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New Ping grooved putter in play, metals, too

By Mike Stachura Ping staff players Hunter Mahan and Bubba Watson used last week's World Challenge to debut a handful of new company products, including the G25 driver and fairway woods and a new Scottsdale TR...

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Dec
Tue

New Ping clubs debut on tour

By Mike Stachura Ping staff players Hunter Mahan and Bubba Watson used last week's World Challenge to debut a handful of new company products, including the G25 driver and fairway woods (Mahan and Watson) and a...

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Dec
Tue

Tenuous golf connection: "Seinfeld" voted funniest sitcom ever

By Alex Myers In a new poll conducted by "60 Minutes" and Vanity Fair, "Seinfeld" was voted the funniest sitcom of all time. In our much, much more unofficial survey, we think it's also the most golf-friendly TV show in history. Related: The greatest golf movie scenes Throughout the series, which spawned 180 episodes over nine years, golf was a recurring topic, usually involving the character of Kramer, played by Michael Richards. The actor isn't known to be a golfer in real life, but co-creator of the show, Larry David, is an avid one -- something that has been seen many times on his later series, "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Without further ado, here are some of our favorite "Seinfeld" scenes involving golf: -- In the episode titled "The Caddy," Kramer is advised on everything, from reading greens to clothing, by "Stan the caddy." -- In "The Marine Biologist," Kramer throws his clubs in disgust after a sub-par range session at the beach. "I stink! ... "The ball is just sitting there and I can't hit it!" Of course, later in that episode George saves a beached whale that had one of Kramer's golf balls stuck in its blowhole. -- In "The Cheever Letters," Kramer complains about losing playing privileges at a private club. "I can't go back to the public courses now. I can't! I won't!" -- In "The Boyfriend," Kramer ties up Jerry's phone line to go through a golf round in painful detail. -- And finally, in "The Big Salad," there's the scene in which an angered Kramer talks about penalizing someone he was playing with for cleaning their ball before hitting a shot. "Hey, a rule is a rule," he says. "And let's face it, without rules, there's chaos." Hey, Mike Davis, is the USGA hiring? Follow @AlexMyers3 !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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Dec
Tue

Trending: Tiger Woods is No. 1 on the Web

Tiger Woods may have dropped to No. 3 in the Official World Golf rankings, but he's still No. 1 in the hearts of search engine users. Yesterday Yahoo unveiled their Year in Review, which featured, among many things, the most searched sports teams, athletes and Olympians on the site in 2012. Topping the athlete list was Tiger Woods, who edged out Maria Sharapova and Peyton Manning for the yearly honor. Woods came in second on Bing's most searched athlete list, behind only Manning. Google has yet to release their year-end stats. Related: How Tiger's swing has changed While a measure of Tiger's star power, the annual list is not always a good thing. He last held the No. 1 spot in 2009, the year of his now infamous November car crash that opened up the world -- and the Internet -- to his infidelities. He dropped to No. 2 in both 2010 and 2011 behind Manny Pacquiao and Danica Patrick respectively, before once again retaining the crown as Yahoo's most searched athlete this year. And with three PGA Tour wins, including his first in over two years, presumably for much better reasons than in '09. Tiger wasn't the only golf-related search topic making waves in 2012; The U.S. Open scored surprisingly high in Yahoo's Standout Sports Searches, coming in at No. 8 overall, with the Olympics taking home the top honors in that category.

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Dec
Tue

Butch Harmon: Head Movement

Video: Keeping your head still causes tension and promotes a reverse pivot. Let it move naturally as you swing to the top.

03

Dec
Mon

Compton in, Villegas out in last Q School

By John Strege LA QUINTA, Calif. -- This was the last day of the last Q School, so maybe it was appropriate that Mac O'Grady was there to pay homage. A local resident, O'Grady was the standard bearer of Q School futility and an example the requisite perseverance. None has persevered to the degree that Erik Compton has. Compton, 32, retained his PGA Tour exemption on Monday, even threatening the lead at one point, 4 1/2 years following his second heart transplant. "Six rounds of tour school is hell week," said Compton, who played the PGA Tour this year, but finished 165th on the money list to precipitate a return to Q School, as the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament is called. "For me to be able to have a chance to win tour school, six rounds, four years after what I went through, you can't even dream a story like that. Maybe I made it look easy, but it's not." Compton shot 67 on the Stadium Course at PGA West in the last of six rounds and eventually finished tied for seventh, three strokes behind medalist Dong-hwan Lee. The top 25 and ties from a field of 172 earned PGA Tour exemptions for 2013. Among them was Lee, one of three South Koreans to qualify, but not the most notable. That distinction goes to Si Woo Kim, 17, the youngest player in the field, who won't be eligible for PGA Tour membership until his 18th birthday, June 28, 2013. Kim, who tied for 20th, can play as many as 12 tour events as a non-member (via sponsor exemptions or top 10s). As is often the case, this Q School was at least as noteworthy for who failed to qualify as who succeeded. Included in the former group is three-time PGA Tour winner Camilo Villegas, who closed with a 69 on the Stadium Course, but came up two strokes short and tied for 32nd. He will have to rely on sponsor exemptions to play the tour in 2013. "I still have conditional status, so hopefully I'll get in some tournaments next year," he said. "I've always tried to be very polite and good with sponsors, and if that's the case it'll be good. I'm going to need a little love from them. At the end of the day if you're good enough to be on the PGA Tour you'll be on the PGA Tour." He called it a reality check, as it was as well for Patrick Cantlay, 20, once the No. 1-ranked amateur in the world. Cantlay tied for 95th here, which gives him conditional status on the Web.com Tour next year. "It is disappointing," Cantlay said. "But it's just one week of golf. I just played badly." England's Ross Fisher, meanwhile, tied for second, the difference a tee shot in the water at 18. Fisher is a four-time winner on the European Tour, who drew inspiration Monday from his playing partner, Compton. "It's absolutely a privilege to play with such an inspirational player as Erik Compton," Fisher said. "When you think that times are hard or you're down you have to look at a guy like Erik." To a lesser degree, one might want to draw as well on the example of O'Grady, who went to Q School 16 times before earning PGA Tour membership on his 17th attempt. Heath Slocum, who has played the tour full time every year since 2002 and has won four times and more than $15 million, understands the equation, even if he failed to produce the correct answer here. He tied for 32nd, two strokes short. "The best players find their way out there," he said pragmatically. "If I'm in that class, I'll be back out there soon." The 26 players who earned exemptions: Dong-hwon Lee Ross Fisher Steve LeBrun Richard H. Lee Billy Horschel Kris Blanks Erik Compton Brad Fritsch Jin Park Fabian Gomez Michael Letzig Jeff Gove Steve Bowditch Matt Jones Robert Karlsson Eric Meierdierks Scott Langley Aaron Watkins Derek Ernst Si Woo Kim Tad Ridings Donald Constable Bobby Gates Patrick Reed Henrik Norlander Chez Reavie Follow @JohnStrege!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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Dec
Mon

