Trackman is proud to announce the release of Virtual Golf 3 (VG3), the latest evolution of our industry-leading graphics engine, available exclusively for Trackman simulators worldwide beginning yesterday, September 24.
VG3 is more than a software update; it’s a giant step forward in closing the gap between the outdoor and indoor games.
Modern golf entertainment leader Topgolf and SEGA of America announced a multiyear partnership that will bring Sonic the Hedgehog to life in Topgolf-owned-and-operated venues this November and Toptracer-enabled franchise venues around the globe by Q1 2025. The all-new game is an ultimate Sonic experience filled with classic characters and challenges sure to power up new and nostalgic fans alike.
This is the first venture into the golf entertainment space for the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and is the first Topgolf game developed with an external IP since Angry Birds at Topgolf was released in 2020.
The USGA redemption tour for Evan Beck is officially complete. In dominating fashion, the 34-year-old from Virginia Beach, Va., finally put his name on a USGA trophy with a 9-and-8 victory over Bobby Massa in Thursday’s 36-hole U.S. Mid-Amateur championship match at Kinloch Golf Club.
A two-time USGA runner-up, including last year’s 3-and-2 defeat to Stewart Hagestad at Sleepy Hollow Country Club, in Scarborough, N.Y., and a 2008 shellacking (10 and 8) from Cameron Peck in the U.S. Junior Amateur final at Shoal Creek, in Alabama, Beck became the first Virginian to hoist the Robert T. Jones Jr. Memorial Trophy, and the first from the Commonwealth to capture any USGA title since Lauren Greenlief’s triumph in the 2015 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur.
In a field full of some of the game’s most established amateur legends, Nadene Gole may not have been the obvious favorite to win the 62nd U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, held this week at Broadmoor Golf Club in Seattle, Wash. But when you look at her resume, well, maybe she should have been.
Currently ranked No. 116 in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking®, far and away the highest-ranked female senior in the world, Gole defeated 2022 champion Shelly Stouffer, of Canada, 3 and 2 to win her first USGA title in just her second USGA championship appearance.
Rain returned to Kinloch Golf Club on Wednesday for the quarterfinal and semifinal matches of the 43rd U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship. But not even Hurricane Helene that is barreling its way into Florida and drenching the South could have cooled down Bobby Massa.
How about a scorching 6-under-par-29, first-nine performance in the semifinals that included five birdies, an eagle-2 and a bogey?
A field of 132 players from 492 entries began the week at the 2024 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, and after two rounds of stroke play and four rounds of match play just two remain for Tuesday’s final match at Seattle’s Broadmoor Golf Club.
Stroke-play medalist Shelly Stouffer will take on the No. 3 seed, Nadene Gole, in the 18-hole final match after the pair won both their quarterfinal and semifinal matches on Monday. Stouffer won the 2022 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur while Gole is competing in just her second U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur after she reached the quarterfinals in 2023.
Golf course architect John Fought, an All-American collegiate player at Brigham Young University, is returning to Utah to design a state-of-the-art practice facility and renovate some of the existing holes at Alpine Country Club, a private course in the booming area of Highland, 30 miles south of Salt Lake City.
The $6.8 million project, part of a three-phase, 10-year plan at the Club, is scheduled to begin in July 2025 and be completed in Fall 2027.
A Club Champion fitting is truly unlike anything else you'll ever experience. It will help you play better golf no matter what your goals are or what your game is like. And in the process it's going to make days on the golf course more fun. I recently had a Club Champion putter fitting that was one of the best fitting experiences I could have possibly had.
The winner of my recent Club Champion putter fitting giveaway also had an awesome all-around day. It was educational. It was eye-opening. And bottom line it was triumphant. Nick (@AllTruth16) on X/Twitter was fit at Club Champion - Owings Mills, and says "I learned a lot about my stroke and alignment and actually trust my stroke now."
Two 18-hole qualifying rounds of stroke play weren’t enough at the 62nd U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur as eight players competed for the final six spots to advance to the Round of 64 on Monday, the first round of match play at Seattle’s Broadmoor Golf Club.
After just one playoff hole, the bracket was set for a first round of matches that featured a handful of bouts that could’ve easily come in the quarterfinals or later, few more notable than three-time Senior Women’s Amateur champion Lara Tennant pitted against three-time Women’s Mid-Amateur champion Sarah LeBrun Ingram.
Fujikura, the leader in performance golf shafts, is proud to announce the all-new 2024 PRO Series of wood shafts that will be available at charter detailers from September 23rd.
