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MyGolfSpy Lab: Reload Pro V1 Refinished Golf Balls
As part of this year’s golf ball test, we included the popular Reload brand of refurbished golf balls. While we know many of you are more than willing to pay the full ride for a premium golf ball, we also know that our audience is rife with bargain hunters.
There’s no shame in trying to save a few bucks and, when it come to golf balls, if golfers are buying it—particularly if it has a urethane cover—we want to know how it performs.
To that end, the Reloads were treated like every other ball in our test. The robot hit the full complement of shots at all three swing speeds for driver and irons.
While the performance was eye-opening (and not in a good way), we also quickly realized that performance was only part of the story.
LIV Golf snares ex-PGA Tour exec for new group
Longtime PGA Tour rules official Slugger White becomes the most prominent person after Greg Norman to join LIV Golf ahead of its planned league launch in 2022.
Golf Tips – Down Hill Lies
Who STRUGGLES with downhill lies?
This quick tip will sort ya out and get you hitting LASER DINGERS.
Let me know if you do this, or will give it a try in the comment
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Golf Tips – Hit Straighter Drives
STRUGGLE WITH SLICING OR HOOKING YOUR DRIVES?
Try this little NUGGET to straighten out your drives and hit those DINGERS
LET ME KNOW IF THIS DRILL WORKS FOR YOU
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Golf Tips – Bunker Shots
Struggle with bunker shots? Do this!
If you struggle with bunker shots, you should try this to help you get it out of the bunker EVERY SINGLE TIME
Trust me, this makes a MASSIVE difference for your bunker game
How To Do It
1⃣ Follow the steps in the video
2⃣ For the short bunker shot you have your weight 20/80 on your left side but you bend your right leg more and keep your center of gravity in the center even though the weight is 20/80. You also need to swing slightly slower on the way down but still accelerate through. This is the hardest bunker shot because you do the opposite of the other two bunker shots
Just give it a try, you have nothing to lose
LET ME KNOW IF THIS DRILL WORKS FOR YOU
Golf Tips – Chipping Into The Grain
STRUGGLE with chipping into the grain?
This little gem will make a MASSIVE difference in your chipping game
LET ME KNOW IF THIS DRILL WORKS FOR YOU
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Golf Tips – Putting Practice
This putting drill WILL get you addicted
A quick but difficult putting drill helps you dial in your 6 foot range This will make a MASSIVE difference to your putting game
How To Do It
1⃣ Set up stations 6 foot from the hole at 4 different locations
2⃣ Have 5 balls ready to use
3⃣ Start at whatever station you want
4⃣ You must make all 5 putts before moving on
This might seem easy but let me tell ya…it isn’t. Once you get this down and becomes automatic, increase distance by a foot or add more balls
LET ME KNOW IF THIS DRILL WORKS FOR YOU
European Tour rebranding, doubling prize money
Starting in 2022, the European Tour will be rebranded as the DP World Tour in a deal set to double the total prize money to more than $200 million.
Justin Thomas is ready for a big year, Greg Norman's league needs players and other big things in golf
Justin Thomas has not been shy about how he feels about his 2021 season. Aside from a win at The Players, it wasn't what he wanted. Now, he's ready for a breakout year. Plus, Greg Norman's venture needs players, a name you should remember and more.
Aces: Back-to-Back
Aces: Back-to-Back
November 8, 2021
On October 8, 2021, Mike Allen and Scott Campbell made holes in one on back-to-back shots in the same group. Witnessed by fellow NCGA member Jeff Dunn, the rare feat came on hole No. 13 at Elkhorn Golf Course in Stockton. The hole was playing 99 yards that day from the combo tees. With the hole obscured by a bunker, the group had no idea what had just happened until Campbell walked up to the hole, looked down, and signaled “two” indicating that something special had just happened. Scott, a five handicap, is still lamenting the day he made a hole-in-one and didn’t win the skin. Allen and Campbell are both from Stockton and members at Elkhorn.
Just how rare is the feat? According to the National Hole-In-One Registry, the odds of two players in the same foursome making aces as 17 million to 1. To put that in perspective, the odds of getting struck by lightning are one in 960,000.
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Faces of the NCGA: Yealimi Noh
Faces of the NCGA: Yealimi Noh
By Barry Salberg
NCGA correspondent Barry Salberg recently caught up with Concord native Yealimi Noh, who in addition to a highly successful, busy 2021 season on the LPGA (including a triumphant 2-1-0 showing at the Solheim Cup), just relocated with her family to Dallas.
You’re now in Dallas?
It happened literally a month or so ago, I didn’t even get to go back home and do anything, I just went straight from the European swing to my new home.
Recap: 2021 Most Wanted Winners
The Best Products of 2021
Wondering which piece of golf equipment to add to your bag next? We’ve put together a list of the best performing golf products we tested in 2021. Rather than wading through a bunch of reviews, or searching online, you can scroll this list of our 2021 Most Wanted Winners.
Our dedicated test facility in Virginia is the most comprehensive golf equipment testing facility for consumers in the world. With hundreds of thousands of swings a year and millions of golf swing data points being collected, our job is your game.
Drivers
Best Overall– Callaway Epic Max LS
Best Driver For Slow Swing Speeds– Callaway Epic Speed
Dominant Hovland repeats as winner at Mayakoba
Viktor Hovland closed with a 4-under 67 for a four-shot victory in the World Wide Technology Championship, making him the first repeat winner since Mayakoba began in 2007.
Alker tops Furyk, wins PGA Tour Champions event
Steven Alker, who had to qualify for his first PGA Tour Champions event three months ago, fired a 68 for a 2-shot win in the TimberTech Championship Sunday in Florida, moving into the top 36 players who advance to the Charles Schwab Cup Championship.
Pieters holds nerve to win Portugal Masters
Belgian Thomas Pieters fired a three-under-par 68 in the final round of the Portugal Masters on Sunday to clinch the title by two strokes for his fifth European Tour crown.
Petrovic, Furyk tied in PGA Tour Champions event
Saying that he "fought my way through the round," Tim Petrovic birdied the final two holes for an 11-under 61 and a share of the lead with Jim Furyk Saturday in the TimberTech Championship in Boca Raton, Florida.
Hovland leads by 2 at Mayakoba after late birdies
Viktor Hovland posted the lowest score of his PGA Tour career at 9-under 62 to take a 2-shot lead in the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba.
Pieters, Pavon share Portugal lead into final day
Thomas Pieters and Matthieu Pavon will enter the final round of the Portugal Masters sharing a four-shot lead after the pair rose to the top of the leaderboard on Saturday.
Nakajima earns Masters spot with playoff victory
Keita Nakajima became the first No. 1 amateur to win the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship, closing with a 3-under 68 and outlasting Taichi Kho on the second hole of a playoff Saturday.
