We’re always on the lookout and always getting tips from other golfers on sites, equipment, and informational resources to let our readers know about. Recently we stumbled upon Bunkers Paradise, a great resource for information and videos on golf equipment, helpful golf articles, and more to get you playing better golf.

We hunted around their site, and although the site looks to be getting an update or two, we liked the information it had to offer. Currently I use a knockoff pair of Callaway irons. I like mine fine but always like to see what callaway golf is coming out with next. This site has the informational videos embedded for Callaway along with a bunch others.

The Callaway Golf club I’m most interested in is that goofy looking Callaway FTi. It’s square body, huge face, I haven’t swung one but have read tons of reviews and really am looking forward to hitting the range and trying it out. This site has a great review with all the specs to get you going.

Another company the site features a lot of golf club reviews on is nike golf equipment. Stuff like the new Sumo driver and irons with in depth information to help you see if these will fit your game. I tried the original Sasquatch and thought it was OK. Didn’t give me much distance and felt really long in the shaft.

Overall, if you’re looking for golf info head over and check out Bunkers Paradise as the build their informational resources for golfers.

Many sports players develop injuries due to repetitive movements, including golfers and tennis players. Rotor cuff tears, tendinitis, knee cartilage wear, and various other problems occur from a very active sports lifestyle. Various websites and supplements cater to correcting the effects of these hobbies on our body and lifestyles.

These bodybuilding forums have many posts and threads on various supplements and ways to treat repetitive stress injuries. These supplements includes various products for sports related injuries. An article posted at this website indicates how shoulder problems and joint problems occur and some methods and supplements to correct these problems.

We’d like to thank IronMass for pointing out some great forums and threads to help our golf readers deal with injuries as well as helping to support our blog. We found tons more sports related threads there.

Phil Mickelson, who fell apart late last year after taking the PGA tour by storm in early 2006 won his 30th career title at Pebble Beach in California.

The left-handed Mickelson pocketed $990,000 to exceed $40 million in career earnings with his win in Cali. This is a much better way for Phil to start the 2007 year which he needed to start brilliantly after breaking down in the US Open in which he was leading going into the final holes, only to lose in what many thought was poor poor course management.

But that’s in the past and this is a new year. With the Fed Ex Cup at stake it seems like there’s a whole new PGA tour, with people gunning for as many points as they can, the overall PGA tour victor will be decided by a new system, and Phil is creeping towards the top.

Phil didn’t just win Pebble Beach he crushed the competition. A field that in the top 10 included the likes of Davis Love III and Jim Furyk, two of the tops in the world. He didn’t win by 1 or 2 strokes, he won by a decisive 5 strokes shooting 20 under for the tournament.

We look forward to what has already been an exciting 2007 on the PGA tour.

The past weekend at the Sony Open wasn’t about Vijay Singh or defending champ David Toms. It wasn’t about Michelle Wie making the cut, but it was about a teenager making the cut. The youngest teenager in the last 50 years to make the cut in a PGA tour event that is. Hawaii’s own Tadd Fujikawa that is.

Once Tadd made the cut on Friday and then followed that up with a stellar 66 on Saturday, the world was watching Tadd Fujikawa. He was in contention just 6 strokes back of the lead.

But it wasn’t his magnificent drives or the fact that he was making them using his small 5′1″ frame. No it was his excitement for the game, his love of the game. The golf channel showed a clip of him late into the night practicing his putting Saturday night, getting ready for the next day, where he was to be paired up with Jim Furyk, the worlds number 2 player.

Tadd Fujikawa wasn’t talking like the world owed him something. He wasn’t speaking as though he was better and deserved to be in the top ten (even though his play was great and definitely warranted it) he was just happy to be there. He was all smiles as he played, and had to tip his hat often to the crowd.

I was able to make it over to the Waialae Country Club on Sunday for the final round and quickly figured out where Tadd was playing. Some of the best players in the world were on the course that day but you couldn’t have guessed where they were. The leaders had about 50 people following them while Tadd and Jim had the fairways lined from tee box to green.

Around the green you were 10 people deep trying to get a glimpse of the smile from the 5′1″ Tadd Fujikawa. People were racing to the next hole as if Tiger Woods were battling it out with Phil Mickelson. No it was the hometown crowd cheering on the young Tadd.

Even the other players were getting into it, watching how the crowd reacted to this young man who plays with such heart and just has fun.

The biggest moment of the day was when Tadd was walking up the 18th fairway and even Jim Furyk had to stop and clap for him. It was quite a sight. Tadd had just tried to cut the corner with a blast off the tee on the par 5 18th, missing the bunkers edge by a few yards. He then shot a magnificent shot from about 220 out of the sand to the green-side bunker where he saved a birdie try by managing a sand shot within a few feet of the cup.

