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The next stop on the PGA Tour is the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut. Here's how you can watch all the action on ESPN+.

The US Open was a spectacular display of golf perfection by the best golfers in the world. The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts was a ball strikers dilemma. Many of the fairways were setup like a snake going through grass and the rough was even worse than the deep rough plays the previous week at the Canadian Open. Only the best ball strikers survived.

I was surprised to see that most golfers who hit errant shots seemed to know that they were in trouble as soon as they hit the ball. Their swing either ended up with a one-handed grip on the club or they were struggling to keep their balance. They seemed to sense that their shot was in trouble from the get-go. They had either rushed their backswing or tried to add more power into their down-swing. They lost their balance!

Frustrating Miss-Hits Happen
Recreational golfers create a lot more miss-hits than the pros. That becomes a lot more evident when you play with golfers who shoot under 40 for 9 holes. Most of their drives are dead nuts on the center of their club face. Then, out-of-the-blue, they hit a duck hook or booming slice for no apparent reason. Of course, this happens more often for higher handicappers and their miss-hits get worse as they try to hit the greens in regulation.

If the pros and recreational golfers could just eliminate their adrenaline rush to avoid those miss-hits, golf would be easy. I must admit that Matt Fitzpatrick’s miracle bunker shot on the final hole of the 2022 US Open must have been filled with adrenaline.

Strategy to Avoid Miss-Hits
1/ Make a controlled practice swing exactly with the speed that you want to execute your shot.
2/ Your drives need more body rotation to generate more power, but your focus needs to be on a smooth accelerating swing through your ball and up your target line
3/ Limit the backswing for your iron shots with your straight leading arm at about the 10 o’clock position. Your power is primarily coming from the release of your lagging wrists through impact. 4/ A limited iron backswing also helps you avoid casting from the top and helps you control your swing direction up your target line.
5/ Include a flat wrist lag in your backswing and a full follow through to a balanced pose for your drives and fairway shots.

Commissioner Jay Monahan on Wednesday said the PGA Tour "can't compete" with the billions being spent by the LIV Golf Invitational Series, and that the new circuit is an 'irrational threat' to the game's growth.

Rory McIlroy said Wednesday that some PGA Tour players who have defected to the rival LIV Golf Invitational Series are "duplicitous" for backing out of their commitments to the tour.

Family members of those killed or injured in the 9/11 attacks sent a letter to PGA Tour members thanking them for not joining the Saudi-backed LIV tour.

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MyGolfSpy Ball Lab is where we quantify the quality and consistency of the golf balls on the market to help you find the best ball for your money. Today, we’re taking a look at the 2022 Bridgestone Tour B XS. To learn more about our test process, how we define “bad” balls, check out our About MyGolfSpy Ball Lab page.

About the Bridgestone TOUR B XS

It’s strange to think that we’ve been at this Ball Lab thing long enough to measure three generations of Bridgestone TOUR B Series.

With that should come some familiarity. Not much has changed in that the TOUR B XS remains “the Tiger Ball“. It’s not the softest in the TOUR B lineup but it is the softer of the two balls that Bridgestone bills as being for high swing-speed players.

It remains a three-piece offering with 330 dimples. The major point of differentiation between the new ball and the prior generation is the addition of the REACTIV IQ cover. As with other Bridgestone offerings, the bulk of product sold in the U.S. is manufactured at the company’s factory in Covington, Ga.

Our betting experts offer their best tips for the loaded field at the 2022 PGA Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.

Players involved in the LIV Golf Series will be allowed to compete at the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews next month, the R&A announced on Wednesday.

Brooks Koepka has withdrawn from this week's Travelers Championship, the PGA Tour announced Tuesday night. Sources confirmed earlier Tuesday that he is joining the LIV Golf Invitational Series.

The KPMG Women's PGA Championship is doubling the size of its purse to $9 million. That is a 300% increase from 2014, the year before KPMG, the PGA of America and LPGA partnered to raise prize money for the event.

Four-time major champion Brooks Koepka is the latest golfer to defect from the PGA Tour to the LIV Golf Invitational Series, sources have confirmed to ESPN.

After 15 years, Nick Faldo will make his final appearance as the lead golf analyst for CBS Sports on Aug. 7. Trevor Immelman will take his place next year.

An overhauled PGA Tour schedule starting in 2023 is in the works, with increased purses and a new global golf series, sources told ESPN's Mark Schlabach. PGA Tour members were informed of the plans Tuesday.

Brooks Koepka joined Phil Mickelson and more to leave the PGA Tour for LIV Golf. Who else is coming? Can players who go to LIV Golf still compete in major championships? We sift through the answers we have and the ones we don't.

Callaway has announced the JAWS Raw wedge, the replacement for the MD5.It features a raw face design for improved spin.Available in 17 loft and bounce combinations.Retail price is $179.99.

If you’ve been waiting for Callaway to launch the MD6 wedge, here you go, kinda. The Callaway JAWS Raw is the company’s new flagship … mainstream … whatever you want to call it … family of wedges. The JAWS Raw is the replacement for the MD5 because, apparently, Mack Daddy has run its course.

It’s true that correlation is not causation but it’s worth pointing out that the Mack Daddy name traces back to Phil Mickelson with whom the company has parted ways. The two may or may not be related but, either way, for Callaway, JAWS Raw gives them a clean slate, a new beginning—that sort of thing.

With that out of the way, let’s get into the details