Q School: Villegas on verge of losing tour exemption

By John Strege LA QUINTA, Calif. -- The PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament, otherwise known as Q School, often generates more significant news for failures than successes, as might be the case in the final round on the Stadium and Nicklaus Tournament courses at PGA West Monday. Camilo Villegas, once a rock star of sorts in golf, is on the outside looking in 11 holes into his final round on the Stadium Course. A three-time PGA Tour winner who once was No. 7 in the World Ranking, was tied for 39th. The top 25 plus ties at the end of play today will earn PGA Tour exemptions for 2013. Villegas stands at 13-under par. The cutoff number currently stands at 16-under par. Meanwhile, Patrick Cantlay, once the most heralded amateur in the world, won't earn his PGA Tour membership. Cantlay, 20, the college player of the year in 2011 while at UCLA, is tied for 116th and will have only conditional status on the Web.com Tour in 2013. Cantlay holds the PGA Tour record for lowest round by an amateur, a 60 in the Travelers Championship in 2011. Other notable players who won't earn PGA Tour exemptions are Shaun Micheel, who won the PGA Championship in 2003, and Todd Hamilton, the winner of the British Open in 2004. There is a six-way tie for the lead at 22-under par: Billy Horschel, Steve LeBrun, Derek Ernst, Kris Blanks, Ross Fisher, Jin Park and Dong-hwan Lee. Erik Compton, twice a heart transplant recipient, is tied for eighth in his bid to retain his PGA Tour exemption. Follow @JohnStrege!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

03

Dec
Mon

Trending: Bubba and Bam hit the links

By Derek Evers President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton spent an unseasonably warm December afternoon the way many of us would like to -- on the golf course. According to the Associated Press, President Obama and Mr. Clinton played with U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Virginia gubernatorial candidate -- and longtime Clinton backer -- Terry McAuliffe at the Joint Air Base in Maryland. It was likely Bam was using this as an opportunity to thank the 42nd President for his campaign help, though with a fiscal cliff looming, the president might have been seeking advice from the last man to oversee a balanced budget while in office. For those keeping count, this is the third time Obama has played golf since defeating Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in November. Although it should be noted President Obama has regularly used the golf course for high-profile meetings, most notably last June when he teed it up with Speaker of the House John Boehner during the debt ceiling crisis. So if there's a lesson to be learned here, it's that golf might just be the solution to all of our fiscal issues. Follow @DerekEvers !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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Dec
Mon

Golf World Monday: Giving's on Snedeker's mind

By Jaime Diaz Nobody will ever call Brandt Snedeker a master ball striker, but he should give lessons -- on how to hold a press conference. At the World Challenge Wednesday, the amiable Snedeker was open, articulate and interesting, three qualities the modern tour pro often resists when communicating to the public. Snedeker addressed anchoring, the aftermath of the Ryder Cup and his plans for the $11.4 million check he won as the Fed Ex champion. Related: Snedeker's Tour Championship chip one of 2012's best shots "I don't plan on spending any of it," said the 31-year-old Tennessean. "It's just kind of to go [to] charities and help some people." For those who might consider such a statement grandstanding, Snedeker comes by his sentiments honestly. As a youngster, he spent a lot of weekends with his mother behind the counter at the family's pawn shop, Gray House Jewelry & Loan, in a gritty section of Nashville. "I got to see the way it is for a lot of people," he told Golf Digest in 2008. "People who needed to pawn their wedding ring to pay their heating bill or buy their medications. I mean, life's a battle." Related: A frame-by-frame look at Snedeker's swing Another lesson more tour players could learn. Follow @JaimeDiaz24 !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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Dec
Mon

New drivers on USGA conforming list: Adams, Cleveland, Tour Edge

It may be the usually quiet month of December for new product introductions, but we're already getting images of some of the new drivers we should expect to see before next month's PGA Merchandise Show,...