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Posted by Reuben Rock on January 31, 2009 under Best Golf Putters, Latest Updates, Putter Reviews, golf putter reviews | 
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At the PGA Show, our style expert reports attendance numbers are down, but there are plenty of exciting new products to see.
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The golf bags would also make your transport across the golfing course very much easy along with your personal items. The condition of your golf accessories and equipments is also not adversely affected because of the golf bag. The golf apparels are also an imperative golfing accessory that you must possess.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Tom Watson looked like he’d stepped out of the pages of a fashion magazine as he sipped coffee Friday morning at the PGA Show. That made the people at Polo Ralph Lauren, the company that outfits the eight-time major champion, very happy.
Surrounded by companies selling every kind of golf contraption imaginable, I asked Watson which technological innovation made the greatest impact on the game.
"It was the graphite shaft," he said. "I can’t remember exactly where I was when I first tried them, maybe ‘83 at Oakmont."
Watson said the buzz back then was that graphite shafts were going to transform the game and help golfers hit the ball a lot farther.
"Being from the ‘Show Me State’ of Missouri, I was a little skeptical about it hitting the ball a lot farther," Watson continued. Because even the earliest graphite shafts were so much lighter than steel shafts, manufacturers were free to make the shafts longer and golfers could swing them faster.
However, it wasn’t love a first swing for Watson and the earliest graphite-shafted clubs. "They didn’t have enough feedback with the hit," he said. "There was a softer feel to them, but I called them ‘dumb’ because I couldn’t feel in my hands what I’d done in the hit."
But looking back, Watson feels the creation of graphite shafts was the beginning of the process that eventually created the drivers we have now.
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Posted by Reuben Rock on January 30, 2009 under Best Golf Putters, Latest Updates, Putter Reviews, golf putter reviews | Be the First to Comment
In various nations waterproof golf accessories and equipments are utilized by more citizens for keeping their golf equipments as well as themselves, dry. The golf clothing are also very important aspect of the game.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — My favorite unknown golf club maker made it to the PGA Merchandise Show. That would be Scratch Golf, which makes Scratch wedges.
Let’s face it, sand wedges haven’t changed all that much in the last 50 years, other than offering more options in lofts and bounce. However, Scratch wedges are second to none. They’re handmade, hand-ground and custom fit (see ScratchGolf.com). They’re a club of choice on the Nationwide tour, where 30 or so players regularly carry them. Some players liked the wedges so much that they asked Scratch Golf to make a whole set of irons. They’ve got a sweet assortment of blades now, too. A putter is also in the works, by request.
The wedges come in eight different finishes, including satin, antique and copper. You can even get a gold-plated model. (Yo, Donald! You listening?) I tried out a pair in November (no, not the gold-plated ones) and liked them so much that they’re in my bag to stay.
For those of us traditionalists who prefer blades to the fat, thick-top-line, game-improvement irons so popular today, the Scratch irons look anorexic. They’re sleek, beautiful throwbacks. You can even get the irons in a black finish, which is extremely cool. The irons come in three versions, the most popular of which is a slight cavity-back model that is forged but still has good feel.
Scratch is one of those quiet companies that produces great stuff but doesn’t have the marketing dollars to be a big force. A wedge is $149; a set of irons is $1199.
It’s growing by word of mouth. So you’ve been told.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Due to darkness, play was stopped at 6:05 p.m. Nine players did not complete Round 1. Play to finish the first round will resume at 8:00 a.m. Friday morning.
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Posted by Reuben Rock on January 29, 2009 under Best Golf Putters, Latest Updates, Putter Reviews, golf putter reviews | Be the First to Comment
ORLANDO, Fla. — Pick up one of Stephen Boccieri’s putters, and you know right away that it’s different from everything else on the rack. Tipping the scales at about 900 grams (nearly twice the weight of most putters), his original invention, the Heavy putter, is the Hummer of flatsticks.
But like SUVs, even Heavy putters are getting smaller these days. Here at the PGA Show, Boccieri is begrudgingly launching a new Mid-Weight family of putters, which tip the scales at 750 grams.
“For a lot of people, it was too much of a quantum leap to go from a conventional putter at 500 grams to jump into one of our putters that was twice the weight,” he said Wednesday. “We couldn’t overcome it. People would literally pick it up and put it down.”
The new Mid-Weight line is designed as a compromise, giving golfers who are looking for a heavier putter an option that doesn’t feel too cumbersome. Unlike previous designs that featured circular cutouts and weight inserts in the head, each of the six Mid-Weights is either a classic blade or simple mallet design in either a satin or black PVD finish. For a better look at the center-shafted H1 mallet, click on the photo.
The Mid-Weight Heavy putters are all made from stainless steel, have 3°of loft and are available in lengths from 32″ to 37″ for $169.