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Fun for the Whole Family

GOLF ON DEMAND

With Full Swing Simulators

Jordan Spieth was on top of the world in 2015. After capturing the Masters, he attributed his success in part to the Full Swing Simulator he’d installed in his home — adding that he was using it to prepare for The Open Championship. There, he finished one stroke out of a playoff. The next year, Tiger Woods put Full Swing in his home and began touting the technology on social media. Amateurs and Tour pros quickly realized that if a Full Swing Simulator was helping these stars play even better golf, then it might also benefit themselves. No coincidence, thousands of Full Swing Simulators now grace homes and businesses worldwide. In fact, the brand won the Golf Digest Best of Award for the third consecutive year, capturing the 2019 Multi-Sport category.

It’s no wonder. Full Swing remains the most advanced system for golfers. Tour pros rely on it because the realism is jaw-dropping: When your club makes contact with the ball, an overhead camera records video and measures your clubhead data. The ball passes through two infrared tracks built in front of the screen — which measure the ball speed and direction, as well as other data points — and seamlessly crosses from the hitting bay into the virtual world with zero lag. You see the entire flight, exactly as you would outdoors. No other simulation technology or indoor launch monitor can capture and analyze action that quickly and with as much precision.

You can virtually play dozens of the world’s top courses, and even simulate wind and weather. During the season, Tour pros practice for events at the digital likes of Kapalua Resort, Pebble Beach, Torrey Pines, Firestone Country Club, and Harbour Town Golf Links, setting their Full Swing Simulator to mimic current course conditions — before actually heading there. It’s that reliable. Average Joes gush over its on-demand nature, where the pace of play is always comfortable. And beginners can learn the game without the intimidation of strangers watching. Then there’s the convenience: No travel time to and from a course; no carrying a bag; no weather issues. And it’s less taxing on the body.

Ironically, Full Swing Simulators are not improving just golf games. Take it from Tour pro Brandt Snedeker and his wife Mandy, for example, who installed a Full Swing Simulator in their home for an even better reason. “It lets me spend lots more quality time with my family,” says Snedeker. “You can’t put a price tag on that. I can get in 30 minutes of range time that would otherwise take 90 minutes at the golf course.” He’s home for his children much more often now and even plays golf with them on the simulator. Like many other families that have installed Full Swing Simulators in their homes, the Snedekers also use theirs as a large TV screen for weekend football gatherings. Redefining home entertainment, Full Swing Simulators are compatible with gaming systems and can come installed with 13 interactive sports experiences, including baseball, football, hockey, soccer, and even Zombie Dodgeball, among others — perfect for getting kids up and moving.

The future has indeed arrived.

SOURCE:  golfdigest

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They don’t make ‘em like that anymore!

All hail The King:

The 7 best things about Arnold Palmer, ranked

7. Storytime with Arnold

Arnold told stories well. He told them with candor and humor, with snippets of dialogue, and he was seldom the hero of his own tales. I’m thinking now of one he liked to tell about driving the Tour with his bride, Winnie, in the late 1950s. They were driving behind a car that carried several players, including Al Besselink. Here’s Arnold, to tell the rest: “Winnie and I are driving from Baton Rouge to Pensacola. We’re watching the car in front of us. All of a sudden sparks are coming out of the back of that car. I’m watching. And I thought, I’m seeing something I don’t understand. I pulled up closer to them and there’s Besselink hanging out of the back door of the car, grinding a wedge on the highway.”

They don’t make ‘em like that anymore, anyway you want to look at it.

6. Arnold Palmer, letter writer

It’s likely that no American athlete signed more autographs than Arnold Palmer. It’s also possible that no American athlete signed more personal letters. He sent out several a week, at a minimum, just to professional golfers on various tours, congratulating them on their wins. It helped him keep current in the game, it helped him generate interest in his annual tournament at Bay Hill and it helped him hand-down the values of the game he held dear. After Rory McIlroy won the U.S. Open in 2011, Arnold wrote a letter to him that included this sage advice: “Just continue to be yourself.” That’s what worked so well for Arnold.

