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McMw
10th July 2004, 01:02 PM
The Ping Anser putter Hilary Lunke used so deftly in winning last year's U.S. Women's Open was back in the bag at Orchards GC. The putter, given to her by her father when she was 13, had been sent to the sidelines because Lunke said it was too light and left the ball short on slow greens. But aside from The Orchards' slick putting surfaces, Lunke also was looking for a little good karma. "I saw Retief Goosen switch back to his old putter and win the Open," she said. "I thought maybe that was a sign." Not quite. The defending champion finished T-64.

After steadfastly sticking with drivers featuring steel shafts and smaller clubheads than those being played by most tour players, Tiger Woods (left) went large at the Cialis Western Open, using a 410cc Nike Ignite with a graphite shaft. Said Woods of the change, "I like it a lot. I'm hitting it much longer... it's weird having a big head like that. You've got to hit the ball on a different part of the face with this bigger head, so it's taking some time to get used to." [b]For the week Woods averaged 313.9 yards off the tee (ranked second) and hit 60.7 percent of his fairways (ranked T-48). His season ranks were sixth and 155th, respectively.

Woods wasn't the only player living large last week. Ping debuted its G2 driver on tour and found some takers. Among those using the 460cc club were Mark Hensby on the PGA Tour and Carin Koch at the U.S. Women's Open.

For anyone wondering, those aren't graphite shafts in Nick Price's wedges. The three-time major winner paints the shafts of his wedges black to reduce glare from the steel.

There's gold in them thar golf balls: Stephen Ames won the Western Open (and $864,000) using a prototype version of Nike's One Gold golf ball.

Jarro
10th July 2004, 01:16 PM
nice post mau 8)

wish they had of told us what the shaft is that Tiger was using though :? lots of speculation around that it's a Grafalloy Blue Proto....

.. well whatever it is it obviously felt good to him :lol:

Ona
10th July 2004, 05:08 PM
jarro.. no offence, but why do you even care what shaft it is?

goughy
10th July 2004, 05:40 PM
Because he's a claytons ho, and wants to know everything about everything :wink: :roll: