Blog: Bomb & Gouge

A good smash in the face
GOUGE: You know how it is, partner, when you're going along and think you have everything figured out and then something smashes you right in the face? Sometimes you never recover from it. Sometimes you're...
By Mike Stachura
Published May. 05, 2009
Keywords Appendix III | Bomb Gouge | Rules of Golf | USGA | golf balls | grooves | spin
November 21, 2009

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