The GEN i1 golf ball is the latest example of how golf’s most ground-breaking technologies continue to be its smallest.
The focus of an Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign, the GEN i1 is a standard golf ball in size and weight but has what its inventor Jason Koo, is calling “a launch monitor” inside. More precisely, he explains, the GEN i1 golf ball’s core houses a nine-axis sensor that tracks the ball’s movement and communicates that data via Bluetooth to your smartphone.
Kevin Kisner began to appreciate the value of playing in the Presidents Cup two months before the matches even started. All because of a text message. He was at the Bridgestone Invitational last month when he received a group text sent to players who were in position to make the U.S. team. The idea was to make everyone feel like a team, whether the exchange of messages was motivational or simply amusing.
Meet Andri Ragettli. Andri is an Olympic freeskier from Switzerland, which means his 9-5 mostly consists of doing stuff like this:
That's a quad cork 1800 (four inverted rotations seamlessly combined with five horizontal rotations) and it was the first one ever pulled by a human being wearing skis. Needless to say, Andri is good at his job. So what does it take to get this damn good at something so damn dangerous? Contrary to popular belief, it's not bong hits and Aspen ski bunny orgies (though it looks almost as fun). Check it out:
https://twitter.com/Andriragettli/status/906918176226791424
This is Andri's daily Olympic training regimen and if we we're dumb enough to even try the first leap in this crazy real-life game of Chutes and Ladders, we would nuke both our ACLs and spend remainder of the afternoon ugly crying in the emergency room. For an Olympic-level skier—and a legitimate medal contender—however, it's about as dangerous (and difficult) as putting on..
The year is 2017. America is ruled by a dystopian police state dubbed Freedom. Curfew is sundown, love is a crime, and the judicial system has become a reality TV gameshow from which not even Arnold Schwarzenegger can save us. Yet out of the darkness rides the one they call Rihanna—prophet, pop star, resistance leader. Bedecked in nylon and astride a dirt bike made of barbed wire, she is all that is left of hope, raining justice down up on the eclipse-blinded aristocracy come hell or the disastrously high waters they have relentlessly condemned as myth…
With the world subjecting us all to a relentless torrent of hideous terror, constant disappointment and transcripts of things that come out of Donald Trump’s mouth, we return now to Stories to Revive Your Cold Dead Heart, an occasional series that reminds you that — despite what you’d believe from spending your days on the Internet — some things are actually pretty good.
Trump hires company owned by Chinese government to build golf course. The deal could potentially violate the Emoluments Clause
There’s nothing funny about the damage Hurricane Irma has brought, but the following clip provided at least, momentarily, a bit of levity to the situation in central Florida. WFTV Channel 9's Christian Bruey did a live report from Winter Park Country Club, where people are still playing golf and skim boarding on the soggy course.
With Hurricane Irma having passed through his Jupiter, Fla., home, Greg Norman is back to his favorite hobby: wielding a chainsaw. The former World No. 1 and two-time major champ posted this photo on Monday of him cutting down some limbs. Tree limbs, that is. We specify that because three years ago he almost lost his left hand using his beloved power tool.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) Ernie Els has pulled out of the KLM Open golf tournament so he can stay with family and friends in Florida to deal with the fallout from Hurricane Irma.
Els said in a statement Monday that his ”first concern at the moment and the coming days is to support my family and our friends and staff at Els for Autism. We must be ready for the consequences of this terrible storm.”
Tournament organizers say the school that Els and his wife Liezl built for autistic children in southern Florida was forced to close as Irma bore down on the state over the weekend.
Daan Slooter, director of the tournament that starts Thursday at The Dutch course in Spijk, says he understands Els’ choice, ”and we hope … that the hurricane damage is not too bad and that everybody is safe.”
CHIBA, Japan (AP) Colin Montgomerie made all the putts he needed Sunday on Narita Golf Club’s massive greens to win the Japan Airlines Championship – the first PGA Tour Champions event in Japan.
The 54-year-old Scot two-putted for par from 50 feet on the par-4 18th, hitting his first to 1 1/2 feet, for a 5-under 67 and a one-stroke victory over Billy Mayfair and second-round leader Scott McCarron.
”The greens were as good as any, and I mean this, as good as any as we have ever putted on, ever,” Montgomerie said. ”And we’ve putted on some great, great surfaces. In the 30 years as a pro, these are as good as any we have putted on as a putting surface. Superb putting surfaces. And the way the course was manicured was exceptional.”
Montgomerie finished at 14-under 202 for his fifth victory on the 50-and-over tour and first in nearly a year. He won 31 times on the European Tour and topped the tour’s money list a record eight times – seven in a row from 1993-99 and the last in 2005.
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