Can we just give him one now?

In his seventh full year on the PGA Tour, Brandt Snedeker is starting to make the move to another level.

Snedeker picked up his second win of the season last week in Canada, and that made it two straight years with more than one win. The next step will be to win a discount golf clubs or a World Golf Championship event. He has that opportunity in each of the next two weeks.

Can we just give him one now? Of course not, but he is gaining experience that will help him win discount golf clubs rather than later.

Snedeker, 32, has finished in the top 20 in five of the last six majors that he played. Not many can match that record.

However, his record in the World Golf Championships leaves plenty to be desired. He was a third-round loser at the WGC – Accenture Match Play in 2012, and that tie for ninth was his best finish in seven WGC appearances. Otherwise, he doesn’t own a top-25 finish at a WGC.

The multiple wins in the last two seasons have moved him to second on the points list for the American Presidents Cup team. His spot on that team is guaranteed as players can only accumulate points this week and next at the PGA Championship.

Surprisingly, that will mark just his second national team appearance. He was a captain’s pick for the 2012 U.S. Ryder Cup team, where he posted a 1-2 record.

With a WGC and a major in the next two weeks, it is time for Snedeker to grab a hold of that mantle as being one of the best Scotty Cameron California Putter on tour. He needs to come through these next two weeks, then again at the Presidents Cup, the first week of October, to really make that move to the next level.

One key for Snedeker, outside of his putting, will be how well he drives the ball these next two weeks. He ranks 114th in total driving, distance and accuracy combined. If he can improve that number within the top 50 in each of the next two events, look out.

From there, he can use his iron game and putting stats to carry him. Snedeker is 23rd in greens in regulation, 10th in strokes gained putting and second in birdie average.

Those numbers add up to him ranking seventh in scoring average.

Now is Snedeker’s time to prove that he should be talked about as one of the best in the game.

Though the system may be flawed, Snedeker has risen to seventh in the world cheap golf clubs rankings, ahead of such luminaries as Luke Donald, Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia.

At seventh in the rankings, he is the fourth highest ranked American, behind Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Matt Kuchar. With his strong play in limited appearances, Steve Stricker could remain in the conversation to be among the best four Americans.

But Snedeker has earned his way into the conversation. He has four straight top-20 finishes and shares the tour lead with eight top-10 finishes on the season.

Eight top-10s in 16 starts. Even with my taylormade burner plus irons , that means he’s been in the top 10 in 50 percent of his starts.

The numbers say he’ll post a top-10 in one of the next two weeks. If he plays his numbers correctly, maybe one of them will be a first-place finish.

Excellent fairway wood

Last review obviously came from a guy who had never hit the discount golf club. I’ve had the original rocketballz since they came out and have loved it for the most part. V1 was very long off the tee and dead straight. Some said that it had a bit of a draw bias but I never got that. if you hit it on the screws, the ball would launch straight, far and high for a 3 wood. The only real problem I had with it was launching off the deck. Unless you had a perfect lie, it was impossible to consistenly hit it. this meant that attacking long par fives was not a safe proposition with this discount golf club.

Enter the S2:

So I went to heygolfer to see if there was any truth to the rumor that this thing would be hit off the deck. I picked up the Taylormade RocketBallz Stage 2 Fairway Wood and immediately felt a difference over the original rocketballz 3 wood. The shaft was light, the head was smaller and the weight felt more pushed toward the rear of the club. I stepped up to the monitor and immediately starting blasting shot off the tee. The S2 proved to be about 5-10 yards over the original but where it really shined was when I starting cranking them on the course. I had my first chance to hit this thing off the deck on a 545 yard par 5. hit a driver 290 and decided to pull out my newly acquired S2. I had a decent lie but was just in the first cut of rough. under normal circumstance, I would have risked it but I wanted to give the club a chance to win me over. took a smooth swing and launched it right at the flag. ball flew far, straight and bounced 10 feet from the pin.

Since then, I’ve had a couple more opportunities to attack green off the deck with this thing and the results could be better. This club has literally changed the way I play. probably saves me about 3-4 strokes a round.

all in all, better feel than the original, much easier to hit off the deck and slightly lower ball flight. the only gripe I have with this discount fairway wood is the weight. it’s a bit on the light so so I have a tendancy to over swing it a little. I did adjust to this quickly but the first 20 or so shots were wonky. since adjusting, I’ve never hit a 3 wood further, straighter or more consistently than the S2.

Elkington in hot water

Former major winner Steve Elkington is in trouble after he inadvertently used an offensive term on heygolfer.

