What a weekend it was for golf club manufacturer Tour Edge, who has been experiencing a meteoric rise on the PGA TOUR Champions over the past few seasons.
Their staff player Bernhard Langer won the PGA TOUR Champion’s Dominion Charity Classic in Richmond, Virginia Sunday, becoming the oldest player to win a PGA TOUR Champions event in the process.
Luxury golf shoe brand Duca del Cosma has unveiled its most stylish and colorful golf shoe range, incorporating 25 eye-catching options that deliver striking looks, all-day comfort and incredible stability.
Featuring a host of bold colors that will brighten any fairway and clubhouse, the collection offers a hand-crafted shoe model for every golfer looking to hit the course with ultimate style and confidence.
In its ongoing pursuit of adding value, FlightScope, the global leader in tracking and analyzing sports performance data, announced today the upcoming launch of its FlightScope Mevo+ Pro Package add-on option for its Mevo+ tracking radar.
The Mevo+ is an advanced indoor and outdoor tracking radar and golf simulator that offers 16 data parameters, golf course simulation, and customizable skills challenges. The Mevo+ is a popular product in the launch monitor and simulator space and offers customers an accurate tracking device for practice and entertainment sessions.
Golf’s new Rules of Amateur Status have been published by the USGA and The R&A ahead of their January 1, 2022, effective date.
The work is the latest step by the governing bodies to make the Rules easier to understand and apply and follows the modernization process of the Rules of Golf in 2019. The new Rules were informed by golfer and golf industry feedback as a part of a comprehensive review, to ensure they continue to reflect how the modern game is played by millions of golfers around the world.
Tis the season of giving: Club Champion is giving golfers of every skill Tour-level fittings for just half the price.
From November 1, 2021-January 31, 2022, Club Champion is offering 50% off their fittings with an equipment purchase of $500 or more. To continue this new winter tradition, this 50% off promotion applies to every Club Champion fitting type. Those seeking a putter fitting are only required to purchase a new putter (no price minimum) for the 50% fitting discount to apply.
PXG, the global golf research and development powerhouse, has revealed its all-new Xtreme Forgiveness GEN4 Fairways and Hybrids. Expanding upon PXG’s flagship GEN4 lineup and in compliment to the X models, these golf clubs are more forgiving and deliver outstanding ball speed, ideal spin, and smooth turf interaction.
When PXG introduced its GEN4 Golf Clubs in Spring 2021, the new drivers, fairways, hybrids, and irons marked the apex of the company’s club lineup. Because PXG engineers have the freedom to approach club design with limitless creativity and without cost and time constraints, GEN4 presents significant advancements in materials and technology innovations, as well as personalized performance.
New Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls with Radar Capture Technology (RCT) – developed by Titleist Golf Ball R&D engineers and validated in collaboration with a team of TrackMan experts – are designed to enhance the data capture of launch conditions in an indoor environment and deliver the most accurate information possible.
Pro V1 and Pro V1x RCT golf balls improve the TrackMan experience for dedicated indoor fitting specialists committed to a premium, precision fitting; coaches and instructors aiming to give their players even better tools to work with; and Tour professionals and golfers seeking precision data capture from their indoor practice sessions.
Just in time for the holiday season, New Balance Golf has added two new colorways to its Fresh Foam PaceSL BOA performance collection. The new colorways are black with red highlights and grey with orange highlights. The new colorways will be available November 1, 2021.
The Fresh Foam PaceSL BOA combines a new Fresh Foam midsole with the BOA Fit System to deliver the ultimate walking shoe for golfers by providing a secure fit, perimeter stability, and comfort in every step.
SkyGolf®, maker of SkyCaddie®, the most-trusted rangefinders in Golf, is offering a special Holiday Promotion of $50 off the new SkyCaddie SX550 and award-winning SX400 rangefinders and the LX5 and LX5 with ceramic bezel smart watches. The promotion starts November 15 and ends December 31, 2021.
“With all of the talk about shipping delays and inventory shortages this holiday season, it’s a good idea to start gift shopping a little earlier than usual,” said Jacqui Surman, SkyGolf Senior VP and COO. “Our popular SkyCaddie GPS rangefinders and watches are sure to be appreciated by the golfers in your life. We currently have inventory in stock but expect to sell out before the holidays. Take advantage of our holiday promotion and stock up on gifts for your loved ones and maybe one for yourself!”
You guys already know about Aerotech Golf SteelFiber shafts. They have more PGA Tour wins than any graphite iron shaft in history, They're used by many players, including World No. 1 Nelly Korda. And I've been telling you how stable, long, and great feeling these are for awhile now.
Well now you're also going to hear the opinion of Donny, who won a set of Aerotech SteelFiber Private Reserve shafts in one of my recent giveaways. Private Reserve are designed with even tighter tolerances than the standard SteelFiber, and are the kind of shafts that legitimately can improve your game immediately.
When designing footwear, Adidas looks everywhere for inspiration. This time, it came through a quote: “Be unique. Be equal.”
