Author: Glen Turk

Glen Turk is a Wisconsin native who has been the Senior Writer/Editor of Midwest Golfing Magazine since 2006. Besides being an avid golfer, Glen enjoys traveling, music, and cheering on the finest professional sports team of all-time, the Green Bay Packers. Glen’s ultimate golf goal is to play in all fifty states and currently he is more than half way there. His other dream, albeit far-fetched, it to record an ace in all seven states of our distribution area. Thanks to an ace in Illinois in 2015, and one in Michigan in 2016, he has three down, four to go!

SAN DIEGO (November 30, 2020) The Century Club of San Diego, the nonprofit organization that operates San Diego’s PGA TOUR event, the Farmers Insurance Open®, announced today the tournament will be held at Torrey Pines Golf Course January 25-31. Due to the ongoing pandemic, spectators will not be permitted on site for the 2021 competition. “We recognize that COVID-19 requires dramatic modifications to the operations of our annual event,” said Century Club CEO Marty Gorsich. “We have been working closely with the PGA TOUR as well as the County and City of San Diego in our planning. The safety and…

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WILMINGTON, DE — AmateurGolf.com, one of the most respected names in competitive golf, has endorsed “The Book” by PuttView as the preferred yardage and greens map guide for its tournaments and thriving community of players. PuttView, golf’s leader in utilizing technology to help players improve their performance on the green, introduced “The Book” in July and it has taken the market by storm. Players at all levels of the game are flocking to “The Book,” which provides two views of each green and a yardage book hand-built by former Division I collegiate players and coaches. “We are obviously delighted that…

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GALENA, Ill. (Dec. 1, 2020) – Eagle Ridge Resort and Spa is honored to announce that is the proud winner of a prestigious Stella Award from North Star Meeting Group. The destination resort received Gold in the Regional Hotel Category for the Best Golf Resort in the Midwest for the second year in a row. Eagle Ridge Resort and Spa features the new Highlands Restaurant and Lounge 289, and four golf courses including one of the top one hundred golf courses in the country, The General. The Stella Awards are the meeting industry’s highest honor, recognizing hotels, convention centers, conference…

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Highly Complementary Businesses with Reach Across the Entire $80 Billion Global Golf Industry1 Compelling Family of Brands Well Positioned to Capitalize on Outdoor Consumer Trends Combined Businesses Create Clear Line of Sight to More Than $1 Billion of Adjusted EBITDAS Callaway Announces Record Preliminary Results for the Third Quarter 2020 CARLSBAD, CA and DALLAS, TX — Callaway (NYSE:ELY) and Topgolf Entertainment Group ;͞Topgolf͟ today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Callaway and Topgolf will combine in an all-stock transaction creating a global golf and entertainment leader. The number of…

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CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA – In its well-read “2020 Most Wanted” testing, popular golf website MyGolfSpy.com has named Honma’s TR20V irons its Most Wanted Player’s Irons – singling out the irons as the test’s leader in Strokes Gained for mid and long irons and among the leaders in Total Distance. MyGolfSpy’s report is a completely unbiased and independent compilation encompassing 17 player’s iron models from all of the major manufacturers, 240 hours of research and 16,320 shots struck. Player’s irons from multiple manufacturers were tested in Strokes Gained, Ball Speed, Launch, Spin, Height, Descent, Carry Yardage and Total Yardage categories with the…

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The game’s two biggest stars commit to helping Bridgestone win on the course and in the R&D lab for years to come (AUGUSTA, GA) – Bridgestone Golf – The leader in golf ball technology and innovation continued its significant investment into R&D by re-signing the biggest stars in the game, Tiger Woods and Bryson DeChambeau, to long-term contract extensions. Both players have won major championships with Bridgestone TOUR B golf balls (Tiger at the ’19 Masters with TOUR B XS, Bryson at the ’20 US Open with TOUR B X) and will continue to play their respective models of choice…

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‘Artifacts® Golf’ will celebrate the past, present and future of the game in a premium collectible product that has become synonymous with the Upper Deck brand Carlsbad, Calif. (October 19, 2020) – Upper Deck, the premier sports and entertainment collectibles company, announced today an upcoming addition to the company’s ever-growing golf portfolio. Artifacts Golf, a premium trading card product that will offer collectors a wide array of autograph and memorabilia cards from the game’s most beloved icons and rising stars, is set to hit store shelves in spring of 2021. Upper Deck’s first golf release since 2014 will be jam-packed…

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Hot Launch 521 Designed to be the Leader in Performance Value Custom Fitting Tour Edge announces the launch of two new Tour Edge Hot Launch series that are designed to cover both ends of the Game Improvement golf club spectrum. The Hot Launch E521 line is for Extreme Game Improvement, while the Hot Launch C521 are Competition Spec Game Improvement golf clubs. Both unique lines of E and C Series feature different shapes, specs and shafts with separate drivers, fairway metals, hybrids and irons. In all, 46 different lofts of clubs in right-handed clubs and 20 lofts in left-handed models…

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Novi, MI – With the golf industry still seeing rejuvenated and, at many courses and clubs, unprecedented participation across North America, a growing segment of golfers is taking advantage of the ability to take remote lessons from top teaching pros, anytime and anywhere. V1 Sports (V1), makers of industry-standard video swing analysis technology, reports that a record number of digital lessons were given using the V1 Pro (for teaching pros) and V1 Golf (for golfers) software and mobile apps during the month of September. Last month’s activity on V1 Pro and V1 Golf marks the most lessons delivered in the…

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With the new X Forged CB irons, the goal was simple: provide consistency, control, amazing feel and a beautiful design for the most discerning of golfers. Typical irons in this category are single piece, but Callaway took a different approach. We enhanced the player’s performance iron with multi-material construction using weighting, face technology, and shaping to create an iron worthy of the X Forged name. Features & Benefits: Precise Control from Multi-Material Construction. These irons are engineered with custom internal and external MIM’d tungsten weighting. The tungsten in the toe aligns the CG precisely behind the middle of the club,…

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