🚨 #GIVEAWAY! 🚨 It's the year's 2nd Major, so let's give away a 2nd Putter today! We are giving away a custom L.A.B. Putter to 1 lucky golfer (Any model, No TPT Shafts) To enter: ⛳ Comment the L.A.B Putter you'd want (include your specs) ⛳ Tag your playing partners in your comment ⛳ Like & Share Post Must Follow @2ndSwingGolf! Good Luck! *Will choose random winner among all entries *Must submit entry prior to end of the Championship *Will announce winner next week! Disclaimer: This contest is in no way affiliated with the PGA Championship. 2nd Swing Contest rules apply.

My office backdrop for work meetings got an upgrade recently… Hopefully the open umbrella indoors doesn’t bring on any bad luck. 🫣😂

We’re looking to get the word out about the Herbert V. Kohler/GWAA Journalism Scholarships on offer for 2026-2027. Please help us by passing along this information link to your alma mater’s journalism program and anyone else you think might be interested!

RT @TaylorMadeCA: 🚨 GIVEAWAY 🚨 We're giving away a Replica Rory McIlroy Season Opener Staff Bag, a Qi4D Driver, and 6 Dozen RORS Golf Ball…

Rory McIlroy’s career so far: 6 Majors (Career Grand Slam) 30 PGA Tour wins 21 DP World Tour wins 9 National Open titles 2 Players Championships 3 FedEx Cups 7 Race to Dubai titles 6 Ryder Cup wins Indisputably top-10 all time and getting VERY close to the top-5

Winning a second Masters is incredibly special and would not have been possible without the people who have supported me along the way.

Another Masters, another year of incredible photos of Rory McIlroy's win, many I'm sure you've seen. Most have been shared without proper credit to the amazing photographers who were out there. So here's a 🧵 of some of the best photos with attribution. Enjoy and follow them!

Also a good time to remind people of the investment Justin Rose and his wife Kate have made in women’s mini-tour golf. During Covid they put on a bunch of one-day events with the winner getting 10,000. It was funded by the Rose’s and his sponsors. It is still going, with 5 events this year, and the events are played on some of the UK’s best courses. The developmental system in women’s golf has improved but it needs so much more, really awesome that Justin and Kate invest in making it better.

Goodbye, friends, from Augusta Georgia! As a farewell, we’re giving away one of the limited edition Peach Reserve TOUR-ISSUE Staff Bags. To win: Just REPOST!

🌺 PGAPappas The Masters Giveaway 2 🌺 🔥 2026 Tour Edge Exotics Staff Stand Bag 👀 #TheMasters To enter: ✅ Repost ✅ Follow @PGAPappas and @TourEdgeGolf #ReleaseTheGnome

Also going with a Wednesday draw for this Tour Edge Exotics Staff Stand Bag. 😀👍

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The one time I got the invite of a lifetime, to play Augusta National, it was only a few weeks before The Masters. On property was Rory, Shane Lowry, Tom Brady, Scottie, the Chairman, Jimmy Dunne and more … it was power-packed and I was dizzy with the visuals. On the course, which I played twice on that trip, it exceeded expectations. The walk was a lot of things, but if I were to use one word, it’d be “glorious.” Or, “magnificent.” Something I wouldn’t normally use to describe a round of golf. And to play it requires “precision.” Which, for any golfer, but especially an amateur, is what makes it so difficult. We are not precise like they are. And from the tips, playing hard and fast, it’s the demand for that extreme level of precision that even tests The Best. Lies are so tight. Edges are so clean. Slopes are so extreme. Speeds are unlike anything we’ve seen. From the member’s tees, rattle-bottom, I can’t imagine breaking 100 on a day like today. I would set over-under at 105. And for context: My current Index is 7.1, I have decent length, struggle with iron play, streaky short game and I consider myself a good putter. That being said, there would be plenty of bets on the over. Rightfully so. Every shot, from tee to green, and then on the greens, requires strategy and skill. It’s relentless. Right, left, up, down. Get out of position, you pay. Dearly. It beats you down with a southern genteel charm, leaving you humbled and, at times, embarrassed. And I left with so much more respect for what these guys do and how they do it. (And mind you, I had a lot of respect going in.) The scores they card?! Unfathomable. This week in particular, buckle up. It’ll be defensive. Destructive. Demoralizing. More middle fingers and slammed clubs. A guess on winning score? It might just be -5.

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in due time. 💪

Next year, for sure, Frankie. We believe ❤️

I got one of the famed 2026 gnomes this week at The Masters and I’ve decided to GIVE IT AWAY to one lucky follower! To be in the running, simply: ⛳️ Follow me AND @AGTGolfBooks ⛳️ Repost this post I’ll draw for a winner on Saturday evening at 7:00 pm CST. #TheMasters #AugustaNational

🌺 MASTERS GIVEAWAY 🌺 Win a PRO X Rangefinder with our custom Azalea plate 🔥 Want it in your bag for this season? 👇 • Like & repost • Comment your prediction for the Green jacket this week • Follow @shotscope Winner DM’d by us after the final round. Good luck!

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour. He had been up there for over a day. Then the warnings started. First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home. Without it, reentry was nearly impossible. Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead. Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing. Cooper didn't panic. He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch. Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer. At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole. Then the parachutes opened. Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program. The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had. We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does. But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next. The final backup was never the software. It was him.