The new PRO Series features Advanced Bend Profile Design (ABP) – A technology led by fitter feedbackand proven through ongoing enso® analytics. ABP targets specific locations within a section of the shaft to substantially alter stiffness, independent of that section’s overall bend profile.
After undergoing a comprehensive agronomic restoration, the King & Bear Golf Course at World Golf Village will officially reopen on October 4, 2024, welcoming both members and public guests to experience enhanced playing conditions and revitalized turf across the course.
This five-month, $2.5 million dollar restoration, led by MacCurrach Golf of Jacksonville, Florida, focused on improving the course’s playability while preserving its original character. A key highlight of the project involved resurfacing all 18 greens, as well as the putting and chipping areas, with TifEagle Bermuda grass. This premium grass was selected to provide smoother, more consistent putting surfaces. Additionally, the practice areas were upgraded with new Bermuda grass, ensuring lush, healthy turf year-round.
Nicklaus Design—the world’s acknowledged leader in golf course design — is pleased to announce that they have been chosen to design a selection of holes that will be used for TGL presented by SoFi, the new tech-infused, team golf league founded by Tiger Woods’ and Rory McIlroy’s TMRW Sports.
TGL presented by SoFi features six teams of the world’s top PGA TOUR talent competing in a season-long, fast-paced competition that brings golf to a prime time stage. TGL’s home will be the custom-built SoFi Center, a 250,000 square foot, tech-infused venue on the campus of Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. TGL’s inaugural season begins Tuesday, Jan. 7 in prime time on ESPN and ESPN+ in the U.S. and other prominent media partners around the globe.
Legacy Golf Course at the 19 will host a ribbon cutting ceremony at 3:30 p.m. Friday, September 27th to mark the completion of a major renovation project undertaken in 2022.
The Legacy – formerly Mason City Country Club – is a 1915 Thomas Bendelow design. With the course history in mind, the renovation was directed at addressing major issues while enhancing the course’s unique golden age character. Significant updates include state-of-the-art computerized irrigation system addressing a major drainage issue, new ponds, new bunkers and improvements to current bunkers, realignment of all fairways, and the addition of forward tees to allow for all levels of players to enjoy the course.
So far so good for Canada’s Shelly Stouffer, looking for her second U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur title after winning the event two years ago in Alaska. The Vancouver Island resident shot a three-over 73 in the second round of the stroke play portion to complete 36 holes on four-over-par 144 and win medalist honors by a stroke over Australia’s Nadene Gole.
After a slightly nervy start during which she bogeyed two of her first three holes, Stouffer settled into a nice rhythm making just one bogey in the next 15, and finishing her round with nine straight pars.
The study by luxury golf apparel brand Galvin Green analyzed the most populous U.S. cities against 11 metrics. These include the number of golf courses, including how many are municipal, public, and private. The research also looked at the number of restaurants. The average rating of golf courses and restaurants was also analyzed.
Furthermore, the average temperature and rainfall were recorded to find the warmest and driest places for golf vacations.
Costs were also taken into consideration, including average hotel prices, the cost of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, and meals.
Unlike so many hotshot golfers who come out of collegiate golf these days, Segundo Oliva Pinto chose to defer turning professional. In his words, the newly minted 25-year-old Argentinian – and 2021 Southeastern Conference individual champion from the University of Arkansas – wasn’t ready for the grind of the play-for-pay circuit.
None of the other 263 competitors in the 43rd U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship might agree with that assessment. Not after Oliva Pinto, who has became eligible for the competition on Sept. 1 and is the youngest player in the field, carded a 5-under-par 65 on Sunday at stroke-play co-host Independence Golf Club, in Midlothian, Va. Combined with Saturday’s 3-under 68 at Kinloch Golf Club, Oliva Pinto shared medalist honors with 2023 U.S. Mid-Amateur runner-up Evan Beck at 8-under-par 133.That was two strokes off the championship record set in 2021 by Yaroslav Merkulov at Sankaty Head Golf Club and Miacomet Golf Course on Nantucket Island, in Massachusetts.
ECCO GOLF, leaders in golf footwear innovation, unveils its latest lineup for the fall and winter seasons featuring recently launched products as well as mainstays in a range of exciting and bold new colorways.
Designed for every occasion, on and off the course, the AW24 collection is headlined by the ECCO GOLF LT1, which was released earlier this year and returns in all new color options for men – PAVEMENT and STEEL – and women – GRAVEL and NIGHT SKY. Available in both laced and BOA options, the LT1 has set the standard for comfort and performance in a golf shoe with ECCO’s revolutionary LYTR Foam technology, which creates a flexible, cloud-like sensation for the wearer when combined with ECCO's ultra-soft PHORENE material in the midsole.
