As golfers, we all have pretty much the same ultimate goal. We all want to try and perfect our swings to the point where we no longer have any questions about the quality of contact that we’re going to make on any given golf swing.

 
The Shark turned down an invitation from the PGA to play in the PGA Championship at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, which begins on August 7th. On his website, www.shark.com, he cited prior commitments as the reason for his decision saying, “While I truly appreciate the PGA extending me an exemption for [...]

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If you look to the right of this post you’ll see a pretty, little button that will take you to the newest feature here at The Fairway Bunker: The Fairway Bunker Store. Inside our Store you can find the most popular golf equipment and apparel on the market.
 
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It’s all about Padraig Harrington today in Southport, England. With back-to-back wins at the Open Championship he’s in a league with the greats, including Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, etc. His stunning 1-under Final Round will be one for the memory banks and worthy of the Claret Jug.
 
The first moment that comes to mind [...]

Second Round play at this year’s dramatic Open Championship concluded today with a rather surprising leaderboard. K.J. Choi is standing alone at -1, the only player under par so far. Greg Norman, playing some of his best golf at 53, shot another 70 (E) and is sitting pretty in second place. Camilo Villegas, with the [...]

I think Simon Dyson said it best, “You put a 4-handicapper on that first tee and they’d probably shoot 100…” I guess that means I would have shot about a 150 Thursday at the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England. Dyson was among the first group to tee off at 6:30am, during the [...]

Alright, so you’ve been to the driving range a few times, renting clubs at $0.50 each or maybe you borrowed your friend’s set of clubs and hit up the local ‘pitch n’ putt.’ Anyway, you’ve decided the game of golf is just too much fun to settle for borrowed clubs… you need your own! There’s one small problem, though. How do you know where to start?

I think it is interesting to know your handicap as a golfer. It shows how much worse than par a player should be able to play. For your handicap to be accurate, you have to play a lot of golf. To establish a USGA Handicap Index, the lowest 10 rounds out of your last 20 are figured into the calculation, but you can start after just 5 rounds.

Kenny Perry has been on a roll recently, and he didn’t stop at the John Deere Classic this past weekend at the TPC Deere Run in Silvis, IL.
 
But it wasn’t a runaway for Perry, as he needed a little luck to get his third win in his last five starts. He came into the 18th [...]