By all accounts it is the most important part of the game and the single factor each week on any major tour that separates the winners from the rest of the field. Putting is truly an art form, and those that have that as a strong suit will always have the ability to score. Putting can make up 40% of your score and for the amount of time the putter is in your hands on course I recommend it takes up more of your practice time than smashing drivers. Because putting is so much more feel than most other aspects of the game it requires a lot of feel training. How do you train feel? Your feel is developed by a few factors: experience, repetition, focus, touch, vision, & imagination. Luckily all of these can be developed by practice and play.
You may have taken part in a golf tournament which was referred to as a “shotgun start”. Many golfers have wondered why the term “shotgun” for a tournament! In the December 2004 issue of Golf Digest it was reported that at a golf tournament in Walla Walla, WA in the month of May 1956 golfers were at their tee boxes waiting to start their round, the head professional at the time Mr. Jim Russell fired off a shotgun to sound the start of the tournament.
Since then there have been thousands of golf tournaments each year that are now referred to as a “shotgun.” While most golf courses do not use a shotgun anymore to start the tournament, players have gotten use to the sound of air horns; however, at Morgan Creek Golf Course we reflect on the past and keep it original by using a CIL Model 402 shotgun to start all of our events, with blanks of course.
It seems like an odd couple right? Callaway and Boeing; Golf and Aircraft! But when you start to think about it, it's actually an amazingly perfect combination. Boeing obviously specializes in aerodynamics and Callaway is looking for every possible way to increase club head speed. With this partnership Callaway has created their most forgiving shape ever and Boeing made it fast with a re-engineered Speed Step.
On January 14, 2015 Callaway Golf launched an all new family to their lineup. Introducing the XR Family - Built for Outrageous Speed.
Speed is everything, and it’s the driving force behind the new XR driver. That means speed from an aerodynamic crown, speed from a RMOTO face, speed from maximum shaft load. Callaway has traveled down a new path to make a driver that’s a proving ground for these great technologies. If it increases speed, it’s in XR and that’s why it’s their fastest titanium driver ever.
Callaway has officially launched their new XR Family. The entire line up is "Built for Outrageous Speed."
First we will look at the XR Irons. The first high speed, cavity back, cup-faced iron.
The XR is an iron built for speed. Callaway Golf has taken the Cup 360 that’s redefined ball speed in fairway woods and brought it to their irons. The improved Cup 360 acts like a spring on shots hit low on the face, and increases ball speeds everywhere else on the face too.
This distance on these irons are just amazing, and that’s just the start. When you factor in the lower CG, all that forgiveness, the face flex of the Internal Standing Wave, along with the precise 2-piece, dual heat construction, you can see why Callaway wants to get these irons in your hands right now.