BogeyLounge: LINKS FROM THE PAST Archives

May 26, 2006

My Visit to Bay Hill

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I am going to refer you back to a post I wrote back in April on Elephonkey after a trip I took to Bay Hill. I just read it again and I think the crew over here at Bogey Lounge might enjoy it too.

Two things to mention about the post:

1. My Srixon driver is still working as well as ever
2. My iron play has come around since then (more on that turnaround to come later)

Read A Weekend on the Hill [Elephonkey.tv]

March 26, 2005

Links from the past: Wired Magazine [May 2000]

From time to time, I'll post a link to an old golf related story that I think you'll find interesting today...

Today's comes from a May 2000 issue of Wired Magazine and covers how new (now old) technology comes into play in golf. The basis of the story revolved around Callaway's launch of their first ever golf ball (remember the "We brought in Boeing engineers to help design our new Rule35 golf ball" talk?)

Here are a few more interesting tidbits from the 2000 article:

Roughing It Taylor Made's Rescue club may look like a gene-splicing experiment gone terribly wrong, but its performance benefits are unbeatable. By combining fairway wood distance with long-iron control, it serves as the trouble club nonpareil: The tungsten sole plate under its titanium body makes it play as well from the rough and from fairway bunkers as from perfect lies. Rescue club with Bubble graphite shafts: $320 each, in 15-, 18-, 21-, and 24-degree lofts.

Precious Metal OK, so it's not solid platinum. It's carbon steel and nickel, with a thin platinum plating. But the oh-so-elegant Titleist Scotty Cameron Pro Platinum putter delivers on the promise of its name in balance, feel, and aesthetics. In the right hands, each clack is like a kiss from a movie star. Scotty Cameron Pro Platinum putter: $250.

Evolution Rarely if ever does duffer-targeted technology translate into a club that feels and plays (asSportsCenter's Stuart Scott would say) like straight butta. But Tommy Armour's new 845 evo v-31 irons pull it off with two clever innovations. The weight distribution changes from club to club, making the 9-iron, for example, look strikingly different from the 3-iron. And the flex points of the new Tri-Gold shafts differ through the set to optimize distance and trajectory. 845 evo v-31 irons: $832 per set.

See the entire story: WIRED Golf [WIRED Magazine - May 2000]