5. Arnold Palmer, accidental humorist

Speaking of letters: Before the 2002 Masters, Hootie Johnson, as the tournament chairman, sent out a letter to three old-time winners, Doug Ford, Gay Brewer and Billy Casper, telling them that their playing days had come to an end. Arnold shot a first-round 79 that year and told reporters that the Friday round would be his last at Augusta. Asked why, he said, “I don’t want to get a letter.” Everybody laughed, but I think Arnold was also being literal. He didn’t get a letter and played two more, for an even 50 Masters, four of which he won.

4. Arnold Palmer, politician

On Friday, June 17, 1994, Arnold played his final round of golf in a U.S. Open. This was at Oakmont, not even an hour from his lifelong home in Latrobe. The day was a sweltering one. After an emotional post-round press conference, with a towel around his neck, Arnold retired to the men’s locker room.

A small group of reporters gathered around him there and one mentioned something about O.J. Simpson. Arnold heard O.J. mentioned and launched into a story about Arnold and O.J. running through an airport together, shooting a Hertz TV spot. Somebody explained that O.J. was wanted by the Los Angeles police, in connection to the deaths of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, and that he was on a suicide watch. Arnold quickly processed the severity of the situation and, as I remember it, said, “Well, I never knew him that well.”

4. Drinking with Arnold

I once asked Arnold what it was like for him, when people ordered Arnold Palmers in front of him. “It’s a little embarrassing,” he said.

3. “The King”

Over the years, there’s been a lot of conjecture about how Arnold got the nickname “The King,” and we’ll leave it at that for now. He once told me that that name embarrassed him, too, though I thought I detected a wink. (He liked it fine.) In any event, as the Greatest Generation golfers often say, good thing they played before cellphones and tweeting, or you’d be reading something else now.

2. Jack and Arnold

Jack and Arnold had an interesting relationship. Jack Nicklaus has an understanding of the human body that suggests four years in medical school. Talking to him is like talking to a doctor. When Arnold was ill and getting near his end, it was clear that Jack knew more about Arnold’s condition than Arnold did. What Arnold understood was human beings. It’s hard to imagine a world-class athlete who had a more developed sense of empathy than Arnold.

Jack tells a story about playing with Arnold in 1962, at the Phoenix Open. This is from Jack: “He put his arm around my shoulder and we walked to the 18th tee. And Arnold said, ‘Come on, you can finish second here. You can birdie this hole. Just relax.’ It was a pretty nice thing to do. I birdied the hole and I finished second. Arnold won by 12. He just nipped me, 269 to 281.” Arnold, by the way, made $5,300, to Jack’s $2,300. Professional golf is about money and always has been. There’s nothing wrong with that. But the pro game is at its best when the people in it actually care about one another and the people for whom they are playing. That was Arnold. His starting point was this: I am not bigger than the game.

1. Arnold Palmer, truth-teller.

The last time I saw Arnold in a one-on-one setting was in the fall of 2014, in his office in Latrobe. His health was OK, not great. I asked if he was satisfied with his life and I am certain his answer was from the heart: “Nooooooooo!” He was 84. He wanted to fly his plane again, but that wasn’t going to happen. He wanted to contended at the Masters again, but that wasn’t going to happen. He wanted to fall in love again — with the game, with a pretty girl, with the sui generis life he had invented for himself — but none of those things were going to happen, either. So, Nooooooooo! Arnold wasn’t trying to fool anybody about anything, including himself. Like he told Rory, Be yourself.

SOURCE:  golf.com

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Every iron the same length – is that the secret?

