The TaylorMade P790 irons design brief sounds either amazingly simple or ridiculously complicated. For a company used to making bold steps in innovation, it ended up being one of its boldest for a category of player that’s tough to serve.
“Products like this in the past have taken advantage of different benefits of hollow construction, either to get forgiveness or to manage feel or to get more speed with a thin face,” said Tomo Bystedt, TaylorMade’s senior director of iron creation. “What if you could do something that takes advantage of all the benefits? That was kind of our mission here. How do we get all of the speed and make it feel really good at the same time and obviously deliver a look and appearance that a good player would love to look at? That was the brief that we set out to do.
“One of the things we realized in this forged distance category is that there was only so far we could go with existing constructions and existing materials,” “So we thought, ‘What if we did somethi..

Doc Redman's incredible closing flourish at the 117th U.S. Amateur had the golf world buzzing on Sunday. But for at least one golfer, Redman's comeback win over Doug Ghim was a reminder of his own heartbreaking loss to Tiger Woods in the same event two decades before.
Steve Scott took Tiger to extra holes in the 1996 U.S. Amateur final at Pumpkin Ridge. And Woods needed some heroics of his own to send the match past regulation. So after CBS' Kyle Porter tweeted “A 60-foot eagle you had to have on the 35th hole of the U.S. Am at freakin Riviera? This is unbelievable,” Scott had this perfect response:
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Although, it wasn't quite as long or quite as late in the round, Scott, now the head pro at Paramount Golf Country Club outside New York City, was referring to the eagle putt Woods dropped on him in their epic 38-hole match. Scott held a five-up lead with 16 holes to go, but Woods drained a 45-footer on Pumpkin Ridg..

Stuart FranklinJustin Thomas hugs his father Mike Thomas after finishing winning the 2017 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club.I Think …Jordan Spieth said it best last week, describing Justin Thomas’ win in the PGA Championship as “knowing to the core” who his family is and how they brought him up. To that point, Mike Thomas was back to work as head professional at Harmony Landing Country Club in the Louisville suburb of Goshen, Ky., last Monday, just a day after his son’s victory at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte. The Master Professional had lessons to reschedule and a life to return to. When I caught up with him Sunday, a week after Justin’s first major victory, he was just getting out of the range picker. “I do whatever needs done,” he said. At 57, in his 28th year at Harmony Landing, Mike took it seriously when I asked, off the cuff, if he upped his hourly rate for lessons now that Justin was a major champion. “I charge less than anyone in town,” he quickly responded. “I’m not a m..