Golf Designers Against Distance (GDAD) members are not going to like this at all.
Titleist, the king of all ball manufacturers, yesterday updated its NXT line of golf balls. While the Pro V1 and Pro V1x line may be the preferred ball among low-handicap golfers, the NXT line is the ball for the masses.
Previously, the NXT line featured two balls: the NXT and the NXT Tour. With the 2007 revisions, the NXT Tour has been updated and the plain-old NXT has been updated and re-christened the NXT Extreme.
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Will Sergio Garcia win his first major, ending the European drought the week his idol retires from the game?
14:36 – Sergio makes. Harrington does too and is the 136th Open Champion winner and the Champion Golfer of the Year.
14:35 – Sergio’s birdie putt somehow misses high! It looked in from the get-go, but it slides just outside of Padraig’s ball!! If Sergio misses, it’s over. If he makes, Padraig must make to win outright.
14:34 – Harrington’s par putt rolls three to four feet past the cup, right on Sergio’s line.
I’d give Woody Austin a few thousand dollars if I could take his place in the British Open.
Jonathan Byrd wins and flies to Carnoustie, Se Ri Pak wins, and Phil loses in grand Lefty fashion at Loch Lomond. Also this week: Nike Tour pros hate the ball, Tadd Fujikawa turns pro, Carnicety(??), our Open Championship predictions, and more in this week’s episode of Golf Talk.
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Whispering Woods is clearly Erie’s best public course, and it will only get better as the course matures.
The Erie area first heard about the golf course that would become Whispering Woods Golf Club in early 2002. In late 2005, a golf course began taking shape among the houses of the Whispering Woods residential development. Seeded in two phases during 2006, the semi-private course opened May 25, 2007 with less than the desired 100 members. A rate drop for both membership and public play only 11 days later lured the remaining members, necessitated a waiting list 70+ names long, and increased public play on the course dramatically.
The course, like so many others, lays claim to the title of “best in the area.” I tested the assertion – is the course the best public course in the Erie area? Read on to find out…
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Ian MacCallister had a chance to break a course record before. What will he do with the new NXT Tour and NXT Extreme?
Ian MacCallister, Titleist NXT-hater extraordinaire, recently registered the domain name “nxtube.com” and has launched an anti-NXT blog. Ian, the chairman and founder of Golf Designers Against Distance (GDAD), tells us that the site will feature a blog, persuasive video anti-technology rants from his mother’s basement, and will spread the word about how easy the distance and feel of the new NXT Tour and NXT Extreme make the game of golf.
MacCallister has put a lot of energy into educating consumers about the dangerous golf balls from Titleist, but is apparently ramping up efforts in light of Titleist’s new releases. The updated versions of Titleist’s NXT duo will launch worldwide Monday, July 15.
One wonders if Phil’s two-paddle approach to ping pong mirrors his childhood upbringing. We jest!
Tiger fails to win his own tournament, and everyone else in the field falls apart. K.J. Choi is the lucky winner, taking both Nicklaus’ and Woods’ tournaments this year. Also, Watson crumbles in the U.S. Senior Open and we talk about playing through, Elin’s hospitalization, and and more in this week’s episode of Golf Talk.
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Missing from this week’s analysis: the number of times the announcers make stupid comments. Gary McCord talks too fast for me to keep an accurate count.
“They always show Tiger even when he’s not in contention.”
“I want to see more golf. Less jibber-jabbering and network promos, more actual golf shots.”
“Why do they always show people walking around when other players are hitting golf shots?”
No doubt you’ve heard golf fans complaining about network coverage of PGA Tour events. This weekend, I put CBS on the clock and took notes on their network coverage of the inaugural AT&T National. The results… well they may not surprise you, but they do shed some light on the subject.
Scotty Cameron has taken a Detour… and married it with a pair of Newports!? It’s like a science experiment gone crazy. Good thing the marriage is a success.
Scotty Cameron, in the mind of some, has been on a bit of a trip lately. As a long-time advocate of an absolutely anti-Pelzian “inside-square-inside” putting stroke, last year Scotty pushed his belief to the forefront with the odd-looking “Detour” putter. I reviewed the Detour favorably last December, and I still use it in a regular rotation with my Red X mallet.
This year, Scotty has further pushed his belief that a good putting stroke moves in an arc by sticking a mini-Detour sight curve on the back of his rather classic Newport putters. Introduced in January as prototypes for market, the putters were released in late March.
Though I’ve always been more of a mallet guy myself, the Newports with the stuck-on sight curve look enough like mallets that I decided to give them a try. Read on to see whether the Newport Detours replaced my original Detour or took a detour of their own…
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Lorena “O-choke-a” yanks a few drives, but Cristie Kerr sank a few putts and is a deserving champion. Michelle “Wiethdraws” again. Happy birthday, U.S. of A.
The U.S. Women’s Open at Pine Needles sees a fitting victor in Cristie Kerr, while Lorena fails to discard the “O-choke-a” label that’s haunted her (along with the driver yanks under pressure). Also this week, talk about Tiger and Phil at the AT&T, Michelle Wie, the R&A allows redos, and Brian Bateman wins on the PGA Tour. That and more in this week’s episode of Golf Talk.
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