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LIV Golf Rolls Out Tickets Sales And A Slogan To Make Live Under Par Almost Sound OK

The true hazard should draw the player towards it, should invite the golfer to come as near as he dare to the fire without burning his fingers. JOHN LOW

/ Geoff Shackelford

Hey parents, have fun explaining that one!

Daddy, why do they say Shot Just Got Real?

Well, Tilly, it’s a play off of…oh forget it.

But more importantly, you can now reserve Grounds passes in the $70-85 range for all but the LIV Golf series tournaments except the finale at Trump Doral. And I know, this sounds pricey for one day of golf where it’s a 4-hour shotgun start. But it’s a small price to pay when you get to see the likes of Garrigus!




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Major(s) News & Notes April 28, 2022

The true hazard should draw the player towards it, should invite the golfer to come as near as he dare to the fire without burning his fingers. JOHN LOW

/ Geoff Shackelford


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Take the Yips Out of YOUR Putting

Every golfer has the strength to putt and sink putts. The best putters read the break and match the right swing weight directly up their target line to sink every putt. Easier said than done. Even Cameron Smith can’t sink every putt but he does give himself an excellent chance by setting up correctly and swinging with the right swing to start his ball rolling OVER and DIRECTLY UP HIS TARGET LINE. So why do YIPS creep into YOUR putting stroke?


I recently read the benefits of the EyeLine Putting Alignment Mirror. Unfortunately, it can’t tell you the 3 most critical features to make putts: (1) How to read the break: (2) The amount of swing required to reach the hole and (3) How to avoid the YIPS. You need to start by practicing on a variety of greens with different roll speeds to build confidence. Great putters learn to feel the right swing speed to manage the break and power the putt with a confident swing into the hole. To do this you need to swing with your shoulders AND avoid the YIPS.


A Putting Mirror is an aid to help you setup:
1/ Square up your feet and your shoulders with your target line.
2/ Your eyes should lineup directly over the target line or slightly inside of that line.
3/ Your head should not sway with your putter backswing or follow-through.


What You Can’t Learn from a Putting Mirror:
A/ Learn to swing by rocking your shoulders TO AVOID THE YIPS (using the LARGE MUSCLES IN YOUR SHOULDERS and not the small muscles in your wrists).
B/ Your putter must swing directly back (like a pendulum) and directly up your target line BY ONLY ROCKING YOUR SHOULDERS.
C/ Make a long enough putting practice swing WITH YOUR SHOULDERS to feel the power required to reach and pass the hole by 12 to 18 inches (to avoid a deflection from green imperfections as your putt slows down near the hole).

Tiger locks his leading wrist and rocks his shoulders to swing like a pendulum and avoid the YIPS.

Avoid the YIPS and shaking hands by locking your leading wrist flat and lining-up your leading forearm with the shaft of your putter. Only use your shoulders to swing your putter like a pendulum up your target line. GOLFSTR+ helps you practice by locking your leading wrist to eliminate the YIPS. Buy one today at www.GOLFSTR.com

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Lawrenson: LIV Event At St Albans Will Test European Tour's Ryder Cup Captaincy Threat

Immediately when we attempt to standardize sizes, shapes, and distances we lose more than half the pleasure of the game. H.S. COLT

/ Geoff Shackelford

The Daily Mail’s Derek Lawrenson considers news of Phil Mickelson possibly returning and going for the Saudi money he knows is controlled by a murderer.

And in doing so Lawrenson notes two key points worth keeping an eye on:

The interesting thing will be if the DP World Tour follow through with their threat to prevent anyone who signs up for a Saudi event from becoming a Ryder Cup captain in the future.

It looks as if Westwood, Poulter and Garcia — three shoo-ins for the job under normal circumstances — are ready to call their bluff and see who blinks first. It would certainly damage the credibility of the Ryder Cup if all three were overlooked for the post.


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Ratings: Spieth Delivers For CBS; Zurich And Valero Have Rough Years

Immediately when we attempt to standardize sizes, shapes, and distances we lose more than half the pleasure of the game. H.S. COLT

/ Geoff Shackelford

Paulsen at Sports Media Watch with the good news for CBS’s 2022 RBC Heritage won by Jordan Spieth and viewed by the largest non-Masters audience of 2022.

