In the three new solid core, multilayer, urethane-covered Srixon balls announced for retail in Australia from next month, it’s the little changes that do the most to optimise distance and improve greenside spin.
The new King PUR wedges from Cobra make the case that sometimes the best way to attack the complicated challenges of improving spin and feel is to uncomplicate them.
To say that most players on the US PGA Tour, and the organisation as a whole, only lean to the right when it comes to politics would be like saying the green on the 12th hole at Augusta National has just a slight break towards Rae’s Creek – a “yuge” understatement.
Tiger Woods returned to golf at the Hero World Challenge in December, yet his appearance this week at the Farmers Insurance Open marks his first official US PGA Tour event in 17 months.