Four new TaylorMade Spider models: EX, X Hydro Blast, S and SR each utilise the company’s “True Path” alignment system and 45-degree angled grooves with a variety of head designs, weights and shaft options in a high moment-of-inertia mallet head.
TaylorMade’s Hi-Toe and Big Foot wedge offerings receive an update with a new raw finish that rusts over time to produce additional surface roughness to maintain spin over the life of the wedge.
TaylorMade’s new TP5 and TP5x balls make the case that a subtle change in the dimple pattern and especially the dimple itself makes differences apparent where you can see it: downrange.
The new SIM2 Max and SIM2 Max OS irons are targeted at those for whom a little bit of help is a necessity and any bit of assistance producing distance is more than welcomed.
To suggest that the three new TaylorMade SIM2 drivers – SIM2, SIM2 Max and SIM2 Max•D – are simply a more-of-the-same follow-up to last year’s trio of SIM drivers is to suggest that Terminator 2 is merely The Terminator with a better motorcycle.
TaylorMade put two new drivers on the conforming list of golf clubs published by the R&A this week, both apparently follow-ups to the current SIM line of drivers.
For the four rounds Johnson had just four bogeys, two each in the second and final round, the fewest by any Masters champion in the 84-event history of the tournament.
The Spaniard ranked third in strokes gained/approach-the-green, picking up more than seven shots on the field while also leading the field in greens in regulation, missing just 12 greens over 72 holes.