Invited, the largest owner and operator of membership clubs, and Jordan Spieth, three-time major winner and Invited partner and brand ambassador, hosted the inaugural Crush It! Cup youth golf tournament and fundraiser at Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas on September 16, 2024.
Crush It! Cup featured 36 top juniors from Invited Clubs nationwide who earned their spot in the tournament by participating in a three-month-long Golf Marathon Fundraiser to raise funds for the Jordan Spieth Family Foundation. Together with Invited, the athletes raised $250,000 for the Jordan Spieth Family Foundation. Hundreds of young athletes across all Invited golf clubs participated in the fundraiser.
Evnroll, the award-winning putter line featuring patented ‘SweetFace’ Technology, is proud to introduce the new ZERO line. Three models, precision-milled from 6061 aluminum and 303 Stainless Steel, in Carlsbad, California.
Each putter is hand-finished and assembled to the exact specifications defined by Guerin Rife, CEO and Chief Designer: The Z1 high MOI mallet, the Z2s wide-body blade, and the Z5s full-size mallet.
Scotty Cameron’s Xperimental GOLO 6.2 LTD putter is a special release compact mallet crafted in a limited run with a brilliant Chromatic Bronze finish and a tour inspired plumbing neck configuration.
Inspired by wins on the global professional golf tours, this precision milled model includes a new chain-link face milling technology, a custom Full Contact grip and the rare, desirable Chromatic Bronze finish usually available only on putters made for tour.
The Vokey Design V Grind, a lob wedge that offers players increased bounce on square-faced shots with enhanced relief for open-faced shots, is now available through WedgeWorks on Vokey.com.
Bridgestone Golf, the #1 Ball-Fitter in Golf, today announced a new collaboration with Eastside Golf. The collaboration celebrates Eastside Golf’s mission to inspire the culture and promote diversity and consists of custom printed TOUR B X golf balls in a limited-edition package. The launch of the product is just in time for the Eastside Golf Invitational, which will be played at Liberty National on September 16th.
“It is very cool to be working with Eastside Golf,” said Dan Murphy, President of Bridgestone Golf. “Not only are they great to work with, but Eastside is also growing the game of golf, and they are doing it in a way that is authentic to their brand, and we are proud to be partnering with them on this collab.”
It's not quite a Tiger Woods "hello, world" moment, but Canon USA's entry into the golf rangefinder market (to quote Ron Burgundy) is kind of a big deal.
The new Canon PowerShot GOLF Digital Laser Rangefinder does some things as well or better than any other premium rangefinder on the market. It also does some things no other rangefinder does. And this feature-rich unit is competitively priced at $329.99, making a compelling case to be the go-to laser rangefinder for amateurs and dedicated golfers alike.
Winning the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship requires a combination of skill and fortitude, both mental and physical, through eight rounds of golf over six days. On Wednesday at historic Brae Burn Country Club, two players broke through with late surges in the semifinal round to procure their spots in Thursday morning’s 18-hole final.
Lindsay Gahm, 32, of Louisville, Ky., rallied from two holes down against 2015 champion Lauren Greenlief, 33, of Ashburn, Va., capturing four consecutive holes on the incoming nine to post a 2-and-1 victory. In the other semifinal match, Hana Ryskova, 25, of the Czech Republic, built an early 4-up lead, only to trail by one hole thanks to a barrage of four birdies by opponent Alexandra Vilatte Farret, of France. Ryskova steadied herself and won the par-4 18th hole with a par, then prevailed with another par on the 22nd hole of the match.
PXG has officially launched the PXG® Black Ops® Irons Challenge. Designed to demonstrate the dominance of its latest game improvement golf club offering, the PXG Black Ops Irons ChallengeTM puts performance testing in the hands of consumers.
PXG, the global research and development company dedicated to creating top-of-the-line golf equipment and apparel, has previously put its technology to the test and seen staggering results. The PXG Black Ops Driver Challenge saw nearly 3,000 golfers participate and a 98-percent win rate with an average dispersion improvement of just under 19-feet and a distance gain of just over 12 yards.
What’s the old golf adage, the ball doesn’t know your age – or when it comes to match play your seeding. Raegan Bremer entered the knockout portion of the 37th U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship at historic Brae Burn Country Club, in West Newton, Mass., on Monday 15 strokes worse than her opponent, co-medalist and No. 2 seed Sabrina Coffman.
