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Category: Boneheads, Golf, Golf Clubs, Golf Equipment, Golf Gear

I Propose a New Golf Iron Naming Scheme Which Golf Marketers and Some Manufacturers Will Hate

Why is your brand new shiny pitching wedge as long as your old 8-iron? Because it IS an 8-iron. Hot off the presses is the announcement that TaylorMade just came out with a new set of irons. Kind of a bummer…

First Look: $173 Golf Laser Rangefinder by ScoreBand

Here’s a first look at a new $189 (retail) $173 (street) golf laser rangefinder by the company ScoreBand. I reviewed a ScoreBand product a couple of years ago, a small wrist watch style golf score keeper. Yesterday I did my first…

Category: Golf, Hackers, Miscellaneous

Golf Is Right Where I Left It

Majestic… Had my first round in over a month, and only my 3rd round since about November. It was the first league day for one of my two men’s associations. Conditions were pristine. No wind and…

Golf.com Has Officially Losts Its Mind

Yesterday I predicted that Golf.com would use Dustin Johnson’s victory at Doral this past weekend as an excuse to post Paulina Gretzky photos. Like clockwork the photo galleries are popping up. Golf journalism at its best! For my next unbelievable…

Category: Boneheads, Golf, PGA Tour, Pro Golf, Rory McIlory

Rules Options for Rory McIlory Following Throwing Club in Lake

Rory McIlory has a few options at this point, following throwing his club into the lake as per Rules of Golf 32.0A-3-A-Niner-6969, subsection B-989-E-Bravo-Niner. He can play a new club from the same position he threw the last one under…