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The Match Is Back Minus Its Founders

The sixth version of The Match is back featuring four of the NFL’s very best but minus Phil Mickelson or Fivesport as tournament partners.

Mickelson played the first four editions then served as a broadcaster in 2021. Fivesport was a co-partner in the event with Excel.

Mickelson famously complained about the PGA Tour’s obnoxious greed and insinuated that he personally paid $1 million each time he played in The Match.

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Turner Sports Assembles Iconic NFL Foursome for Capital One’s The Match – Tom Brady & Aaron Rodgers vs. Patrick Mahomes & Josh Allen – Held at Wynn Las Vegas on Wednesday, June 1

TNT to Televise Premier Live Golf Event Featuring Four of Past Five NFL MVPs with Coverage Beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET

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2022 BEST DRIVER FOR MID SWING SPEEDS

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The most comprehensive driver test of 2022.

If your swing speed is between 90 and 105 mph, this article is for you. These are the best drivers for mid swing speeds. Read on to discover what our extensive testing has revealed before you even consider buying a new driver.

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For our 2022 driver test, 35 golfers tested 38 different driver models over more than 400 individual sessions. Data was collected using Foresight GCQuad Launch monitors. To minimize variables, all testers hit Titleist Pro V1 golf balls. Outliers were removed and data was aggregated before scores were calculated.

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Spieth wins in playoff for 2nd Easter title in row

Jordan Spieth won the RBC Heritage in a playoff for his 13th PGA Tour title and second straight on Easter Sunday after taking the Valero Texas Open a year ago.

Spieth Wins No. 13 At Harbour Town With Little Help From His Putting

In an ironic way, my design concepts at Harbour Town were influenced by the architecture of Robert Trent Jones, in that I took Mr. Jones’s ideas and headed in the opposite direction.
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/ Geoff Shackelford

Set aside all of the Easter and fatherhood swooning—oh it was flowing—the real standout component of Jordan Spieth’s 13th PGA Tour win came on the greens. He was not good. All-time bad in the strokes gained era.

“I won this golf tournament without a putter,” he confirmed after beating Patrick Cantlay on the first hole of sudden death to win the 2022 RBC Heritage Classic.

That he could capture his 13th win over a strong field with a balky putter makes this one of his most impressive career wins. Consider:

Spieth ended Saturday’s round with a short miss estimated at 18 inches. He then overcame this bizarre lie after driving the 9th green, blasting his next into the hospitality tent area and almost salvaging par.


Rules: Two Wacky Situations At Harbour Town

Neither of these instances are particularly relatable to the average golfer. Nonetheless they’re unusual ones and if you had money on these players.

Nick Piastowski documents the bizarre scene involving Harold Varner in the 2022 RBC Heritage Classic second round. Varner contends that his ball was moved by a resident who picked up his ball from the original position to identify it and placed it out of bounds. The person denied this and the official agreed with the off-course spectator, though announcers on PGA Tour Live thought the man’s movements were questionable at the time.

“Without a doubt,” Varner said. “The biggest thing for me that I could sleep on is that there was out of bounds right of the creek, and the TV said it’s in the creek. There’s a golf ball right there. I’m not going to be naive and be like my ball couldn’t go there. So I did the right thing, and I said, hey, can you see if that’s my ball? At the time, we couldn’t find a bridge to get across the creek.

“It’s great. I won’t stop talking about it until I talk to Coxy. At some point, the players should have — if I wouldn’t have been there and didn’t see the guy move the ball, I don’t — cool, I’ll go back to the tee. But I’m looking there, and I’m like that’s not right. The rules are there to protect the players, I thought.”

When reached for comment by GOLF.com, a PGA Tour spokesman said, “Stephen is not going to comment on it until he has a chance to talk to Harold about it.” 

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Quadrilateral: Just A Little More Masters

An Easter Sunday edition of the Quad touches on a few leftover topics.

I’ve got a few thoughts on Chairman Fred Ridley's distance stance. Plus, Scottie Scheffler and the Green Jacket, Ted Scott celebrates with the 18th green flagstick and some tremendous (official) YouTube postings from The Masters, some of which I posted below here at the blog.

Shot Scope Case Study – Part I

In September 2021, ShotScope offered MyGolfSpy readers an opportunity to play and test the Shot Scope V3 GPS and performance tracking watch.

But the divide between golfers who want to get better and those who are willing to put in the work to get better is vast.

Regardless of where you sit on the “want to/will do the work” continuum, we can agree that knowing is better than guessing. As a group, golfers tend to overestimate ability and conveniently excuse mistakes. Hell, even professionals think they hit the ball further than they actually do and Jack Nicklaus quipped, “I never missed a putt in my mind.”

