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Ryan Palmer surged into the lead with consecutive birdies midway through the back nine and was up 2 shots after two rounds at the Valero Texas Open.
Beatrice Wallin (71) and Latanna Stone (72) were tied for the 36-hole lead at even-par 144 as 30 golfers advanced to the final round of the Augusta National Women's Amateur.
Six days before the start of the 86th Masters, defending champion Hideki Matsuyama was forced to withdraw from the second round of the Valero Texas Open because of a neck injury on Friday.
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., but 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.
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Odyssey’s Toulon Garage Putter Builder V3.0
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The Toulon Garage is Again Open For Business
We had our first peek into the Toulon Garage back in 2017. While cool, that first version of the Toulon Garage was a little clunky. Still, it was by far the best online custom putter building tool on the market. After a brief closure for remodeling, a new and improved Toulon Garage opened in 2019. This time around, the interface offered a significantly smoother flow through the design process.
Continuing a concerted effort to go to America’s greatest courses and ensure that future Executive Committees have nothing fun to do, the USGA is set to lock Pebble Beach in through the end of the 21st century.
In announcing the latest “anchor site,” the 2100 U.S. Open “will ensure the next generation can celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tiger Woods’s 15-stroke win in the 2000 U.S. Open,” said the press release which also announced 14 championships for the famous seaside course.
From the release:
“In a world so secure with a future as clear as a sunny day on the Monterey Peninsula, we can’t be more delighted than to announce the securing of Pebble Beach as the site of our national championship for decades to come,” said USGA Chief Championships Officer John Bodenhamer. "It really is a relief to have gotten this deal done for the betterment of the USGA, the Pebble Beach Company and the world’s best golfers who want to play the very best courses. And we have contingency plans should the 18th hole be taken from us.”
Sources say the USGA contract with the Pebble Beach Company includes several “out” clauses should ocean levels rise and take out the finishing holes.
Due to budget cuts and tax-incentive driven move to Connecticut, Golf Channel ratings have flatlined and the “brand” diminished despite housing all early round PGA Tour coverage. The once highly-profitable and popular channel is now down to 63 million homes from a peak of nearly 80 million just a few years ago, causing NBC Sports to shift early round U.S. Open and The Open coverage to USA Network.
To stop the bleeding, network executives are said to be mulling an aggressive plan to win back nostalgic viewers. Sources say the initiative, dubbed internally as “Since Holly’s No Longer An Option,” centers around regular weekly late night showings of Tin Cup, the Ron Shelton-directed movie once airing so often that Cheech Marin bought two ocean front homes just off his Golf Channel residuals.
“Someone upstairs equates the film with our Golden Age instead of anything from the original programming, documentaries or award-winning feature department,” said a source. “So get ready for a lot more Tin Cup. Seems Tommy’s Honour just isn’t clicking with the millennials.”
Another source added: “It’ll be expensive, but say goodbye to late night infomercials for Villages insomniacs like Relief From Inflammation, Forgetful?, Try THIS Trick, and Bye Bye Neck Pain. They think this will get the channel’s average age viewer back into the mid-70s.
A third source in Hollywood and connected to actor Don Johnson added, “It’s his most layered role and worthy of more study. So it’s a win-win-win.”
Mounds were often introduced instead of bunkers as they are more pleasing in appearance, less costly to maintain and often serve well to emphasize strategic conceptions. The course is not intended so much to punish severely the wayward shot as to reward adequately the stroke played with skill—and judgement. During the Masters tournament, with the cooperation of the weatherman, we try to keep our greens surfaces firm and the putting speed quite fast. We conceive that the ideal here is that our greens should hold a shot well-struck with backspin but should not hold an improperly played ball. BOBBY JONES
Tiger Woods has decided.
He’s going to ComicCon 2022 as Martian Manhunter.
The return of ComicCon in 2022 has put added pressure on Woods as he nears a decision to play the 2022 Masters.
This will mark his first return to the annual convention since attending a few years ago as Batman. During last month’s World Golf Hall of Fame ceremony, Sam Woods revealed that her family attended ComicCon with her dad dressed in disguise as the caped crusader.
