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The FreeFlex Watercolor Golf — The Newest Shaft In Golf Technology
By Dr. Barry Lotz, Inside Golf Every so often there are major breakthroughs in the golf industry in every category. This Korean company, SJ Golf Engineering Lab, headed by Dr. Seung-jin Choi, the inventor of FreeFlex Technology, is the creator of this...
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Two Alberta Pros Play & Learn In Shaw Charity Classic Qualifiers
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — For one Alberta PGA pro, the pre-qualifying tournament for the 2023 Shaw Charity Classic was all about learning to go forward. For another, it was all about taking what he’d learned to...
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Alberta Team Rebounds Nicely To Finish 5th At RBC Scramble
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf CAPE BRETON ISLAND — Success in sports often comes through overcoming adversity. In the case of the five-man team from The Track GC in Langdon, Alberta, that typified their experience at the 2023 RBC...
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The Desert Willow Golf Resort Is A Top-Notch Facility
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf PALM DESERT, California — As a travelling golfer, the one thing you want when taking on a new course is to be wowed by everything put in front of you, running from the parking lot through the 19th hole. At...
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Indian Wells Golf Resort Tees Up Great Experiences
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf INDIAN WELLS, California — After surveying the terrain at this municipally-owned divot-digging property, it’s no wonder that other munis around the world wish they could grow up to be compared to the...
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Alberta Couple View PGA Event From ‘Inside The Ropes’
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf LA QUINTA, California — It’s one thing to be a spectator at a PGA TOUR event, trying to keep up with players as they make their appointed rounds. For one Stony Plain, AB, couple, keeping pace with...
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PGA TOUR Canada, Northern Bear Ink Three-Year Deal
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf SHERWOOD PARK, Alberta — In for a dime, in for a dollar. That was the philosophy behind the idea the Jack Nicklaus-designed Northern Bear GC’s management took to the PGA TOUR Canada and the tour bought in. And that...
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McCourt Pens A Golf Book With A Different Sort Of Instruction
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf SPRUCE GROVE, Alberta — When a golf professional undertakes the chore of writing a book you’d expect it to be in the vein of a how-to instructional pamphlet. Or perhaps something along the line of humorous on-course...
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Back Nine Putting Greens
By Dr. Barry Lotz, Inside Golf Without any fear of contradiction, Back Nine Greens is the premier company for artificial turf putting greens. Putting greens are often used by golfers to prepare for upcoming tournaments, or to improve their putting...
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A Relaxed, Social League Play Aspect Offered By Spark Golf
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf Spark Golf is a friendly way to meet other golfers and the idea seems to be catching fire. At present, there are 21 courses involved in the Calgary (11) and Edmonton (10) areas, plus one in Red Deer, along with leagues...
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Alberta Pair Honoured By Golf Canada
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf Two Albertans, long known for their work in the golf industry at the amateur and professional levels, have been honoured by Golf Canada with Distinguished Service Awards, for their efforts to foster the...
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Sagebrush GC Prepared For A New Season
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf QUILCHENA, British Columbia – After several years of sitting in limbo, a course now named the top play in British Columbia is prepared to welcome guests with an ever-expanding line-up of amenities....
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Edmonton Company Wants To Put Their Shirts On Your Back
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — Look good. Play good. That’s a philosophy held by many and while Jared Van Dyke can’t help you play better golf, he can certainly help you look better while playing golf. Van Dyke, the owner of...
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Heffernan Repeats As PGA Of Alberta Assistants Champion
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf STONY PLAIN, Alberta — While Wes Heffernan showed brilliance with his long game in the 36-hole Cobra Puma Golf Alberta PGA Assistants Championship at the Stony Plain GC, it was a 14-foot eagle putt...
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SuperStroke Grips
These are the hottest grips on the PGA Tours and growing rapidly every week in their usage. If you have not tried these grips, do yourself a favour and watch your putting improve. The non-taper technology increases consistency and lower scores by...
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Some Scoring Problems Being Removed & Others Added At Eagle Rock GC
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — While excuses for not extracting oneself from a bunker are plentiful — “not enough sand;” “too much sand;” “thinned it;” “this wasn’t raked properly” — one thing that won’t be plentiful...
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Golf Industry Seeing “Tiger Woods Wave Number 2” In Alberta
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf CALGARY, Alberta — Like the influx of people hitting the links in the recent past, the number of new faces in pro shops across Alberta is also rising dramatically. On both counts, the executive director of...
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Callaway’s New Chrome Tour Balls & Odyssey Jail Bird Putters
Chrome Tour Ball Just as it is essential to be fitted for your golf clubs, so is the necessity to find the ball and putter that best suits your game. The newest addition to Callaway’s tour-level golf ball lineup is the Chrome Tour Ball, priced at...
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The Ranch G&CC Set To Host Canada’s Best Assistant Professionals
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf SPRUCE GROVE, Alberta — If the Ranch Golf & Country Club was good enough for the Canadian Tour back in the day, then it’s certainly good enough for Canada’s top assistant club professionals. That will be...
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Mills Honoured With HOF Induction Through Work With Junior Golfers
By Gord Montgomery, Inside Golf EDMONTON, Alberta — When Dunc Mills’ mother, Marion Kolthammer, introduced him to the game of golf oh so many decades ago, she likely had no idea where that would lead her son. As it turned out, it was most likely a lot...
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