So whether you’re looking to break 80 for the first time or breach the single-digit handicap barrier, it’s vital to confront the brutal facts of what you do well—and where you need to improve.

With that, we selected three members of the testing pool to track throughout this year. Based on several months of performance tracking, Shot Scope identified target areas for improvement in 2022.











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Hyo Joo Kim holds off Shibuno to win Lotte title

- Hyo Joo Kim staved off a late charge from Hinako Shibuno to win the LPGA Tour's LOTTE Championship on Saturday.

Alexander first repeat winner on Korn Ferry Tour

Tyson Alexander rallied to win the Veritex Bank Championship by two strokes on Sunday, becoming the first player in Korn Ferry Tour history to successfully defend a title.

Varner's 8 birdies lead to 63, 1-shot lead at RBC

Harold Varner III made eight birdies in a bogey-free round of 63 to take a one-shot lead at the RBC Heritage on Saturday.

Morning Consult Poll On Sports And Fandom

The only course that will remain difficult under all conditions will be one that is designed and kept for golf of a stereotyped, monotonous character, and this makes a most uninteresting proposition. BOBBY JONES

/ Geoff Shackelford

Ahead of the 2022 World Cup, Morning Consult wanted to see how soccer ranks against the other major American sports and found it’s still a sport of the future.

Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adults identify as soccer fans. Golf managed to log nearly identical numbers, with 7% polled identifying as avid fans and 23% as casual fans (to soccer’s 25%).

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#ASKMYGOLFSPY – Graphite vs. Steel Shafts

Welcome to #ASKMYGOLFSPY, where your questions are answered by our in-house experts. Our mission is to guide golfers, no matter the skill level to their best game possible. Curtailing the best bag for your unique needs can be near impossible. Let us help!
 
1. Is graphite ONLY for slower swing speeds?

That certainly used to be the case. But like Bob Dylan said, “The times, they are a-changin’”. Composite materials are lighter than steel and therefore represented the best option to build lighter, more flexible shafts. To date, plenty of golfers can benefit from iron shafts that weigh less than 60 grams and that’s still the primary use case for graphite iron shafts.
 
Golfers with slower swing speeds can benefit from lighter shafts than help them swing faster which creates higher launch, more ball speed, and ultimately more distance. But, because graphite shafts only served the needs of a particular set of golfers, it got a reputation. And that history is a good bit of why better/faster golfers often carry a stigma against graphite iron shafts.
 
But that history, is well, history. Fujikura, Mitsubishi, Aerotech Steelfiber and LA Golf are several manufactures that produce graphite iron shafts that are played around the world by some of the strongest, fastest players in the game (See: Bryson DeChambeau)
 
So, no. Graphite isn’t only for slower swing speed players. The options aren’t as plentiful as steel, particularly in heavier weights (120gr+) but that’s slowly changing as well

2. Why do graphite shafts cost so much more?

Short answer, that’s not always the case. Longer answer – but it generally does.
If it were a Venn Diagram with one circle representing the cost of steel shafts and the other graphite shafts, there’d still be some amount of overlap. Most steel shafts on the market fall in the $30-$60/shaft range (uninstalled). Comparatively, graphite iron shafts start around $50 and go up from there. LA Golf’s graphite iron shafts all sit slightly north of $100 per shaft.
 
Why does graphite cost more? The quick answer is that graphite shafts cost more because they’re more expensive to produce and use higher cost materials. The other element is supply and demand. With relatively few choices in the market, scarcity helps support higher prices. Should that equation change and we start to see additional options, that could start to bring prices down a bit.

3. Will a tour player ever use graphite iron shafts? Why haven’t we seen it much?

Yep, and we’ve already seen it.
 
Brandt Snedeker and Matt Kuchar have both routinely used Aerotech SteelFiber shafts in their irons throughout their careers. And keep in mind, these aren’t two fringe players struggling to keep a PGA Tour Card. Kuchar has 9 PGA Tour wins, 3 international wins and over $54 million in on-course earnings. Likewise, Snedeker won the FedEx Cup in 2012 and also has 9 PGA Tour victories. More recently, players like Abe Ancer (Mitsubishi MMT) and Bryson DeChambeau (LA Golf) have switched to graphite iron shafts.
 
And if we’re willing to look beyond the PGA Tour, you’ll see plenty of LPGA Tour players with graphite iron shafts.
 
I think the reason we haven’t seen more graphite iron shafts, specifically on the PGA Tour is for two reasons. First, is a lack of clear benefit. That might sound harsh, but there isn’t any wide-scale evidence that shows PGA Tour players are struggling to perform with existing steel shafts. Moreover, if we look back at momentous changes in golf equipment that resulted in relatively fast and near universal adoption  (solid core golf balls, graphite wood shafts), the performance implications were obvious and undeniable. That isn’t the case right now with graphite iron shafts.
 
