Adam Svensson handled the cold air and the heat of contention as if he had been there before, closing with a 6-under 64 to win the RSM Classic for his first PGA Tour victory.
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Lydia Ko never won more in one day than on Sunday in the CME Group Tour Championship, where she claimed the richest prize in women's golf at $2 million with a victory that allowed her to win LPGA player of the year in Florida.
Rory McIlroy finished the year as Europe's No. 1-ranked golfer for the fourth time -- and first since 2015 -- despite Jon Rahm winning the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai on Sunday.
Want to test the new Nippon N.S. PRO 850GH neo iron shafts?
Welcome to Testers Wanted where we recruit readers like you for objective feedback on products that roll into HQ throughout the year!
Nippon N.S. PRO 850GH neo Details
It’s a long product name with a simple story. If you’re a golfer who uses a 40-50-gram driver shaft, Nippon designed the N.S. PRO 850GH neo for you.
In other words, golfers who benefit from lightweight driver and fairway wood shafts should find a similar upside with sub-100 gram iron shafts.
The design architecture is similar to the N.S. PRO 950 neo with the 850GH neo coming in a weight class lower (84.5 grams in R flex and 88 in S flex). Moreover, the N.S. PRO 850GH neo acknowledges two key industry realities. First, many golfers are better off with irons that launch higher and spin more. Also, the typical modern GI (game-improvement) iron design features less static loft (hello 40-degree pitching wedges) with a lower center of gravity to try to offset the jacked lofts.
Leona Maguire of Ireland had four straight birdies around the turn and added a pair of birdies late for a 9-under 63 on Saturday.
Patrick Rodgers ran off four straight birdies late in his round and finished with a par save for a 6-under 64, giving him a share of the lead with Ben Martin in the RSM Classic and another chance at his first PGA Tour title.
Rory McIlroy is well-placed for another Race to Dubai title after his 7-under 65 on Saturday left him three shots off the lead heading into the final round at the season-ending DP World Tour Championship.
A federal judge in Florida on Friday dismissed golfer Patrick Reed's $750 million defamation lawsuit against Brandel Chamblee, the Golf Channel and others.
Harry Higgs played bogey-free on the more difficult Seaside course for a 7-under 63, giving him a share of the lead with Cole Hammer and Andrew Putnam going into the weekend of the RSM Classic.
More than $100 million will be awarded to LPGA players for the first time in 2023, an increase of about 18% over what was planned for this season and more than doubling what was paid out on the tour just a decade ago.
Matt Fitzpatrick and Tyrell Hatton share the lead at 12-under par after the second round at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai.
There is a lot of cool gear in the golf equipment world that doesn’t always fit neatly into Most Wanted Tests or Buyer’s Guides. You still want to know how it performs. In our We Tried It series, we put gear to the test and let you know if it works as advertised.
What We Tried
Today we’re reviewing Flight Lines or, more specifically, Vokey SM9 wedges with Flight Lines added to the hosel.
Your Flight Lines Tester
Tony Covey. Grind aficionado and all-around wedge nerd with a sometimes exceptional (and often not-so-much) short game.
What are Flight Line Wedges?
Flight Line wedges are, well, wedges. More specifically, Flight Lines are, as the name kind of suggests, a series of three lines milled into the hosel of Vokey wedges. Apologies in advance for the lack of compelling photos but, guys, it’s three lines … on a hosel.
Lydia Ko began her quest for the largest prize in women's golf history by hitting a tree and making bogey on a par 5. The rest of Thursday in the CME Group Tour Championship couldn't have gone better.
Cole Hammer shot an 8-under 64 on the Plantation Course and leads the PGA Tour's RSM Classic by a stroke over Ben Griffin after the first round.
Matt Fitzpatrick's fast start helped him move out in front in the Race to Dubai as Rory McIlroy struggled in the first round of the season-ending DP World Tour Championship.
