What’s New in 2017 from Titleist
Pro V1 & Pro V1x Balls How to improve the best-selling golf balls in the world? The three-piece Pro V1 has a new center, called the Next Generation 2.0 ZG Process Core, which provides longer distance on all shots, and a revamped dimple design for a more penetrating flight. The four-piece Pro V1x, which has […]
What’s New in 2017 from Tour Edge Golf
XJ1 Driver Tour Edge boasts of the “material advantage” it gives to each of its clubs, using superior (and sometimes expensive) ingredients. The company’s top of the line driver uses what it calls a “supermetal,” the extremely strong and lightweight Titanium 9-1-1, as its base, attaching to it a large titanium face, a crown made […]
What’s New in 2017 from Wilson Golf
Staff Triton Driver Golf’s first reality TV star, the Triton—winner of Golf Channel’s “Driver Vs. Driver” last year—is designed to star on the course by making it easy to hit the sweetspot time after time. Two interchangeable sole plates (one titanium, the other carbon fiber) vary launch height and spin, while five moveable weights personalize […]
Stay and Play Golf in San Francisco for Less
With apologies to Tony Bennett, it’s not only easy to leave one’s heart in San Francisco, but your bankroll as well. Digital prospectors have gentrified the city but good: The funky headshops and noodle joints have been overrun by yoga fanatics and finicky foodies. Isn’t there an app to help run these cyber-varmints back to […]
Where to Stay and Play Golf in Saratoga Springs
The bustling upstate New York town of Saratoga Springs offers a wide variety of vacation options, with the best usually found in August. That’s when the abundant area golf courses are at their greenest, and the color green—as in cash—is busting out all over at the storied Saratoga Race Course. In “The Season,” July 21 […]
Vidanta Puerto Peñasco, Mexico
They were from Calgary, a middle-aged couple riding back from the golf course with me to our rooms. He was in the front seat, she and I in the back, when she whispered to me, “It’s our second marriage, but this one’s a keeper. He loves golf almost as much as I do.” But what […]
The Donald Ross Course at French Lick Resort
It’s safe to say that living to a hundred is far easier on a golf course than it is on a golfer. The Donald Ross Course at French Lick just hit that hallowed number—but doesn’t look a day over 18. Restored by Lee Schmidt in 2005 to its fabled designer’s 1917 specs, the DRC balances […]
Golf Dress Codes Matter
The only thing my wife didn’t hate about golf—when I started playing, a dozen years into our marriage—was the clothes. Khakis and polos were an upgrade from blue jeans and T-shirts, and although my new wardrobe didn’t make up for everything, in her mind it made up for something. (One exception: saddle-shoe golf shoes, which […]
I Was There: The 1992 U.S. Open
My view of the 1992 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach—I was a photographer for Golf World—sure beat how I’d watched the Open held there 10 years earlier. In 1982, I was a young sportswriter in Athens, Ga., who had to cover a soccer tournament while the final round was being played. Several times that Sunday, […]
Why are Midwest Golf Courses Overlooked by the USGA?
U.S. Open officials might have needed some extra assistance locating Erin Hills in Wisconsin this year. It’d been a while since they’ve been to the Midwest. In fact, that large swath of the nation’s heartland has been—and with the exception of this year’s blip will continue to be—ignored when it comes to hosting the USGA’s […]
