Golf is a lot less frustrating if you learn this game backwards. Putting is the easiest part of this game so why not practice until you learn to 2 putt every green. After that chipping and pitching with your irons to hit every green is a special art that you need to perfect. To make those shots easier, you need longer drives that land in the fairway. That’s why Hank Haney recommends that perfecting your game with his “Speed Slot” technique will make this an easy game.
Longer drives will improve your game faster because it’s easier to hit shorter shots into the green. So we all should have learned this game by using the forward tees until we learn the most difficult skill of hitting longer drives and landing in the fairway.
In short: Your goal is to improve your driving and iron accuracy in order to hit more greens in regulation. Then the pars and birdies are easy.
Speed Slot Technique
Hank Haney teaches this technique for power, accuracy and to avoid the dreaded slice. The Speed Slot is the opposite of the Slice Slot. You have all heard that slicing is caused by “swinging over the top”. It’s a natural tendency that we all learn when we swing a baseball bat from the top of our backswing and down into the strike zone.
In golf you need to learn to swing your driver from the inside and up your target line. The critical move in golf is to flatten your wrist at the top of your backswing so that you can swing your club from the inside and up the SPEED SLOT.
The new course is scheduled to open when the U.S. Open returns to Pinehurst in 2024.
The new Callaway Paradym and Paradym X irons compel me to make a promise.
I will not stoop to making any cringe-worthy puns, painful references or other excruciating allusions to the name of this new line of clubs for the duration of this article. That, dear reader, is my 20-cent pledge to you. (Editor’s Note: Paradym. Pair a’ dimes. 20 cents. Get it? He’s so clever.)
Anyway, it is Callaway’s Paradym day and the company is launching two iron sets to join its 2023 drivers, fairways and hybrids. The new Paradym iron is a surprisingly sleek-looking player’s distance iron while the Paradym X is an astonishingly sleek-looking game-improvement iron.
Where they fit into Callaway’s iron continuum is fuzzy but it would appear the Paradym X might lean slightly to the “better player” side of the Apex DCB while the standard Paradym might be to the “better player” side of the standard Apex 21.
Let’s see what’s under the hood.
Callaway has announced the Paradym fairway wood and hybrid lineup.Callaway promises better down-range distance and dispersion.Retail price is $349.99 (fairway) and $299.99 (hybrid)Pre-sale for the Callaway Paradym driver lineup begins 1/13. Full retail availability starts on 2/24.
The 2023 calendar suggests that Callaway’s Epic franchise is due for a refresh.
But it’s not. The Epic clock has struck zero.
It’s Callaway Paradym time. If this launch had a theme song, it would have to be You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) by Dead Or Alive. It just makes sense. But don’t think about it too hard.
Regardless, Epic lurid green is gone and, for at least another year, we won’t be talking about Rogue, either. It’s an entirely new Callaway family, though the guts of the fairway woods and hybrids build off a good bit of the 2022 Rogue ST architecture.
If you’re reading this on Jan. 4, I’m likely hitting the Paradym right now at Topgolf in El Segundo, Calif. (Damn, where’s my wallet?) I only mention that to corroborate Tony Covey’s last known location, should that be important at some point.
Callaway has announced the Paradym driver lineup.The new models feature an innovative 360-degree carbon chassis.Callaway says Paradym drivers offer better down-range distance and dispersion.Retail price is $600. Availability begins 2/24 (Pre-sale starts 1/13).
The teaser for Callaway’s 2023 launch event billed what we now know is the new Paradym driver as a 360° Shift in Performance. It’s a compelling, perhaps even exciting, proposition—so long as you don’t think too hard about it.
Who sees it?
Shifting paradigms isn’t new to Callaway. It was said that Epic was a paradigm shift. Epic Flash shifted that paradigm, too. So, with the launch of the Paradym driver family, I suppose our original paradigm is now thrice-shifted though, this time around, Callaway has also shifted the generally accepted paradigms of spelling as well.
It does feel a bit like we’re going in circles.
Will Zalatoris said his swing is now more efficient, and he hasn't lost any of his speed after spending time while retsing his ailing back on understanding the pressures of his golf and working to improve it.
The new-for-2023 Srixon ZX Mk II drivers are, in many ways, a perfect reflection of Srixon itself.
If you’re looking for claims of groundbreaking technology or to be wowed by new face materials or sexy marketing campaigns, let me save you some time. You won’t find it here. But if you’re looking for solid performance, incremental technology upgrades that actually make a difference and surprisingly good value, then by all means, dear reader, read on.
What you’ll find are some rather fascinating changes in driver technology, plus a welcome newcomer.
None of them, however, will wow you. That’s not Srixon’s style. But will any of it get your attention in the hitting bay? That, my friends, is the million-dollar question.
Srixon released the ZX family of clubs in 2021 after a decade of regular old Z. ZX Mk II, as Srixon tells us, stands for Mark II of the ZX line, the second generation. It’s a mouthful, I know.
The new Srixon ZX Mk II Fairways and hybrids follow two fundamental rules of modern golf club design. If you have a winner of a club that’s due for an update, the first rule is simple: Do no harm. And the second? If you have a meh performer, find a way to make it fly higher and, hopefully, longer.
Rule One applies to Srixon’s high-performing fairways woods while Rule Two sits squarely on the company’s surprisingly underwhelming hybrids. Can Srixon do no harm to the fairways while giving its hybrids a boost? Let’s take a look.
