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Kenny Perry Wins Travelers Championship
Kenny Perry is not playing golf like any 48 year old guy is supposed to play golf. Not on the PGA "flatbelly" Tour anyway. He’s won 5 time, gotten 12 top ten finishes, and not missed a cut in just over a year. Pretty hot stuff. Oh, and he set a tournament record in winning the Travelers Championship by three shots over Paul Goydos and David Toms. He opened his tournament with a nifty 61, nine under par, then followed that with a 68 which kept him in the lead after 36 holes. On Saturday he shot a 66 and lost the lead to Mr. Goydos, whose third round 63 matched his opening round score. Come Sunday though, it was all Mr. Perry after a 32 on the front nine, and had gave a five shot lead after the 14th hole. “Everyone kind of asks about the Augusta hangover deal,” he said. “I guess I kind of shoved that aside a little bit. So that makes me feel pretty good.”
That had to be a big shove, don’t let anyone ever tell you it’s easy to bogey the last two holes of a major championship to fall into a playoff, then lose the playoff and just shrug that off. No that’s takes a kind of tough not everyone posesses. “I knew that I had to keep making birdies,” he said. “I wasn’t going to let up. I wasn’t going to play defensive golf. I learned something from that mistake.” That’s how you follow up with a back nine 31 and get a nice silver cup and a big pot of money at the end of the day.
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Over the last few years one company have dominated the driver count on the major Tours. TaylorMade drivers are found in the bags of more Tour professionals than any other manufacturer. Their latest driver, the R9 adds an adjustable hosel to the moveable weight technology that has been so successful.
TaylorMade are responsible for some of the most iconic drivers of recent years, most notably the 510TP and the R7 425 TP, and have been at the fore-front of driver technology. Bag Chatter got to look at the R9 to see how it compares against these past classics and how well it fares against the competition who have not been standing still.
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The Henry-Griffitts Fitting Experience
By Apryl DeLancey, May 5 2009
We first met Randy Henry in the Palm Springs area during the beginning of winter 2008. Easygoing but professional, we were immediately impressed by his ability to tell us everything about our game just by seeing us swing a few times. Indeed, we had just met the “human launch monitor” as others had called him that has over 40 years of teaching experience under his belt. This first encounter was just the tip of the iceberg of what we would learn about the Henry-Griffitts history, fitting system, and the people behind the name.
Randy Henry started playing golf with his family when he was very young and became quite passionate about the game. A serious accident changed the way he looked at the game in the 1970s. He became more aware of the golf swing and the actual equipment itself. It was apparent to him that equipment could make or break the game for many golfers. With Jim Griffitts he founded Henry-Griffitts in 1983. These golf pros wanted to focus on equipment that was not made for the masses but for an individual golfer’s game. They wanted a smaller company that would give them total control over the way the clubs were fit and built as opposed to the “one size fits all”, off-the-rack concept that permeated the industry at the time. Whatever the Tour pros played at the time was what was sold on the shelves of golf shops. This, Henry-Griffitts recognized, did not serve the average golfer very well at all in most cases.
New Mizuno irons - exclusive pictures
By Martin Anderson, May 23 2009
The MP-67 range from Mizuno has been out for almost two years making it due for an update in a few months time. GolfWRX has exclusive pictures taken of what may be the replacement.
Not only that but an updated version of the MP-62 surfaced at the same event - what looks like a Black Nickel finish similar to that offered on the Mizuno wedges. As these are generally acknowledged to have a slightly softer feel that the chrome versions, it will be interesting to see if this carries through to the irons too.
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