The full story behind Bryson DeChambeau’s single-length iron revolution

One of the most important developments in the recent history of golf club technology began with a single sentence buried in a cryptic tome. Homer Kelley’s 1969 book, The Golfing Machine—its pages bursting with insightful and highly technical swing treatises—has long thrilled and baffled readers. When he was 15, Bryson DeChambeau borrowed a well-thumbed copy from his swing coach Mike Schy. “Mind blown,” says DeChambeau. Chapter 10, section 7 covers what Kelley termed “customized” swing planes. With his idiosyncratic punctuation, Kelley wrote about a Zero Shift swing: “…one Basic Plane Angle is to be used throughout the stroke without ‘a Variation’—that is, No Shift.” Those 18 words raced through young Bryson’s mind for days. Was it really possible to be on the same plane with clubs as different as a sand wedge and a 3-iron?

DeChambeau spent a summer experimenting and glumly concluded that, in fact, he had 13 different planes, owing to the varying length of each club. Having been raised as a golfer to think untraditionally, DeChambeau came up with a solution that seemed blindingly obvious to him: Make every iron the same length with the same weight, the same shaft flex and the same lie angle (72°), allowing the exact same swing plane to be repeated over and over. (Woods and hybrids would largely be left alone, at least for the time being.)

Schy was supportive of the experiment, so a set of old clubs was chopped up in the name of science. Into some old Nike VR heads they inserted 37.5-inch shafts, which is the length of a traditional 6-iron. In any set, the heads of the wedges are heavier than those of the slender long irons. After running a series of calculations in the supercomputer that doubles as his brain, DeChambeau determined that an ideal uniform weight for the heads in a single-length set would be 282 grams. Lead tape was used to make the heads on the longer irons heavier; the extra mass made up for a shorter swing arc. To shed weight on the wedges, holes were drilled in the back of the head and metal was gouged out of the backline of the sole; losing that mass was counteracted by the increased swing speed that came with the longer shaft.

When the work was complete, DeChambeau raced to the first fairway at Dragonfly Golf Course, the humble public track he grew up haunting in Madera, Calif. From 160 yards, he selected an 8-iron. The club felt a little long and light but not overly so. He hit a lovely draw pin-high. On the second hole he dropped a ball 210 yards from the flag and reached for his reconstituted 5-iron. This was the moment of truth: If the shorter, heavier long irons worked, his underlying theory of a single-length set was sound.

DeChambeau flushed the shot. “It was in the air for what felt like forever,” he says. The suspense was awful. Was the ball going to be 20 yards short? Twenty yards long? It landed three feet from the flag.

Less than a decade later, single-length irons are a rapidly growing part of the equipment market. DeChambeau didn’t invent the concept—Tommy Armour Golf tried (and failed spectacularly) to sell a version in the 1980s—but he is now the public face of a fundamentally different way of playing the game. He has had some help along the way. While an undergrad at SMU, DeChambeau became close to David Edel, a fellow obsessive whose Texas-based boutique company has long turned out some of the most gorgeous (and expensive) putters and irons on the market. Edel spent years perfecting the single-length clubs that DeChambeau used to win the 2015 U.S. Amateur and NCAA title, going through three dozen handcrafted sets. From the beginning, Edel could feel a revolution brewing that transcended DeChambeau’s idiosyncrasies.

Schy was supportive of the experiment, so a set of old clubs was chopped up in the name of science. Into some old Nike VR heads they inserted 37.5-inch shafts, which is the length of a traditional 6-iron. In any set, the heads of the wedges are heavier than those of the slender long irons. After running a series of calculations in the supercomputer that doubles as his brain, DeChambeau determined that an ideal uniform weight for the heads in a single-length set would be 282 grams. Lead tape was used to make the heads on the longer irons heavier; the extra mass made up for a shorter swing arc. To shed weight on the wedges, holes were drilled in the back of the head and metal was gouged out of the backline of the sole; losing that mass was counteracted by the increased swing speed that came with the longer shaft.

