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Horschel blasts 'hypocrites' playing LIV Golf
Billy Horschel says players who criticized the PGA Tour and then jumped ship in favor of the LIV Golf Invitational Series are "hypocrites."
Palm Springs 2023
Join us for the 4th NCGA Ladies trip to Palm Springs. Stay at the luxurious Renaissance Resort & Spa at Indian Wells, and play 3 rounds of golf at some of the area’s best courses, including 1 round at Desert Willow Mountain View course, 1 round at The Classic Club, and 1 round at Marriott’s Shadow Ridge. You will also receive a $100 resort credit to use on anything at the Renaissance Resort. We will also host a welcome reception, and a full dinner on the closing evening. All taxes, resort fees, and parking are included with this package, along with use of a golf cart and range use at each course on the day of play. All you have to do is gather a few of your friends to sign up and let us do the work! We look forward to seeing you there!
2022 NCGA Ladies Palm Springs Trip
Nov. 13-17
What’s Included:
4 nights’ accommodations at the Renaissance Esmerelda Indian Wells Resort and Spa3 rounds of golf including cart use and range at the following: Desert Willow Mountain View course, The Classic Club, and Marriott’s Shadow Ridge$100 resort credit to use at the Renaissance Esmerelda Indian Wells ResortGroup dinner on the closing evening, November 16Welcome receptionAll taxes, resort fees (normally $36 per night), parking (normally $12 per night)Not Included: TransportationPricing: (includes payment by credit card)
Double Occupancy: $1,595 per person (two people sharing a room)Single Occupancy: $2,295Have questions about the trip? Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tiger prioritized Open over U.S. Open due to leg
Tiger Woods said Tuesday he skipped the U.S. Open because he didn't want to jeopardize his chances of playing in the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews, which begins on July 14.
TaylorMade Stealth UDI and Stealth DHY Utility Irons
TaylorMade has launched Stealth UDI and Stealth DHY utility irons.The new models provide additional options to fill gaps at the long end of your bag.Retail price is $249.Pre-sale starts now. Available July 15.
If you were expecting TaylorMade would be launching a new P-Series iron right about now, then, yeah, well, me too. But that ain’t gonna happen. To hold you over and hopefully fill a spot in your bag where options are plentiful but answers are sometimes hard to come by, TaylorMade is launching the Stealth UDI and Stealth DHY in the utility/driving iron space.
And while there are some red accents to reinforce the Stealth branding, you won’t find any carbon fiber here. That only works with big faces.
Stealth UDI/DHY – Where They Fit
Both the Stealth UDI and Stealth DHY provide options to fill what I call the transitional space in your bag. Philosophies and specifics vary but Matt Bovee, TaylorMade’s Director of Product Creation for the iron category, sees it as the gap between the shortest fairway wood you’re not willing to part with and the longest iron you’re comfortable hitting. Typically, that’s the chasm between your 3-wood and a 4- or even 5-iron.
Incidentally, if the longest iron in your bag isn’t something you’re comfortable hitting, it’s time for a change. The Stealth UDI or DHY could be just the thing to make you feel comfortable in the long game.
2022 BEST OF GOLF AWARDS
UNIQUE. INNOVATIVE. COOL.
Some of the most imaginative golf products come from garages, studios and workshops.
We are shining the spotlight on some of these and the people behind them in our Best of Golf 2022 awards, our new annual index of the year’s unique golf products around the globe.
GOLDEN TEE
Who doesn’t want one of these? I can still remember almost breaking both my thumbs on the massive track wheel trying to rip 300-yard drives in the corner of some dark-lit bar in college. When it comes to the king of golf arcade games, Golden Tee rules. You know it, I know it. Now you can own it.
North Berwick! Gullane! The Genesis Scottish Open Returns To East Lothian
Take a narrow tableland, tilt it a little from right to left, dig a deep bunker on the front side, approach it diagonally, and you have the Redan. At North Berwick, of course, all these things were done in the beginning by nature. The only original thing that the greenkeeper did was to place the tee so that the shot had to be played cornerwise, so to speak, instead of directly down the tableland. C.B. MACDONALD
Old Course: The Best One-Liners
Take a narrow tableland, tilt it a little from right to left, dig a deep bunker on the front side, approach it diagonally, and you have the Redan. At North Berwick, of course, all these things were done in the beginning by nature. The only original thing that the greenkeeper did was to place the tee so that the shot had to be played cornerwise, so to speak, instead of directly down the tableland. C.B. MACDONALD
Poulter, 2 others granted stay to play Scottish
Ian Poulter, Adrian Otaegui and Justin Harding, who signed up for the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series, won a stay Monday from a British court that allows them to play in the Scottish Open.
Tiger cards 77 to open star-studded Ireland event
Tiger Woods carded a 5-over 77 and sits tied for 43rd at the star-studded JP McManus Pro-Am in Ireland, where Xander Schauffele leads by 3.
GLOVE VERSUS NO GLOVE
OUR JOB IS YOUR GAME
In golf, there are many key accessories, perhaps none greater than the glove. It’s not only a fashion statement. It’s a key performance ingredient.
Or so we’ve always believed.
At our headquarters, Most Wanted Testing takes precedence. However, throughout the year, impactful ideas come to life via our testing facility.
Today, we dive into the unknown: Are there any performance differentials when wearing a golf glove?
HOW WE TEST
Per usual, every test we conduct utilizes two key components: Foresight GCQuad and Titleist Pro V1 golf balls. Data is collected using the GCQuad. By using Pro V1 golf balls, we are able to eliminate variables.
Poston goes wire-to-wire at John Deere Classic
J.T. Poston completed a wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the John Deere Classic for his second PGA Tour title and a spot in The Open Championship.
Meronk is 1st Polish winner in Irish Open triumph
Adrian Meronk held off a final-round charge from New Zealander Ryan Fox to win the Irish Open at Mount Juliet Estate in Co Kilkenny on Sunday.
Golf In Scotland (In The Black & White Era): Q&A With Steve Finan
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Grace wins first LIV event in U.S., pockets $4.4M
Branden Grace closed with a 7-under 65 on Saturday to finish at 13 under in the 54-hole tournament at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club.
Eagle on 17 gives Poston 3-shot John Deere lead
J.T. Poston made up for two back-nine bogeys with an eagle on the par-5 17th, shooting a 4-under 67 on Saturday to take a 3-stroke lead into the final round of the John Deere Classic.
World No. 26 Casey latest to defect to LIV tour
Paul Casey, the longtime tour player who currently is ranked 26th in the world, has joined LIV Golf and is expected to make his debut later this month.
MyGolfSpy featured in FORBES
MyGolfSpy featured in Forbes.
Whether you’ve been a reader of MyGolfSpy for 10 minutes or 10 years, we wanted to thank you.
The entire team is incredibly grateful and humbled to have part of our 14 years of hard work featured in Forbes.
“We needed to create a platform that was about performance and not marketing, pure and simple. I wanted to flip it on its head,” says Beach, who originally started one of the first golf commerce sites on the internet in the late 1990’s before selling and starting MyGolfSpy. “I wanted to make the cream of the crop rise to the top and all the other bullshit that had been peddled to golfers for decades go away. Somebody needed to clean this up and say, ‘Alright, what exactly is worth my money?’”
