Golf Equipment

[ad_1] TaylorMade’s new Hi-Toe Milled Grind wedge, a design that drew inspiration from both the company’s current staff of top tour players as well as from a decades-old model, expands the Milled Grind series to include a distinctive shape aimed at producing lower-launching and higher-spinning shots around the green. The Hi-Toe features a raised upper […]

[ad_1] Honma, the luxury golf brand that’s been well-known in Asia for nearly 60 years, launched two new lines this week with simple messages (light weight, high launch) and, as expected, big-ticket price tags. The two new Honma lines, which include drivers, fairway woods, hybrids and irons, are the Beres 06 and the BeZeal 535,

[ad_1] The Mizuno GT180 lineup of woods debuted today with an obvious emphasis on precision adjustability over the ST180 lineup. But the goal with the GT180 wasn’t just more options. It was also a fresh commitment to speed. Hence, the new materials, new construction and even increased forgiveness for a driver and fairway wood lineup

[ad_1] In 2004, back when—believe it or not—drivers with adjustable hosels weren’t even legal, Golf Digest’s decision to rate equipment for the first time in its 54-year history wasn’t entered into lightly. Now that the Hot List is in its 15th year, and the idea of a driver without adjustability is considered almost radical, our

[ad_1] The 2018 Evnroll lineup of putters reflects a handful of subtle changes to some proven models and one big addition that takes off-center hit stability to a new level for the young putter company with the veteran designer. Guerin Rife, the vision behind the Evnroll lineup, has gained notoriety over the last two decades

[ad_1] The Titleist lineup of mid-priced golf balls for 2018, including a refortified Velocity and the Tour Soft, a ball that replaces both the NXT Tour and NXT Tour S all by itself, reflect the company’s established method of developing products based on what various categories of players are seeking. For its new mid-priced balls,

[ad_1] Cleveland has expanded its Huntington Beach putter line with the addition of its Nos. 2, 8 and 11 models, bringing the entire line to nine different products. The new headshapes are a larger profile of a classic blade putter (the No. 8), a half-moon mallet with a wider toe (the No. 2), and a

[ad_1] The new Callaway Chrome Soft and Chrome Soft X balls probably won’t be candidates for winning the Nobel Prize, but they may be benefiting from one. And the results are balls designed to further enhance the difference in the golf ball performance paradigm of low spin off the driver and high spin on the

[ad_1] Odyssey’s new O-Works EXO mallet putters may catch your eye for their unique multimaterial wireframe-like construction, but it’s the face that may have been the bigger accomplishment. While both involve extensive technical efforts, making a stable mallet putter by using a stable frame and heavier mass moved to the perimeter seems a fairly tangible

[ad_1] The Odyssey putter lineup for 2018, which includes seven new models in its O-Works Red/Black series, two new milled putters in the Toulon Design series and a high-end rendition of the iconic 2-Ball, shows the company with the largest market share in putters in both the U.S. and global markets still thinks it takes

[ad_1] The new Callaway Rogue iron family, which includes three varieties, makes the case that as challenging and technologically remarkable as it might be to make an iron with a spring-like effect equal to that of a driver—and they’ve done exactly that—it is as equally a demanding exercise to find a way to make these

[ad_1] A new traction system in Puma’s IGNITE PWRADAPT collection includes a unique way to achieve stability. Rather than a stagnant bottom seen with most golf footwear, pods move independent of each other to connect with the ground—meaning, if you have a downhill or uphill lie, your shoes will do stay grounded. As for the

[ad_1] The new Callaway Rogue metalwood family and its approach to maximum forgiveness and ball speed may appear to be as obvious an improvement in driver design as there could be—who wouldn’t want longer and straighter? But in practical terms making a more forgiving driver with better ball speed along with complementary fairway woods was

[ad_1] The new Ping G700 irons are the company’s first hollow-body set of irons, but you could say they were almost expected. The company, known for its one-piece investment cast irons since the 1960s, is building the G700 irons on the shoulders of its success with a hollow-body, iron-like hybrid called the Crossover. Now, it’s

[ad_1] Snell Golf’s new tandem of MTB (My Tour Ball) Black and MTB Red reflect both the company founder’s familiarity with golf ball design and the benefits of the company’s direct-to-consumer approach. That relationship with its customers provided founder and veteran golf ball R&D wiz Dean Snell to learn that two multilayer urethane cover golf

[ad_1] The new Ping G400 Max driver, the fourth in the G400 family of drivers, may look like a simple line extension, but pushing the G400 design to the USGA’s size limits yields a driver with the highest off-center hit stability of any driver in the Ping family and likely all of golf. Of course,

[ad_1] As with, well, almost everything these days, the ability to customize a product to meet the needs of the consumer is critical. With its new line of Vault 2.0 putters, Ping sought to address that need. “As we advance the technologies we apply in designing and manufacturing our putters, we’re able to offer more

[ad_1] The rules limit how much driver faces can flex. But they aren’t preventing them from flexing more effectively. On the PGA Tour, the average ball speed (how fast the ball comes off the clubface) and smash factor (the ratio between ball speed and swing speed) have increased in the past five years. That means

[ad_1] The Callaway Mack Daddy 4 wedges make the case that more grooves milled into the face not only yield more spin, but more consistent spin. How many grooves? Well, instead of the typical 16, the Mack Daddy 4 wedges have what amounts to 84 grooves. Obviously, that’s overstating the case, but perhaps not entirely.

[ad_1] During yesterday’s telecast of the Sentry Tournament of Champions, Golf Channel announcer Frank Nobilo mentioned more than once that Brian Harman was using some new equipment and they were the clubs he used back in his college days. Well, kind of. According to Titleist tour rep Jim Curran, Harman told him in late 2016