I asked this in the Breaking 100 Thread, but thought it was interesting enough (to me at least) to warrant it's own thread. It's proper British weather now over here, cold and wet, and so I'm adjusting the bag for winter play.
Out goes the 2-3h, which was consistently long, but relied on the...
Europe (9 qualifiers)
Danny Willett
Jon Rahm
Rafa Cabrera-Bello
Richie Ramsay
Justin Rose
Rory McIlroy
Andrew Johnston
Paul Casey
Shane Lowry
USA (8 qualifiers)
Brooks Koepka
Dustin Johnson
Gary Woodland
Tiger Woods
Xander Schauffele
Webb Simpson
Matt Kuchar
Tony Finau
Never too early to get...
Not doing himself any harm at all shooting 2 rounds in the 60s at Wentworth while playing with Ryder skipper Harrington. Unlike some of the other wunderkinden, he doesn't look like his swing is putting any undue strain on his body for those extra few yards. He's basically in with the same shout...
We all generally have a favourite major, but are there any of the other normal tour events that you always enjoy watching above others? Just for the purposes of this discussion, let's omit the 4 majors, the Tour Championship and the DP World Tour Championships, as those two are cut down fields...
I saw these on sale over here, advertised as "New", and thanks to the good works of the diligent testers here, when they didn't ring any bells I thought I'd mention them.
V3 Urethane - TaylorMade
Urethane cover, "SpinMantle", "React Core", 70 compression, £25/doz.
To the encyclopaedic golf...
After all his struggles with both injuries and form, constantly getting mentions in "worst major winner ever" lists, coming back from ~450 in the world to win the Race to Dubai event (Molinari won the overall title, obvs.) over a pretty strong field, and he gets tumbleweeds.
I'm a little...
There's some real Stenson / Mickelson stuff going on right now between Phatlum and Hall. Co Leaders at -16, 4 clear of the field on the 14th. Being played at placid Royal Lytham & St Anne's.
The previous version of the AD333 Tour was essentially the same as the current (according to the Srixon US website) US Q-Star Tour. 75 compression, 324 dimples.
The 2018 version of the AD333 Tour over here was released a couple of months ago and now boasts a compression of 72 and 338 dimples...
Europe out of the gate strongly in the first full week, with 3x winners in Garcia in Singapore, Fleetwood in Dubai & Rahm in California
The Dubai leaderboard was pretty strong for Europe - notable names of Fleetwood, Fisher, McIlroy, Pieters, Stenson, Casey, even Beef was top 10.
Aside from DJ...
Hello all, greetings from London.
I've been just over a year playing regularly after a group of us at work found out we all either played regularly, played irregularly, wanted to play again after a break or wanted to start playing. I'm kind of between those last 2 groups - I played monthly...