Click here to listen. Each episode of the Golf Gear News Podcast is full of interesting stories on golf. In THE NEWSTAND I talk about Ford Dumping Golf for Bull Riding, the resignation of the Korean Prime Minister, buying a professional golf team and how a golfer shut down the Portland airport. In SHE GOLF’S TOO, we provide the study results that ask the question: “Would you forgo a year of sex to play Augusta National?” Our COMPONENT CORNER, highlights the solar golf bag and Golfsmith’s pending IPO. Travel with us in GOLF AROUND THE WORLD and play Nevada’s Lucifer’s Anvil Golf Course. In GOLF ...

The clubbuilding industry is in for some significant changes with the recent purchase of GolfWorks by Golf Galaxy. Let’s look at the signs that are starting to emerge. Golfsmith, founded in 1967 is the granddaddy of clubbuilding. They began with a catalog that supplied components to the do-it-yourself clubbuilder. Then, they expanded into brand name merchandise, started opening retail stores (currently 50+ stores) with a clubbuilding department, and now have a powerful Internet presence. In 2002 they were bought by Atlantic Equity Partners III. Golf Galaxy was founded in 1995 and started out opening retail stores (currently 51 stores). They went ...

Being from Minnesota, I’ve always been a big fan of Champions Tour golfer John Harris who just won $121,000 with his 2nd place finish in the Toshiba Senior Classic a few weeks ago. He’s always been an excellent golfer, one of the top amateurs in Minnesota. He also played on a victorious Walker Cup team in the 1990’s. What I find more amazing is not his talent, but his perseverance. He originally turned pro in 1976, but flamed out after a few years. Regaining his amateur status in 1983, he kept plugging away on the amateur circuit, dominating by ...

First there was ESPN, then ESPN2, then ESPN Classics now ESPN Deportes. Through the years, to fill airtime, they have added rodeo, tractor pulls, swimming, billards, and volleyball to supplement the standard fare of football, baseball, basketball and hockey. Now they’ve sunk too low. I read an article written by Cara Buckley of the Miami Herald entitled “ESPN on Hand for Miami Domino Tournament.” The network sponsored a dominoes championship tournament last fall that will be broadcast, in seven parts, on ESPN Deportes and ESPN2. Trying to target a largely Hispanic audience, ESPN Deportes attended the Calle Ocho Festival in Miami’s Little ...