Although equipment can never fully mitigate a 20-metre loss, making sure you’re optimising your launch conditions is a great place to start and can help significantly.
Talks between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf have hit another impasse, raising questions if professional golf’s cold war is about to heat up. But, as witnessed in Tuesday’s practice round at Augusta National, least one schism-related beef has been put to bed.
Golf fans got the first Tiger Woods update since the 15-time major champ announced earlier this month that he’d undergone surgery to repair a ruptured left Achilles. It just didn’t come from Tiger Woods.
Always a relatively aloof character, Brooks Koepka neither confirmed nor dispelled rumours that he is seeking to leave the LIV Golf League in favour of a return to the PGA Tour. Which in and of itself might be telling.
While Woods has been on staff with Bridgestone since 2016, his Nike golf balls dating back to the early 2000s were also made by Bridgestone, something he confirmed in the latest contract announcement.
Fred Couples caught wind of the LIV CEO having to buy his own tickets to the event on the secondary market and he mocked all the LIV players for not stepping up for their commissioner.
Couples’ biggest peeve is players going to LIV and talking less about the money they’re getting than the draw of what’s different about the Saudi Arabia-backed circuit.
It’s been well known for decades that Fred Couples, easily one of the most gifted athletes in the annals of golf, has a lot more going on in his head than he is capable of articulating succinctly.