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The Tour Championship (and Tommy Fleetwood’s victory drought) is officially behind us, so it’s a good time to look back at the 2025 season.

Tomorrow, I will be taking a look at the PGA Tour players who emerged with breakout seasons.

Today? Not to be a Debbie Downer, but today is for those who are on the struggle bus.

It’s all relative here. A bad year for an elite player might be a career best for someone else.

Regardless, these players did not live up to expectations—including their own. None of them won a tournament or contended in a major. Some were rarely cracking the top 10.

Welcome back, fellow GolfSpies, to the eagerly anticipated next edition of History’s Mysteries. Our goal for this project has always been to examine the people, companies, products and events that helped shape our current golf world.

Today, we’re heading to the courtroom for a deep dive into an event that is singularly responsible for shaping the golf retail market as we know it today. It’s that significant.

So hop into the Hot Tub Time Machine, my friends. Our destination is 1975 and the U.S. District Court in New Orleans, where we’ll examine the paradigm-shifting court case of Golf City, Inc. v. Wilson Sporting Goods, et al.

Strap yourselves in, kiddies. This edition of History’s Mysteries makes Perry Mason, L.A. Law and Boston Legal look like a Charlie Brown special.

History’s Mysteries: What is Golf City, Inc. v. Wilson, et al all about?

Today’s golf retail landscape is pretty straightforward. Golf Galaxy or PGA TOUR Superstore can sell you anything OEMs make. As the song says, if you got the money, honey, they got the time.

If you’re a Bettinardi loyalist, 2025 gave you plenty of options to choose from. We tested five Bettinardi putters this year across three categories: mallets, blades and zero-torque with a wide range of styles and performance traits. We’ve pulled together the test results to help you decide which model might be the best fit for your game.

Bettinardi putter test results

PuttView Handicap is a Strokes Gained–style metric where a lower (more negative) number is better. Short, medium and long putting performance are measured separately, along with an overall average.

Model	Category	Overall	Short	Medium	Long
Bettinardi INOVAI 6.0	Mallet	–6.8	–6.8	–6.4	–7.0
Bettinardi Queen B 7	Mallet	–4.9	–3.8	–2.1	–9.9
Bettinardi Queen B 6	Blade	–4.1	–4.8	+1.1	–8.0
Bettinardi Antidote SB2	Zero-Torque	–6.7	–6.4	–7.7	–6.0
Bettinardi Antidote SB1	Zero-Torque	–5.5	–7.4	–1.5	–5.9

Which one is for you?

The best overall mallet from Bettinardi was the INOVAI 6.0, the blade was the Queen B 6 and the zero-torque was the Antidote SB2. If you want to look a little deeper into which one could be the best fit for your game, here’s what you should know.

Golf has never felt like this before.

Forget the country club chicés. At The Ranch at Laguna Beach, I walked into a world reimagined by women: golfers, creators, pros and designers carving out the version of golf I’ve been dying to see.

I’ll call it like it is. “Brand trips”? Usually glossy events, staged smiles, a rack of product and a handshake with a hope and a prayer you say something fabulous about their newest, most innovative, groundbreaking, undeniably earth-shattering product yet. Color me skeptical but that was what I expected boarding the plane to California.

What I found was something much different.

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Let’s be real.

Women’s golf apparel hasn’t exactly had an outstanding track record. For decades, “options” meant polos cut like your brother’s, skorts designed more for dress code compliance than performance, and pastel dresses that looked like lazy copy-and-paste versions lifted from a tennis pro shop.

Ask any woman who’s played the game long enough and she’ll tell you horror stories about trying to find something “appropriate” for the course that didn’t make her feel like she raided her great-aunt Martha’s closet.

Fashion-forward? Not even close. Performance-minded? Try again.

However, it feels like the tide is shifting. Brands are starting to catch on that women are up to “you know where” with thoughtless products that ultimately don’t lead to better scores or give us that green-to-clubhouse confidence we’re looking for.

Leading that tide? adidas.

