By Tony Jimenez VIRGINIA WATER, England (Reuters) – World number 18 Martin Kaymer has called on the European Tour to move its flagship event, this week’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, to later in the season. The course, redesigned by four-times major winner Ernie Els in recent years, is not to everyone’s liking. Henrik Stenson, Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter and Paul Casey have all decided to skip this year’s tournament
By Tony Jimenez VIRGINIA WATER, England, May 19 (Reuters) – World number 18 Martin Kaymer has called on the European Tour to move its flagship event, this week’s BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth, to later in the season. The course, redesigned by four-times major winner Ernie Els in recent years, is not to everyone’s liking. Henrik Stenson, Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter and Paul Casey have all decided to skip this
By Paul Ingrassia EPSOM, England (Reuters) – Before titanium, before graphite, before composites and before steel, golf clubs had shafts of wood, ideally hickory. “Some people think steel shafts will catch on, but I don’t want to rush into it,” says Philip Truett, president of the British Golf Collectors Society. Many golfers felt likewise a century ago, when steel shafts first appeared, painted brown to look like wood.
-Does it really matter whether the 2016 Explorer is any good? History suggests that it does not. The Explorer has been a juggernaut for Ford ever since the first one rolled off the assembly line and helped ignite the SUV boom at the dawn of the 1990s. Derived from the Ranger compact pickup, the original Explorer was a compromised vehicle, but it was wildly popular—and remained so despite a spate
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– From the June 2015 issue – – Having proven that you can, in fact, blast across an entire state in a bright orange supercar without getting a ticket thanks to Waze, a Google-owned navigation app, what more need we say? Well, a few things, actually—Waze has been targeted by police departments that aren’t too pleased about users’ abilities to tag police-car locations for other Wazers, citing officer safety among
– The last four-pot mid-engined Porsche was the 914, briefly replaced by the rear-engined 911E, an impact-bumper-clad 911 with Weissach’s 2.0-liter rework of Volkswagen’s humble Type 4 engine. We mention this because, according to Porsche chief Matthias Müller, Porsche’s new turbocharged four-cylinder boxer motor will begin appearing in the Boxster and Cayman next year. And it could possibly replace the 3.4-liter flat-six used in the 911 Carrera at some point
– If you’ve watched the last few episodes of AMC’s hit series, Mad Men, you probably noticed a sharp 1965 Cadillac Coupe DeVille driven by the show’s protagonist, Don Draper. A look-alike of Draper’s ’65 is for sale on eBay, and we’re guessing it’s no coincidence. – Like Draper’s Coupe DeVille, this Caddy is silver metallic from top to bottom, with no vinyl top. The major difference compared with the TV-show
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– More than five million Camaros have been sold over the better part of six decades, a feat to which Chevrolet can credit, at least in part, a generous marketing budget. With the sixth-gen car now in the public domain—you can read all about it here—we decided the time was right to gather some of our favorite Camaro print advertisements from throughout the car’s history. From fashion to typefaces and photography to