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With Arccos Golf’s recent integration with the USGA, the company adds an important feature to its stat-tracking and performance management platform.

If Arccos isn’t a familiar name, here’s a primer. Or two.

Arccos Integration. Say What?

Software updates typically target improved convenience, added features or some measure of both. In this case, Arccos users now can input scores directly to their USGA handicap from the Arccos app. Additionally, Arccos members will be able to view their handicap index directly from the Arccos Caddie app. Essentially, it’s a portal within the Arccos Caddie app that allows users basic access to the USGA handicap dashboard.

If you already have Arccos, the update should be live and ready to go in the coming weeks. That said, a good bit of the country has already entered (or is about to) the inactive portion of the USGA calendar. To clarify, every state has an active season where golfers can post scores and receive an updated handicap index. States like California, Arizona and Florida are “Year-Round” and do not have an off season. Conversely, pretty much any state where people own a snow shovel (or better yet, a snowblower) have an inactive period from roughly the end of October through the beginning of March or April.

Motoko Ueda had a 3-under 69 to hold a one-shot lead on Friday after the second round the the LPGA's Toto Classic.

Will Gordon ran off four straight birdies to start the back nine and finished with a 9-under 62 to take a one-shot lead over Russell Henley in the World Wide Technology Championship.

The European tour will offer $150,000 against players' earnings and pay $1,500 to other players if they miss the cut as part of a new schedule announced Thursday that boosts prize money and returns to Australia and parts of Asia.

Are you a great putter because of the brand you use? Or do better putters simply tend to use certain manufacturers more often?

It’s a classic chicken/egg scenario that might take us back to the first time a teacher broached the concept of causal and correlative relationships.

Correlation can create a powerful association, even in the absence of a clear causal relationship. For example, smoking causes lung cancer. However, external weather and people’s clothing choice are strongly correlated.

DATA FROM THEGRINT

Quick refresher: TheGrint is an app-based handicap tracker with a multitude of on-course and community features. In addition, TheGrint’s platform interfaces directly with the USGA handicap system.

That aside, we took a closer look at TheGrint’s database to see what, if any, relationship existed between golfers, handicap ranges and putter brand of choice.

Japanese players Ai Suzuki and Momoko Ueda each shot 7-under 65s on Thursday to sit atop the first-round leaderboard at the LPGA Tour's Toto Japan Classic.

This is the fourth in a series of blogs to help you simplify your knowledge of golf and hopefully improve your game. [These tips are distilled from an article published by Luke Kerr-Dineen for a GOLF franchise called “Play Smart”. These nuggets of knowledge are designed as a quick reference to help you as they have helped so many other golfers.]

13/ Manage your Expectations: One of the keys to happier golf is to be realistic with your own expectations. Pay attention to your successes and learn from your weaknesses to overcome your frustrations. Unfortunately, too many golfers have expectations that are wildly out of whack with the reality of their game. A great way to work on this is to keep track of the basic stats from your own game as you play. Keep your personal score card on every round with a tick when your drive lands in the fairway, a tick when you hit a GIR and add the your number of putts for each hole. Add-up your results for each round and track your progress.

Do you know that from 150 yards, a scratch golfer hits the green only about 60 percent of the time and hits Greens In Regulation 61% of the time? Don’t expect to reach these target numbers.

14/ Find Your ‘Center’: Yes, it’s important to “load” on the backswing and shift your weight forward on the down- swing. But 3D motion-capture systems reveal both happen earlier than you might expect. GOLF Top 100 Teacher Shaun Webb and coaching partner Mike Granato, co-founders of Athletic Motion Golf, have used the GEARS system to demonstrate that pro golfers have fully shifted their weight to their trail foot halfway through their backswing, but by the time they reach the top of their swing, weight is already beginning to shift toward their front foot.

“By the top of the backswing, pros reverse this move off the ball and shift back to just slightly forward of where they started at address,” Webb says. “That’s how you should complete your backswing: by BY SHIFTING SLIGHTLY TOWARD THE TARGET.”

LIV Golf's debut season was full of controversy. Here's what CEO Greg Norman has to say about the league's future.

In an interview with ESPN, two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson illustrated that he isn't sure why LIV Golf players are being heavily criticized by some PGA Tour players for taking guaranteed money from the new circuit.

A group of high-profile investors, including Stephen Curry, Lewis Hamilton, Alex Morgan, Shohei Ohtani and Serena Williams, are backing Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy's new company, which plans to launch a tech-infused golf league in 2024.

The only reliable way to know exactly how far each of your irons goes is by using a portable launch monitor and analyzing the data it provides.

Data is good but consistently accurate data is more powerful so the real question is “which launch monitors are accurate?”

We have that answer and more in our 2022 personal launch monitor test.

You might be surprised to know that we found the Rapsodo Mobile Launch Monitor is up there with the most accurate PLMs on the market.

Rapsodo has performed well year after year in the golf launch monitor category. Even though Rapsodo offers just a couple of data metrics, it makes up for that with video playback analysis, worldwide competitions and session insights.

All Are Welcome!

Are you familiar with Eastside Golf? The Compton-based lifestyle golf company has made it their mission to introduce young people to the game of golf. Eastside’s approach to growing the game is centered on diversity, inclusion and authenticity.

Through their efforts to fulfill these ideals, Eastside Golf has partnered with Jordan Brand, hoping to inspire the next generation of golfers.

The upcoming Eastside Golf x Jordan Brand collection features a variety of accessories, clothing items and more, none of which are more symbolic of Eastside’s mission than the all-new Air Jordan 1 High Golf.

More Than Just a Game

Your initial impressions of the Air Jordan 1 High Golf x Eastside Golf more than likely echo the exact sentiment that Eastside lives by. No, this shoe doesn’t look like a traditional golf shoe. Instead, it embodies the idea that golf doesn’t need to look one way or another.

Let me try and explain.

Dustin Johnson is replacing Talor Gooch with Peter Uihlein on his LIV Golf team for 2023, sources told ESPN.

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OUR JOB IS YOUR GAME

This is one of the most compelling tests of 2022.

Should you grip it and rip it with your driver? What if you could gain up to 34 yards on your drives?

Yes, you read that correctly: You could gain as many as 34 more yards just by swinging faster.

Now, every golfer swings his or her driver differently. Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are both phenomenal drivers of the golf ball yet they deliver the club to the ball differently. They do have something in common, though.  They swing their drivers with maximum speed.

We’ve all heard the same refrain. “You want a smooth tempo.” “Swing with tempo.” “Swing nice and controlled.”  “Don’t swing out of your shoes.”

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Thai teen Atthaya Thitikul, 19, becomes the second-youngest to reach the No. 1 women's world golf ranking since the ranking began in 2006.

Welcome back to Retro Golf where we take golf’s most iconic clubs and put them up against their futuristic counterparts.

Today’s episode: The OG TaylorMade Burner Bubble head to head against the 2022 TaylorMade Stealth.

How many yards does 20-plus years in storage equal?

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