It was a perfect ending to the day where Tadd was often going for it all, playing with guts, to go for glory. He had amazing shots to guarded pins, that others played safe and wen to the center of the green. He often tried and usually made it while cutting the corners.

Tadd Fujikawa was a lesson for all young golfers trying to make it big. Play for fun and play with your heart. Don’t love the sport just for the money. You’ll never make the cut if that’s all you play for.

On Friday, one local high school student famished and one local high school student flourished. Michelle Wie missed the cut again at her fourth Sony Open playing at her Waialae Country Club home course. But the big news was coming from a few holes ahead of Michelle Wie.

Tadd Fujikawa, who last year became one of the youngest players to ever qualify for the US Open, was fighting for a spot to play in the weekend. On the 18th hole, a par 5, Tadd needed a par to make the projected cut. Instead, he settled for an eagle, throwing his arms to the sky.

With that, Tadd Fujikawa became the youngest player in 50 years to make the cut in a PGA tour event. Afterwards Tadd was ecstatic about making the cut and doing it in front of his hometown crowd of friends and family. He also jokingly said he didn’t think, or better, didn’t expect to win or even come close to winning. He was just happy to be moving on to the next round.

Well, joking aside, he came out today and shot another 66 to put him in the top 10 going into the final round of the 2007 Sony Open. He sits at 7-under par, 5 strokes behind the expected leader Paul Goydos.

Hawaii looks to have some great up and coming golfers with both Tadd and Michelle. We’ll keep you in the loop with up to date info on the Sony Open. 

The Sony Open, the second stop on the 2007 PGA Tour is underway, as first tee times went off at 7:10 am HST. (That’s 5 hours behind United States East Coast Time).

Vijay Singh is coming off a big win at the Mercedes Championship on Maui and David Toms, last years Sony Open winner at the Waialae Country Club is ready to defend his title.

But the big news, as is always the case if she’s playing in a Men’s tournament, is Michelle Wie. She’ll be playing in her 4th straight Sony Open on a sponsors exemption and looking to make her first cut in a PGA event.

Some are calling the Sony Open a must win for Michelle Wie. Either way, her 8:30 tee time today will surely have a huge crowd following it.

Quick news on the Michelle Wie front.

It looks as though Michelle Wie will be headed to stanford come fall where she will attend school. She won’t be able to play golf because she’s already turned pro so she won’t really be following in Tiger Woods’ footsteps.

She seems excited but I’m not sure how long she’ll last over there.

What do you think?

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Now-a-days it seems like there’s a club for every single situation you might find yourself in on the golf course. There’s a club for those tough long bunker shots, there’s new hybrid clubs to add to or replace your fairway woods, there’s new green side wedges, loft wedges, mid-wedges, approach wedges, and a whole slew of putters out there to choose from.

But how many clubs are you really allowed to play with?

Well USGA rules state that you are only allowed to play a round with 14 clubs. And if you are caught playing a round with more than 14 clubs there are penalties you must incur depending on the type of play and when the mistake was discovered.

For instance if you are playing in match play and you discover that you are playing with more than 14 clubs, you must deduct one hole for each hole in played with more than 14 clubs with a maximum of 2 holes per round penalty. So if you are on the 5th hole and you are up by 4 holes, you must deduct 2 holes from your score making you only up by 2 holes.

If in stroke play and you discover that you are playing with more than 14 clubs you must add 2 strokes to each hole that you played with more than 14 clubs with a maximum of 2 holes or 4 strokes penalty. So if you’re on the 5th hole here and you’ve parred every hole up to that point, you now must mark down that you have two bogeys, one of the first hole and one on the second hole.

Once you discover you have too many clubs you must designate the specific clubs in your bag that you are not going to use for the remainder of the round that bring your total playable clubs to 14. You can’t switch after you designate the clubs, which club will be unplayable. Once designated, that golf club cannot be played even if it is in your bag.

You may also add a club after the start of play as long as it doesn’t delay play. So if on the 12th hole you noticed that you forgot your magic wedge and you need it for a sand shot. If you can run to the car or your locker, get the club, and be back ready to hit your shot, it’s OK.

But remember, according to the rules of golf you cannot borrow clubs from any player who is playing with you during the course of play.

If you’re ever playing a round of golf and you find that your ball lies on or against an obstruction you are allowed to move the obstruction out of your way. But what if the ball moves when you move the obstruction?

If you move the obstruction and doing so causes the ball to move you can replace the ball back in it’s original spot without incurring any penalty strokes.

This can be common near bunkers where you land your ball up against a rake. Possibly the rake stopped your ball from going into the bunker which is great but your playing partners see it as a lucky break and can’t wait for you to move the rake so your ball goes where it rightfully should have. In the bunker.

However, you are allowed to move the rake and if the ball rolls down into the bunker, or moves at all, you can, without penalty, replace the ball where it was originally before moving the rake.

Then you can turn to your playing partners and tell them you meant to do that, although this isn’t suggested.