The Golf Insiders 07/30/14

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Holly G and Rich Bianco are in the studio talking about Tim Clark's win at the RBC Canadian Open as well as Bernhard Langer's domination in the season's third Champions Tour major championship.

Holly talks about Spain winning the first LPGA International Crown.

Bob Harig, ESPN.com, calls in from Akron, Ohio the site of this week's WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. Holly and Bob talk about defending champion Tiger Woods. 

Bob was able to follow Tiger for 8 of 9 practice holes after his interview at the Bridgestone. Bob feels that Tiger is still struggling with driver but pointed out that the driver has not always been his best club that he hit in his bag. It's been about four months since Tiger's surgery so the fact that he is out there competing is huge. In Bob's article he points out the more than 40% of Tiger's wins have been at WGC events, which are "stacked" events with the best players in the world. Tiger has 18 of those wins and no one else has won more than 3 of them.

Holly and Bob talk about the buzz going on in the golf world and the buzz around Rory McIlroy and the upcoming Ryder Cup. Rory says that he only wants to focus on the next major championship and not how many he will win. They also discuss Jim Furyk being so close and not being able to close the deal on the final day. 

Jeff Shain, PGATour.com, joins the team and talks about the WGC Bridgestone at Firestone Country Club. Jeff covers the golf courses that the PGA events are played on throughout the season for PGATour.com. He feels that Adam Scott has set himself up pretty well for the final run of the season and has been playing really well of late. Jeff likes Adam and Graeme McDowell's chances this week at the WGC.

Holly, Rich and Jeff talk about the Ryder Cup selections and Jeff feels that some of the players need to start showing Tom Watson something to make his picks easier. 

Travis Kent, Manager of the TaylorMade Performance Lab at Grand Cyprus Resort talks to Holly and Rich about custom fitting your golf clubs to fit your swing and your game. Holly recently went through the extensive 2 and 1/2 to 3-hour custom-fitting course for all the clubs in her bag with Travis. After playing most of her life, she was surprised that they fitted her for a 1/2 inch shorter length of shafts which she said has made a world of difference.

Custom fitting in the broadest sense is building a club designed to match your individual swing characteristics so that you hit the ball longer and straighter with better control. TaylorMade Performance Labs is able to provide golfers with "Golf's Ultimate Fitting Experience" utilizing the same revolutionary advancements in motion capture technology seen in such films as Lord of the Rings, Polar Express, King Kong, Batman, and The Tiger Woods Video Game. 

Rich picks Rickie Fowler and Holly takes McDowell to win the WGC-Bridgestone.