The Number 1 Ranked Women’s Amateur in the World Will Make Her Team Callaway Debut This Week, as Rose Zhang has officially joined their Staff on a NIL agreement.
Zhang will play Callaway woods, irons, a Callaway Chrome Soft Golf Ball, and an Odyssey Putter in competition.
Another fantastic guest review right now from Ty on twitter. And this one's all about the new Mizuno ST-G 220 driver he won in my 12 Days of Christmas Golf Giveaway.
Ty has played around with settings, tested it numerous times, and even compared it to other drivers he's played. And he's been hitting the ST-G 220 longer and keeping drives more in play than with his previous gamer. And as he says, "it's (ST-G 220) as good as anything out there."
It's Masters themed golf gear season again and TravisMathew and Cuater have released limited edition apparel and shoes that will make you dream of driving down Magnolia Lane.
Some of the gear features the familiar green and yellow treatment that taps into images of Augusta National. While other pieces will actually be worn by brand ambassador Jon Rahm for the 86th Masters Tournament.
The second drop of the highly-anticipated PUMA x Palm Tree Crew Collaboration will be available on Thursday, March 24.
Once again, Rickie Fowler, one of PUMA’s most celebrated golf ambassadors, has joined forces with PUMA Golf and Palm Tree Crew, the lifestyle brand of world-renowned DJ, songwriter and record producer, KYGO, to bring this exciting collection to life.
Building upon the success and momentum of Phantom X mallets on the PGA Tour – highlighted by the historic putting performance of 2021 Player of the Year Patrick Cantlay – Scotty Cameron introduces the next evolution of the Phantom X family, bringing the most in-demand mallet shapes from the Tour to golfers everywhere.
With seven new models available on April 15 in golf shops worldwide, and three additional models arriving on June 17, the 2022 Phantom X mallet putter lineup features entirely new head shapes and updates to popular models. The putters also feature a new textured grip, new graphics and premium styling. Tour-preferred milled 303 stainless steel face construction carries through to nearly every new model.
Historic Oakland Hills Country Club, in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., has been selected as the host site for the 2034 and 2051 U.S. Open Championships as well as four additional prestigious USGA amateur championships, starting in 2024.
“We could not be happier to bring six additional championships to such an iconic venue as Oakland Hills,” said John Bodenhamer, USGA chief championships officer. “Since its first U.S. Open in 1924, Oakland Hills has provided a supreme test for the game’s very best, and it will continue to do so for professionals and amateurs alike in the coming years.”
Continuing its recent tour regeneration and recruitment of exciting, emerging talent Mizuno has announced that Bryson Nimmer has joined Team Mizuno. Nimmer is the latest in a series of young players to join Mizuno, following the signings of OJ Farrell, and Joe Long.
Bryson Nimmer (25) is a promising young talent out of Clemson University, where he was named first team All ACC three times and a first team All American selection in his senior season. After turning professional in 2019, he picked up two victories on the LOCALiQ Series in 2020. He goes into the 2022 season with full status on the PGA Tour Canada.
Rentyl Resorts, the industry-leading world-class lodging hospitality platform, today announced a partnership with the Nicklaus Companies, the world’s leading golf course design firm and licensing company founded by legend Jack Nicklaus. In collaboration with Rentyl, the Nicklaus Companies is entering the single-family residence lodging hospitality sector for the first time and will introduce the new branded lodging hospitality services globally to its network of developers, clubs, and resorts.
The new residential resort experience will offer travelers with a high-end experience, including private homes and concierge services at top destinations around the world. Rentyl forecasts branding more than 100 high-end residential resort experiences with Nicklaus over the next five years. The resort + residential format will increase residential and golf club revenue streams for developers, expand asset value and profitability, and allow developments to diversify their product and create options to significantly lift asset value.
The USGA and World Golf Tour (WGT) by Topgolf have announced their 2022 lineup for the USGA eSports Grand Slam Presented by Lexus, which offers competitors an opportunity to compete for a variety of prizes, including a grand prize VIP trip to the 2023 U.S. Open Championship at The Los Angeles (Calif.) Country Club.
With the support of Lexus, the USGA and WGT will host four events on WGT platforms throughout the year. The eSports Grand Slam includes the Merion Open, the Virtual U.S. Open and two match-play challenges contested virtually at recent U.S. Open venues Chambers Bay and Erin Hills. All four of the 2022 Grand Slam series events will include courses that are hosting USGA championships this year.
Bridgestone Golf, the #1 Ball-Fitter in Golf, announced today the release of the full TOUR B line of golf balls in yellow. Featuring all the same innovative technologies and advanced performance features as the white TOUR B golf balls, the new yellow models are specifically made to satisfy player demand.
“The TOUR B family is designed to fit the entire spectrum of players,” said Elliot Mellow, Golf Ball Marketing Manager at Bridgestone Golf. “The X and XS, which are aimed at players with swing speeds over 105 mph, and the RX and RXS, which are for players that swing less than 105 mph, can provide elite-level performance for anyone from Bryson DeChambeau and Tiger Woods to higher handicap recreational players with moderate swing speeds.
