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I love to see great tips from the old pros like Lee Trevino. I notice that his swing, like Jack Nicklaus’ swing evolved as he got older. They added features to increase rotation to minimize distance loss as their bodies tightened up with age. Lee suggested these changes:

1/ MOVE YOUR FOOT AWAY: Move your trailing foot back a few inches off the line parallel to your target line. It allows you to rotate for more backswing and avoid swinging over the top and slicing the ball.

2/ MOVE YOUR BALL BACK IN YOUR STANCE: Lee noticed that most of the aging golfers and want-to-be-golfers impact the turf about 2 to 3 inches behind the ball. Of course, that kills the distance. He suggests moving the ball back in your stance slightly for every shot that you make. He points out that you are swinging your arms around you body in a circular motion which pulls your club away from your ball and your target line. If you hit a lot of THIN shots, just move your ball back in your stance. (Pros shift their weight forward to avoid thin shots.)

3/ SWING STRAIGHT BACK: By swinging the head of your club straight back to start your backswing, you will force your shoulders to rotate more. You need to rotate your hips and shoulders and your arms but if you rush your swing you often miss the chance to rotate all 3 and add lag with your wrists. Remember: there is no need to rush your backswing. It is just the windup for your body and it only gets your club in position for the perfect shallow downswing and release.

4/ AIM FOR THE INSIDE QUADRANT: Swing down to hit your ball at 7 o’clock (where 6 o’clock is directly back and 12 o’clock is straight up your target line). When you aim to hit up the inside quadrant of your ball you are adding draw to your flight path for more distance.

The PGA Tour said Tuesday that it would adopt a new local rule, effective Jan. 1, 2022, that would allow high-level tournaments to limit driver length to 46 inches.

We tested how mud and scuffs affect the flight of your ball with some eyebrow-raising results. Also, how satisfied with you on your irons, and what club would you never take out the bag?

1:19 – Mud Ball (VS) Scuffed (VS) New8:10 – Warming up with range balls?9:47 – Should you take your balls out sooner?13:48 – Working with mud/damage17:23 – The Iron Satisfaction Survey28:04 – MAILBAG! – What club will you never take out the bag?

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The Callaway Epic Max Star driver and fairway woods target “force-limited” golfers.The new offerings rely on lightweight design to increase clubhead speed and distance.Retail price is $699.99 for the driver and $429.99 for the fairway wood.

As we’ve mentioned before, fall is the season when Callaway typically releases its more, shall we say, “niche” offerings. Just last week, the company launched the APEX UW, the promising—though somewhat unusual— lovechild of a hybrid and a fairway wood. This time around, Callaway is launching the Epic Max Star family—a premium-priced offering that targets “force-limited” golfers.

To be sure, the golf industry loves its candy-coated euphemisms and so, yeah, “force limited” is the sweetest possible way of saying “slow,” but for golfers in the Epic Max Star wheelhouse, money may not be able to buy happiness but it might just buy you some distance.

If you take nothing else away from the story of the Callaway Epic Max Star, all you really need to know is that it’s long, and light, and gold.

Ultra-Premium

That last one won’t be on the test but you can bet the accents are meant to convey that Epic Max Star is a premium or perhaps even ultra-premium product. If for whatever reason the paint doesn’t deliver the desired messaging, the price tag certainly will.

Callaway Epic MAX Star Irons and Hybrids – Key Takeaways

Callaway updates its ultra-premium, ultra-light irons and hybrids.A.I.-designed, specifically for slow swing-speed players.Available in 3- through 8-hybrid righthanded (3H-6H for lefties) and 5-iron through sand wedge$349.99 per club. Available Sept. 30

Today’s stories on the new Callaway Epic MAX Star lineup may make you:

A: Grumpy
B: Outraged
C: Grab your torch and pitchfork
D: Intrigued

Your answer, of course, will depend entirely on your swing speed, demographic and bank account.

You can read all about the new Callaway Epic MAX Star driver and fairways in our companion post so this piece will focus on the Epic MAX Star irons and hybrids. If you answered D to the above survey, I look forward to your comments below. And if you didn’t answer D to the above survey, well, I really look forward to your comments below.

This should be fun.

Ex-NBA player JR Smith shot a 12-over-par 83 in Round 1 and then a 7-over 78 in Round 2 for North Carolina A&T at Elon's Phoenix Invitational.

The PGA Tour is set to give a $50,000 bonus to any player who competes in 15 events, the minimum number of tournaments already considered a condition of membership.

FITTING SURVEY

This year, we’ve asked you to tell us how satisfied you are with your most recent driver and iron purchases. Your responses have yielded some incredible insights, particularly around the club fitting experience, and that’s made us want to dig deeper.

In addition to understanding which clubs golfers are fitted for most often, we want to know what aspects of the fitting experience are working for golfers and which need to be improved. We also want to understand why some golfers are choosing not to get fitted at all.

Those are the kind of things we hope to learn from you.

Click here to take the survey.

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India first-ever female pro golfer Simi Mehra speaks to ESPN about finding love, coming out, and the joy of giving.

Sungjae Im turned a shootout into a one-man show Sunday in Las Vegas, running the tables with seven birdies in eight holes around the turn for a 9-under 62 and a 4-shot victory in the Shriners Children's Open.

Phil Mickelson closed with a 4-under 68 on Sunday for a 2-shot victory in the Constellation Furyk & Friends, holding off Miguel Angel Jimenez.

Jin Young Ko finished off a wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the Cognizant Founders Cup with her 14th consecutive round in the 60s, matching a 16-year-old record held by Annika Sorenstam.

Spain's Rafa Cabrera Bello sank a birdie putt on the first playoff hole to seal a dramatic victory over compatriot Adri Arnaus and win his first tournament in over four years at the Spanish Open on Sunday.

Adam Schenk birdied three of his last four holes Saturday and finished with a 5-under 66, giving him a one-shot lead over Matthew Wolff in the Shriners Children's Open.

Phil Mickelson has a two-shot lead as he tries to win again on the PGA Tour Champions. Mickelson was lagging behind until a three-hole stretch changed everything in the Constellation Furyk & Friends Invitational.

Jin Young Ko picked up her fourth birdie on the par-5 16th and closed with two pars for a 2-under 69, giving her a four-shot lead Saturday at the Founders Cup as she tries to win for the third time this year.

There's been a Tiger Woods sighting, as he was seen watching his son, Charlie, at a junior event this weekend.

Spain's Rafa Cabrera Bello surged into a two-shot lead with a faultless seven-under 64 as compatriot and world No. 1 Jon Rahm slipped six shots off the pace after carding a one-over 72 in the third round of the Spanish Open on Saturday.

Chad Ramey, making his third start of the year and fifth in his PGA Tour career, and Sungjae Im each closed their Friday afternoon rounds with birdies on the par-5 ninth to lead the Shriners Children's Open by a stroke.