One of the events we’ve really been looking forward to as a Golf Club Fitting class has been our end-of-semester tour of the PING manufacturing and club fitting plant located in Phoenix. Last Monday, half the class (myself included) drove about an hour north through morning rush hour traffic, excited for what we heard from previous semesters was an awesome tour. …
The PGA Tour is considering moving the WGC-Cadillac Championship from Donald Trump’s National Doral Golf Course in Miami following March’s event because the Republican presidential hopeful called for a “total and complete” ban on Muslims entering the United States.
At the Golf Academy, we’re always talking about ways to generate revenue in the golf industry, which if it’s not contracting at the moment, is certainly stagnating. One of my classmates read this article on Bleacher Report and passed it along to me. So I thought I would pass it along to you. Legendary resorts like Bandon …
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Veteran caddy Garry Hanchera, who was caddying for Gene Jones in the final round of the Champions Tour qualifying tournament at TPC Scottsdale on Friday, died from an apparent heart attack after collapsing in the 15th fairway on the Champions Course. He was 64.
Dr. Robin Farran is widely regarded as one of the preeminent USGA Rules Officials in the country, and he just happens to teach Advanced Rules at the Golf Academy of America. Yesterday, Dr. Farran told me he sends out Rules incidents, like the ones you’re about to read below, 50 weeks a year to 460 recipients. This labor …