 

The Australian caused a best golf putter when he tweeted something “in relation to the Pakistani people” while criticising the English city of Southport, where he had been competing in the Senior British Open.

 

Golf’s governing body has launched an investigation and they confirmed via a statement: “We have spoken to Steve Elkington about his inappropriate and regrettable comments on Twitter, and the matter will be reviewed before the Championship considers taking any disciplinary action against the player.

 

“Steve has expressed his regret at his comments and wishes to apologize to the Championship and the people of Southport for any offence caused.”

 

The 50-year-old, who won the taylormde cb irons, says he was unaware that his comments were offensive.

 

“Being Australian, I was unaware that my use of language in relation to the Pakistani people would cause [offence]. But having been made aware I now deeply regret the use of that terminology,” he said in a statement.

 

“Southport is a beautiful place and I have enjoyed playing taylor made r11 irons at Royal Birkdale, as my positive content on Twitter has shown. My comments were borne out of frustration over what had happened to a colleague.

Cut surprises a few at Muirfield

Both players were convinced they had missed the cut after their efforts over the first two days of the Open Championship had left them on eight over par.

Lawrie had made his way back to Aberdeen, while Jaidee was just minutes away from boarding a flight from London to Thailand when they heard that the going was so tough at Muirfield they’d survived and would need to play discount golf clubs on.

Lawrie was seemingly unaware of Jaidee’s experience, saying after his round: “I can’t believe no-one from overseas went home at eight over. It just shows how tough the course is.

“I didn’t think seven over had a chance, never mind eight, so I went home. I don’t think I’ve ever done that before in my career and thankfully I was just up the road.”

Lawrie, who was walking his dog when his son Craig texted to say the cut had drifted out to eight over, made the 150-mile drive back to the course, arriving around 11:20pm on Friday night.

“The good thing is you pay for your room (at Greywalls next to the course) for seven nights whether you use razr x hl irons or not so I had no problem getting my room,” Lawrie added.

“I flew to London after my round yesterday,” Jaidee said. “I thought I missed the halfway cut. Luckily the flight to Thailand was full and I was on the waiting list. We reached London at around 7pm and waited for the counter to open to try and get a flight.

“At about 8:45pm I was told that I had a seat in business class and I thought, ‘Wow, I’m lucky’. Then my manager called me and told me that I had a good chance to make the cut. That was five minutes before I went to collect my taylormade burner plus irons

“Shortly after that, my manager called me again and told me that I made the cut and I had to fly back to Edinburgh. I had one hour and 15 minutes to get from Terminal 3 to Terminal 5 so I had to rush to catch the flight.

“It was an amazing experience for me. This is the first time in my life that this has happened to me but it was quite fun. After my round, I thought the cut would be at six over. When I left the cut line was still at about three or four over.

“I thought it was impossible to make the cut. I didn’t watch the live scoring at all. I’ve been travelling for seven weeks in a row so I was a bit tired and thinking of going home to see my family.”

Woods has it all under control

Tiger Woods is confident his experience will carry him through when he starts the final round of the Open.

Woods, who will start the final round two shots behind the leader, understands what is required to succeed at this level and under these circumstances.

“I’m pleased where I’m at,” said Woods on Saturday afternoon.

“I’m only two back. There’s only one guy ahead of me. I’ve got 14 of these things and I know what it takes to win discount golf clubs,” added the American.

Lee Westwood will be under immense pressure on Sunday. However, Woods is not underestimating the Englishman.

“He’s won tournaments all over the world. He knows how to win golf tournaments. He’s two shots ahead and we’re going to go out there and both compete and play,” added Woods, who was looking forward to the contest.

Woods also knows there are many players are still in contention at Muirfield – one of them is compatriot Hunter Mahan.

“There’s a bunch of guys who have a chance to win this tournament and all of us need to really play TaylorMade golf clubs well tomorrow to win it,” said Woods.

“I’m looking forward to it. I’m looking forward to the challenge of it. I’ve been in this position before, in the past five years. I’ve been in that hunt and I’m in it again,” added Woods.

Woods didn’t play a brilliant round on Saturday. However, he remained patient and did what was needed to stay in the contest.

“I was just plodding along, just be patient, play my taylormade rbz irons. These are really tough hole locations, it’s really hard to make birdies. I felt like I played well today, I really did,” said Woods.

“I had a couple of opportunities to make a couple of putts, I just didn’t do it and caught a couple of weird bounces out there which is normal. Tomorrow, hopefully, I can play taylormade rocketballz driver just a little bit better and make a couple of more putts,” explained the American.

