By Tom Bedell

[In response to a Twitter message about a three club challenge, I dug this one out of the fairly recent archives.]

I once played in a hickory club tournament, carting about seven clubs around in the bag. But those antique sticks were tough to hit, and I basically wound up playing the entire round with three clubs, ultimately faring not much worse than with my regular weapons of crass destruction.

Players are legitimately allowed to use 14 clubs per round these days, but I’ve often wondered whether we really need them all. It sounded like a project for the MOTO Research Team (the usual foursome, formed from the meat of the order of our softball team: David Cotton, Prentiss Smith, Jerry Carbone and me).

The MOTO Research Team, maintaining its anonymity as always. No idea who the fifth guy is. (more…)