to Dubai champion at the age of 47.

Tiger and Charlie Woods clearly had a blast at the PNC Championship -- a father and son enjoying golf. Maybe the son will end up being the one to help his father's game.

Charlie Woods was the talk of the PNC Championship, and although he and his dad, Tiger Woods, finished seventh, the elder Woods called the weekend "incredibly special for us."

Jin Young Ko missed most of the LPGA Tour season and still won the yearlong money title by claiming the CME Group Tour Championship and its $1.1 million top prize.