• SHOP LOCAL golf brand based in Wisconsin: Caliber Golf, Kenosha

    by Caitlin Moyer

    We already know Wisconsin is home to more top-rated golf
    courses than any other state and boasts over 500 total public courses, but did you know there are several successful golf brands based here as well? Gary D’Amato and I ran into many of the hard-working folks from these companies at the PGA Show in January and I was reminded once again just how strong Wisconsin’s ties to the game really are… Caliber Golf, Kenosha  Former hockey players Tim and Chip Wright married their love of both sports and created the first putting grip + shaft that conforms with the rules of golf. Their design was approved by the USGA in
    2021 and Caliber Golf was created. After a soft launch and market testing in 2022, the brand officially debuted at the PGA Show this year.

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  • He Shoots, He Scores: Former Hockey Players Devise New Way to Putt

    By GARY VAN SICKLE

    FEB 16, 2023 

    By using a hockey stick-like shaft, Caliber Golf offers a different way to putt that may be an elixir to those with the yips.

    You’re going to look at the Caliber Golf putter and think it’s a gimmick. Well, not if you’re Happy Gilmore. The Caliber Golf model features a traditional putter head at the end of a hockey-stick shaft—sort of like Happy’s model in the movie that he used to tap-tap-tap-a-roonie. However, the Caliber Golf hockey-stick putter is no gimmick. It may be a better way to putt for some. This putter also has a possible superpower: It could/should cure the dreaded putting ailment grown men are afraid so say out loud—the yips.

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  • Brothers banking on innovative hockey stick putter becoming their shot on goal in the multimillion-dollar golf equipment market

    By GARY D'AMATO

    April 18 2022

    KENOSHA — A couple of hockey players walk into a golf shop …

    That sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s actually the start of a fledgling Kenosha-based golf company that is ready to roll out a putter so unique and functional it has a chance to make a dent in a multimillion-dollar market dominated by the likes of Scotty Cameron, Odyssey and TaylorMade...

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  • He Shoots, He Scores: Former Hockey Players Devise New Way to Putt

    By GARY VAN SICKLE

    FEB 16, 2023 

    By using a hockey stick-like shaft, Caliber Golf offers a different way to putt that may be an elixir to those with the yips.

    You’re going to look at the Caliber Golf putter and think it’s a gimmick.

    Well, not if you’re Happy Gilmore. The Caliber Golf model features a traditional putter head at the end of a hockey-stick shaft—sort of like Happy’s model in the movie that he used to tap-tap-tap-a-roonie.

    However, the Caliber Golf hockey-stick putter is no gimmick. It may be a better way to putt for some. This putter also has a possible superpower: It could/should cure the dreaded putting ailment grown men are afraid so say out loud—the yips.

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  • Reflections on the 2023 PGA Merchandise Show

    By Gregg Dewalt

    FEB 12, 2023

    It’s where hockey and golf collide in the form of a hockey stick shaft with a putter head. Think Happy Gilmore to a certain extent, or maybe Sam Snead with his side-saddle putting stroke.

    Who would have thought that a carbon-fiber hockey stick shaft might help your putting stroke? Chip Wright and his brother Tim, that’s who.

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  • CALIBER GOLF ADDS SUB 70 PUTTERS

    The Golf Wire

    FEB 9, 2023

    Kenosha, WI. – Caliber Golf, maker of the world’s first and only hockey style putter grip + shaft is excited to offer Sub 70 to the list of putter brands they offer.  Chip Wright (co-founder) said, “Sub 70 offers golfers an edge with both its performance an and price point.  We couldn’t be more excited to work with the Sub 70 team!”

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  • Most Unusual Putter Ever Debuts at PGA Show: The Wright One

    By Kathlene Bissell

    FEB 5, 2023

    You can’t make this up.  A guy takes a hockey stick, cuts it off, runs a golf shaft holder up the center of it, and glues the bottom seven or eight inches of an expensive putter to it.  Craziest thing ever.

    But it might revolutionize golf.

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  • Kenosha brothers make a stir at PGA show with patented hockey-grip golf club

    By Joe States

    FEB 4, 2023

    Another set of Wright brothers is out to revolutionize an industry.

    This time however, its golf, not aviation.

    Caliber Golf, created by Kenosha siblings Tim and Chip Wright, caused a stir at the Professional Golfing Association show last month with their invention, the first rule conforming and patented hockey-grip putter.

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  • CALIBER GOLF BREAKS AWAY AT THE PGA SHOW 2023 

    The Golf Wire

    FEB 2, 2023

    Kenosha, WI— Caliber Golf was delighted by the great response at the PGA show this past week.  Caliber’s inventor & co-founder Tim Wright said “we were excited to see the excitement first hand.  The PGA Show validated all of the work we have been putting in over the past 5 years.”  

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  • Episode 773 | 2023 PGA Merchandise Show

    The Golf Insider Podcast

    JAN 31

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  • Ranking 10 Unforgettable Items From the 2023 PGA Merchandise Show

    By GARY VAN SICKLE

    JAN 30, 2023

    Gary Van Sickle took in the Super Bowl of golf equipment in Florida and found more cool stuff than could possibly fit in his bag.

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  • Best at PGA Show: Caliber Golf Putter Has the “Wright” Stuff

    By Gary Van Sickle

    JAN 30, 2023

    ORLANDO, Florida – The Wright Brothers built something that people thought was a folly, if not downright impossible, and would never successfully launch.

    Tim and Chip Wright proved them wrong. Orville and Wilbur Wright? Oh, they may have been right about aviation, too.

    But we’re talking about important life-and-death stuff here — your putting.

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  • PGA Show 2023 Recap: Exciting Products and Show Happenings!

    By troy giljohann

    JAN 30, 2023

    Caliber Golf– The latest in putting grip technology… a hybrid between hockey and golf. The co-founders Chip and Tim have created a product that combines their passions and translates to a great experience on the green. The feel when using this grip is hard to describe but I am a believer! The ability to have a completely squared grip and face translates to a more accurate stroke

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  • The Golf Show 2.0

    The Golf Show 2.0

    JAN 30, 2023

    Co hosts Kathy Bissell and Gary Van Sickle talk with inventors of The Wright One putter by Caliber Golf. Tim and Chip Wright, two hockey and golf playing brothers from Kenosha, Wisconsin, created this new club to solve Tim's issues with four-foot putts. They combined a hockey stick with the last seven inches of a putter and voila, The Wright One. Four-footers, five- footers, six footers sunk easily.

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  • In the $84 billion golf industry, the PGA Show was the place to be this week. Take it from three Wisconsin companies who were there.

    By GARY D'AMATO

    JAN 27, 2023

    ORLANDO, Fla. — By luck of the draw, Caliber Golf’s putter display was placed next to a stand holding the Ryder Cup near the huge indoor putting green in the Orange County Convention Center.

    Many attendees of the 70th PGA Show drawn to the Ryder Cup for a photo op couldn’t help but notice Caliber Golf’s hockey stick putters and wandered over to have a better look.

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  • 10 Golf Products You've Never Seen Before!

    JAN 24, 2023

    Mr. Shortgame introduces the Caliber Golf grip + shaft at the 2023 PGA Show

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  • Brothers banking on innovative hockey stick putter becoming their shot on goal in the multimillion-dollar golf equipment market

    By GARY D'AMATO

    April 18 2022

    KENOSHA — A couple of hockey players walk into a golf shop …

    That sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s actually the start of a fledgling Kenosha-based golf company that is ready to roll out a putter so unique and functional it has a chance to make a dent in a multimillion-dollar market dominated by the likes of Scotty Cameron, Odyssey and TaylorMade...

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