Ten Greatest Golf Stories for 2014 By ED TRAVIS Lydia Ko Ko, was 17...

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Ten Greatest Golf Stories for 2014
By ED TRAVIS
Lydia Ko
Ko, was 17...
Ten Greatest Golf Stories for 2014 By ED TRAVIS Lydia Ko Ko, was 17 previous April and set the file for the youngest LPGA Tour player to acquire $1 million in the course of the typical year and took residence the Rolex Louise Suggs Rookie of the 12 months award. In addition she’s the very first to achieve $2 million and acquired the most in a single day of any feminine golfer by successful $1.5 million—the year extended Race to the CME Globe for a great million and the year ending CME Group Tour Championship above Greg Norman’s Tiburon Training course in Naples, Fla. for 50 percent a million. She could not very own a car…yet, nor a driver’s license but what the diminutive Overlook Ko does have is a huge smile and a stellar golf potential. Does she remind any person else apart from me of yet another teen sensation named Nancy Lopez? Ted Bishop Will get Fired The PGA of America’s dropped the Ryder Cup (once again) and it’s President right after he created what have been labeled “insensitive” remarks on social media about Ian Poulter. Most thoughtful observers deemed Bishop amazingly inept or stupid or the two to interact in this sort of immature juvenile title calling. Then of training course there was the predicable above-the-best reaction by specific media-varieties and a handful of supersensitive individuals…overwrought arrives to brain. Bishop was fired but the truth is there have been only a handful of weeks still left in his tenure as president. All in all even though eliminating Bishop from the best placement of golf’s most crucial firm was a really excellent point. Whaley Moves By means of the Chairs In a connected but significantly a lot more crucial story, Suzy Whaley joined the board of the PGA of The usa as corporate secretary, the very first girl so elected. The implications for the firm, golf in basic and women’s part in the recreation are nothing at all but optimistic. Whaley, a Connecticut instructing skilled, has recreation as effectively, in 2003 getting the very first females for practically six a long time to qualify for a PGA Tour function. Presuming all goes as planned she will “move by means of the chairs” and grow to be president of the PGA in 2018. TMaG SLDR Push From its introduction late in 2013 the SLDR from TaylorMade Golf a lot more than dominated driver product sales in 2014, it just blew away the opposition so the issue of training course is can the organization do to stick to up and sustain its market major placement. They have a new SLDR (2-sliding weights fairly than a single) but returned to an outdated model sequence, calling it the R15. The SLDR was (and nevertheless is almost certainly) the longest driver by any goal measurement so consumer’s flocked to acquire, but by slide the frenzy had tapered off. The greatest-offering driver in September was Ping’s G30 additionally rival Titleist has a new 915 sequence attracting plenty of focus and Callaway Golf looks to be refocused at previous on regaining the amount a single place TMaG took away from them. PGA’s Ryder Cup Reduction Is it just me or does the PGA of The usa sending the difficulty of Crew USA’s sequence of biannual Ryder Cup losses (8 of the previous 10) to a committee smack of “a camel is a horse created by a committee?” We will have to see what the group of golf insiders arrives up with but the two Tiger and Lefty are committee customers and “warm and fuzzy” in no way describes their connection. Billy Horschel Who doesn’t like Billy Horschel’s intensity and will to acquire and as he amply demonstrated in 2014 he has recreation. Just get his final results in the month of September. The very first weekend he ties for 2nd at the Deutsche Financial institution Championship ($597,000), the 2nd he gained the BMW Championship ($1.4 million) and completed off with the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola (yet another $1.4 million). Dumping his strategy on the 72 nd hole at the Deutsche Financial institution to all but hand Chris Kirk the acquire may well have devastated a lesser gentleman but Horschel rose to the situation getting the ultimate two playoff activities and the FedEx Cup. Sharp qualified prospects TMaG It looks as even though stories about the greatest tools organization dominated the enterprise coverage this 12 months but the modifying of the guard at the best of TaylorMade-adidas Golf will have the longest shadow. With Mark King, the gentleman who took TMaG from getting a quite excellent club maker to industry dominance, relocating up to head Adidas North The usa his alternative Ben Sharpe has his palms total. TMaG has an progressive historical past of recreation modifying metalwood patterns but has engendered robust damaging feelings amid stores and golfers not to mention its opponents for its aggressive marketing and advertising and solution introduction cycle. It will be intriguing to see how Shapre’s “Playbook 3.0” is carried out but proper away he is dedicated to producing the Adams model target on recreational golfers retaining TaylorMade’s items fulfilling the needs of minimal handicap players. Tiger Woods The saga carries on with 2014 for Woods getting a whole disaster golfwise. As most know his injuries-triggered enjoying file for the 12 months was adequate to push a lesser mortal off the Tour into a club work. Seven commences, zero wins, two WDs, two missed cuts, and so forth. As has been mentioned by this writer several instances, the recreation of golf and the enterprise of golf wants Woods to be healthful and competing and successful. So now with Chris Como as Woods’ most recent “swing consultant” and a healthful entire body we will wait around to see if his mental recreation is as repaired as his surgically repaired back again. Healthful LPGA Just seeking at the prize funds on the LPGA Tour beneath Commissioner Michael Whan displays the LPGA Tour is not only healthful but developing. Aided by wins from admirer-favorites Michelle Wie (ultimately, a U.S. Open), Stacy Lewis, Lexi Thompson and rookie sensation Lydia Ko additionally Mo Martin’s 72 nd hole eagle to acquire the British Open is it any surprise the girls drew file crowds and a lot more Tv set viewers than the Champions Tour? And by the way, in the totally greatest indicator of how the Tour is carrying out, the timetable is now 33 tournaments…a obtain of ten from just a handful of a long time in the past. TaylorMade RSi Irons This listing of greatest stories for 2014 could look like a paean to TaylorMade-adidas Golf but getting at the best helps make them the target of plenty of focus. Additionally there’s no far better cause than what really effectively could be a recreation-modifying iron design and style, the RSi. The complex specifics have been extensively lined but the addition of slots to the RSi confront is considerable, the two as a prospective for aiding golfers with their off heart hits but a lot more for the demonstration of TaylorMade’s ongoing R&D leadership.