This week, Lexi Thompson announced that she was taking a break from social media after receiving “hurtful” comments online. Blue Giraffe Sports, who manage the 24-year-old,...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) May 2, 2019 Good Thursday morning, golf fans. 1. Golf participation… Golfweek’s Roxanna Scott frames National Golf Day appropriately and en route to...
PGA of America CEO, Seth Waugh, has described Tiger Woods’ win at last month’s Masters as a “where were you when” moment on a par with...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) May 1, 2019 Good Tuesday morning, golf fans. 1. How to schedule… …around the first majors of the year, under the new calendar?…it’s...
We spotted Phil Mickelson deviating from his traditional Project X HZRDUS T1100 on the range ahead of the Wells Fargo Championship. In its place, Lefty was...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) April 30, 2019 Good Tuesday morning, golf fans. 1. History! Golfweek’s Todd Kelly on a bit of golf history made over the weekend...
Lexi Thompson has decided to take a break from social media after receiving “hurtful” comments recently via her Instagram page. The 24-year-old has been one of...
Tiger Woods conducted his first extended interview last week since winning the Masters, speaking to Henni Zuel of GolfTV. Within the 30-minute interview with the online streaming...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) April 29, 2019 Good Monday morning, golf fans. 1. Palmer-Rahm (Ralmer? Pahm?) While they may not have a blended name with a great...
The issue of slow play in the game of golf came to the forefront once again this weekend, culminating in the European Tour’s list of slow...
It was a week of partner events on the PGA and Champions tours, and a reminder that unique events are a welcome respite from the 72-hole...
This past weekend in West Lafayette, Indiana, at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex, the National Collegiate College Golf Association (NCCGA) hosted their spring nationals, which is...
UPDATE: In-hand photos from the Wells Fargo Championship at the end of the piece. Monday morning around the GolfWRX office means a couple of things: confirming...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) April 26, 2019 Good Friday morning, golf fans. 1. Mother Nature steals the show… Jeff Duncan at The Times-Picayune on a soggy round...
On Saturday at the Zurich Classic in New Orleans, for the second year, teammates are choosing walk-up songs for their first tee ball. There is some...
GolfWRX is live from the 2019 Terra Cotta Invitational at Naples National Golf Club, which will be contested April 26-28. Past winners of the amateur event...
Under new sponsorship, the 2019 Charles Schwab Challenge which takes place at Colonial Country Club in Ft. Worth, will have a special prize on offer for its...
John Kawaja, executive vice president at Honma golf, spoke with our Johnny Wunder in the latest edition of the Gear Dive. The industry veteran touched on...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) April 24, 2019 Good Wednesday morning, golf fans. 1. Tour better positioned for Tigermania 2.0? The eminent Doug Ferguson at the AP talked...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) April 23, 2019 Good Tuesday morning, golf fans. 1. More perspective on the financial impact of Tiger’s win ESPN’s Tom VanHaaren collected some...
There was strange golf to be played, the week after Augusta 2019. Vijay dunked three consecutive wedge shots on Saturday. DJ gave seven shots away in...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) April 21, 2019 Good Monday morning, golf fans. 1. Pantastic! Not the Dustin Johnson triumph we expected, true. Nevertheless, C.T. Pan’s W was...
In this episode of the Q2Q brought to you bu GolfWRX and Cobra Golf, Johnny and performance coach Nick Starchuk travel to West Palm Beach to...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) April 19, 2019 Good Friday morning on this Good Friday, golf fans. 1. Lowry leads AP report…”The Irishman admittedly had started the year...
Former NBA star Michael Jordan is no stranger to legendary comebacks, but according to the six-time NBA champion, there has been no greater comeback in the...
Fresh off making the cut at the year’s first major at Augusta National last week, world number 39, Eddie Pepperell has turned to a new flatstick....
Hosung Choi, the man who has become a viral internet star due to his unique golf swing, made his PGA Tour debut at the AT&T Pebble Beach...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) April 18, 2019 Good Thursday morning, golf fans. 1. Meanwhile, on the LPGA Tour… …some actual golf action, to begin… AP Report on...
Tornados brewing in the Georgia area meant an earlier start than usual for the final round of the Masters, and one CBS46 meteorologist was to receive death...
The Ben Hogan Award is arguably the biggest individual award in collegiate golf. Given annually to the most outstanding amateur college golfer, the award is unique...
Beyond the obvious big news of some guy named Mr. Woods winning his fifth green jacket this past weekend, there were some pretty interesting developments with...
James Adducci became a viral star after winning $1.2 million from an $85k wager on Tiger Woods to win last week’s Masters, but the 39-year-old’s story...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) April 17, 2019 Good Wednesday morning, golf fans. 1. Always pull the flagstick?!?! …the Golfing Scientist couldn’t have bad data, could he?… Mike...
By Ben Alberstadt (ben.alberstadt@golfwrx.com) April 16, 2019 Good Tuesday morning, golf fans. 1. Masters ratings Paulsen at Sports Media Watch reports…”Sunday’s final round of the Masters, which...
It’s been a while since TaylorMade launched its last mini driver, and with the new “Original One” nicknamed Pittsburgh Persimmon (a nod to both the VERY...