Multiple sources spotted Woods browsing the DC Comics row at Palm Beach’s Hollywood Studio’s Costumes. Shoppers overheard Woods engaging in lengthy chats with a store clerk about the merits of going as Aquaman, Flash and Martian Manhunter while asking many questions about locating a “Lynda Carter” era Wonder Woman getup. But Woods made clear the Wonder Woman dress-up was for his girlfriend who “liked the 70’s style over that neo-classical gladiatorial @$**%$#@ they’ve veered toward, and that she also did not want to revisit the “Cathy Lee Crosby jumpsuit years.”
Over the past two years, the number of beginning golfers in the U.S. is higher than it was back when Woods was at his most dominant. Almost 30% higher. In 2021, a record 3.2 million Americans played golf on a course for the first time. This after 3 million newcomers picked up golf in 2020 as the pandemic unfolded and people sought out safe, outdoor activities that could provide a sense of normalcy with friends and family.
Like the “Tiger Effect,” there’s no question the “Covid Effect” has been a force in its own right in terms of fostering golf engagement. But other factors have helped boost golf trials, too, among them the increased interest created by golf entertainment venues and other off-course forms of the game, and a more favorable public outlook on golf in general. It’s now been six straight years that the number of on-course beginners has exceeded the 2.4 million newcomers Tiger helped introduce to the game in both 1999 and 2000.
Meanwhile in the UK the R&A released these numbers:
Two new participation reports show that 5.3 million on-course adult golfers – the second-highest number since monitoring began over 30 years ago – enjoyed playing on full length courses (9 or 18 holes) in Great Britain and Ireland in 2021. This includes a marginal increase in Ireland and a slight reduction in Great Britain.
Jennifer Kupcho and Minjee Lee shared the lead in The Chevron Championship at 6-under 66 after the first round of the major tournament's final edition at Mission Hills.
Mounds were often introduced instead of bunkers as they are more pleasing in appearance, less costly to maintain and often serve well to emphasize strategic conceptions. The course is not intended so much to punish severely the wayward shot as to reward adequately the stroke played with skill—and judgement. During the Masters tournament, with the cooperation of the weatherman, we try to keep our greens surfaces firm and the putting speed quite fast. We conceive that the ideal here is that our greens should hold a shot well-struck with backspin but should not hold an improperly played ball. BOBBY JONES
Rain delayed the second round of the Augusta National Women's Amateur for more than seven hours on Thursday, meaning 51 players will finish the second round on Friday morning.
Russell Knox recorded four straight birdies on the back nine and fired a 7-under 65 on Thursday for a one-shot lead after the opening round of the Texas Open.
Harris English (torn labrum) will skip next week's Masters, meaning the current field sits at 90 players.
Golf Pride CPX Grips – Key Takeaways
Newly developed rubber compound is the softest ever for Golf PrideEXO Diamond-Quilted pattern – raised texture for tractionFirst grip from Golf Pride’s Global Innovation Center in Pinehurst$9.49 to $10.49, available April 1There’s one thing for certain about the new Golf Pride CPX grips.
They’re different.
They’re also bumpy.
And, according to Golf Pride, it’s the softest performance grip the company has ever made.
Golf Pride’s press release says CPX provides “increased softness and tackiness” and a “proprietary design for more traction.”
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2022 Performance Golf Glove Buyer’s Guide
A more durable golf glove saves us money. That’s a good thing, right? Well, that’s where the Best Performance Golf Glove comes in.
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Within the Performance glove category, you have the best gloves for rain, hot and humid conditions, winter, and the best gloves for arthritic hands.
Whether you’re looking to buy a glove today, looking for some buying advice, or just want a closer look at what’s on the market right now, this guide will help you find the right performance glove to fit your needs—and your hand.
Anna Davis and Benedetta Moresco each shot 2-under 70 for a share of the lead at the Augusta National Women's Amateur, where top-ranked amateur Rose Zhang struggled to a 76.
When discussing the greatness of The Masters, people never fail to speak of the diaphanous beauty of the Augusta National course, and there is no doubt many supposedly sophisticated golfers go there year after year principally to look at the flowers. It was Mr. Roberts who planted them, arranged them, and, in a standard joke among the press, commanded them to bloom every year the week of The Masters. Bob Jones, by contrast, had no more interest in horticulture than he did in, say, needlepoint. CHARLES PRICE