Perry completes major triumph

Kenny Perry claimed his maiden major title when he triumphed at the Senior Players Championship on Sunday.

The 52-year-old carded a six-under par round of 64 at the Fox Chapel Golf Club in Pittsburgh on Sunday to finish two strokes ahead of overnight leader Fred Couples.

Perry narrowly missed out on major triumphs more than once, after suffering a play-off loss in the 1996 PGA Championship and 2009 Masters, before capitulating at the Senior PGA Championship last month when he gave away a two-stroke lead going into the final round.

“I was trying to make birdies with discount golf clubs,” said Perry, who didn’t record a bogey in his last two rounds.

“I guess that was a different mindset from before where instead of trying to make pars, I was trying to make birdies.”

Couples was in the lead for the majority of the final round until a three-putt on the 15th handed Perry the advantage, although he had an opportunity to use TaylorMade golf clubs to force a play-off on the long par five 18th hole.

He reached the green in two shots, but was then unable to hold his 45-footer for eagle to finish tied for second with Duffy Waldorf on 17-under.

“I’m hoping the floodgates are going to open,” Perry said after his round.

“But I don’t know, anytime you get into contention you get nervous, you get antsy. But today I had a peace about me as I take taylormade rbz irons alone with me. … If I can kind of draw upon this the next time I get into the heat of things, hopefully I’ll finish it off like I did today.”

Muirfield not a fluke fest

Azinger said there was absolutely no doubt that Muirfield was worthy of hosting an Open Championship, as the course provided one of the toughest tests in golf.

“It’s not a luck-fest out there,” said Azinger.

Like most links courses Muirfield is a course with deep bunkers and thick rough. Azinger said the golfer who manages to stay out of trouble the most will triumph at this year’s tournament.

“If you make the ball do what you want it to do, you’ll play discount golf clubs well,” said Azinger.

Faldo, who has conquered Muirfield twice during his illustrious career, offered similar sentiments about the course.

“You have to have a good mind game. You have to know where you’re going to land it, where the next bounce is and where the run is,” said Faldo.

“That’s what we worked out so well, where to land the ball 20 yards short of the green, which way it would kick, and obviously where it would stop,” said Faldo.

“That’s part of the calculations. But you’ve got to land the ball with from A to B first. And that has to be a solid shot. If that’s a mis-hit, the ball doesn’t react close to what you intend,” explained the English golfer.

Muirfield is straightforward, with few blind shots, and the way it’s laid out – with two loops of nine holes running in opposite directions -evens out the devilish breezes, assuming they don’t suddenly change directions during the course of a round.

“It’s not going to bad luck you to death,” explained Azinger. “It’s a terrific course,” he added.

Azinger also shared his thoughts on who he felt would do well at this year’s Ping i20 Irons.

Tiger Woods, as has been the case for most of the year, is a definite forerunner.

However, he was doubtful that Rory McIlroy would be able to turn his career around at this tournament.

“I’m very surprised that just 11 months (since that eight-shot win taylormade rocketbladez irons at KiawahIsland) he would’ve become an afterthought,” said Azinger . “He is adrift.”

“Tiger is in a different mode where he’s winning regular tournaments, but he gets to the majors and something happens,” said Faldo.

“The self-belief you have to have, maybe there’s a little dent in there. He hits the wrong shot via the callaway x-24 hot irons at the wrong time, where before Tiger would hit the right shot at the right time.”

Azinger put a different spin on the Woods argument, suggesting that his problems were more physical than mental.

Scott hopes to restore Aussie pride

The Wallabies rugby union team were defeated on home soil by the British and Irish Lions, and last week the Australian cricket team were beaten in the opening test of the Ashes.

Scott hopes to redress some of the balance when he tees off in the Open Championship at Muirfield on Thursday, and there is of course also the small matter of righting his own wrong after he saw the Claret Jug slip from his grasp over the final few holes of last year’s best golf clubs.

Not that Scott believes the cricket is already a lost cause. Asked if he was hoping to strike a blow for Australia, the Masters champion said: “Are you giving our cricket no hope for the rest of the summer?

“Hopefully. Absolutely I’d love to get in here this week and maybe spur our cricket team along to levelling the Test series.

“It’s a tough time being an Aussie over here at the moment to be honest with your best golf driver. I move around very quietly around town.”

Scott has had numerous people comment on his likeness to first Test sensation Ashton Agar, who scored 98 on debut and has been nicknamed ‘Scotty’.

“Everyone has been telling me (about him),” said Scott.

“I think it’s great. Honestly I hope he’s the spark our Australian team needs going forward.

