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- Hot List Summit Day 7: Friendship and fatigue
- MESQUITE, Nev. -- It isn’t a buddies trip, nor is it even a golf trip in the traditional sense. When the equipment testers arrive for Golf Digest’s annual Hot List Summit, not much actual golf...
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- Hot List Summit Day 6: Drivers and long drivers
- MESQUITE, Nev. -- A half dozen or more of those competing in the ReMax World Long Drive Championship here next week were practicing on the driving range at CasaBlanca Golf Club, a timely reminder that...
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- Hot List Summit Day 5: By the numbers
- MESQUITE, Nev. -- This was a day that can best be described using numbers, starting with this one: 2,500 pounds. That is the weight of the equipment (clubs and range balls) that was shipped from...
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- Editor's Essay: Boxed sets?
- MESQUITE, Nev. — At first glance, it was the most disturbing thing said in two days of discussions with retailers here at the Hot List Summit. In fact, it may have been the most disturbing...
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- Hot List Summit Day 4: An identity crisis
- MESQUITE, Nev. -- Golf Digest’s annual Hot List features three iron categories, and typically no more than a cursory glance of an iron clubhead has been necessary for the four Hot List judges to conclude...
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- Hot List Summit Day 3: Economics 101
- MESQUITE, Nev. -- Their job is one of the most difficult in golf these days, selling equipment in a challenging economy. Their own success depends on their ability to determine what the demand will be...
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- Editor's Essay: The launch monitor doesn't lie
- MESQUITE, Nev. -- After 30 years of playing golf, there are certain things you think you know about your game. Your average ball flight, your typical mis-hit and, obviously, how far you hit the ball....
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- Hot List Summit, Day 7
- BOMB: Comedian Ron White once said "You can't fix stupid." In some ways, our retailer panel, which convened for its first day today was, in essence, said the same thing when the general consensus was...
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- Hot List Summit, Day 3
- BOMB (pictured above): One of our main tenets of the Hot List always has been this: That if you're not at least investigating new products and new technologies, or finding ways to make your...
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- Hot List Summit, Day 2
- BOMB: Perhaps the last thing I expected from our first day here at CordeValle Resort (other than you passing on the chocolate lava cake for dessert), was seeing Kirk Triplett tee it up two...
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- Hot List Summit, Day 1
- BOMB: Well, for those of you that may have wondered what happened to us, the answer is simple: We've spent the last couple of weeks gearing up for our annual Hot List summit meeting which,...
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- Hot List Summit Day 2: Say what?
- MESQUITE, Nev. -- When a six-pack of scientists assembles to discuss technology, the conversation occasionally takes unexpected turns that are marginally off topic, but entirely worthy of discussion, often for their entertainment value alone. But...
