SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Six years ago, in the early summer before the run-up to the Ryder Cup got particularly intense, a French professional golfer of some note told the New York Times, “If you say to people in France that you play golf, they will say: ‘No, but really. What’s your real job?’ Golf is Read more…
The three new Titleist GT drivers (GT2, GT3, GT4) fill similar slots to the three TSR models they replace with the forgiving GT2, the shot-shaping GT3 and the ultra low-spin GT4. But they do so in a dramatically new way for the traditional Titleist metalwood philosophy.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The Titleist GT fairway woods make use of a new thermoplastic polymer matrix crown that weighs one-fifth as much as the surrounding steel to create two distinct ball flights and forgiveness profiles. The two models include the higher-launching, larger, more forgiving GT2 (TSR2 replacement) and the taller-faced, flatter-flying, control-oriented GT3 Read more…
Ryan Fox from New Zealand, Gavin Green from Malaysia, C.T. Pan from Chinese Taipei and Fabrizio Zanotti from Paraguay are all making their third straight appearance in the Olympics, the only male golfers to appear in all three Games since golf was reinstated in 2016.
Unlike previous Olympic golf courses, Le Golf National is very much a known quantity, especially for those in the 60-man field who’ve played the DP World Tour.
TaylorMade launches two new irons directed at better players, the fresh single-piece forged cavity back P·7CB and a sleek aesthetic upgrade to the fast-faced P·770. But with better players’ demands in mind, both still offer distinct commitments to ball speed and forgiveness.
As golf in the Olympics continues to navigate its way towards relevancy, its latest challenge may be the one that puts it most in line with golf’s major championships.
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Rory McIlroy may still be smarting from his missed cut at the Open Championship, which included his worst round at a major in five years, but he’s maintaining his scratch-handicap in trash talk. Heading into his second Olympics appearance, McIlroy addressed the media in Paris and threw in a left hook when Read more…
Jason Day opted out of competing at the Rio Games in 2016, despite being the No.1 golfer in the world. At the time, Day cited concerns over the Zika virus. Eight years later, having earned his way back on to the Australian team after missing in Tokyo in 2021, Day wishes he had thought about it differently.
The International Golf Federation is particularly excited about the idea of adding a third event to the golf schedule at the next Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028.
Wyndham Clark will be making his Olympic debut in Thursday’s first round of the men’s competition at Le Golf National, but he got his first and probably biggest taste of the Paris 2024 Games floating down the Seine on the Team USA boat as part of the Opening Ceremony on Friday. “I wanted to participate Read more…
Helmstetter’s greatest strength may have been in building an R&D juggernaut of young minds that would go on to lead both Callaway’s design philosophy and later other companies for decades.
When it comes to a driver fitting, and often any kind of full-swing club fitting, the guiding principle always has been: “Ball speed is king.” This seems obvious. Make the ball go faster and it’s always going to go farther. And generally, this should be your mantra. If you find more ball speed, you’re going Read more…
If gambling were an investment strategy, Charles Schwab would be sponsoring it. Golf, specifically wagering on golf, is of course the most capricious of enterprises, with just as many Scottie Schefflers and Xander Schauffeles populating leaderboards as Nicolai Højgaards and Sam Horsfields. In short, golf betting is a roulette wheel in an earthquake, and getting Read more…
When it comes to how best to improve your game on the greens, the debate over whether the blade or the mallet is a better solution seems as dubious a pursuit as deciding whether vanilla or chocolate is a better flavor of ice cream. (Chocolate, obviously … ) The issue really isn’t whether blades provide Read more…
I swear the British Open, that original of major tournaments, exists to remind us that as much as we strive for order, and, well, the logical, we cannot have it. Golf, like life, is almost never what you expect it to be. Especially elite golf, in this day and age, cannot be planned for in Read more…
To put the absurdly confounding difficulty of the relatively microscopic 8th hole at Royal Troon in perspective, consider this: The average proximity to the hole on the PGA Tour for a shot played at a similar distance to the 8th’s 123 yards is just a shade over 20 feet. Whether the pin is set in the front, middle or back on the hole’s relatively wee putting surface, such a miss could very well not be on the green.
Steve Otto said that any change to driver regulations would depend on what happens after elite players have been playing with the upcoming shorter ball for a period.
Australian Golf Digest
