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Summer officially starts with Memorial Day (let’s ignore the solstice) and sales are popping up online. So your faithful servants here at MGS have dug deep to bring you the best golf deals so you can gear up for a summer full of golf. From drivers to training aids, arm yourself with the equipment that suits you, your game – and your budget.

Anna Nordqvist had her second match go all 18 holes Thursday before she held on for a 1-up victory over Lauren Coughlin, putting her in position to win her group and advance to the knockout stage of the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play.

Padraig Harrington shot 8-under 64 on Thursday in the first competitive round at the new Texas headquarters of the PGA of America for a two-shot lead at the Senior PGA Championship.

New Zealand golfer Michael Hendry was diagnosed with leukemia in April and continues to undergo treatment.

While Harry Hall leads after an opening-round 62 at Colonial, stars Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns were in a large group at 67.

Michael Block's round included seven bogeys, three double-bogeys, two birdied and a par save after his tee shot landed on a bridge.

Post-PGA wrap, Block's latest moves, Ryder Cup standings, U.S. Open Final Qualifying news, PGA Frisco debuts and much more.

We’re rapidly moving into the keep it fresh time of year where manufacturers try and extend the available life of existing products by attempting to make things just a bit more interesting.

Titleist’s release of a higher lofted (14.5-degree) version of the TSR2+ fairway wood doesn’t exactly stick to the typical Paint it Black playbook, but it should give golfers a new reason to consider TSR.

As you may be aware, the TSR2+ was already a bit of an expansion of Titleist’s fairway wood lineup. TSR2+ was conceived as a lower lofted, larger footprint, bomber – and it more or less works as advertised.

While the lower loft is no small part of the reason behind the added distance, it’s also a healthy part of the reason why some weren’t interested in the TSR2+.

A small sample size for sure, but within the last month I’ve recommended the TSR2+ to two golfers only to have both tell me they wanted something with more loft.

TaylorMade Golf has just announced a new addition to its collection of driving irons / utility irons. The new Stealth Bomber (could the name be any more on the nose?) joins the Stealth UHY and Stealth UDI driving irons as alternatives to your driver or 3-wood when finding the fairway is an absolute must.

What’s a fairway? Asking for a friend.

About the TaylorMade Stealth Bomber Iron

True to the stealth name, the TaylorMade Stealth Bomber utility iron is flying a bit under the radar, or, at a minimum, it’s nearly invisible – at least by TaylorMade standards.

There’s no press release full of carefully curated and crafted quotes from the R&D team. Instead, it’s more of a what you see is what you get approach (especially if what you see is a Stealth Iron).

That’s driven by the reality that while the Stealth Bomber Iron is technically a new offering, the underlying tech is identical to what’s found in TaylorMade’s Stealth irons. We don’t need to rehash that here, but if you’re curious, here’s what that means.

The new Tour Velvet Tour Tack from Golf Pride grips is certainly a mouthful.

Especially if you add Limited Edition to their name. Which they are. But they’re also something else.

Ever since Golf Pride opened its new Global Innovation Center in Pinehurst, North Carolina in 2020, its synthetic rubber gear heads have been working on ways to bridge what had been considered an unbridgeable grip gap:

Traction with tack.

It may sound easy, but in Grip World, those two tend to be mutually exclusive. The best you can do, it would seem, would be to give up some of one to get more of the other. Golf Pride has grips that offer relative mixes, but the new Tour Velvet Tour Tack might be the first one to gain acceptance on Tour.

Cal teammates Aaron Du and Sampson Zheng capped off a strong week at Kiawah Island with a 2-and-1 victory over Drew Kittleson and Drew Stoltz to win the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship on Wednesday.

Lilia Vu and Brooke Henderson, the only players from the top 10 in women's golf to enter the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play, both delivered victories Wednesday at Shadow Creek in the opening session of pool play.

Wake Forest jumped out to an early lead against USC before closing out a 3-1 win that gave the ACC school its first national title in women's golf.

The Block party continues, Brooks Koepka goes for another title, Justin Bieber becomes a golf investor and more PGA and LIV storylines.

Ben Hogan was a renowned professional golfer who achieved remarkable success in his career. Here are some key highlights about Ben Hogan:

1. Early Life and Golf Beginnings:

   • Ben Hogan was born on August 13, 1912, in Stephenville, Texas, USA. He grew up in a modest family and began playing golf at a young age. He worked as a caddy and practiced relentlessly to refine his skills.

2. Professional Career:

   • Hogan turned professional in 1930 and faced early struggles in his career. However, his breakthrough came in the 1940s and 1950s when he established himself as one of the greatest golfers of all time.

3. Major Championships:

   • Hogan won a total of nine major championships in his career. These include four U.S. Open titles (1948, 1950, 1951, 1953), two Masters Tournament victories (1951, 1953), two PGA Championships (1946, 1948), and one Open Championship (1953).

4. Swing Technique:

You will never break 80 if you can’t consistently drive into the fairway and 2 putt most greens.  Even more important is your skill to hit greens in regulation (GIR).  Longer drives or playing from forward tees will shorten your approach shots and improve your chances to hit more GIR’s as well as landing closer to the hole. That’s why it is so important to control your DIRECTION and DISTANCE to hit more GIR’s.

It’s not easy to control golf shots because you are swinging in an arc to impact your ball at different positions in your swing arc and at different speeds with different weights and lengths for each of your clubs.  Yes, this is a crazy game, but you can improve your direction and distance control by paying attention to each of the following tips.

Take a Practice Swing:  After you select your club to reach your target and choose your target line be sure to take a practice swing to learn the feel for the weight and length of the club that you have chosen.  Each club need your personal attention and you want to make sure that the soul of your chosen club is lying flat on the surface of the ground during your setup and practice swing. 

Consistent Swing Speed: Because your knees, your hips and your shoulders all move in a different sequence during our backswing and your downswing, you need to learn the cadence that allows your arms to catch up with your hips during your downswing.  Commit to swinging at 80% of your swing speed for every swing. A faster swing will leave your club face open and an inconsistent slower swing will definitely lose distance and direction control.

Always Take More Club: Know the distance that each of your clubs will reach.  Higher handicap golfers overestimate the distance for each club as they tend to remember the wonderful result for only about 10% of their perfect shots.  If you feel that you can’t reach your target, use a club with less loft, DO NOT JUST SWING FASTER as you will lose control of the direction of your shot. Adjust your distance by gripping down on a higher lofted club to take distance off your hit.

About a month ago we asked you to take our golf ball survey. We wanted to get a better sense of what golf balls you’re playing and perhaps a bit about why you’re playing them. We also wanted to know where you’re buying your golf balls and whether “white, round and on the ground” remains the simple truth about what you’re playing.

In total, more than 7,700 of you (7,746, to be exact) took the survey.

We’ve chosen several of the more interesting questions and answers to share with you today.

Here’s what you told us.

Which type of golf ball do you typically play?

If nothing else, the responses served to validate what we already believed to be true. The overwhelming majority (nearly 83 percent) of our readers who took the survey play a golf ball with a urethane cover.

Brianna Navarrosa beat the world's top-ranked amateur, Rose Zhang, and Southern California knocked off reigning champion Stanford 3-1 in the NCAA women's golf semifinals on Tuesday while Wake Forest beat Texas A&M in the other semifinal.

Winners, losers and somewhere in between from a stellar week in Rochester.