Looks like Tiger Woods is back. He announced via his Twitter this evening that he will be playing at the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational next week. He had up until Friday evening to decide and it looks like he had made up his mind. Saying he was “@TigerWoods Feeling fit and ready to tee it up at Firestone next week. Excited to get back out there!” Hopefully he is ready and healthy of course there will be lots of speculation if he is or not but looks like we will just have to wait until the tournament. The biggest question on everyones mind was …. Who will be carrying his bags? in an untimly departure from long time caddy and friend Steve Williams it’s speculated that childhood friend Bryon Bell will be carrying those sticks. I’ll update you if I find out anything else.
What makes a forgiving golf club? This has been on my mind for a while now we are in the peak of the season and I need a little more forgiveness in my shots. By definition this means a club design element that sends the ball straight and long even when the ball is mis-stuck (aka cut, sliced, hooked, shanked). Opinion obviously varies on this but there are a few characteristics that seem to be the widely held view among the golfing community.
- Loft, the more loft the club has the more forgiveness you will find.
- An off set club will make up for a poor swing
- Perimeter weighting
- More weight down low on the sole of the club
Essentially what it comes down to is various centers of gravity affect the forgiveness as well as the moment of inertia. A club with a well placed center of gravity is more forgiving than a cavity back with haphazard one. I found this great article on game improving golf drivers for 2011. I think the definition is the same if the the club was designed to be forgiving it was also designed to improve a players game.
Now that I already let you know what groups I will be watching here is the schedule for The Open Championship aka British Open 
6/14 Thursday 4AM-6PM ET ESPN
6/15 Friday 4AM-6PM ET ESPN
6/16 Saturday 7AM-2:30 PM ET ESPN
6/17 Sunday 6AM-1:30 PM ET ESPN
After this weekend watching Steve Stricker win his 3rd consecutive John Deere Classic title and So Yeon Ryu win her first major championship at the U.S. Women’s Open, we gear up for the next major on the PGA Tour: The British Open, The Open, or The Open Championship whichever you like to call it. The major returns to Royal St. George course where Ben Curtis was crowned the victor and the most unlikely of players.
The tee times have been set for the first round. Most notable groups include:
Louis Oosthuizen (defending champion), Martin Kaymer, and Phil Mickelson
Graeme McDowell, Jason Day, and Bubba Watson
Ernie Els, Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler
We may have already watch Rory at the PGA US Open but now it’s the Women’s turn. If your worried you might miss it, don’t. NBC Sports Group has dedicated an unheard of 25+ hours to the tournament. Held at Broadmoor Resort in Colorado. The 2011 Women’s US Open Schedule is as follows:
Wednesday: 6-7 PM (ET) Golf Central
8-9 PM (ET) Golf Talk Live
Thursday: 1:30-3 PM (ET) Golf Central Pre Game
9-9:30 PM (ET) Golf Central
Friday: 1:30-3 PM (ET) Golf Central Pre Game
9-9:30 PM (ET) Golf Central
Saturday: 3-6 PM (ET) Golf Channel on NBC live coverage
Sunday: 3-6 PM (ET) Golf Channel on NBC live coverage
