Small Experiment Delivers a Big Dose of Praise for the Callaway HEX Black Tour Golf Ball

As we played the National course on Tuesday, I wasn’t just studying the beautiful rhythms of Tom Fazio’s routing on the Cove and Bluff nines, I was messing around with golf ball performance evaluation. This is a very helpful trick, by the way, if you ever want to get a real good read on a new high-performance golf ball. What I do is start the round with a ball that comes from the “pure distance” end of the product spectrum. We writers get balls of all kinds handed to us, including the ones that are built for pure carry and roll and usually not so high-priced in your golf shop or local superstore. So, for about seven holes, or as long as I could stand not dipping into my supply of Ca... Full Story
Heading for Reynolds, Clubs on My Shoulder

The always peace-loving Golf Road Warriors are heading to the green hills of central Georgia and stately Reynolds Plantation for a week of doing-whatever-it-is-we-do. As I prepare to join my mates by the shores of Lake Oconee, I am pulling pairs of shorts out of the blue storage tub with “Out of Season” Full Story

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A Couple Thousand Yards of Fun, in 12 Holes

The question: “Why 18 holes?” has kept golf historians engaged for decades. It even has a well-known witty answer, based on how many swigs are in a whiskey bottle. But with leisure time and disposable income scarce, the why-18 question is no longer so benign. Golfers and course managers are starting to a Full Story

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Picking up 25 Yards on the Driver in 45 Minutes

It’s time to tell you about Noel English. the Guru of Gear at Reynolds Plantation. A Liverpool native, Noel pursued a golf career far and wide until he ended up in the TaylorMade Performance Lab here at mighty Reynolds. Our Georgia platoon of Golf Road Warriors was in need of a volunteer from among the fo Full Story