But in match play, everyone starts each day at Ground Zero and past performances are gone with yesterday’s news. Bremer, the No. 63 seed who posted 18-over 162 during stroke play, took out the 26-year-old Coffman from Toledo, Ohio, 2 and 1, in recording the biggest Round-of-64 upset.
There’s nothing worse than a three-putt on a hole that should have been an easy par. Could practice help? Always. But there’s a chance something else is keeping you from reaching your putting potential — your equipment. To solve this problem, Club Champion, the globe’s top custom fitter, created Putter Fitting Month to focus on the club responsible for roughly 40% of your strokes.
From now through September 30, 2024, every Club Champion location will be offering $50 putter fittings with an equipment purchase.
The reimagining of the front nine on King’s North at Myrtle Beach National, long one of the Grand Strand’s most popular layouts, is progressing on schedule as the course targets an early October reopening.
Architect Brandon Johnson is overseeing the two-year, two-part project (the back nine will enjoy an overhaul in the summer of 2025) that will transform the experience on the Arnold Palmer design.
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Officials at Dormie Network, a national network of private destination golf clubs, have announced that GrayBull Club has officially opened to its members and their guests. Located in Maxwell, Ne., GrayBull is built on the largest sand dune formations of the Western Hemisphere, the Nebraska Sandhills—golf’s holy land.
In the age of Instagram, a picture-perfect golf course is almost as important as a hole-in-one. But with so many beautiful courses across the US, which ones truly stand out?
A new study by golf apparel experts Galvin Green has uncovered the ten most picturesque golf courses in the US, based on the number of Instagram tagged posts that mention each course.
The San Diego County Junior Golf Association organizers of the annual Junior World Golf Championships announced today a new title sponsor in Uswing Mojing (www.uswingmojing.com) makers of the world’s most innovative eyewear that is statistically proven to improve on-course performance.
The 57th anniversary tournament held annually in July will once again welcome the world’s best junior golfers to San Diego for the competition. The event will be titled: Uswing Mojing Junior World Golf Championships and LPGA phenom Rose Zhang, a Uswing ambassador, will take part in a signing ceremony at Torrey Pines Golf Course to launch the partnership.
Golf is a bit unusual in that the dream scenario for many serious players is having your favorite course, grass freshly cut, and no other players on the property. That’s a fantasy not well-aligned to the success of the business.
The reality is that a greater number of golfers have played more rounds over the past several years and this means U.S. golf courses – broadly speaking — are busier than ever.
It's the simplest and slowest swing we make in golf. The distance between starting point and destination is the shortest of any shot we take. Yet put a putter in someone's hands and too often we become something like Mayhem from the Allstate commercials. That's where a putter fitting at Club Champion comes into play.
Using a putter that doesn't fit your swing creates a laundry list of problems. Your ball skids, your ball rolls off line, your ball comes up short or blows past the hole. But get fit for a putter at Club Champion that works for you and not against you? All of a sudden you're Daniel-San catching flies with chopsticks on the greens.
When Callaway released their new Apex Ai200 and Ai300 irons along with the Apex Ti Fusion irons they not only raised the bar on Apex performance, they also evolved the entire Apex line to a place where every player and every skill level will now benefit from Apex craftsmanship, feel, and technology.
This review will focus on how Ai200 improves over the Apex 21, on the comparative performance of the Ai200 and Ai300 irons, and also an interesting comparison between Ai200 and Apex Pro 24. I'll also touch on the versatility of entire Apex line and why that makes Apex destined for greatness.
The latest hi-tech golf apparel collection being introduced today by premium brand Galvin Green includes the most innovative rain gear line-up headlined by a new fully waterproof PFC-free fabric offering a super soft feel and best-in-class stretch designed specifically with serious golfers in mind.
The new Part Two range of fully waterproof jackets and pants is spearheaded by four pieces crafted from the highly breathable Pertex® Shield Stretch fabric in a long-lasting three-layer construction, which includes the brand’s stretchiest ever jackets – the AMES and AMY for men and women golfers respectively.
Legendary pro golfer John Daly leaned on his experience when he helped redesign the former Mason City Country Club, and now he’s had a chance to see how his ideas have come to life.
Amid the improvements made to the course over the past two years, now under new ownership and named the Legacy Golf Course at the 19, Daly’s influence will forever be known through new “Daly Tees” – expert-level tees set back an additional distance on several holes. Holes with Daly Tees now pose an additional challenge for long ball hitters by stretching the distance of the hole up to 585 yards.