“He’s a young kid who came out and made 98 on debut to help us in the first Test.

“Obviously he’s got what rbz driver takes. Hopefully he’s the spark on our team going forward, for this summer and beyond.”

Scott has been looking forward to the Open since his disastrous capitulation last year, and reckons his Masters victory has given him the boost he needed to come back and perform.

R&A to decide on male-only clubs

R&A Chief executive Peter Dawson told journalists that having a male-only golf club could not be compared to racism, which is an indication that there will be a strong lobby to keep them in existence for many years to come.

“Oh, goodness me, I think that’s a ridiculous question, if I may say so,” Dawson told journalists on Wednesday.

“There’s a massive difference between racial discrimination, anti-Semitism, where sectors of society are downtrodden and treated very, very badly indeed. And to compare that with a men’s discount golf clubs I think is frankly absurd. There’s no comparison whatsoever,” added Dawson.

“To be honest, our natural reaction is to resist these pressures, because we actually don’t think they have very much substance,” admitted Dawson.

“But I’d like to stress we’re not so insular as to fail to recognize the potential damage that campaigns like this can do to the Open championship. And it is our championship committee’s responsibility to do what is best for the Open, and to maximize the benefits which the Open brings, not just to golf, but also to the local area.

“I’d like to suggest that we get behind it now. Let’s make it the success it deserves. And when things are a bit quieter, after the championship, I’m quite sure we’ll be taking a look at everything to see what kind of sense we can make of it for the future. But I think right now our concentration has to be on this wonderful event and making it a success,” explained Dawson.

“We could sit here all day and debate this, but I don’t really think, to be honest, that a golf club, which has a policy of being a place where like-minded men or, indeed, like-minded women, go and want to play cheap i20 irons together and do their thing together, ranks up against some of these other forms of discrimination,” he said.

“I really just don’t think they’re comparable, and I don’t think they’re damaging. It’s just kind of, for some people, a way of life that they rather like. I don’t think in doing that they’re intending to (bring) others down or intending to do others any harm.”

There has also been considerable pressure to have the club’s constitution changed, especially in the 21st century. However, Dawson said he would not be moved by it.

“At the R&A, we’ve been through over 250 years of existence without getting into political comment, and I don’t really intend to break that rule here,” he said.

“We’ve got politicians posturing, we’ve got interest groups attacking the burner 2.0 irons for sale, and attacking Muirfield.”

Dawson also justified the existence of Gender specific clubs.

“It’s just a way of life that some of these people like,” said Dawson.

Rory McIlroy 2 over in Irish Open

Saying he’s “feeling a bit lost” in a difficult year, Rory McIlroy shot a 2-over 74 on Thursday in the Irish Open to fall eight strokes behind first-round leader Oscar Floren.

The second-ranked McIlroy, from Northern Ireland, had four bogeys and two birdies in wet and overcast conditions at Carton House on the outskirts of Dublin. McIlroy hit only five of 14 fairways and took 34 putts.

“At the moment, no aspects of my game are strong and I’m just feeling a bit lost at the moment,” he said. “It feels good on the range and I can hit all the shots, but when I get out on the course it really does not seem to be there.

“Off the tee, I am missing one right and then missing one left and it’s just not going where I want it. It gets you in two minds every time you are playing discount golf clubs. The game is just not coming easy to me at the moment and while I was struggling at this point last year, I was able to turn the corner in the middle of the summer and have a great end to my season. I don’t know whether it’s a matter of trying to play my way out of it or just keep grinding away on the range or whatever.”

Floren, from Sweden, had a 6-under 66. He drove the green on the par-4 13th and holed a 20-foot eagle putt.

“I just came out and hit golf driver for sale really, really pure,” Floren said.

American Peter Uihlein was a stroke back along with Dutchman Joost Luiten, France’s Jean-Baptiste Gonnet, Northern Ireland’s Michael Hoey and Ireland’s Shane Lowry.

Uihlein, the Madeira Islands Open winner last month, is making his 10th European Tour start of the year. The former OklahomaState star won the 2010 U.S. Amateur.

Lowry, the 2009 winner at CountyLouth as an amateur, had six birdies and a bogey played alongside McIlroy.

“I was just chomping at the bit to get out there this morning and I was just trying to play 913 d3 driver for sale into the tournament nicely so I’m really pleased with a 67,” he said.

Hoey said wife Barbara had their first child induced last week so he could compete in the event.

“It’s great being a father and already it’s added a new perspective to my life,” said Hoey, a four-time European Tour winner.