The “Three Stripes Retreat” at The Ranch wasn’t just a brand trip. It was a collaboration of athletes, designers, creators and voices that usually don’t share the same table. It was a chance to test product, sure, but more importantly to pressure-test the idea that women in golf deserve gear that, for once, doesn’t feel like an afterthought.

And if you didn’t think that doesn’t affect you? Buckle up.

Fit check

The retreat started with an exercise that broke every expectation I had. No awkward icebreakers, no staged photo ops.

Instead, adidas split us into teams and threw us into what felt like a design research project disguised as a game. Each group was handed a blank mannequin, racks of brand-new Ultimate365 apparel, shoes, socks and, yes, bucket hats. The prompt? Dress your girl for a real-world scenario. Nine holes followed by your best friend’s toddler’s birthday party? There’s an outfit for that. Brunch after a couples’ round? There’s an outfit for that.

Ten minutes. Head to toe. Go!

Before I lose you, this wasn’t just for fun. It was revealing. You saw right away just how versatile their lineup was. Skorts weren’t boxed into “country club only.” Joggers weren’t just thrown into the “athleisure” category. Pleats are most definitely making a comeback (in doses) and one look quickly transformed into two others with the swap of a hat or a sweater over the shoulders.

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The next day, we took to the course. The Ranch’s nine-hole track takes you through the ebbs and flows of some of Laguna’s steepest caverns with energizing salt air wafting from just across the street. The course is home to a group called the Barefoot League, and they mean that literally. It’s golf in a surf town, no doubt. Laid-back, sun-washed and never too serious. We rolled out in our new gear, sank more putts than we expected and (not to be corny) built friendships that don’t usually last much past the handshake on 18.

Keegan Bradley said all the right things. He picked a smart team. But there will be something missing from his dream Ryder Cup return.

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The highest-ranked U.S. Ryder Cup snub? Keegan Bradley gave him advice after calling him to tell him he wasn’t on the team.

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In this edition of Play Smart, instructor Jeff Smith shares a simple checklist you should go through during your setup before every shot.

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Keegan Bradley praised all 12 members of his U.S. Ryder Cup team on Wednesday, but it's what he said about one that stuck out.

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LIV Golf is adding a New Orleans tournament in June 2026 after Louisiana agreed to pay $5 million to the tour and spend $2.2 million on course improvements.

Thomas, Morikawa, Griffin, Young, Cantlay and Burns round out USA's 2025 Ryder Cup team as Captain Bradley admits he decided long ago to not play.

Lottie Woad says her putting chops might have something to do with a simple change she made with her coach a couple of years ago.

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Keegan Bradley did not select himself as a Ryder Cup captain's pick. Here's what Brandel Chamblee thinks of that decision.

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The famed Plantation Course at Kapalua, home of The Sentry, has shuttered to rest and recover amid water restrictions on Maui.

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Keegan Bradley's decision to not be a playing-captain in the Ryder Cup cost golf fans in a way that we may never fully understand.

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Keegan Bradley did not call his own name for the United States Ryder Cup team, deciding against becoming the event's first playing captain in 62 years.

True Spec Master fitter Michael Buell explains how to choose among a fairway wood, hybird or long iron for your bag.

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GOLFTEC Director of Teaching Quality Josh Troyer explains the big reason golfers chunk the ball — and offers an easy fix.

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The 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup team is set, but a handful of worthy players weren't picked. Here are the snubs who won't be at Bethpage.

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One of golf’s burning questions has been answered.

U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley will not be playing on his own team in four weeks time when the Americans host the Europeans at Bethpage Black.

Bradley tabbed Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay, Ben Griffin, Cameron Young and Sam Burns as captain’s picks.

Here is the full 12-man squad for the red, white and blue:

Scottie SchefflerJ.J. SpaunXander SchauffeleRussell Henley Harris English Bryson DeChambeauJustin ThomasCollin Morikawa Patrick CantlayBen GriffinCameron YoungSam Burns

Scheffler, DeChambeau and Schauffele figure to be the key leaders given that the team features four Ryder Cup rookies with Spaun, Henley, Griffin and Young.

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