The quote comes from ZOZO’s company philosophy, who Adidas has partnered with to introduce an exclusive, limited-edition colorway of our Stan Smith Golf.
Callaway Golf has made a leap forward in the exclusive, ultra-lightweight, ultra-premium performance category of woods with their new Epic MAX Star family.
Substantially lighter than their standard product offerings, this new line is particularly suited for slow swing speed players. Each of these new clubs is precision constructed so that they are easy to swing, create more speed, and help you hit the quality golf shots that you want to see.
The USGA and The R&A have announced that a new Model Local Rule (MLR G-10) will be available beginning on January 1, 2022 to provide those running professional or elite amateur golf competitions the option of limiting the maximum length of a golf club (excluding putters) to 46 inches.
The proposal was announced in February 2021, which opened a notice-and-comment period to allow the industry the opportunity to provide feedback as part of the equipment rulemaking procedures. The comments received from the golf industry, including players, professional tours and equipment manufacturers, were carefully considered before the decision to proceed with the new MLR was reached.
Apex UW is a high-performance Utility Wood that Tour players love. This unique design combines the best features of higher lofted fairway woods, the best features of hybrids, and a more neutral ball flight.
Using direct feedback from world-class pros like Phil Mickelson, Callaway created a multi-purpose club that better players can rely on from the tee, fairway, or rough.
Olympic Gold Medalist and the world’s #1 ranked women’s golfer, Nelly Korda, along with 27 of the Top 30 ranked players in the world, headline the 132-player field for the LPGA Cognizant Founders Cup (www.thefounderslpga.com) taking place at historic Mountain Ridge Country Club in West Caldwell, N.J., from October 6th-10th.
The LPGA Cognizant Founders Cup is a week-long event where competitors will compete for a $3 million purse, the largest purse for an LPGA Tour event outside the majors and the CME Group Tour Championship. The tournament, which debuted in 2011, pays tribute to the 13 founding members of the LPGA, including surviving founders Marlene Bauer Hagge and Shirley Spork. This year marks the inaugural year with N.J.-based Cognizant (Nasdaq:CTSH), one of the world’s leading professional services companies, as title sponsor.
The PGA TOUR and PointsBet, a premier global online gaming operator, announced a three-year extension of their multi-year content and marketing relationship designating PointsBet an Official Betting Operator of the PGA TOUR.
As part of the expanded relationship, PointsBet’s live betting odds integrations will be featured on PGA TOUR linear and streaming broadcasts on GOLF Channel and Peacock with plans to include on the NBC broadcast in the future. PointsBet is the official sports betting partner of NBC Sports.
While Team USA was busy making history Sunday, there was a PGA TOUR Champions event being played 2300 miles west at Pebble Beach Golf Links.
The PURE Insurance Championship finished up Sunday at Pebble Beach and Tour Edge was all over the leaderboard with a runner-up finish, three Top 5’s and six total Top 25 finishes.
Arccos – the pioneer of big data and artificial intelligence for golf – today announced its major features release for Q4 2021, highlighted by a next-generation Smart Club Distances algorithm, first-of-its-kind weather & location scenarios tool and enhanced putt data tracking.
Developed by Arccos’ leading team of data scientists, architects and engineers, the latest Smart Club Distances machine learning algorithm takes accuracy to a new level by providing a precise estimation of how far a player hits a well-struck shot with each club in their bag. Mishits, abnormally long and recovery shots are now automatically identified and eliminated from the calculations, which help fuel Arccos’ award-winning A.I. caddie club recommendations. Plus, golfers can now filter the total number of shots included by the algorithms at any given time to facilitate analysis of any recent changes in their swing, equipment or other game aspects.
PUMA Golf has announced a new multi-year partnership with Matti Schmid, a young, athletic star in the making with an impressive and growing resume. After earning Low Amateur honors at the Open Championship at Royal St. George’s earlier this year, where he finished with a second-round 65 to tie the lowest round by an amateur.
During his amateur career, Schmid amassed tremendous success including back-to-back wins at the European Amateur in 2019 and 2020. While on the men’s golf team at the University of Louisville from 2017-2021, Schmid led the team in scoring average, collected multiple top-5 and top-10 finishes, and won the Old Town Club Collegiate Invitational in 2018.
Hilton Head Golf Island (HHGI), comprising 26 courses across Beaufort, Bluffton and Jasper counties, invites golfers to experience pure Lowcountry golf this fall with packages from The Sea Pines Resort, Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort and the Heritage Golf Collection.
Host of the PGA TOUR’s RBC Heritage and home of Pete Dye and Jack Nicklaus’ famed Harbour Town Golf Links, The Sea Pines Resort’s Villa Golf Package can be tailored to golf groups of all sizes. Starting at $255 per night, per golfer, packages include a three-night stay in a fully-appointed resort villa, three rounds of golf – one each on Harbour Town, Heron Point by Pete Dye, and Atlantic Dunes by Davis Love III – and same day, same course replays for $50 on Heron Point and Atlantic Dunes.
