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What’s In The Bag – US Open Week

By John Duval
What's In The Bag?

What’s in the bag of last week’s winners on the major tours? Rory McIlroy USGA: U.S. Open Driver: Titleist 910D2 (8.5 degree; Fujikura Rombax 7V05 shaft) Fairway Woods: Titleist 906F2 3-wood (13 degree; Fujikura ZCom Pro 95 shaft) and 5-wood (18 degree; Fujikura ZCom Pro 95 shaft) Irons (3-9): Titleist MB (Project X 6.5 shafts)… »

McIlroy Brings Out Different Scotty Cameron Putter To Win US Open

By John Duval
Rory's Scotty Cameron

By Jennifer Gardner – TheTourVan.com U.S. Open winner Rory McIlroy put a little-used Scotty Cameron putter in his bag for the week at Congressional Country Club. The putter, a Newport GSS model, is a prototype that McIlroy first received at the 2010 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. He’s carried it to tournaments before and even used… »

15″ Wide Hole – What Would You Shoot?

By John Duval

If the hole was fifteen inches wide, what would you shoot? Ten strokes better? Twenty? Well, some lucky folks got to find out recently and the results were pretty surprising. Golf Digest Editor-in-Chief Jerry Tarde dreamed up the event called the WIDE Open after hearing some comments about how making the hole bigger would make… »

Plagiarism Strikes Intothegrain.com!

By John Duval
Article on Tallahassee.com that was copied from Intothegrain.com

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, consider us flattered… and maybe a bit peeved. Last week a reader brought to our attention that someone had stolen our work and used it as their own. After following up on the report, I found that an LPGA Teaching Pro had “borrowed” large chunks of a… »

TaylorMade Introduces Three New Forged Iron Models

By John Duval
TaylorMade Introduces Three New Models of Forged Tour Preferred Irons

TaylorMade Golf has re-imagined and redefined the forged iron with the introduction of three new and distinctly different models: TPMB (Tour Preferred® Muscleback), TPMC (Tour Preferred Muscle Cavity) and TPCB (Tour Preferred Cavityback). The sophisticated design of each of the three new models incorporates specific features and technologies developed to promote improved superior performance. Created… »

Rocco Mediate Holes Out 4 Times in Victory

By John Duval

Rocco Mediate holed out for eagle. Again. And again. And again. And again! That’s right – In winning the Frys.com Open in San Martin, California 25-year PGA Tour veteran Rocco Mediate made four eagles by holing out an iron shot. He had a hole-in-one on the par-3 third hole Thursday to start his week, then… »

Titleist Introduces 910 Series Drivers

By John Duval
Titleist 910 Drivers

Building upon its successful history of high performance drivers for tour players, club professionals, competitive and aspiring golfers, Titleist takes driver performance and fitting to a new level with the introduction of the 910 series drivers. Boasting improved all around performance and an unrivaled level of fitting precision previously available only on the major professional… »

2010 Ryder Cup – What’s In The Bag?

By John Duval
The Europe Ruder Cup team pose for pictures after beating the US by 14 1/2 points to 13 1/2 points on the final day of the 2010 Ryder Cup golf competition at Celtic Manor golf course in Newport, Wales on October 4, 2010.

The 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor in Wales is over, and it was a thriller. Just when we thought the US Team was all washed up, (pardon the pun) they came roaring back during the Sunday singles to make it very interesting. It would be very easy to say Hunter Mahan choked with that… »

2010 Ryder Cup – Day One Four-ball Pairings

By John Duval
2010 Ryder Cup

The stage is set for the first day of the 2010 Ryder Cup in Wales. Captains Colin Montgomerie and Corey Pavin have announced the pairings for the first four-ball matches on Friday morning. I did a decent job predicting the Captain’s picks a few months ago, and there has been lots of talk about all… »

TaylorMade Rossa Daytona Ghost Putter – First Look

By John Duval
TaylorMade Rossa Daytona Ghost Putter

Press Release from TaylorMade Golf — TaylorMade Golf is proud to announce the release of the putter that so many golfers have been asking for, the Rossa Daytona Ghost, a tour-proven blade that offers the familiar calming white color and high-contrast alignment cues of the now-famous Corza Ghost mallet. Like the Corza Ghost, the Rossa… »

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