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USA Today
4 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Winner's bag: Ryan Fox, 2025 RBC Canadian Open
Winner's bag: Ryan Fox, 2025 RBC Canadian Open A complete list of the golf equipment Ryan Fox used to win the PGA Tour's 2025 RBC Canadian Open. A complete list of the golf equipment Ryan Fox used to win the PGA Tour's 2025 RBC Canadian Open: DRIVER: Srixon ZXi (10.5 degrees) with a Fujikura Ventus Black 7 TX shaft FAIRWAY WOOD: Srixon ZXi (15 degrees) with a Fujikura Ventus TR 8X shaft IRONS: Srixon ZXiU (2), Srixon ZXi5 (4-5) and Srixon ZXi7 (6-PW) with True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 shafts WEDGES: Cleveland RTZ Tour Rack (50, 56, 60 degrees) with True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 and S400 shafts PUTTER: Ping Anser 2D BALL: Srixon Z-Star XV
Scotsman
12-05-2025
- Sport
- Scotsman
Golf is so difficult - and I'm not helping myself with an issue I'm surely not alone with
It's a hard enough game but even more so when you are getting in your own way too often Sign up to our Golf newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Even in my 61st year on this planet and swinging a golf club for the vast majority of that time, I still find playing the game so bloody frustrating. I'd set out this year determined to adopt a new attitude, particularly when playing in competitions, something I've made no secret that, unlike many others, I have never really liked. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad My main enjoyment when it comes to playing is being out on the course with my mates and particularly so in a fourball when there's a match taking place but, at the same time, it's just a bit of fun with lots of banter flying around. Getting the ball in the hole in medals is one of the biggest challenges for club golfers |I've grown to accept, though, that to get better you need to be able to get the ball in the hole for a full round and that is my main mission for 2025 in terms of the playing side of the sport. Completely by chance after coming across an old Mizuno driver and 3-wood in the back of my locker, I made a couple of equipment changes at the start of the year and felt pleased about the initial impact. With the driver, I wasn't spraying it around as much as I had been with the weapon that had been in my bag for the past couple of years while I was also really pleased with the 3-wood, especially off the tee. It had been discarded because I got to the stage where I felt I just couldn't hit off the deck, but, though still fearing a top, I've actually started to take that shot on again rather than relying on a 4-iron all the time and even the odd bash at a 3-iron. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad It was time to try something different with putting I also made another change for this year, which was deciding it was time to try something different for putting but that wasn't to ditch my Ping Anser, which is older than both of our daughters. Instead, I started to use a left below right grip for putts from ten feet and in and I have to say that seemed to be making a difference. Before the competition season got under way, I played 16 holes one day in two over, which was the best I'd managed for a long time, and so I headed into my first medal of the year at Aberdour, my home club, feeling somewhat optimistic. After ten holes, things were going along okay. I'd reached the turn in 39, six over, and started for home with a par. What happened thereafter probably tells you everything about how poor I appear to be when it comes to trying to overcome a bit of adversity on the golf course. A quadruple-bogey 8 at the 11th was followed by four successive double bogeys before another quadruple-bogey 8 at the 16th then a double to finish added up to a dreadful 52 coming home and net 80, one of the worst scores on the day. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'Remember, it's the next shot that is the most important one,' said one of my playing partners in trying to hammer home that you simply can't be heading to the next tee feeling angry about a bad hole when that was clearly the case with me on this occasion and, as a consequence, then had a run of bad holes. Golf Correspondent Martin Dempster plays his golf at Aberdour on the Fife coast | Contributed My next medal outing came the day after arriving home from The Masters and not playing for a fortnight. On a similar occasion in the past, I was absolutely buzzing after being at Augusta National only to be left feeling totally deflated as I sent three balls in the Firth of Forth from the first tee and maybe even shanked one into the bushes as well. Ouch! Again, though, I was doing okay, having reached the turn in 37 this time and once again making a par at the short tenth. Though not necessarily stemming from a disaster at the 11th as a 6 went down on the card on this occasion, it was disappointing nonetheless to cover the final eight holes in 13 over and end up with 31 points, which at least left me in a less embarrassing position. Scotland's best golf courses Read our guide to Scotland's best golf courses Martin Dempster has covered golf in Scotland for 30 years. Sign up to his new newsletter guide to Scotland's best courses for top tips on how to play and how to plan the ultimate Scottish golf trip For some totally unbeknown reason, in a couple of media day outings thereafter I then started faffing around with the height of my tee with the driver and played dreadfully on both occasions, the penny not dropping until the 16th hole in the second of those outings that, for me anyway, it's a case of teeing it high and trying to let it fly. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad So, with my head feeling a bit clearer again, I set out in medal number three last week. Six straight bogeys to start may not sound too positive, but all of them could easily have been pars and the seventh is one of the easiest holes on our course. Not, however, when you find a greenside bunker, take three shots to get out and walk off with a quadruple-bogey 8. Yes, one of those again, prompting that same reminder from the same playing partner as my shoulders dropped and blood boiled inside my body on the walk to the next tee. It's mindset that really makes the difference On this occasion, I actually did a bit better in terms of trying to leave that setback behind me and would probably have walked off the course feeling relatively happy if it hadn't been for what happened on the 17th. My approach found a bunker and guess what instantly came into my mind? Yes, that mishap earlier in the round and, of course, I then ended up doing exactly the same thing again. For the record, it was an 88 on this occasion, which means that I am currently playing the golf of a 20-handicapper when I honestly believe it could be a single figure if I had the right mindset because, let's not kid ourselves, that's what really makes the difference at any level. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad
USA Today
25-03-2025
- Automotive
- USA Today
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Odyssey's "L.A.B. DF3 Clone" proves zero-torque putters are here to stay Zero-torque putters is the hottest category in golf equipment, and manufacturers are not going to let one brand dominate or have the space all to itself. If the cliché is correct and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then no one in golf has been flattered more than Karsten Solheim, the founder of Ping and the man who created the Ping Anser putter in 1966. That heel-toe-weighted blade putter has been studied and copied by countless putter makers for decades, with nearly every major brand offering its version of the original. Sam Hahn, the CEO of L.A.B. Golf, now knows what Solheim and Ping Golf have felt like for the last 59 years. Last week at the Valspar Championship, Kevin Yu used a prototype Odyssey Ai-ONE Square 2 Square Max Stripe putter, a club that has a shape that is nearly identical to the uniquelynshaped L.A.B. DF3. Another putter labeled Ai-ONE Square 2 Square Max 1 also was spotted last week. More than any other company, L.A.B. Golf has been riding the wave of zero-torque putters with its DF2.1, Link.1, Mezz.1, Mezz.1 Max, DF3, and recently the OZ.1 putter. All of those clubs were designed with what L.A.B. calls, 'Lie Angle Balance.' They make it easier for players to keep the face square to the arc of a player's putting stroke and return it to the ball square to the target line, which should result in getting putts started on line more often. In the golf industry, no good idea belongs to one company for too long, so it was no surprise that as L.A.B. putters gained acceptance and popularity, other brands started offering their own putters that resist twisting and face rotation. Over the past year, we have seen the release of the Bettinardi Antidote, Evnroll Zero and the Odyssey Ai ONE Square 2 Square families of putters. PXG released the Allan putter, and TaylorMade and SeeMore recently brought prototype zero-torque Spider mallet putters to PGA Tour events. However, Yu's Odyssey Ai-ONE Square 2 Square Max Stripe putter was the first instance of a major brand creating a putter that mimics one of L.A.B.'s signature creations. It's ironic because brands have actively promoted that their zero-torque putters fight face rotation while looking less like L.A.B.'s unconventional putters and more like traditional clubs. Odyssey has not released any official information on either the Ai-ONE Square 2 Square Max Stripe or Max 1, but photos of the putters appear to show weights in the front-heel and front-toe portions of the sole, along with a large sole plate that is held in position by four screws. The Ai-ONE Square 2 Square Max Stripe and Max 1 each have a center-shafted design like the zero-torque Square 2 Square putters, and they appear to have been made with Odyssey's Ai ONE face insert, which is a version of its wildly popular White Hot insert. Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, J.J. Spaun, Kevin Kisner and YouTube star and recent Creator Classic winner Grant Horvat have all used L.A.B. DF3 putters recently, but the takeaway from the first L.A.B. DF3 clone to be used in a PGA Tour event is this: Zero-torque putters are not a fad or a trend that is going to fizzle out any time soon, major brands have taken notice and manufacturers are not going to let L.A.B. Golf have this category – or even any putter shape – all to itself.
