January 1st in Places.
By Simon Dubiel
Hole No. 7 • Par 4
Druids Glen No. 7
The Setup: A slightly uphill par-4, 281 yards from the blue tees. Water off the tee to the left. Bunkers bracket a short right-to-left ridge separating a two-tiered fairway. From the lower tier, it’s about 100 yards to the pin; from the upper, about 40. Trees dot anything right of the short stuff. You can lay up with a middle-to-long iron, leaving a short iron or wedge …
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January 1st in Swing Fit.
Most acute low back injuries that occur during a round of golf take anywhere from a couple of days to several weeks to improve. Research suggests that golfers with a history of low back pain demonstrate less range of motion through their hips and lumbar spine than their pain-free colleagues.
A little effort to prevent back injuries on the golf course goes a long way. Four key areas to focus on include: a good warm-up, smooth swing, correct body mechanics and …
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January 1st in Gear, In The Bag.
Cleveland HiBORE XLi Irons
Where designers at Cleveland went traditional with the Launcher, they’ve completely thrown tradition out the window with the HiBORE XLi irons. Truthfully, if you find yourself in the Cleveland booth at the PGA Show next year, you may have a hard time believing the two clubs came out of the same design shop — of course, while the appearances may differ, the shift towards increased control and playability, higher MOI and faster ball speeds make the …
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January 1st in Gear, In The Bag.
Cleveland Launcher
If you’re a traditional golfer — the kind who prefers the classic look of the rounded clubhead — you’ll appreciate the latest release in Cleveland’s successful Launcher series. Most notable in this year’s Launcher is the increased size of the clubface — a full 21 percent larger than the original Launcher 460. That extra surface area allows for greater forgiveness on mis-hits, while a slimmer crown and perimeter weighting on the sole mitigates the additional weight factor and …
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January 1st in Gear, In The Bag.
Callaway FT-iQ
If the PING Rapture V2 is a rocket, Callaway’s FT-iQ is a finely tuned sports car – which, in at least one small part, it is. According to Callaway designers, the back side of the FT-iQ was designed to mimic the tail end of a Lamborghini Reventon (see cover). The FT-iQ may not blow your hair back in the same way accelerating down the freeway at 90 miles per hour would, but the speed and power generated by …
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