Like many of the folks at GolfWRX, Japanese reporters have been stalking the professional golf tours with the sole purpose of photographing golf clubs, but not the golfers. The tour has become a pseudo-safari, where hunters rapidly click their digital cameras to catch their prey. These photo safaris are an effort to satisfy a Japanese fascination with the equipment of top golfers. What's next? Will ornamental horticulturists scour the rough and fairways to analyze the different grasses across the world?

Elko Oizume, editor of Golf Today, recently came to the U.S. to capture images of golf clubs. She has covered the U.S. Open, the U.S. Women's Open, and the U.S. Senior Open. What a great job. She plans on taking her pictures back to Japan and reporting on the new, unusual, and prototype golf clubs. Sound familiar?

No matter what country they're from, golf fanatics are all the same.