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L.A.B. GOLF DIRECTED FORCE 2.1 VS. EVNROLL ER ZERO

OUR JOB IS YOUR GAME

Are you a putter fanatic? If a new putter comes to market, do you instantly jump on it? Or is your putting so atrocious that you’ll try anything to hole more putts?

In either case, perhaps I can pique your interest with two unique putters: L.A.B. Golf’s Directed Force 2.1 and Evnroll’s ER Zero.

Let’s take a look to see how they stacked up in 2022 Most Wanted Mallet testing.

VERDICT

Here is the skinny: Being able to return the putter face back to square is a game changer. It allows your putts to roll more consistently, be on target more consistently and, as a by-product, potentially make more putts. Same concept, two different OEMs (did I say that out loud?). What’s not to like?

Aesthetics. Neither of these putters is going to gain compliments from your playing partners. During testing, I heard ‘branding iron”, a few ‘WTFs”… You get the picture. If you can overcome aesthetics, one of these putters might work for you.










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Across The Street From The Country Club

Francis Ouimet, helped by his kind brother Wilfred, started the game on a little course in the back of their home near the seventeenth hole at The Country Club. It’s ironic that young Francis, with his modest upbringing, would make history so nearby, in an entirely different world. During that incredible week in September 1913 a legend materialized. Ouimet, who was a local success but relatively untried in national competitions, beat the two best British players at the time, Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, in a playoff for the U.S. Open title. BEN CRENSHAW

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Final-round 62 gives McIlroy Canadian Open title

Rory McIlroy won the RBC Canadian Open on Sunday, closing with an 8-under 62 to win a wild race to the finish with Justin Thomas and Tony Finau at St. George's Golf & Country Club in Toronto.

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PGA's Monahan defends suspensions, slams LIV

Jay Monahan was critical of the LIV Golf tour, calling it a "series of exhibition matches" compared to the "pure competition" of the PGA Tour.

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Final-round 62 gives McIlroy Canadian Open crown

Rory McIlroy won the RBC Canadian Open on Sunday, closing with an 8-under 62 to win a wild race to the finish with Justin Thomas and Tony Finau at St. George's Golf & Country Club in Toronto.

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Jaidee the first Thai winner on Champions Tour

Thongchai Jaidee closed with a final-round 68 for a 1-stroke victory in the American Family Insurance Championship. He is the first Thai winner in PGA Tour Champions history.

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Jaidee the first Thai winner on Champions Tour

Thongchai Jaidee closed with a final round 68 for a one-stroke victory in the American Family Insurance Championship. He is the first Thai winner in PGA Tour Champions history..

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Henderson wins ShopRite LPGA Classic in playoff

Brooke Henderson eagled the first playoff hole and beat Lindsey Weaver-Wright to capture the ShopRite LPGA Classic on Sunday for her 11th win on tour.

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Americans win Curtis Cup for 3rd straight time

The Americans won the Curtis Cup for the third straight time, completing their victory over the Great Britain & Ireland team on Sunday.

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Monahan: “Why is this group spending so much money--billions of dollars--recruiting players and chasing a concept with no possibility of a return?”

Doug Ferguson files an AP report on PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan’s booth visit—finally!—blasting the Saudi Arabia government backed golf league. Facing questions from Jim Nantz, a severely overdue dicussion about the money source took place on national televsion.

Speaking of the folks who brought us 9/11, journalist carvings, beheadings galore and high oil prices because it’s fun for the Crown Prince—Monahan offered this:

“It’s not an issue for me, because I don’t work for the Saudi Arabian government,” Monahan said, a veiled dig at the notion of being a free agent. “But it probably is an issue for players who chose to go and take that money. I think you have to ask yourself a question: Why.

“Why is this group spending so much money — billions of dollars — recruiting players and chasing a concept with no possibility of a return?” he said. “At the same time, there’s been a lot of questions, a lot of comments, about the growth of the game. And I ask, ‘How is this good for the game?’”

Monahan also focused on the relative integrity of PGA Tour competition compared to the first LIV stop.

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Latest Governing Body Notice To Manufacturers Outline Significant Rollback Possibilities (For Elites)

GolfDigest.com’s Mike Stachura reports the latest notice to manufacturers outlining new “areas of interest” proposals that would have a huge impact on golf balls and driver faces.

