You gotta see this. Bobby Knight, the former coach of the Indiana Hoosiers basketball team, now coach at Texas Tech, was the host of a Golf Show. Yes, in the early 80s, the face of Indiana basketball Bobby “Mt. Vesuvius” Knight, was the host of a locally produced golf show entitled “Golf Your Way". For a man that is known for throwing chairs and choking players, telling others how to play golf doesn’t seem to play to Bobby Knight’s strengths. Somewhere in between the long profanity-laced diatribes and the club throwing, Mr. Knight was attempting to instruct ...

Click CLICK HERE to listen. In Episode #13 of Golf Gear News, host Bruce Stasch launches the GOLF GEAR DADDY GIVE-A-WAY. He also reports on the latest from THE NEWSTAND with Drunken Cops Vandalizing Driving Range, Tiny Tiger Losing to Professional, Tiger Woods Winning Stock Car Race and Dick’s Sporting Goods Opening Golf Specialty Store. Then in PERFECT FIT hear about the USGA Capping MOI for Woods. In the COMPONENT CORNER learn about the Dancing Dog Golf Simulator and the Consumer Reports Golf Ball Ratings. The GOLF BLOGOSPHERE tells about a chance to Caddy at the 2007 Masters. CAN’T WE ...

I early spoke about the pending Clubbuilding War between Golfsmith and Golf Galaxy. Well, now there’s a third big box player emerging Dick’s Sporting Goods. Very quietly, this major sporting goods retailer has seen how nicely golf fits into it own niche that they have recently rolled out a new specialty golf store appropriate called The Golf Shop. The store is located in Robinson, a suburb of Pittsburgh and will occupy a former 36,000 square foot Media Play location. Golf merchandise is one of Dick’s store-within-a-store departments and they already private label a line of golf equipment under the ...

Now that the afterglow from The Masters is down to glowing embers, some of us try to look back on what happened and reminisce. This includes professional golfers like David Toms III. AP writer Doug Ferguson got this gem from Mr. Toms last week “to me, it’s still a place where the players walk around on egg shells, not knowing if they are in the right place.” Toms goes on to say “it’s the only place all year where the players don’t feel like they’re the most important thing there.” Not that I’m a big fan of Hoottie ...

Click here to listen. In Episode #12 of Golf Gear News, host Bruce Stasch brings you the latest from THE NEWSTAND where he talks about Tiger’s Poor Choice of Words, Eco-Terrorists, the Expanding Masters and the Longest Drive Champ in Europe. In SHE GOLF’S TOO he ask’s What Makes a Women’s Golf Course? The COMPONENT CORNER you’ll hear about SMT’s New Master Distributors and the New Two Driver World caused by Phil Mickelson’s win at the Masters. The GOLF BLOGOSPHERE explores Innovex Golf Buys Out Investors. Travel with us in GOLF AROUND THE WORLD and learn about Donald Trump’s Latest Shrine to His Ego. In GOLF ...

For those of us that can’t break away from our desks, we still have an option to satisfy our Masters obsession – webcasting. According the Golf Blogger, CBS Sportsline and The Masters are offering 22 hours of live coverage of Amen Corner during the masters. You can pick up live coverage of all four rounds of the 11th, 12th and 13th holes. You can find the webcasting link at www.cbssportsline.com or www.masters.org. But that isn’t all that goes on at Amen Corner. I just learned some insider info from an Atlanta resident that attended the Masters yesterday. What he ...

One thing that most viewers probably missed during Phil Mickelson’s dominate golf performance last week at the BellSouth Classic was what was going on in Phil’s bag. The commentators noted that Phil was experimenting with two drivers. Yes, two drivers. They stated that his fairways hit average was only 57% this year and during the BellSouth Classic he was hitting over 70% of his fairways. Mickelson chose to test two drivers in this tune-up to the Masters to see if it would help him with the tight fairways at Augusta. With the new weighting systems of drivers like the Taylor ...