The second reason isn’t as impactful, but it’s a factor nonetheless. With graphite iron shafts, players have to consider and assess the impact to at least 50% of the clubs in his/her bag. That takes a lot of time and testing. The only real opportunity players have to do this is during the off-season, which is when players are also looking to spend time with family, travel and rest. This gets us right back to “if it ain’t broke….” and round and round we go.



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Hyo Joo Kim rallies to keep 3-shot lead in Hawaii

Hyo Joo Kim rallied with two late birdies for an even-par 72 to maintain a three-stroke lead Friday in the LPGA Tour's LOTTE Championship.

Cantlay uses 4-birdie finish to capture RBC lead

FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay birdied the final four holes Friday for a 4-under 67 and took a two-stroke lead over Robert Streb halfway through the RBC Heritage.

Hoffman, with MD: First event since '19 'special'

Golfer Morgan Hoffmann, who was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy in 2017 and hasn't participated in a PGA Tour event since 2019, has missed the cut at the RBC Heritage. "I definitely wanted to prove to myself that I could do it again," he said.

R.I.P. Jack Newton

The Australian golfing great died at aged 72 due to health complications.

Adrian Proszenko and Sam Phillips filed the Sydney Morning Herald’s tribute.

From the Australian AP:

Newton’s Australian Open victory was one of three triumphs on the Australian tour – he also won once on the PGA Tour and was a three-time winner on the European Tour. Having turned professional in 1971 and won the Dutch Open the following year, the Cessnock-born Newton’s stellar career went on to include runner-up finishes at the British Open in 1975 and the US Masters in 1980.

“I always felt that if I came into a major with some good form, then I could be dangerous,” Newton said of his career. “That’s the way I played golf. Once I got my tail up I wasn’t afraid of anybody.”

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First Look: Edel Golf EAS 1.5 Putter

Edel Golf just announced the addition of the 1.5 model to their EAS (Edel Alignment System) putter line.

Granted, I find significance in every putter release but you may be wondering why this new Edel EAS 1.5 merits your attention. I hope to sate your wonder by exploring it from a couple of perspectives.

First, its appearance gives us the opportunity to become reacquainted with the Edel EAS putter line and Edel putter fittings. Second, we shall dive into how this new 1.5 model fits relative to the existing the line-up. I’d say it kind of fits with its kin. In fact, this putter disturbs the production paradigm of the other EAS putters. Let us start the Edel education and metal machinations forthwith.

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Testers Wanted – Nippon N.S. Pro Modus Tour 115

Ever wanted to be a part of the data MyGolfSpy collects over the course of the season?  Welcome to  Testers Wanted, where we recruit readers like you for objective feedback on products that roll into HQ throughout the year!

Ten years ago, Japanese shaft manufacturer Nippon debuted the N.S. PRO MODUS line of golf shafts. Now, with the addition of MODUS Tour 115, the resumé is starting to feel more complete.

According to Nippon, N.S. PRO MODUS Tour shafts are designed to address the exacting requirements of elite professional and competitive amateur golfers.

With that, MODUS Tour 115 is the fifth (and perhaps final) model in the MODUS family of shafts.

That said, we need testers like you to assess, and report back to us here at MyGolfSpy!

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COBRA Forged TEC and Forged Tec X Irons

The COBRA KING Forged TEC iron family now includes two models.The standard Forged TEC slants towards the better player.Forged TEC X is suitable for 10 to 20 handicaps.Retail price is $1,199. Available April 29.

The new KING Forged TEC and Forged TEC X are the best COBRA irons ever.

I originally had an expletive in that sentence but I took it out because not everyone appreciates my potty mouth. Point is, they’re really f$*king good. Full transparency: That’s my opinion. I don’t have any data—at least none beyond what COBRA provided—to back that up but, after a plus or minus decade-long streak of being pretty meh on COBRA irons, I’m anything but. And that’s exciting.

Seriously. I’m juiced.

If you’re unfamiliar with KING Forged TEC, it’s COBRA’s every two-years-or-so entry in the player’s distance category. With the previous generation, COBRA made the jump to hollow-body construction to compete more directly with P790s of the world. The plan was fundamentally good but the feel was just OK and, cosmetically, as Tiger Woods said in a recent post-round interview, “Well …”.

A closeup image of the COBRA KING Forged TEC X Iron


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An exploded view of the COBRA KING Forged TEC X Irons






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Hyo Joo Kim fires 67 again, up 3 shots in Hawaii

Hyo Joo Kim took a three-shot lead after her second round of 67 on Thursday at the Lotte Championship in Hawaii.


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