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2023 Golf Stand Bag Buyer’s Guide

Your choice of a golf stand bag could be the difference between shooting your personal best or heading home with a sore back and aching shoulders.

Golf is hard enough. One of the few variables you have full control over is your golf bag. This year we tested 42 stand bags with you, the golfer, in mind. We put each bag through a rigorous test to ensure your hard-earned money is being spent on something that delivers what it promises.

Let’s find you a new stand bag.

Winner – PING Hoofer

Who is it for?

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The Best Golf Stand Bags of 2023 – What to Look For

Storage

If you’re looking for a new stand bag, obviously you would rather walk than ride. In any case, it’s important to find a bag with ample storage. You shouldn’t have to decide which accessories to bring to the course.

Not only does the amount of storage matter but the usability does, too. Don’t let looks fool you—some bags hold a lot more than meets the eye while others punch well below their weight in this category. If maximum storage is important to you, you’ll enjoy the spacious real estate in the PING Hoofer or Vessel Player IV.

The Genesis Invitational has arrived!

A mini-major is upon us in LA as new U.S. Open exemptions and Final Qualifying sites are announced.

Plus, insights from McIlroy and Scott, This, That, Tweets and Reads.

I really enjoyed watching the final round of the Waste Management Championship with 3 leaders who fought neck and neck throughout the day. I like to root for the underdog, so Nick Taylor (ranked 223rd in the world) had a surprising performance as he kept up with Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm who were fighting it out to take the number 1 golfer position in the world. Nick Taylor has not won a major championship in years so I was really curious to find out how he had changed his game to stay in contention.

Bonus money was added to this tournament, so the winner took $3.6 million and second place took $2.18 million. That prize money added pressure on every shot for the leaders and especially on Taylor who really has been a Canadian No-Name in golf for some time.

Game Changer
Nick Taylor had to make a number of pressure putts over 10 feet throughout the final round. After the round he described his NEWFOUND SUCCESS. Over the past few months, he has been putting with a claw grip with his trailing hand.

–His lead hand is a conventional putting grip but with his first finger pointing directly down the leading side of his putter grip.
–His trailing hand is a claw grip with his wrist turned sideways so that it can’t bend during his swing.
-As long as he chose the right line and the right amount of swing speed his claw grip allows him to swing directly up his target line. Eliminating any trailing wrist action stops his stronger right hand from pushing his putter in an arc around his body.

I love this concept and plan to adopt this claw grip as I have been putting by releasing my trailing hand at the point of impact so that my leading hand swings my putter directly up my target line. Using a claw grip with my trailing hand should give me more stability in my swing especially for putts under 15 feet.

After watching practice rounds and the pro-am on Wednesday morning at Riviera Country Club, our golf experts weighed in on what to expect from Tiger Woods and the field this weekend.

Rory McIlroy said the PGA Tour should build itself around its stars, just like the NBA did to become one of the most popular leagues in the world.

Employing a caddie has long been a luxury the average golfer can’t afford. Imagine the difference in your game if you had someone (or something) to carry your bag and give you precise yardages.

Game changer!

The leader in electric trolleys and golf push carts has revealed its biggest innovation yet. Introducing the Motocaddy M7 GPS, the first electric golf caddie to feature a fully integrated touchscreen GPS unit.

The all-new M7 GPS promises the “ultimate caddie experience” by striking a perfect balance of premium features and functionality. Let’s take a closer look at this innovative electric golf caddie design and learn more about how it improves on the beloved Motocaddy M7 REMOTE.

Motocaddy M7 GPS Availability and Pricing

Available nowRetail is $1,899Free 12-month trial of Motocaddy’s Performance Plan included with purchase ($69.99 to renew)

Big Shoes to Fill

The Motocaddy M7 GPS is a successor of sorts to the M7 Remote—or its more advanced sibling. You’ll be happy to learn that the M7 GPS still features the same benefits that made the M7 Remote a perennial winner of MyGolfSpy’s Best Electric Push Cart award. If it ain’t broke … well, you know how the saying goes. Instead of altering the DNA that’s made Motocaddy’s electric golf push carts so successful, the brand used the M7 Remote as the baseline for the creation of the M7 GPS.

