By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) February 8, 2019 Good Friday morning, golf fans. May your weekends be filled with better-than-Crosby weather. 1. Pebble: Langley, Gay lead Tom...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) February 7, 2019 Good Thursday morning, golf fans. 1. Nine straight for Nitties! Golfweek’s Alistair Tate…”How do you bounce back from a...
Lexi Thompson’s WITB, accurate as of the 2019 PGA Show Driver: Cobra King F9 Speedback (8 degrees) Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 50X 3-wood: Cobra King LTD...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) February 6, 2019 Good Wednesday morning, golf fans. 1. Modern golf swing = back problems? Adding fuel from outside the golf world...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) February 5, 2019 Good Tuesday morning, golf fans. 1. ANA + ANWA Golf Channel’s Randall Mell writes that amateur invites to the...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) February 4, 2019 Good Monday morning, golf fans, and welcome to the advertising age of Morning 9. Never anything too obtrusive, and...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) February 1, 2019 Good Friday morning, golf fans. 1. HV3 (and JT and Rickie) Harold Varner III overcame an early bogey with...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 31, 2019 Good Thursday morning, golf fans. 1. Rose doubles down Further remarks/lack thereof from Justin Rose on teeing it up...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 30, 2019 Good Wednesday morning, golf fans. 1. USGA Distance Report Released yesterday, the USGA/R&A’s 2018 Annual Driving Distance Report analyzes...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 29, 2019 Good Tuesday morning, golf fans. 1. “I’m not a politician” Justin Rose offered the definitive quotation for players teeing...
You’ll read plenty of hyperbole about the carnivalesque atmosphere at the Waste Management Phoenix Open in general, and the festivities of the 16th hole in particular...
1. “A beautiful Rosey place” …that’s how Justin Rose’s swing coach/instructor/what are we calling these guys these days Sean Foley described the current state of the...
Bridgestone’s Tour B XW-1 wedges are the softest and highest spinning wedges ever designed for better players, according to the company. How? Bridgestone’s proprietary Biting Rail...
Bushnell launched its latest laser rangefinder, the Pro XE, at the PGA Merchandise Show. The Pro XE introduces Slope with Elements, by which temperature and altitude...
More speed, less spin, same short game performance. That’s the new Titleist Pro V1 (and Pro V1x) in a nutshell, according to the Fairhaven, Massachusetts-based company....
Looks like Tiger Woods will be putting new irons and woods in play at the Farmers Insurance Open this week. Ever since prototype P-7TW irons were...
We last talked with Alonzo Guess of Sunfish in November of 2017 after the Nashville-based company launched a custom headcover and accessory builder on its website....
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 17, 2019 Good Thursday morning, golf fans. 1. Tiger to return at Torrey As expected, Tiger Woods will be in...
As expected, Tiger Woods will be in the field for the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines next week. Woods made the announcement today via his...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 16, 2019 Good Wednesday morning, golf fans. 1. Why Rose signed with Honma John Strege talked with Justin Rose about the...
It turns out, Paul Casey is not the second PGA Tour staffer (after Justin Rose) to sign with Honma. Two weeks ago, the Englishman sent the...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 15, 2019 Good Tuesday morning, golf fans. 1. Further thoughts on Kuchar, caddie payola Whether Kuchar stiffed El Toucan or not,...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 14, 2019 Good Monday morning, golf fans. Hope you’re greeting the week with a smile wider than Matt Kuchar’s. 1. Kuch...
What’s that you have in your hands there, Tommy Fleetwood? That iron looks strikingly familiar to the “P-7TW” iron we featured in a Forum Thread of...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 11, 2019 Good Friday morning, golf fans. 1. Svensson surges at Sony PGATour.com’s Ben Everill rightly headlined his game story “Svensson...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 10, 2019 Good Thursday morning, golf fans. 1. Further incredulity toward the drop rule You have to feel for the USGA....
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 9, 2019 Good Wednesday morning, golf fans. 1. No Steph Curry event in 2019 ESPN’s Bob Harig with the news, building...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 8, 2019 Good Tuesday morning, golf fans. 1. We didn’t really think about that… That seems to be essentially the link...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 7, 2019 Good Monday morning, golf fans. 1. Meanwhile, in Hawaii… PGATour.com’s Ben Everill on the underdog mentality that’s fueling Xander...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 4, 2019 Good Friday morning, golf fans. 1. Callaway launch day We have a full buffet of new Callaway equipment stories...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 3, 2019 Good Thursday morning, golf fans. 1. TaylorMade M5, M6 launch In a market where distance seems to dominate the...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) January 2, 2019 Good Wednesday morning, golf fans, and a belated Happy New Year…should be a good one for golf! 1. “More...
One of the worst-kept secrets in the golf equipment world is no longer secret: world No. 2 Justin Rose is officially a Honma staffer. The Japanese...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) December 31, 2018 Good Monday morning, golf fans, and a very happy New Year’s Eve to you all. 1. Return of the...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) December 28, 2018 Good Friday morning, golf fans. 1. Tiger on Jackson Park: “Time to do something significant” Woods’ has high hopes...