While we already knew of these were the focus, the June 8th specifics suggest as much as a thirty percent reduction for the longest of long hitters. Stachura writes:

The original proposed change was to raise the test swing speed for the Overall Distance Standard from the current 120 miles per hour to 125. The June 8 announcement now proposes studying a test speed “between 125 and 127 mph and will include studies of the effects of these test speeds on the launch conditions and aerodynamics of the golf ball.” At the maximum, that speed would be more than 12 mph faster than the current average clubhead speed on the PGA Tour but only a little more than two mph faster than the two current fastest swings on tour, Cameron Champ (124.76) and Branden Hagy (124.41).

As the USGA’s John Spitzer previously indicated when the speed being considered was 125 mph, nearly all of the balls played on tour would be non-conforming under the new standard, and of course many of those balls are also among the most purchased balls on the market.

The bigger set of changes proposed in the June 8 notice, however, would not affect average golfers, but could dramatically alter the performance of drivers at the elite level. The new proposal suggests tournaments or tours could institute a “model local rule” for equipment that would severely roll back how springy faces are and how forgiving drivers are on off-center hits.

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Grant is 1st female winner on DP World Tour

Linn Grant has become the first female to player to win an event in the 50-year history of golf's European tour -- officially now known as the DP World Tour.

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Just how difficult is it to qualify for the U.S. Open? A scratch 'weekend' golfer finds out

An inside look at what it is like to try to qualify for the U.S. Open as our own Tom VanHaaren caddied for a close friend attempting the feat.

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The Country Club: Q&A With Fred Waterman, By The Numbers And All 18 From Above

This is the type of course where you feel after every round you play that you can break 70 the next round. You are sure of it. But somehow you don’t. You are even surer the next time, but something always happens that you weren’t looking for. WALTER HAGEN on Merion

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'Incredibly polarizing': Start of the LIV Golf era brings golf and a flood of questions

At Saturday's LIV event at Centurion Golf Club in London, it felt less like a golf tournament away from the rope line and more like a festival.

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Stunner: They're Not Exactly Playing By The Rules Of Golf In The Saudi Golf League

There are some fabulous details in Sean Zak’s Golf.com story looking at two rules situations at the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational. That young man’s mane of Slugger White’s might be thinning grey by the time he lands back in the States!

In the first instance, a caddie signaled to another player what club was used. White decided to issue a warning even though the caddie in question is a pro jock. And Slugger also made a request to fill divots. Charming. So they don’t know the rules or etiquette.

On brand in Saudi golf land!

In the second incident, also involving J.C. Ritchie of South Africa, well, it’s less a clear violation but speaks to the integrity of the competition…

Phachara Khongwatamai, of Thailand, the third player in Ritchie’s group, was playing so well Thursday that many of his shots were being shown on the event’s coverage. Ritchie, noting the action of the cameras around them, was concerned that viewers streaming at home might have seen the infraction and thought it had been overlooked. That was Ritchie’s first question when he approached White near scoring.

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CBS Opens Canadian Open With Strong Rebuke Of PGA Tour's Defectors

I’ve seen some wild stuff in this PGA Tour v. LIV situation but in a lot of ways, the likely fissures in the sport have only just begun based on CBS’s opening to Saturday’s RBC Canadian Open.

Nick Piatstowski at Golf.com summarized it here.

After showing some golf and maybe selling the leaderboard of 5 world top 18’s a wee bit hard—it is a doozy of a final group Sunday with Finau, McIlroy and Thomas—Jim Nantz explained how the LIV event in London had just concluded.

"Charl Schwartzel with his first win of any kind in six years, ranked 126th in the world, he was the victor of this 54-hole event of the tour that’s Saudi backed,” Nantz said.

Any kind and Saudi backed. That’s a declaration of war in the Hello Friendsphere!

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Avery helps U.S. take 5-point lead in Curtis Cup

Amari Avery won two more matches Saturday to help the United States take an 8 1/2-3 1/2 lead over Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup.

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Kinhult birdies 18th for 1-shot LPGA Classic lead

Frida Kinhult took a 1-shot lead after finishing at 4-under 67 in the second round Saturday at the ShopRite LPGA Classic.

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Finau, McIlroy share 3rd-round lead at Canadian

Tony Finau carded an 8-under 62 Saturday and shares the lead at the RBC Canadian Open with defending champion Rory McIlroy.

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