Srixon’s last two fairway wood iterations were winners, literally. The 2019 ZF85 was the longest fairway wood tested in that year’s Most Wanted shootout. It also had the highest ball speed of any fairway club tested and was second in forgiveness.
In 2021, the updated ZX fairway copped top overall Most Wanted honors. It was still the distance champion and testers loved the looks.
The hybrids? Both the 2021 ZX and the 2019 ZH85 were bottom-third performers in Most Wanted. That’s surprising as hybrids from corporate stablemates Cleveland and XXIO were both top-half performers.
Good Good Golf – the princes of YouTube golf and a budding apparel company – have officially joined forces with Callaway.
There have been rumblings online about a major announcement coming from Good Good. Speculation has ranged from a simple sponsorship deal with an OEM to an actual acquisition. But in a video released earlier today, the Good Good crew says the partnership goes beyond just a club deal, which they’ve had with various OEMs in the past.
“This ain’t that,” the group said in their video.
It’s not an outright acquisition. But the Good Good guys are calling it a “partnership and collaboration” which will include Callaway golf clubs with Good Good labeling.
Good Good is a group of five young guys who play golf and make YouTube videos. It launched its first YouTube video in September of 2020 and has since grown to more than 1.1 million subscribers. Good Good also has 462,000 Instagram subscribers and a Subreddit with over 22,000 members. Good Good has also expanded into premium apparel which reflects its youthful “golf is fun” style.
Kirkland Signature 4 irons have appeared on the USGA conforming list.The iron is manufactured for Costco by Indi Golf.Details are few but the iron is forged and may be a hollow game-improvement iron.
You’ve likely seen the photo of the Kirkland Signature 4 iron that has popped up on the USGA conforming list and all over social media. If you have not seen it yet, here you go.
So another company is making a new set of irons. What’s the big deal? Lots of companies make new iron sets. We will likely see 50 new sets of irons unveiled this month. What makes Costco’s Kirkland Signature branded set of irons something that we should take note of?
For starters, let’s see what we can glean from the photo.
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TaylorMade’s Carbonwood era appears to be on the verge of a sequel.
With the PGA TOUR ready for action again at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, the USGA’s first conforming driver list of 2023 indicates a number of the company’s Tour staff could be brandishing updated big sticks at Kapalua this week.
Three versions of a new TaylorMade driver under the names Stealth 2, Stealth 2 Plus and Stealth 2 HD appeared on the list Monday without product or performance information.
However, we can assume a few things about the new models from the USGA images and accompanying identification markings.
The most obvious bit of conjecture falls under construction materials.
The Masters sent an invitation to the 2023 tournament to the wrong Scott Stallings, mailing it to an amateur golfer in Georgia, instead of the PGA Tour pro.
The 2023 season is spooling up but, before we get totally immersed in all the new releases, the MyGolfSpy staff took some time to reflect on 2022 and imagine what’s ahead for the coming year in all things golf.
Before you read on, go ahead and drop your 2023 golf predictions in the comments. We’re curious!
What are your predictions for the world of golf in 2023?
New Year's Day--Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. We shall also reflect pleasantly upon how we did the same old thing last year about this time. However, go in, community. New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy it with a looseness suited to the greatness of the occasion. MARK TWAIN
If 2023 is going to be the year where you start compressing the golf ball with some sizzle and penetration off the club face then it’s time to get to work on that pesky little chicken wing you see at impact and beyond in your golf swing. It will take some time, but with a clear picture and a few solid practice sessions it can be done. Here’s how…
The two key areas are as follows:
The club face is invariably the culprit here and its almost always overly weak or open. Practice the “pump drill” demonstrated in the video where you really exaggerate how closed you’re getting the club face. Yes, you’ll hit a few shots to the draw/hook end of the spectrum, but just the same way you learned to hit it “straight” with an open face, is how you’ll learn to hit it straight with a more neutral face.
Let’s get DIRECT with this drill and make sure the lead arm stays extended. Keep in mind - face first and then the 9-3 drill demonstrated in the video. Use a 7 iron and keep the drill smaller than you might think. No need to hit it hard just yet. Please make sure that both arms are still extended as things come to a halt after the strike.
I know that if you commit to these two ideas you will not only improve the quality of your ball striking, but you’ll also get rid of the infamous golf swing chicken wing.
Former Ryder Cup player and five-time European Tour winner Barry Lane has died at the age of 62, the DP World Tour said in a statement on Sunday.
The 2023 Evnroll V-Series putter line expands by 15 new models.The new line includes redesigned favorites and Evnroll’s most customizable model to date.All new V-Series putter models available at retail mid-February 2023.
Baby New Year is not even swaddled and Evnroll has unveiled their new 2023 batch of V-Series putters. This batch of putters is no preemie. It’s a fully developed line of new models and designs. In 2023, Evnroll’s V-Series expands by a whopping 15 putters!
Admittedly, some of those putters are more configurations of models than new models. Still, the amount of metal that Evnroll is bringing to your shop next month is impressive. This small putter company is bringing a battleship’s worth of steel to your putter corral. Too much exaggeration? Well, it could be a small battleship.
Why should you care? First of all, all new putters should be welcomed and explored. In this case, these have the features we expect to see in Evnroll putters. These new models feature the hosel versatility of the current Evnroll V-Series putters as well as the Envroll’s lauded Sweet Face technology.
Are you unfamiliar with said versatility and Sweet Face technologies? Not a problem. Let’s take a moment to rehash some of the key features of the V-Series and Evnroll in putters general.
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