Equipment Insider

The United States Golf Association announced on Tuesday that it will adopt the new groove rules as a condition of competition for the 2010 U.S. Open, U.S. Women's Open and U.S.

Walker Cup hero Rickie Fowler, the world’s top-ranked amateur, will be playing Titleist golf balls and clubs when he makes his professional debut this week at the Nationwide Tour’s Albertsons Boise Open.

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Er, pardon the pun…but look how far distance balls have come. Pellets that were once derided as rocks are getting more fairway cred every year.

Pretty soon the golf ball is going to have more layers to it than an onion.

Call us obsessed over here at Leading Edge, but we can’t stop thinking about outsoles. That’s right, the business side of a golf shoe – where the rubber, plastic, cleats and little stubby pyramids meet the ground.

The money shot that giant-killer Y.E. Yang stiffed on the 18th hole to seal the deal over Tiger Woods at yesterday’s PGA Championship was hit with a TaylorMade Rescue TP (19 degrees) hybrid.

In the ongoing patent battle between golf ball makers Titleist and Callaway, Titleist has done the legal equivalent of sinking a huge putt to get into a playoff.

Nike putters used by Lucas Glover and Stewart Cink to win the U.S.