TIME TO PUT YOUR SHOES ON and head over to the Mistwood Golf Dome located on Rt.53 in Bolingbrook. Because the Mistwood Golf Dome is your one stop shop. Go hit some range balls, getting your distance numbers on Toptracer, or playing top rated golf courses from around the world. The fitting team of Eric Russell, Scott Hogan and Matt Carter is ready to put you into a new club or clubs for the 2025 golf season.
BUT IF YOUR IN NEED OF LESSONS. There are plenty of great teachers on the Mistwood Staff that will help you get it figured out. So you can take a better game to the course. So while you are there, enjoy great food from Chef Danny and the award winning chicken wings. Mistwood Golf is one of the Chicago area’s full year-round golf programs. So book a hitting bay today at Mistwoodgolfdome.com or call the dome at (630)-739-7600.
THE GOG BLOG by RORY SPEARS Director of Content and Creation for Golfers on Golf. Follow Rory on Twitter-X @GogBlogGuy or connect on LinkedIn-Facebook or Instagram. At the Mistwood Golf Dome in Bolingbrook IL.
HOW MUCH MONEY $$$$$$
Do Team USA Ryder Cup players need?
Because most of them are sitting pretty well in the bank. But now they get an additional $500K for playing in the Ryder Cup next year at Bethpage.
So let me break this down. $300K is supposed to go to charity of the players choosing. $200k the players can keep, or give to charity. But the question will be, what charity. Because in the past some players have just donated the money to their own foundation. So will players keep the money they are allowed to keep, or donate it.
IT IS THOUGHT that some players on TEAM USA will donate their share to various charities. But the bigger question that is being raised is, why do they need to be paid at all. Team Europe’s players will not be paid. This is at their request.
BUT IN ALL FAIRNESS to TEAM USA, they have to play every year, USA players never get a year off like Team Europe players do, or the International Team does. Because having both a Ryder Cup and a Presidents Cup every other year, forces Team USA to have 12 players ready every year. So maybe their needs to be an event where Team Europe and the International Team play each other. This way Team USA gets a year off. A great idea-but one that will never happen.
Shack owner Nick Larkin invites golfers to golf all year round at The Shack Golf Club, 1717 Chestnut Ave. in Glenview. Seven simulators and a putting green. So come hit it and join Arnie at bar. TheShackGolfClub.com or call (847)-904-2905.
NEW CLUBS…
IS IT TIME FOR SOME…or at least one new club.
SO YOU have time off around the holidays. Go get fitted for some new clubs.
But while you can get better deals if you buy new sticks at the time of a fitting. You don’t really have to buy that day. But it’s not such a bad idea to get an idea of what you need, to make your game better.
So if your tired of losing all the bets, tired of always having to buy lunch or the beer after a round. Never winning a skin-pot during an outing, seeing your handicap score go up. Maybe it’s time you update your clubs. But if your going to upgrade only one club, and not an entire set. I recommend the following. Go buy a driver first. Second go buy a putter. Finally and maybe the cheapest way out, is to buy a wedge. A new wedge can get you closer to the pin, or help you get out of the rough or a bunker.
NEW CLUBS PART TWO. It’s no longer the era of all the equipment companies releasing the new clubs at the PGA Show in late January. Because if you look around online, you can now see some of what’s new for 2025.
Golfers on Golf-Editor and DOC Rory Spears (L)-with LAB GOLF CEO Sam Hahn (R) at Rich Harvest Farms.
SO FAR a few things are standing out. The new Ping, Tour Edge and Callaway drivers look pretty good. But the world of putters is changing really quickly.
LETS CALL IT THE LAB GOLF REVOLUTION OF PUTTING. Because there was a time when LAB Golf putters were referred to as, those funny looking putters. But nobody is laughing anymore, as the LAB Golf army of golfers is growing every day. LAB Golf putters are showing up on every golf tour. No longer just mini-tours where players need something to get them to the next level.
LAB GOLF is not just about a style or design. It’s about the science of putting the proper roll and speed on a putt. It’s about putting the control of a putt back in the hands of the golfer. Which is something every golfer can use. So if your in the market for a new putter. Check out LAB Golf putters at Labgolf.com before you buy anything.
WEDGES. Buying one or two wedges is never a bad idea. Because getting out of the rough, or a bunker is key to keeping your score in check. Having the proper wedge, that gives you some spin from the fairway or chipping areas is key.
BEFORE YEAR’S END… I will post my favorite clubs, golf balls and other golf equipment brands. Then I will have some year end results or rankings on courses and Best of 2024. But then some hopes for 2025 on the golf course.
Len Ziehm speaks with two-time Western Open Champion and three-time major champion Nick Price about his newly opened Soleta Golf Club design, complete with a David Ledbetter Academy in Myakka City Florida. Memberships and homes now available. Soletagolf.com.
But you can read Len Ziehm’s review of Soleta Golf at Lenziehmongolf.com. Golfers on Golf will visit Soleta next month around the PGA Show.
The Gog Blog returns this week. RS