The USGA and The R&A today announced that the Walker Cup Match will be contested in even years from 2026 onward.
The shift moves the biennial men’s team match between Great Britain and Ireland and the USA away from the World Amateur Team Championships, which will be played in odd years beginning in 2023.
The United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced that Waverley Country Club in Portland, Ore., will host the 5th U.S. Senior Women’s Open Championship, which will be played Aug. 24-27, 2023.
“The USGA and Waverley Country Club have worked closely together for decades, and it’s always exciting to return to a club where we have such robust women’s golf history,” said John Bodenhamer, USGA chief championships officer. “The U.S. Senior Women’s Open has been conducted at incredible venues, and we can’t wait to bring it to Oregon.”
Adidas always love to provide fresh takes on their classic silhouettes. This time they teamed up with Vice Golf on another fun collaboration to introduce the Stan Smith x Vice Golf, a limited-edition footwear model that will speak to golfers everywhere. Inspired by the unmistakable colorways that make Vice golf balls so unique, this version of Adidas Stan Smith Golf provides an eye-catching design to our signature model.
The Stan Smith x Vice Golf footwear is built from the same tooling that exists in Adidas Stan Smith Golf shoe they first introduced early last year. It features adiwear rubber spikeless outsole with traction inspired by the shoe’s original sole design and Adidas reinforced the shoe in the medial and lateral sides to provide additional stability throughout the golf swing. The classic design makes it one of the most versatile shoes in Adidas' range. The difference with this model is that Adidas collaborated with their friends at Vice Golf on a playful and bold style to match the colorways of their distinctive high performance golf balls.
This spring, stay and play on two legendary courses – The Miller and The Soffer – each offering risk and reward scenarios at every hole.
Practice your skills at the state-of-the-art driving range and shop the latest merchandise and equipment at the expansive Golf Pro Shop. Dine at signature restaurants including BOURBON STEAK and retire to luxurious accommodations to restore and play again the next day.
Cobra Golf®, a leader in golf club innovation, has introduced a sleek all-black colorway of its popular LTDx Drivers. The LTDx Black drivers possess the same performance and design features as the standard LTDx models but with the addition of a striking matte black finish on the crown and sole and grey stripe details.
The Limited Edition black colorway will be offered in all three models (LTDx, LTDx LS and LTDx MAX) in select lofts and flexes. To complete the offering, each driver is equipped with a custom blacked-out Lamkin Crossline grip, and a premium aftermarket UST LIN-Q white shaft.
Sand Valley, one of the country’s premier resort destinations set amidst 12,000 acres of tumbling prehistoric sand dunes, announces new plans to expand its golf and resort experience. Construction on Sedge Valley, the third 18-hole design to be built on resort property, will begin in spring, 2022 under the direction of architect Tom Doak and Renaissance Golf Design.
Sedge Valley will add to the resort’s collection of top-rated layouts, Sand Valley (Coore & Crenshaw), Mammoth Dunes (David McLay Kidd), The Sandbox (Coore & Crenshaw) and the forthcoming Lido, which will open to members and resort guests in 2023.
Landscapes Golf Management has been selected to operate Twin Lakes Country Club, the well-known, family-owned, small-community gathering place in southeast Wisconsin that recently eclipsed its 100-year anniversary.
The company will oversee all aspects of Twin Lakes’ business, including, sales, marketing and public relations, staffing and training, programming and special events, property maintenance, merchandising, restaurant and banquet activities, and financial management.
KemperSports announced today that it has been selected by the Borough of Old Tappan in Bergen County, N.J., to manage Old Tappan Golf Course. The nine-hole club marks the seventh addition to the company’s growing portfolio in 2022.
KemperSports will focus on delivering top course conditions at Old Tappan while improving member engagement and fostering a welcoming and lively environment for the club’s members and guests. The company will look to grow Old Tappan’s golf and event programming and bring attention to this evolving club throughout New Jersey and New York.
As the Metropolitan Golf Association this year celebrates its landmark 125thanniversary, it is pleased to announce a purse increase for the Met Open Championship Presented by Callaway to $200,000.
The $50,000 increase over the purse’s previous total, which has been in place since 2007, is effective for the 107thplaying, August 23-25 at Bethpage State Park’s famed Black Course and elevates the always exciting opportunity for professionals competing in the field. The first-place prize for the 54-hole championship will now stand at $36,500—an increase of $9,000.
Arccos – the pioneer of big data and Artificial Intelligence for golf – today announced Strokes Gained by Club, a groundbreaking new feature that allows players to see which clubs in their bag are gaining or costing them strokes on the course, and to make more informed purchasing and set-up decisions via head-to-head product comparisons.
Set to premiere in April for all users of the Arccos Caddie app, Strokes Gained by Club represents the first time that personalized advanced analytics has been applied to on-course equipment performance. Its release comes shortly after Arccos introduced a golf ball data capture system. Strokes Gained by Club was built by Arccos’ in-house data and engineering teams, which leveraged the company’s unmatched dataset that now includes more than 500 million shots and billions of related data points recorded during over 10 million rounds played by Arccos members.