When the work was complete, DeChambeau raced to the first fairway at Dragonfly Golf Course, the humble public track he grew up haunting in Madera, Calif. From 160 yards, he selected an 8-iron. The club felt a little long and light but not overly so. He hit a lovely draw pin-high. On the second hole he dropped a ball 210 yards from the flag and reached for his reconstituted 5-iron. This was the moment of truth: If the shorter, heavier long irons worked, his underlying theory of a single-length set was sound.

DeChambeau flushed the shot. “It was in the air for what felt like forever,” he says. The suspense was awful. Was the ball going to be 20 yards short? Twenty yards long? It landed three feet from the flag.

Less than a decade later, single-length irons are a rapidly growing part of the equipment market. DeChambeau didn’t invent the concept—Tommy Armour Golf tried (and failed spectacularly) to sell a version in the 1980s—but he is now the public face of a fundamentally different way of playing the game. He has had some help along the way. While an undergrad at SMU, DeChambeau became close to David Edel, a fellow obsessive whose Texas-based boutique company has long turned out some of the most gorgeous (and expensive) putters and irons on the market. Edel spent years perfecting the single-length clubs that DeChambeau used to win the 2015 U.S. Amateur and NCAA title, going through three dozen handcrafted sets. From the beginning, Edel could feel a revolution brewing that transcended DeChambeau’s idiosyncrasies.

“One of the hardest things for amateurs is to consistently produce a good strike with their irons,” says Edel. “On every swing the club feels different, because it is. With a wedge you have to squat down and stand close to the ball, and it’s a short, heavy club. With a long iron you’re more upright, the ball is farther away, and the club is long and light. No wonder people struggle! Eliminating all of those variables automatically makes the game easier. That is the holy grail of golf equipment, and we found it.”

DeChambeau turned pro after a stellar showing at the 2016 Masters. Cobra Golf had won what its vice president of R & D, Tom Olsavsky, calls “the Bryson recruiting lottery,” but at the outset of his pro career DeChambeau still had Edel irons in his bag. DeChambeau and Edel are both strident and headstrong, and that spring they suffered a falling out that neither cares to discuss. The engineers at Cobra had already been fooling around with single-length sets, but suddenly they had a mandate to build one for their new star, who, naturally, was intimately involved in every detail. “Bryson brought so much knowledge to the process,” says Mike Yagley, Cobra’s senior director of innovation and AI. “We learned along with him.”

When DeChambeau claimed his first Tour win, at the John Deere Classic, in July 2017, he was wielding Cobra irons. A year and a half (and four more DeChambeau victories) later, Cobra has sold some 40,000 single-length sets worldwide, helping a small-scale company gain two more percentage points of market share in 2017 and move up to fourth in overall iron sales. Now Cobra is going all-in on its One Length line, with three different head designs and hybrids on the same shaft. (“They look like a toy, but they’re as long as all of our other hybrids,” says Olsavsky.) Importantly, Cobra has also rolled out an extensive fitting system and introduced a trial program in which consumers can test out a set of One Length clubs for two weeks for a mere $20. All of this is designed to help educate and entice golfers to think different, to borrow a handy marketing phrase.

Even without DeChambeau in the fold, Edel Golf remains committed to the single-length concept. It has over 100 fitting accounts across the country and a bespoke fitting system through Club Champion, and has also introduced a demo program in which the open-minded can have three irons at a time delivered to them to test, for $150. If Cobra is trying to reach every kind of golfer, Edel is more of a high-end niche product—its irons feature a smaller head with a thinner topline and unique Paderson shafts made of Kevlar. Each club sells for $245, more than double the most expensive Cobra model. “As the market gets bigger, there’s room for more variety,” says Edel.

It remains to be seen if an industry behemoth like Callaway will take the plunge. The biggest barrier to entry might be the simple fact that there is not enough Bryson to go around. Every Tour player endorses some kind of gear. They’re paid mercenaries, peddling hyperbole. DeChambeau is offering something much more rare: authentic enthusiasm. “I have zero doubt this is the best way to play golf,” he says. “Not just for me, but for everybody.”

The larger golf world is catching on.

SOURCE:  golf.com

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