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It won't have the venom of Phil Mickelson vs. Tiger Woods, but The Match featuring Woods, McIlroy, Spieth and Thomas should have stellar golf.

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Dean Burmester made six birdies on the back nine to complete his 7-under 65 for a one-shot lead at the Alfred Dunhill Championship on Thursday.

Tiger Woods, who pulled out of last week's Hero World Challenge because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot, said being able to use a golf cart in "The Match" on Saturday night will help "a lot."

This is the ninth 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”.]

28/ Flare Your Feet: If you’re sitting at a desk all day, you’ve probably got tight hip flexors. That will limit your ability to rotate during your golf swing, which will cost you power—and could even lead to lower- back pain. To increase your hip turn on either side of the ball, GOLFTEC’s resident GOLF Top 100 Teacher Nick Clearwater has found one method works almost instantly and easily: flaring your feet. “Turning your toes out 20 degrees—maybe even more—effectively makes you more flexible,” Clearwater says. “It creates greater range of motion in your hips, which produces a distance boost in short order.”

29/ Use Your Logo Wisely: At the 2012 World Scientific Congress of Golf, researcher Dr. Joan Vickers revealed the fascinating results from an eye-tracking study performed on a group of golfers. She found that highly skilled, lower-handicap players tend to keep their eyes fixed on one portion of the ball. Higher handicaps tend to move their eyes to multiple points.

This is not only important for your fairways shots but also for your putting. Don’t follow your backswing or your follow-through with your eyes. Just focus on swinging in a straight line up your target line.

It may not solve all your problems, but keeping your eyes focused on one tight spot is a quick upgrade you can make to your game. Tiger Woods, places the Bridgestone logo on his ball toward the back (where he wants his clubface to impact) as he tees it up. It acts as a bull’s- eye to hit on every tee shot.

This holiday season we’re celebrating 24 days of QUIZmas by testing your golf course knowledge! We’re posting questions on Instagram daily now through December 24! Drop your best guess to the comments and be sure to give us a follow us here to enter. We’ll choose one random winner each day who will take home… Read the rest

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MyGolfSpy Ball Lab is where we quantify the quality and consistency of golf balls. Today, we’re reviewing the 2022 Bridgestone TOUR BX To learn more about our test process, click here.

About the Bridgestone TOUR BX

The Bridgestone TOUR BX is one of two true Tour-level offerings in the current Bridgestone lineup. Like most balls in the category, it costs nearly $50 per dozen.

Bridgestone TOUR BX Construction

The Bridgestone TOUR BX is a three-piece ball with an injection-molded urethane cover.

As with other TOUR B offerings, TOUR BX balls destined for the American market are manufactured by Bridgestone at the company’s factory in Covington, Ga.

TaylorMade has launched new P·7MB, P·7MC and P·770 irons.The updated P·Series models feature subtle refinements driven by Tour player feedback.Retail price for all three models is $1,299 for steel and $1,499 for graphite.Available Jan. 20

Promising a massive year for irons, TaylorMade has added three new or, more accurately, updated models to its P·Series iron lineup. While changes to the P·7MB, P·7MC and P·770 admittedly are subtle, they speak to what TaylorMade calls the three pillars of the P·Series: feel, design and performance.

TaylorMade P·7MB Irons

As its name suggests, the P·7MB is the muscle-back iron of the family. According to TaylorMade, it offers “surgical control and precise shot making.” It’s a description that should rightfully speak to a small segment of elite golfers, though players of all ability levels will be drawn—at least on a superficial level—to the clean lines and inarguably pure aesthetic.

It’s a beautiful iron, though I suppose the new symmetrical back bar which positions more mass behind face-center might make the P·7MB feel a bit too modern for some purists. However, those same golfers will certainly appreciate the traditional lofts which include a 20-degree 3-iron, 34-degree 7-iron and 47-degree pitching wedge.

In a development that PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan labeled "a big deal," onsite betting is headed to tournament locations, including the TPC Scottsdale, site of the WM Phoenix Open, where construction on a sportsbook began in May.

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I encounter many golfers who are unconsciously trying to manipulate the club face through impact in an attempt to keep the face square and the ball on line. They have a sense that holding the face off will somehow keep it square through impact. I get it, but the message I’d like all to get from this article today is that holding off when it is not required simply doesn’t work. In fact, I’m of the opinion that holding the face off actually decreases the golfer’s ability to control the face angle at impact. Watch this for a better understanding…

Here are a few notes to take away:

In the downswing the club face is always closing relative to the target. This is purely a function of the rotation inherent to the swing.

The release starts long before impact and is strongly influenced by the face angle in the early part of the downswing. An open face will encourage an early release, while a closed face will delay the release.

The lead wrist goes from flexion (bowed) to extension (cupped), while the trail wrist does just the opposite, just the same as if you were throwing a frisbee with your lead hand and a ball with your trail hand.

Welcome to the second annual Ball Lab Quality Awards.

Crafted by MyGolfSpy, Ball Lab was born from our curiosity about how the construction, consistency and quality of your golf ball were affecting your performance.

So many times we hear players exclaim they are “not good enough” to tell the difference between different models. When performance is concerned, we beg to differ. It wasn’t until our first-ever Ball Test in 2019 that we began to urge the consumer to question the industry’s standards on the balls they were playing. The reward? Knowing that bad shot might not have been your fault.

Below are the champions of the categories when it comes to setting the standard for your golf ball. From DTC (direct-to-consumer), Best Under $30 and our highest-ranked models—there is a quality golf ball for any golfer.

NOTE: These awards are based on total Ball Lab scores of current models. Only urethane models were considered and a minimum of two ball models were required to qualify for brand quality awards.

Nelly Korda and Lexi Thompson are representing the LPGA Tour this week in the QBE Shootout. Next year, they will have plenty of company.

Viktor Hovland won the Hero World Challenge on Sunday to join tournament host Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners.

Thriston Lawrence holds on to win his home South African Open despite a final-round 2-over 74.

Rory McIlroy says Greg Norman's "brainwash" comment led to his decision to "be as much of a pain," to the LIV Golf CEO and commissioner as possible.

Ashleigh Buhai has survived an afternoon of carnage to win the Australian Open and achieve a feat not even Cameron Smith can claim.