Final round coverage of the PGA Tour Heritage tournament averaged a 1.9 rating and 3.68 million viewers on CBS Sunday, marking the largest audience for the event since 2003. Jordan Spieth’s win, which peaked with 5.04 million viewers, increased 20% in ratings and 43% in viewership from last year. The previous 19-year mark was 3.46 million for Spieth’s previous win in 2015.

Also noted by Paulsen and this should not be underestimated: “The 19-year high for the Heritage came on the same Easter Sunday in which the NBA scored its largest opening round playoff audience in 20 years.”

CBS had the other highest-rated non-major of the year with the WM Open in February.

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Jon Rahm: "A lot of people don’t know, a lot of what we have and what we are competing for right now is because of [Phil].

Immediately when we attempt to standardize sizes, shapes, and distances we lose more than half the pleasure of the game. H.S. COLT

/ Geoff Shackelford

Here’s guessing the World No. 2 has not heard of Walter Hagen…or like 40 others.

Rahm, speaking to Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis ahead of this week’s Mexico Open, believed what Mickelson said and did shouldn’t damage his legacy.

“That guy has given his life to golf,” Rahm said about Mickelson. “A lot of what we have, a lot of people don’t know, a lot of what we have and what we are competing for right now is because of [Phil]. A lot of people focus on Tiger but he is easily one of the top 10 best players of all time. He is a Hall of Fame and we should recognise him as that. He has given his life to the public, no one has signed more autographs, no one has done more for the fans.”

Curry launches 5-tourney series for junior golfers

Stephen Curry is expanding his "Underrated" brand into golf by launching a series of five tournaments in conjunction with the American Junior Golf Association. Competitors will ultimately vie for the "Curry Cup."

St. Andrews to host record crowd for The Open

A record 290,000 fans are expected to attend The Open, which will be played at St. Andrews. The record is currently 239,000, set at the 2000 Open that Tiger Woods won at St. Andrews.

The Best Golf Gear of 2022

The Best Golf Gear of 2022 

After months of testing, with tens of thousands of shots, hundreds of hours, and nearly 100 human testers – we put together a list of the top-performing products of the 2022 season this far! From drivers to shoes, gloves, and more our mission is to inform and protect the golf consumer.

We want you to get the most out of your money, time, and performance. That means providing you with reviews you can trust, as well as honest reporting on the latest issues affecting the game today.  As testing continues and winners roll in, check back for the running collection of MyGolfSpy’s Best Golf Gear of 2022.

Golf Clubs:

2022 Best Driver: PING G425 MAX

The PING G425 MAX earned the highest overall score across the 2022 Most Wanted Driver Test. The G425 MAX was near the top for most metrics and finished on top of the Accuracy category.

One of the main reasons why PING G425 MAX is the overall winner of the 2022 Most Wanted Driver Test is accuracy. Its Playable Shot score was the highest in the test and its Straight Shot score was in the top five.

Best Blade Putter: COBRA King 3D Grandsport 35

With a stellar performance from 10 feet, COBRA’s KING 3D Printed Grandsport 35 takes home the crown of Best Blade Putter of 2022. Finishing at #1 for the 2022 season, this has the team excited for what is to come in the future of 3D printing in golf.

















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PGA Field Released With Mickelson And Woods

Steve Loy, Co-President, Americas of SPORTFIVE, issued the issued the following statement today: pic.twitter.com/okZdMIv5P4

— SPORTFIVE (@sportfiveagency) April 25, 2022

Tiger and Phil are entered, but Mickelson’s agent issues statement suggesting his disruptor client is keeping all options open, including a possible Saudi payday.

But does this already suggest Mickelson will return in the disruptor mode that got him in trouble? Thoughts in The Quadrilateral.

Ex-NBAer turned college golfer JR Smith named North Carolina A&T's Academic Athlete of the Year

JR Smith added another impressive feat to his resume -- but this one took place in the classroom, not on the court.

