Fred Altvater and Carlos Torres, once again check-in the world of golf to bringing you the latest news, insight, analysis, interviews, recaps and previews.
This Thursday, golf is making its return to sports’ biggest stage, The Olympics, for the first time in 112 years, and on The Practice Range, you’ll learn everything there is to know about it.
On the Weekend Backspin they’ll recap how Russel Knox won the Travelers Championship, but it was Jim Furyk who made history with a 58; Anthony Wall ends record for longest winless drought at the Aberdeen Asset Management Paul Lawrie Match Play; Joe Durant won the 3M Championship over Miguel Angel Jimenez with a sudden death eagle; Wesley Bryan earned an automatic PGA Tour promotion with his third win of the season on the Web.com Tour at the Digital Ally Championship and Eun Jeong Seong won the U.S. Women’s Amateur over NCAA Champion, Virginia Elena Carta.
The Par-5 News discusses Nike’s exit from the golf equipment industry and Golfsmith is considering Bankruptcy; Shane Lowry and Matthew Fitzpatrick alter their schedules to go all in to qualify for the Euro Ryder Cup Team; Slow play in big tournaments is getting more than lip service this year; Player updates on Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau; and Mariah Stackhouse joins KPMG and is given five exceptions on Symetra Tour.
The Very Important Guest (VIG) of the Week is Ed Travis, a golf writer, equipment reviewer and travel expert, who will answer, What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on with the golf Equip Industry?