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The LPGA's first major of the year - the Chevron Championship - is moving to The Club at Carlton Woods in Houston, Texas after 51 years at Mission Hills in the California desert.

Rickie Fowler came up one shot away from getting into a playoff for the last spot in U.S. Open qualifying, but did win a playoff to become the first alternate out of Florida.

Move the upper body up through impact when chipping. Wow! This idea is relatively new to golf instruction and very new to most golfers. Far too many everyday golfers are doing their utmost to stay down through the strike as the clubhead approaches the ball. Staying down only stalls rotation and forces the arms to collapse. Please don’t do that!

Please watch the above video a few times and really pay attention to what the chest and upper body are doing as the club gets close to impact. Ideally I’d like to move up more as I know all of the following great golfers do this: Stricker, Woods, Ballesteros, Spieth, Day, Na and Zalatoris. Quite a handy line-up there if you were building a team of world-class chippers!

Know that as you experiment and try to implement this into your chipping motion it will feel strange and you’ll never be moving up as much as it feels like you are. Have a friend take a video and keep chipping away - you too can be like the Jeffersons and move on up.

Have fun with this idea and please give it a try. I’d love to hear from you how it worked out for you.

To learn more about how to wield your wedges around the greens check out my Wedge Project HERE

The Vokey T Grind wedge is available through Wedge Works now.The versatile T Grind is the lowest-bounce wedge in the Vokey lineup.Retail price is $225.

The Vokey T Grind lob wedge is used by Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas (and Cam Smith and Will Zalatoris and Cameron Young and Webb Simpson). Suffice it to say, it has an audience.

If you’re not swayed by those guys, I’ll concede it’s probably not going to move the needle much when I tell you the T Grind has made a significant impact on my game since went in my bag couple of seasons ago.

I should probably clarify. I mean a significantly positive impact on my game which hasn’t always been the case with all of my equipment selections.

While what’s in my bag isn’t particularly notable, the timing of the Wedge Works T Grind release is. Yes, we’re coming up on a major and that’s typically when a lot of this one-off stuff hits the market but, in the past, Vokey has saved the T Grind for Year 2 of its SM-series product cycle.

Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson are welcome to play the U.S. Open next week under a USGA decision announced Tuesday.

In skipping next week's U.S. Open, Tiger Woods said he hopes to give his body more time to heal in order to play The Open in July.

Graeme McDowell and fellow golfers acknowledge their 'polarizing' decision to move to the rebel Saudi-backed golf tour, but say their focus is on golf and the 'force of good' it could have in the world.

 

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There is a lot of cool gear in the golf equipment world that doesn’t always fit neatly into Most Wanted Tests or Buyer’s Guides. You still want to know how it performs. In our We Tried It series, we put gear to the test and let you know if it works as advertised.

What We Tried

Callaway Fairway 14 Stand Bag

Your Bag Tester

Dave Wolfe – The ever-curious MyGolfSpy writer and putter fanatic. When it comes to golf products, I believe that impulse control is something to be controlled.

Are Any Golf Bags Built for Push Carts?

Have you ever found yourself between pant sizes? The pair of size 36s were a bit baggy but the 34s created an awkward muffin top. Obviously, a pair of 35s would be ideal. Sadly, in a land of even-sized pants, that Goldilocks size option is not usually available.

Those of us who push our clubs are presented with a similar situation every time we shop for a new golf bag. Do we go cart bag and lose the walking flexibility of a stand bag? Do we go stand bag and lose the storage and stability of a cart bag?

Dustin Johnson said he's resigned from the PGA Tour and plans to play only LIV Golf events and major championships "unless I hear otherwise."

Fran Quinn, 57, qualified for the U.S. Open on Monday, while Rickie Fowler and former NFL running back Danny Woodhead were among the notables who failed to make the field for next week's major championship at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.

After a four-month hiatus, Phil Mickelson is returning to competitive golf on the new LIV Golf Invitational Series after being added to the field on Monday for the series' first event, to begin Thursday at Centurion Club outside London.

Jack Nicklaus the third American to become honorary citizen of St. Andrews, joining Bobby Jones in 1958 and Benjamin Franklin in 1759.

Our Job Is Your Game

If you dive into Most Wanted Testing articles, you see this saying every single time. Why? It is our DNA.

Our mission is simple: to educate golfers worldwide and to equip them with the best products suited for their game.

Yorktown, Va., is where every shot and every data point comes to life. It is where we are changing the golf industry one reader at a time.

Most Wanted Testing

In 2021, 122,988 shots of data were collected over 11 Most Wanted tests. Let that sink in … 122,988 SHOTS.

It is 2022 and we are almost three-quarters of the way through Most Wanted testing. Each test isn’t possible without the dedication of our testers. Without them, Most Wanted testing does not exist.

“The first four putters were 20 years in the making.”  Guerin Rife

The concept of an overnight success story is misguided at best. Truthfully, the leap from relative unknown to a bona-fide market mover is the result of countless hours of dedication to a specific objective that benefits from some sort of inflection point.

In this case, we’re talking about putters, specifically Evnroll putters, and the man behind it all, Guerin Rife. In 2017, we traced Rife’s story from his roots as an ad agency art director to one of the most highly regarded creative thinkers and putter designers in the game.

What we knew then was that Rife was on to something with his Sweet Face Technology.

What we didn’t know is exactly whether it could sustain an entire brand.