Phil signs up for majors, requests release for LIV

Phil Mickelson registered to play in the PGA Championship and U.S. Open and has requested a release from the PGA Tour to allow him to play in the first event of the Saudi Arabian-financed LIV Golf Invitational Series.

Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky got married over the weekend

Gretzy, the daughter of the Great One, and Johnson, a two-time major winner have been engaged since 2013. The couple tied the knot at a resort in the Tennessee mountains.

Doral Is Back! Trump Resort To Host LIV Golf's Team Championship For Its Non-Team Event Tour

Bob Harig at Morning Read/SI had the news first: Trump Doral will host October’s concluding eighth event of the LIV Golf Invitational Series. The famed Blue Monster course was site of the PGA Tour’s annual Miami stop beginning in 1962 and until the PGA Tour left for Mexico City’s WGC event, now defunct.

Harig writes:

After five years away, Doral will get professional golf again under Norman’s LIV Golf banner, the $30 million Team Championship in which the four-man winning team will split $16 million.

As you may recall Commissioner Greg Norman and friends have abandoned a team concept for 7 individual events followed by this concluding tournament. Harig has also reported that 15 top 100 players have registered and may seek releases from their Tours.

Either way, expect former President Donald Trump to add to October’s spectacle, whatever format is used to give out $30 million of Public Investment Fund money. It should be fun.

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A Good Reminder That Sam Snead Made A PGA Tour Cut At 67 Years Old

Reader GP was miffed at reports out of New Orleans of Jay Haas becoming the oldest player to make a PGA Tour cut. While there might be some recency bias and general silliness to a team event counting the same as an individual tournament, it’s still nice that the Haas’ competed, made the cut and acknowledged Sam Snead.

Adam Schupak handled the “record” well in this story and as you’d expect for a class act like Jay Haas who knows the history of the pro game, he said just what you’d hope after making a key putt to get to the weekend.

That included becoming the oldest player to make a cut on the PGA Tour at 68 years, 4 months, 20 days, edging past Sam Snead, who made the cut at the 1979 Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic at 67 years, 2 months and 23 days.

“I don’t think it should (count) because Sam Snead did it on his own and all that, but anything that I’m even remotely close to Sam Snead on would be very special,” said Haas, of Snead, who was in the field when he made his Tour debut at the 1973 Wyndham Championship.

In a lot of ways, these records or near records are more impressive for Haas:

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2022 BEST DRIVER FOR LOW SWING SPEEDS

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The most comprehensive driver test of 2022.

If your swing speed is 90 mph or below, this article is for you. These are the best drivers for low swing speeds. Read on to discover what our extensive testing has revealed before you even consider buying a new driver.

How We Test

For our 2022 driver test, 35 golfers tested 38 different driver models over more than 400 individual sessions. Data was collected using Foresight GCQuad Launch monitors. To minimize variables, all testers hit Titleist Pro V1 golf balls. Outliers were removed and data was aggregated before scores were calculated.

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Nasa Wins LA Open, Norman Gets An Open Rejection

It’s outstanding glory—or its horror, according to the light in which we view the matter—is the number of narrow streambeds winding about like snakes, and which are best described to “Californians as barrancas.” These barrancas are almost an ever-present menace throughout the round; indeed they have something to say in the matter at every one of the holes, save for the second and fifteenth.
NORMAN MACBETH on his Wilshire CC design

Hataoka closes out 5-stroke LA Open victory

Nasa Hataoka ran away with the DIO Implant LA Open on Sunday at Wilshire Country Club to open the LPGA Tour's two-week run in the Los Angeles area.

Cantlay, Schauffele win Zurich Classic by 2 shots

Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele held off Sam Burns and Billy Horschel by two strokes Sunday in a record-setting, wire-to-wire victory in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

Parel wins inaugural ClubCorp Classic in a playoff

Scott Parel two-putted for birdie on the par-5 18th hole for a 6-under 65, and then won the inaugural ClubCorp Classic on Sunday in Irving, Texas, with a par on the same hole in a playoff for his second PGA Tour Champions title.


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