There are just enough azaleas to make the horticulturist in you happier than a Sunday back-nine eagle. Golf Pride is dressing up its go-to grip, the Tour Velvet®, in a slick green-and-white outfit.

Kemsley sits down, holds something in her crotch area and looks to push down on it, resulting in a machine shooting out ping pong balls from what looks like her, err, private area. The contestants ...

Since Karsten Solheim founded Ping in 1959, the company has been making some of the game’s most forgiving “player-friendly” products. When you consider innovations like the Anser putter ...

Yet there’s one particularly well-known anecdotal piece of evidence of the oscillating, back-and-forth relationship between the East and the West known as ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy’ which was ...

This can tell you a lot about what shots may be of higher difficulty for them. Extreme forehand grips such as full western may give you a hint that low balls will trouble them, for example.

Light, powerful racquets, Westernized forehand grips, and two-handed backhands made ground strokes easier to hit, and volleys more difficult. So far, the two have been mutually exclusive.

The result was, and still is, a pretty severe Western forehand grip that still draws stares from people. “Where did you learn that?” they ask as I whip the frame straight up behind the ball.