Stock. Made For. Premium. Featured. Aftermarket. Exotic. No Upcharge.
All common descriptors of the shaft in your driver. The challenge is understanding which one is right for you. The quick answer? It depends.
The longer answer: It really depends.
Selecting the best driver shaft isn’t always a case of you get what you pay for, though many boutique club fitters might have you believe otherwise. The only guarantee that comes with a $400 shaft is that you’re $400 poorer after buying it. Conversely, plenty of golfers can find better performance with something other than the stock off-the-rack shaft.
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A golf hole, humanly speaking, is like life, in as much as one cannot judge justly of any person’s character the first time one meets him. Sometimes it takes years to discover and appreciate hidden qualities which only time discloses, and he usually discloses them on the links. C.B. MACDONALD
This is the sixth in a series of blogs to help you simplify your knowledge of golf and hopefully improve your game. [These tips are distilled from an article published by Luke Kerr-Dineen for a GOLF franchise called “Play Smart”.]
21/ Plan for Your Shot Pattern: In golf, we deal with luck in terms of shot patterns (according to Scott Fawcett, Founder of DECADE GOLF). Think of your shot pattern like the spray of a shotgun blast: Some pellets may end closer to where you were aiming, but others may veer off slightly, and you never know which one ends where you want. This fact is what makes golf so darn hard. That’s why you should plan around your typical dispersion pattern for each type of club and distance. Instead of trying to hit your approach shot inside of eight feet, choose a target that results in a safe location for an occasional birdie putt. You would be stunned at to know how many PGA Tour players aim away from a hole, as you should to stack the deck in your favor.
22/ Count Down Your Swing: Dr. Matthias Grabenhorst, who has spent his life researching the subject of human reaction, published a study last year that showed humans tend to react best to events a few seconds into the future. Instantaneous reactions are often clumsy, but a little head start can go a long way. Dr. Bob Christina of UNC Greensboro, wanted to see if that held true for golf. They took a group of 32 golfers and found that those who counted backward from four (as in “four, three, two, one”) before hitting shots performed the best in terms of accuracy. Those who decided on their own when to hit their shot often stood over the ball for a lot longer and fared much worse.
23/ Understand “Spin Loft”: As defined by TrackMan, it’s the measured angle between the loft delivered by the club at impact and the angle of attack into the ball—the larger the number, the more the ball will spin. When hitting driver, it’s optimal to generate the lowest spin loft number as possible because that’s what fuels distance. So you should be driving into the ball with a positive angle of attack. For shorter shots, a higher spin-loft value is key for shot-stopping power into the greens.
The total angle of your club face and swing impact angle add up to your launch angle. Use that angle to add spin and stopping power when your ball hits the green.
24/ Practice the Money Putts: Sinking an 8-foot putt is a “money putt”. Sink more of them and play like the pro golfers who sink 53% of them. Golfers shooting in the 80’s sink 33% of 8-footers and golfers shooting in the 90’s sink 27%.
The journey to your goal is going to be full of challenges and failures along the way. In a game as difficult as golf, there will always be more failures than successes.
Your approach to these challenges and failures is also known as your mindset for golf, and it’s a huge factor in your overall success. The good news is that your mindset for golf isn’t fixed, and we can continually work on it and develop the growth mindset of a champion.
How do you view failure?
Do you see it as an indication that you are not good enough or that it’s a way to learn how to be better?
Do you play with fear of making mistakes because of what failure would say about you to others?
The studies of Professor Carol Dweck at Stanford University prove how mindset affects learning and skill development. She concludes that people who exhibit more of what she calls a “growth mindset” to learning, viewing failure as a way to learn most effectively, and seeing challenges as a positive, are more successful in the long-term. The opposite of a growth mindset is called a fixed mindset which describes a person who sees their ability as fixed and hence they are less concerned about the learning and more concerned about the result as it speaks to how good they are. In the context of golf, I call these two different mindsets and types of golfers, Mastery and Ego Golfers.
