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Golf's bountiful charms include its abiding bizarreness, spanning six centuries and finding fresh light over the weekend, dude, at a rowdy course in Arizona.
There, this familiar game long since passed off as normal behavior ran across the following narrative:
Technicians at Callaway had toiled to revolutionize a driver, which does paint a picture of glorious golf geeks, sleepless and hunched over computer diagrams. Last Tuesday, their newly forged RAZR Fit Xtreme found its way to the hands of 42-year-old Phil Mickelson who, when it comes to club advancements, has seen his share plus somebody else's. Mickelson hit it and "saw an immediate difference."
Boom. Mickelson lurched a lip-out from a 59 on Thursday at the Waste...
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