Tiger Woods played and walked 16 holes in the Genesis Invitational Pro-Am Wednesday morning in his first public round of golf since missing the cut at last year's Open Championship in St. Andrews.

Mito Pereira, who last year squandered a chance to become the first man from Chile to win a major championship, has officially joined the LIV Golf League.

Fujikura introduces Axiom, a new composite iron shaft.Available in three weights: 75, 105 and 125 gramsMSRP is $105-$125/shaft

Question: What would happen if you took Fujikura’s VeloCore technology and put it in an iron shaft?

Answer: Fujikura Axiom.

The Fujikura Ventus family of wood golf shafts is class-leading. And VeloCore (velocity at the core) technology is what makes Ventus, well, Ventus.  It’s also Fujikura’s best-selling shaft ever and the “it” shaft on professional tours and in the after-market over the last four years. 

But popularity comes with a hefty price tag. A Fujikura Ventus or Ventus TR wood shaft runs roughly $350 without installation, adapter tip, or grip. 

Similarly, the Fujikura Axiom iron shaft likely isn’t for the cost-conscious golfer. Companies often prefer the term discerning, which is a nice way of saying the target consumer is one who will pay a premium to explore every available avenue in search of additional performance.

Joel Dahmen, in his seventh PGA tour season, is a new father and a cancer survivor. He's also apt to rip his shirt off to celebrate. Netflix's "Full Swing" might turn him into a household name.

At his news conference at the Genesis Invitational, Tiger Woods discussed his health, playing competitive golf and where the PGA Tour stands in its ongoing battle with LIV Golf.

Despite admitting that he is "rusty" and dealing with ankle and foot problems, Tiger Woods insists he wouldn't be playing the Genesis Invitational if he didn't think he could contend or even win.

Topgolf Callaway 2022 Financials – Key Takeaways

2022 total sales hit nearly $3.996 BILLIONFive-percent increase over 2021Topgolf topped the company in revenueFull-year net profit of $158 million

The Topgolf Callaway 2022 financials tell several different stories.

And if you’re a shareholder in Topgolf Callaway, none of them appears to be bad.

Topgolf Callaway Brands topped $3.995 billion in 2022. That’s a 27.5-percent increase over 2021’s record-setting year, despite taking a nearly $150 million hit on foreign currency exchange.

It may be a bit of a surprise but the Topgolf division now is the company’s top income producer. It accounts for nearly 40 percent of all of Callaway’s revenue.

There’s much to discuss, but before we do, we need to issue our standard MyGolfSpy disclaimer. We are not nor do we claim to be financial experts, investment counselors or Wall Street-level business analyst types. We’re golf industry geeks who like to read.

L.A.B. Golf adds the Link.1 blade putter to their 2023 putter lineup.The Link.1 features the same torque-balanced design found in the popular L.A.B. Golf mallets.The Link.1 is available at lab golf.com. MSRP $469 for stock and customs starting at $559.

L.A.B. Golf unveiled their new blade putter last month, the L.A.B Golf Link.1. If you missed it, don’t feel bad. We had a great many golf products cross our screens and inboxes last month. Some of them were bound to get lost in the glossy deluge of newness. A single new putter from a small putter company doesn’t stand much of a chance of being noticed when the big players in golf are throwing millions at the public’s attention.

Now that the new release season has calmed down a bit, it seems like an ideal time to take a longer look at the Link.1. What makes this new putter different from the previous L.A.B. putters? More importantly, what separates the Link.1 from other blade putters in the marketplace?

Even more importantly, how does the L.A.B. Link.1 roll the ball?

The 16th hole at the Waste Management Phoenix Open, complete with slurry trolling, ambitious cosplay and a little golf on the side, lives up to its billing as "the greatest party on grass."

Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California, is the location for the PGA Tour's the Genesis Invitational, which begins Thursday. Here's how you can watch all of the action.

Calling it "such an amazing honor," former world No. 1 golfer Stacy Lewis, 37, was named Team USA's captain for the 2024 Solheim Cup in Gainesville, Virginia, the LPGA announced with a news release Monday.

Rahm, McIlroy and Scheffler have been battling it out for No. 1 in the world. Who's got the top spot in our rankings this week?