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Viktor Hovland was steady amid a wild Saturday of charges and collapses at the Valspar Championship, leaving him in a three-way tie for the lead with Jacob Bridgeman and Nico Echavarria.
Viktor Hovland is searching for his swing and found himself in contention Friday at the Valspar Championship, where Jacob Bridgeman has a one-shot lead and a host of others are right behind going into the weekend at Innisbrook.
Through 36 holes at the Valspar Championship we have seen players punt and throw golf clubs. Will the trend continue this weekend?
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Padraig Harrington has seen a lot of golf swings in his life, and he says this mistake is one of the most dangerous amateurs can make.
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In this edition of Shaving Strokes, Top 100 Teacher Tom Stickney explains how he used Proscreen AI to help diagnose a student's flaws.
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John Daly says recovery from his latest surgery to repair his hand was a little brutal.
Golf can be an endlessly complicated game, but taking proper care of golf equipment and apparel is relatively simple. Here's how to do it.
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On this week's episode of GOLF's Fully Equipped, Kris and Wadeh are joined by Johnny Wunder to talk about how deep the golf club market is.
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John Feinstein’s love of sport and his admiration for sport done right is what made him so good at writing up sport and those in it.
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Tomo Golf's Ninja Kit divot tool made what can often feel like an obligatory chore — fixing ball marks — into something kind of fun.
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It’s a simple phrase that informs every decision Palm Golf Co. makes. You can almost hear it wafting in the breeze alongside the company’s increasingly recognizable palm tree logo.
Swing and smile.
Those three words evoke a visceral feeling that is carried not just through the brand’s product line of fashionable yet durable gloves and its wide-ranging, modern golf apparel but in the mission of why Palm exists in the first place.
To Palm and its growing base of ardent supporters, golf is not a place of suffering, stress or a narrow set of expectations for what the game should look like. There is laughter in a double bogey. There is acceptance in styles whether you are a tucked-in country clubber or showing up to your local muni in high-tops and joggers. There is a reverence and respect for what golf means to people on a personal level—but also an understanding that we are all here for fun, to enjoy being with each other.
When someone dons the palm tree logo, it is not only to wear a high-quality product that is a labor of love from three friends who came together to improve the world of golf style.
A recently leaked photo of the “probably” upcoming Odyssey Square to Square MAX putter has set golf social media ablaze.
The putter in question bears a striking resemblance to L.A.B. Golf’s DF2.1 or DF3 (take your pick)—so much so that many in the golf community are already calling it a blatant knockoff. While Odyssey has yet to officially announce the putter, history suggests it will make its way to retail. And, with that, the inevitable debate begins: Is this just another example of golf’s copycat culture or is Odyssey stepping over the line like a drunk trying to navigate the ropes at the Phoenix Open?
Join me, won’t you, in the dark recesses of my mind as I argue with myself over whether Odyssey seemingly egregious L.A.B. copy is a step too far.
“Dude, Odyssey just ripped off L.A.B.”
Did they?
(Yes)
Not long ago, I wrote a story about the rise in Mini driver offerings and hopefully provided some insights into whether a mini might be right for you.
Along the way, I suggested that perhaps that, while intriguing, the mini approach might not be ideal for average golfers. Most of us might be better served with a full-sized driver cut down to more playable (fairway wood) lengths.
Having tried a similar build, I can tell you that if straighter tee shots are your goal, it works as advertised (insomuch as shorter driver builds have ever been advertised).
The general thinking behind these type of builds is that, contrary to what many believe, a 3-wood isn’t likely to be more accurate off the tee than a driver and while better off the tee than a fairway wood, a mini driver is going to be harder to hit off the deck.
It’s why one reader called the mini driver a worst of both worlds solution. Harsh, but if you want to read that mini drivers have a limited audience, that’s likely fair.
If you’re tired of marking your golf ball with a Sharpie and want something a little more fun, there are options. Custom golf balls have become more popular and choices are available across various price ranges to accommodate your needs. Here are five custom golf balls to try.
TaylorMade My Symbol
TaylorMade MySymbol takes golf ball personalization to the next level. They offer a wide range of customization options. Available on the TP5 and TP5x, TaylorMade’s premium “tour-level” golf balls. MySymbol allows you to choose from more than 100 stock symbols, custom text and color changes for the logo and numbers.
I worked through the process a bit and there are two basic options: a MySymbol ball already designed by TaylorMade and one that you customize yourself. When you start playing around with numbers and colors and personalizing, you pay $59.99 a dozen with a minimum purchase of four dozen.
Right now, there is a promotion where one dozen is free. My quote for the four dozen was around $180 during this promotional period.
If you choose the non-personalized ones with just the extra logo or symbol on them, you’ll pay $59.99 a dozen and there’s no minimum purchase required.
Pluto P1 Golf Shoe
What We Like
Premium materials Comfortable enough to walk in Sneaker stylingWhat We Don't Like
Traction is lacklusterThe Bottom Line
While not for everyone, golf sneakers are in. And there’s none right now that rivals the premium feel of the Pluto P1. While the traction isn’t great, the clean aesthetics and supple leather make this sneaker a great range companion.
Of all the Equinoxes, the Vernal Equinox is my favorite because it means Spring is officially here.
It’s been a long, cold, lonely winter, little darlings, and looky-loo, here comes the sun. It’s time for all that snow, wind and cold to go the hell back to where it came from. We’re pretty much good until the Autumnal Equinox, my least favorite Equinox, shows its face in late September.
It’s also time for the inevitable onslaught of Majors-related limited edition merchandise from anyone even remotely connected to the golf industry. Since it’s almost April, we start with stuff related to the tiny hamlet of Augusta, Georgia, and that tournament that can only be named through officially licensed channels.
Hint: It rhymes with “blasters.”
Pretty much anything you can think of will either be adorned with azaleas or get the familiar green-yellow-white color scheme. Most of it’s cheesy, but a precious few qualify as pretty classy.
At first glance, the MacGregor MacBLK packaged set of golf clubs looks like any other packaged set of golf clubs. It comes, after all, in a package.
The MacBLK set features a driver, 3-wood, hybrid, six irons, a pitching wedge and a CNC precision milled putter. And a bag. Pick yourself up some tees and balls and you are, as they say, golf-ready.
As we stated earlier this week in our look at five other packaged set options, not all packaged sets are created equal. While you can still find ridiculously cheap (in every sense of the word) department store brands, you’re seeing mainstream OEMs and direct-to-consumer brands raising the bar.
The packaged set world is evolving and that, my friends, is a good thing for everyone concerned.
Why packaged sets are important
We avid golfer types have traditionally turned our collective noses up at packaged sets or, as we more derisively call them, boxed sets. The term screams the sporting goods section of a big-box department store. Wilson, despite its history and its long run of solid-to-excellent performing pro-line gear, is still tarred with the boxed-set at Wal-Mart brush. We conveniently forget that COBRA, Callaway, TaylorMade and even XXIO offer packaged sets.
How to watch the 2025 Valspar Championship on Friday, including full Valspar Championship TV coverage and streaming info for Round 2.
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Good Good Golf is riding a $45 million valuation high. But what comes next for the golf content-commerce behemoth? Its CEO answers.
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