Blog: Bomb & Gouge
- Morning lines
- BOMB: Just so you don’t think that all I do is “product testing,” thought I’d take the change to catch the folks up on some stuff they’ll be seeing in the coming months that, if...
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- Square deal
- GOUGE: Bomb's taking this glorious afternoon off to do some product testing, but in the interest of keeping the discussion going, I'll throw a few notes up on the bulletin board to keep the hounds...
Blog: Bomb & Gouge
- Non-confirmed Reports
- BOMB: We know, it’s been a while since we posted. Sorry about that, folks. We’ll try to be better. Sad fact is we have day jobs, too, and are not full-time bloggers.But nothing like...
Blog: Bomb & Gouge
- PGA Merchandise Show, Thing 4
- BOMB & GOUGE: More stuff from the PGA Merchandise Show that doesn't have to do with clubs and balls, but may be at least as important. Some of you may remember the groovy Shling bag...
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- PGA Merchandise Show: Thing 3
- BOMB & GOUGE: And you think Bomb & Gouge only care about clubs, shafts and golf balls? (Well, Gouge does, but he spends weekends reading the latest entries from the Journal of the American Journal...
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- Two more things we just remembered
- BOMB: It's not only tour players who get to see the new stuff. The fall sales meetings for all the major companies are winding down and soon sales reps will be showing off some of...
Blog: Bomb & Gouge
- Five Things Everybody Will Be Talking About Soon
- BOMB: It must be that time of year again, partner. Everyone's asking me what's going to be new in equipment for next year. Normally I just blow them off. But then again, never had a...
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- So many choices
- GOUGE: If you want to know what you should buy because the U.S. Open winner used it on his way to victory, well, you've got a mixed bag, as it were. There's Mickelson's Callaway Fusion...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- The California Golf Tax
- In case you haven't heard or read about the so-called "golf tax" in California, here is an update from today's Sacramento Bee. In a nutshell: the state of California is facing a $41 billion shortfall...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Report: Stimulus Package Excludes Golf
- In a recent article in Golf World, contributing writer Geoff Shackelford speculated about whether efforts by President Barack Obama and his administration to jump-start the economy might include golf. It didn't take long to get...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- California Golf Tax Defeated
- The proposed Caifornia golf tax has been defeated. After 45 hours of debate, the California state legislature finally passed its $143 billion budget Thursday, and the proposed golf tax -- which we wrote about Jan....
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Superstition Mountain Auction Set
- It's not every day one gets the chance to buy a golf community that has hosted a Champions Tour major and an LPGA tournament. But real estate investors will have that opportunity March 19 in...


















