TaylorMade performance van in town tomorrow
Anyone in the Salt Lake City area tomorrow might want to stop by and check out the TaylorMade Performance Van. You can get fitted and have your swing checked etc.
The van will be at River Oaks from 12-6pm. Let’s hope the snow melts first.
Rain Wedge
Written by: Tony Korologos | Saturday, April 15th, 2006
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear • Reviews
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear • Reviews
This is the first product review that I had to wait until specific weather conditions occurred to complete it! It’s the first time I’ve hoped for rain on the golf course. Today my hopes came true so the Rain Wedge review is here.
What is the Rain Wedge?
Invented by a company from Seattle (of course), the Rain Wedge is a cover which covers your clubs and the opening of your golf bag in the event of rain (or snow if you are from these parts). Most golf bags include a rain cover but these included covers are typically not well made or designed.
The most irritating part about normal rain covers is the access. Typically there is a zipper down the middle of the cover. You have to unzip and dig around inside the dark for your clubs. Your hand gets wet handling the cover and it’s quite inconvenient to get the clubs out and put them back. Quite often my hands and grips seem to get more wet from rubbing against the wet cover than if I didn’t have a cover at all.
The Rain Wedge cover is shaped like a rounded umbrella and clamps to the rim of your bag. It’s spring loaded and hangs over your bag keeping all rain out. To access your clubs you can simply move the spring loaded cover back to expose the entire opening of your bag. Getting to your clubs with the cover on couldn’t be easier. If the rain subsides for a while you can use the Velcro straps to secure the cover in the retracted position. When the rain comes back it would take you all of 3-4 seconds to get the cover back into full cover mode.
Some standard bag covers leak. This is extremely irritating when you are fighting the elements only to find that your grips are soaked from your rain cover’s leak.
The Rain Wedge covers the outside of the bag rim so there’s no chance of a leak getting your grips wet.
Compact and convenient
When not in use the Rain Wedge folds into a thin, flexible shape. They recommend putting the Rain Wedge in your bag with your clubs, but it’s so flexible I’m able to fold it down to a shape that will fit in my bag’s larger pockets.
Critic’s corner
With all my reviews I try to find room for improvement, problems, issues etc. The only issue I had with the Rain Wedge was when I got careless putting the cover back over the clubs. It’s spring loaded and can be covered with water. Several times I let it flip back on it’s own and all the moisture on it’s surface flipped in my face!
Conclusion
At a mere $29.95 price, the Rain Wedge is a must have. The Rain Wedge is easy to use, convenient, compact and does it’s job perfectly.
You’ll make up the $29.95 price very quickly when your friendly bets against your buddies play out in a rain storm. Your clubs and hands will be nice and dry, resulting in your ability to hit good shots. Your opponents will be fighting wet grips and wet hands and consequently suffering from a case of light wallet.
Tiger Woods apologizes for disrespectful words
Tiger Woods has apologized for using the disrespectful word “spaz” in his Sunday post round interview at last week’s Masters.
Quoted from Tiger’s site:
Woods Meant No Disrespect to Anyone in Post-Masters Interview
Top-ranked Tiger Woods regrets his choice of words during a television interview immediately following the 70th Masters Tournament last Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club. When asked about his play, he replied, “I putted atrociously today. Once I got on the greens I was a spaz.â€
I think it’s very kind, thoughtful and gracious for Tiger to apologize. Now would someone please tell me exactly WHO IS TIGER APOLOGIZING TO? And if Tiger is apologizing for using the word spaz why isn’t he apologizing for all the f-bombs he drops during the round that the live microphones pick up?
One of the best comment threads ever
My good pal Rich from EatGolf.com somehow found the Masters theme song on vynil. He did a post about it which has started one of the best blog comment threads ever. Check it out.
LPGA – PGA Driving Distance Comparison
Just in case anyone isn’t sick of the driving distance discussion I’ve got a nugget for you.
I was watching the LPGA Tour on TV today and saw that the leader in driving distance, not Michelle Wie, was at 292.6 yards! I started comparing LPGA and PGA driving distances. I went back until I found the closest year between the two leaders. That took me back 10 years to 1996. Look at the comparisons of the top 5 from the LPGA 2006 and the PGA 1996.
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Driving Distance Comparison
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LPGA 2006
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PGA 1996
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| Karin Sjodin |
292.6
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John Daly | 288.8 |
| Brittany Lincicome |
283.1
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John Adams | 286.7 |
| Sophie Gustafson |
278.6
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Fred Couples | 285.8 |
| Brittany Lang |
274.3
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Davis Love III | 285.7 |
| Lorena Ochoa |
274.0
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Tim Herron | 283.5 |
What does this prove? Not necessarily anything.
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