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The DailyWRX (7/20/2020): Bo knows Tour Edge, Robert Rock on beating Tiger, best shot with highest heart rate

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That golf course was a MONSTER.

Now I need a full set of Tour Edges…

Bo Knows everything…where have you been the last 25 years?

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It was an extreme honor to deliver a new set of Exotics to Tour Edge ambassador @bojackson today!! Bo has been playing a full bag of Tour Edge over the last few years. Just a few weeks ago, Bo hit his EXS Driver 349 yards to 3 feet on a Par 4 with his 120 MPH swing speed. His new EXS 220 Driver will provide him with a 20% increase in MOI, offering a ton of stability at impact for his powerful swing. (Notice the jumbo grips!) He was extremely stoked with the sleek look of the new limited edition Exotics Pro Forged Irons and EXS Blade Wedges. He also couldn’t wait to start rolling putts with his new Wingman! Needless to say, we are proud that one of the best athletes to ever walk the Earth chooses to play Tour Edge on the golf course!! Here’s what Bo will be gaming: EXS 220 9.5° Driver / Tensei Blue 60-X EXS 220 13.5° FW / Hzrdus Yellow 70-X EXS 220 17° hybrid / KBS Tour Proto 95-X EXS Pro Forged 3-AW / DG X100 EXS Pro Blade wedges: 54°, 56° /DG S300 Wingman 03 Center Shafted 36" Thanks to Bo for being such an awesome supporter to the brand and thanks to his club fitter and longtime Tour Edge collaborator Jim Shenoa for hosting and getting Bo dialed in! #bojackson #touredge #exotics #ambassador #boknows #golf #chicago #legend #raiders #royals #whitesox #auburn #heisman #nfl #mlb #superstar

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That time my boy Rob…

…slayed a Tiger. Doesn’t happen very often.

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Tiger Woods – Playing with him The two most common questions you get asked are whether you have played the Masters and if you've played with Tiger? Young pros remember Abu Dhabi, they don’t care whether I beat him or not, but they want to know what it was like and that’s the cool thing. The really great thing was that he was a model pro to play with; his etiquette was spot on and he was really considerate and decent. He could have made me very uncomfortable but he didn’t. I was playing with Thomas Bjorn and David Howell recently and we talked a bit about Tiger, Thomas played with him for four days in Dubai and won and that is so impressive. I remember people coming up to me after Abu Dhabi and saying well done and David, who's very dry and funny, walked past and said ‘I beat him once and I’ve not hit a shot since’. I suppose it does define you a bit and there is an element of what do you do after that? At 34 it came at a good age but at a terrible time for my personal life as I was getting divorced. A lot of things fell into line that week and maybe that just helped to give me a ray of sunshine. It wasn’t about trying to win, if it was anyone else I would just be thinking about that but, having watched him win his first few tournaments as an assistant pro on £200 a week, the bottom line was that I wanted to enjoy it just for my own pride. And I just wanted to play OK and not tell the story that I panicked and shot loads and thankfully I didn’t. I had six months around that time where my iron play was really good for me. So I was just trying to get it off the tee (with the low fade) and then get my iron shots really close. My chipping and putting weren't great but I was hitting it close enough to score well so Abu Dhabi came at the right time in that respect. I enjoyed all of it right down until the 72nd hole when I realised that I could mess it up. All the way round I thought he’s going to catch me and I would fall away – then I thought that I could win and it started to fall apart. Another hole and it would have been interesting and by the end I actually had to ask Peter Hanson whether I had won or not. Thoughts by me/Words by Mark Townsend

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Hi, me…

I think if you are basing the best shots on heart rate…

This may have been the best shot with the highest heart rate ever…..

Nowwwwww yah tell me…..

…goodbye on-course journal and playbook wristband.

Bears don’t play games…

A nuanced thought vs. general…

Brandel continues to think on different planes, like it or not the guy thinks before he speaks. I don’t…but he does.

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‘Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight’ – LPGA pro offers candid take following rough AIG Women’s Open finish

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An opening round of 77 left LPGA pro Jenny Shin with a mountain to climb at last week’s AIG Women’s Open.

However, fighting back with rounds of 69 and 67, Shin found herself six shots off the lead and just outside the top 10 heading into Sunday as she went in search of her first major victory.

