Golf Equipment

[ad_1] In the summer of 2016 Justin Thomas was frustrated with his putting and went to Scotty Cameron’s putting studio seeking a solution. The result was a prototype Futura X5 putter with a welded neck that allowed the larger head to behave more like the blade Thomas had been using. That design now goes from […]

[ad_1] Titleist is giving two new drivers a test run on the PGA Tour and European Tour this week, and images are cropping up in the usual places, including the USGA’s list of conforming clubs. On the list are two new models, the TSi2 and TSi3, seemingly the follow-ups to the TS drivers introduced on

[ad_1] As fitting has become more the standard way of buying golf equipment, the one category that still remains something of an afterthought is the ball, the one item you use on every shot. That obviously makes no sense (like buying a whole new wardrobe but not any shoes), and it’s why ball companies are

[ad_1] Over the past few years TaylorMade has assembled one of the most impressive tour staffs seen in golf, with Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm (each of whom have reached No. 1 in the world during their time with the company) as well as Jason Day, Collin Morikawa, Matthew Wolff and Rickie Fowler

[ad_1] The new Srixon Soft Feel, the 12th generation of the company’s two-piece ball whose primary attribute has long been thought to be evidenced by its name, is staking a fresh claim toward distance now, too. Long about the relatively soft compression of its core, the new Soft Feel employs the latest update to the

[ad_1] Just five days before the start of the 2003 U.S. Open at Olympia Fields C.C., Dave Billings, president of Dogleg Right Golf, received a startling piece of news from the USGA: The backweighted Superline putter his company made—and Jim Furyk used—had been ruled nonconforming by the USGA. That sent Furyk scrambling to Bettinardi Golf’s

[ad_1] The G425 was put on the conforming list this week, and a Ping spokesman said the driver would be available for some LPGA of Japan players at this week’s Nitori Ladies tournament. The club is expected to be introduced to the Asian market in the coming weeks, but there is no official word on

[ad_1] For those who think the counterfeit business in golf clubs has dried up and gone dark, guess again. A raid in China just turned up 120,000 phony golf products, the largest counterfeit golf equipment seizure in history. The raid was the result of the joint efforts of the U.S. Golf Manufacturers Anti-Counterfeiting Working Group

[ad_1] When Phil Mickelson, a user of classic blade putters his whole career, started putting with an oversize mallet late last year, it was an indication that even for the most ardent blade proponent, the mallet’s benefits are too real to ignore. Luke Williams, Odyssey’s senior director of product, says Mickelson’s switch to a modern

[ad_1] “Strokes gained’ statistics have become foundational on the PGA Tour for assessing player performance and improvement, yet for most average golfers it remains a mystery. Not merely is it hard for average golfers to understand it without memorizing Every Shot Counts, the 250-page seminal work on the subject by Columbia business professor Mark Broadie,

[ad_1] It may not be well understood by the average struggling golfer, but designing golf clubs to combat bad swings, off-center hits, and wildly slicing sidespin is no casual pursuit. In fact, in many cases, says Callaway’s senior vice president of research and development Alan Hocknell, it’s much more challenging to help average golfers gain

[ad_1] Titleist has a long heritage of taking a proven product and tweaking it to appeal to a wider base of players. The company continues that path with the release of its T100•S and T200 players irons in a murdered-out all-black configuration that’s sure to appeal to the Titleist aficionado seeking to add some additional

[ad_1] The breadth of Titleist’s Vokey SM8 wedge line always has been one of its appeals to many players searching for the right loft, grind or finish. The company has added to an already strong lineup with the addition of a Jet Black raw finish with an all-black configuration. Many all-black clubs are referred to

[ad_1] TaylorMade has made significant progress in its wedges in recent years, with its milled grind technology helping provide a consistency from wedge to wedge it previously did not have. In expanding its Milled Grind 2 line, the company has added a 56- and 60-degree model with the grind based off its most-famous staff member:

[ad_1] Cleveland’s HB Soft putters have shown technology and refined looks in putters need not always come with a driver-sized price tag. Now the company is expanding the lineup to include a new finish in the HB Soft Premier, new models in the HB Soft and new thinking about how the choice of grip needs

[ad_1] With that box more than sufficiently checked, the company’s follow-up to those irons—the P•7MB, P•7MC and P•770 irons take those designs a step further. The new P•770 iron might shout tour-pro ability in looks, but features characteristics that allow better players who don’t play for pay to use them effectively. The construction is a

[ad_1] There are not many companies, if any, that can introduce five sets of irons at one time—throw in a specialty set of long-iron replacement hybrids to boot—and still make you believe that each has its place. But that’s precisely what Mizuno has done with its next iteration of its modern JPX lineup. The five

[ad_1] If Mizuno wedges have a hallmark, it is not that dissimilar from its irons. It’s the leading maker of forged wedges with classic, precise, traditional shapes developed by and with an appreciation for the better player’s eye in mind. Well, with the new ES21 wedges, the Mizuno team is asking golfers to reorient their

[ad_1] While all the technological enhancements to mallet putters today have made the oversized putter more acceptable to a wider audience, TaylorMade is taking the next step toward merging the blade and mallet communities: A mallet that’s only skin deep. The new TaylorMade Spider FCG may occupy the same space as the company’s familiar extreme

[ad_1] Face it—you can’t hit a 3-iron. You probably can’t hit a 4- or a 5-iron very well, either. But you’re loathe to carry bagful of headcovers, too. If that sounds like you then TaylorMade’s new SIM UDI and SIM DHY might be worth a look. The company’s SIM Max rescue clubs have gotten the