Paul Casey says more loft has helped him conquer St. Andrews

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — In their never ending quest for more distance off the tee, most professional golfers try to reduce the spin imparted to the ball by the driver. Backspin does help get the ball airborne, but too much spin makes drives balloon, decreasing yards. The trick is to find the combination of loft, shaft and ball that creates the ideal spin rate and launch angle. For Paul Casey, that meant a Nike Victory Red Tour driver with 9.5 of loft, an 83 gram Mitsubishi Diamana Blue Board shaft and a Nike One Tour golf ball. With that combination he has averaged 290 yards off the tee in PGA Tour events this season and 298 yards per drive on the European Tour. But this week Casey decided to increase the loft of his driver. Here's his rationale for the move: I went up about three quarters of a degree. The reason being the squalls we were getting coming through this week, the rainstorms. My spin rate is pretty low, I'm low 2,000s RPM off the driver which is great when it's nice and hot and sunny, and tricky when water gets between the ball and the clubface. So I had a couple of drives slip off the driver face and not go in the desired direction in practice. So I changed that, got through it on Thursday, played pretty good, but went into the van and [Nike Tour rep] Pete Powell in the truck went from a 9.5 to a 10.5, same head, VR Tour, same shaft, same everything. I said I just want more spin. He said that the easiest way of doing it is more loft.

Tiger Woods switches back to his Scotty Cameron putter

My Bag: Lee Westwood at the 2010 British Open

DRIVER: Ping G10 (9.0) with a Aldila PGA Tour Only Prototype XNV6 shaft FAIRWAY WOOD: Ping i15 (14) with a UST Mamaya V2 76X shaft, Rapture V2 (19) with Aldila NV75 X shaft IRONS: Ping i10 (3-PW) with Ping JZ stiff shafts WEDGES: Ping Tour-W (54, 58) with Ping JZ stiff shafts PUTTER: Ping Redwood Anser BALL: Titleist Pro V1x See-Try-Buy: Learn more about

My Bag: Martin Kaymer at the 2010 British Open

DRIVER: TaylorMade R9 SuperTri (8.5) with Mitsubishi Rayon Fubuki shafts FAIRWAY WOODS: TaylorMade R9 (13) and with Mitsubishi Rayon Fubuki shaft IRONS: TaylorMade RAC TP (2-PW) with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue shafts WEDGES: TaylorMade RAC (54), TP with xFT (58) with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue shafts PUTTER: Ping Karsten Anser 2 BALL: TaylorMade Penta TP See-Try-Buy: Learn more about

Play has resumed at St. Andrews

10:44am ET About one hour after play was suspended at the Open Championship, play has resumed. Play would have resumed a few minutes earlier, but Sean O’Hair was missing in action and they had to wait for him to return. Classic shot of the old fashioned, hand cranked leader board at St. Andrews: “Play has been suspended

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Play has resumed at St. Andrews

Play suspended due to wind at the Open Championship

9:39amET Friday Play has been suspended due to high winds (over 40mph) at St. Andrews and the Open Championship. The winds are so high that balls won’t stay still in their original positions on the greens. Once the winds subside, play will resume. A few scores of note Louis Oosthuizen shot a 67 today and sits three shots

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Play suspended due to wind at the Open Championship

My Bag: Louis Oosthuizen at the 2010 British Open

DRIVER: Ping Rapture V2 (9) with a Project X 6B7 shaft FAIRWAY WOODS: Nike SQ II (15, 19) with a Project X shafts IRONS: Ping S56 (2-9) with True Temper Dynamic Gold X-100 shafts WEDGES: Ping Tour S (47, 54, 60) with True Temper Dynamic Gold X-100 shafts PUTTER: Ping Redwood Anser BALL: Titleist Pro V1x (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

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My Bag: Louis Oosthuizen at the 2010 British Open

My Bag: Rory McIlroy at the 2010 British Open

DRIVER: Titleist 909D2 (8.5) with a Fujikura Rombax 7V05 shaft FAIRWAY WOODS: Titleist 906 F2 (13.5) with a Project X 7A3 shaft, (18.5) with a Fujikura FitOn 11 Pro 95 shaft IRONS: Titleist AP2 (3-4),

Early rounds completed at Open Championship

Low scores abound in the first round at St. Andrews. Currently there are 70 players under par. A tie for the lowest round in a major championship by Rory McIlroy was posted, 63. He hit 17 of 18 greens in regulation. For once I made a good fantasy pick with Rory. Tiger Woods is in the

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Early rounds completed at Open Championship

Scotty Cameron 2010 British Open commemorative putter headcover

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland Titleist staff players like Davis Love, Geoff Ogilvy and Rickie Fowler are being presented with a special British Open putter headcover, designed by Scotty Cameron. The headcovers will also be available this week in the Club Cameron section of scottycameron.com . See-Try-Buy: Learn more about

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