Shin, who won the US Girls’ Junior at just 13, couldn’t back those rounds up on Sunday, though, and after playing her opening nine holes of the final round in level par, she then bogeyed three holes coming home to slip down the leaderboard and eventually finish T23.

Taking to X following the final round, Shin offered a frustrated and honest take on how she was feeling, posting: “Don’t think I’ll sleep well tonight. What a crappy way to finish.”

Shin has made 11 cuts in 13 starts on the LPGA Tour this season, but has been plagued by frustrating Sunday finishes throughout the year. Shin ranks 102nd on tour this year out of 155 for Round 4 scoring in 2025.

Miyu Yamashita won the 2025 AIG Women’s Open with a composed final round of 70 to win her first major of her career by two strokes.

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How a late golf ball change helped Cameron Young win for first time on PGA Tour

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Cameron Young won the Wyndham Championship on Sunday for his first victory on the PGA Tour.

Young dominated all weekend at TPC Sedgefield, running away from the pack to win by six strokes and put himself in contention for a Ryder Cup pick in September.

Ahead of the event, the 28-year-old switched to a Pro V1x prototype golf ball for the first time, following recent testing sessions with the Titleist Golf Ball R&D team.

Interestingly, Young played a practice round accompanied by Fordie Pitts, Titleist’s Director of Tour Research & Validation, at TPC Schedule early last week with both his usual Pro V1 Left Dot ball and the new Pro V1x prototype.

Per Titleist, by the second hole Young was exclusively hitting shots with the Pro V1x prototype.

“We weren’t sure if he was going to test it this week, but as he was warming up, he asked to hit a couple on the range,” Pitts said. “He was then curious to see some shots out on the course.  Performance-wise, he was hitting tight draws everywhere. His misses were staying more in play. He hit some, what he would call ‘11 o’clock shots,’ where again he’s taking a little something off it. He had great control there.”

According to Titleist, the main validation came on Tuesday on the seventh hole of his practice round. The par 3 that played between 184 and 225 yards during the tournament called for a 5-iron from Young, or so he thought. Believing there was “no way” he could get a 6-iron to the flag with his Left Dot, Young struck a 5-iron with the Pro V1x prototype and was stunned to see the ball land right by the hole.

“He then hits this 6-iron [with the Pro V1x prototype] absolutely dead at the flag, and it lands right next to the pin, ending up just past it,” Pitts said. “And his response was, ‘remarkable.’ He couldn’t believe that he got that club there.”

Following nine holes on Tuesday and a further nine on Wednesday, Young asked the Titleist team to put the ProV1x balls in his locker. The rest, as they say, is history.

Check out Young’s winning WITB here.

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Rickie Fowler makes equipment change to ‘something that’s a little easier on the body’

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Rickie Fowler fired an opening round of one-under par on Thursday at the Wyndham Championship, as the Californian looks to make a FedEx Cup playoff push.

Fowler is currently 61st in the standings, so will need a strong couple of weeks to extend his season until the BMW Championship, where only the top 50 in the standings will tee it up.

Heading into the final stretch of the season, Fowler has made an equipment switch of note, changing into new iron shafts, as well as making a switch to his driver shaft.

The 36-year-old revealed this week that he has switched from his usual KBS Tour C-Taper 125-gram steel shafts to the graphite Aerotech SteelFiber 125cw shafts in his Cobra King Tour irons, a change he first put into play at last month’s Travelers Championship.

Speaking on the change to reporters this week, Fowler made note that the graphite shafts offer “something that’s a little easier on the body.”

“I mean, went to the week of Travelers, so been in for, I guess that’s a little over a month now. Something that’s a little easier on the body and seemed to get very similar numbers to where I was at. Yeah, it’s gone well so far.”

Fowler has also made a driver shaft change, switching out his Mitsubishi Diamana WB 73 TX for a UST Mamiya Lin-Q Proto V1 6 TX driver shaft in his Cobra DS-Adapt X, which he first implemented a couple of weeks ago at the John Deere Classic.

However, according to Fowler himself, the testing and potential changes are not done yet.

“Probably do some more testing in some different weight configurations with them once I get some time. Yeah, I feel like we’re always trying to search, one, to get better but are there ways to make things easier, whether that’s physically, mentally, whatever it may be. So yeah, I thought they were good enough to obviously put into play and looking forward to doing some more testing.”

Fowler gets his second round at TPC Sedgefield underway at 7.23 a.m ET on Friday.

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