Articles by Mike Stachura and E. Michael Johnson

January 10th, 2025

Callaway New Releases for 2025

Looking to learn what you need to know about the latest new products from Callaway? These handy thumbnails will keep you up to date on the company’s new releases across all club and ball catetgories. Callaway Elyte Drivers: The Callaway Elyte drivers look to maximize distance by combining the most productive aspects of a forgiving, Read more…

October 23rd, 2024

The Worst Thing For Your Kid’s Golf Game

Q: My kiddo recently took up golf. Can I just cut down a set of adult clubs? A lot of parents believe that cutting down adult clubs provides their kids with “quality equipment”, but veteran club designer Tom Wishon, author of 12 Myths That Could Wreck Your Golf Game, doesn’t mince words about this approach: Read more…

October 9th, 2024

Are hybrids still the best option to replace your long irons?

Tour players are opting for other options beyond hybrids. Those include utility irons and high-lofted fairway woods. But should you?

October 5th, 2024

Will lead tape make your driver better or non-conforming? Yes. No. Maybe.

In this modern era, with dozens of weighting options already built into your driver, compounding the search for better performance with the use of lead tape or similar tactics is probably unnecessary and might even risk making your driver non-conforming.

October 1st, 2024

When is a driver that’s breaking the rules not actually breaking the rules?

Very few drivers longer than 46 inches have made much of an impact in the marketplace.

September 17th, 2024

Stat-tracking can help you choose the right new clubs

Beyond the practical training aspects, a hidden benefit of today’s stat-tracking apps is finding the clubs in your bag that might be holding you back. Or in some cases, locating the holes in your set make-up that need to be filled with a solution that can only come about with a new club.

September 3rd, 2024

Can a ‘draw’ driver overdo it on fixing your slice?

We told you the slice was dead back in 2005. It’s even dead-er now.

August 20th, 2024

Three reasons you might be thinking about your wedges the wrong way

Question: Other than loft, obviously, should all my wedges be the same model? Answer: There is a simple answer to this question: “No.” But we don’t like simple answers to these questions because every player’s equipment journey is unique, and every potential answer inspires more questions. Again, this is why a relationship with a quality Read more…

July 23rd, 2024

Does clubfitting really work? It does, but that doesn’t mean it always involves a purchase

A good fitter will start by changing only one variable at a time in the search for the distance, accuracy and consistency your game might be lacking.

July 16th, 2024

Can I put my old driver shaft in my new driver? Yes, but…

Sticking with a proven entity makes sense to us. But here’s the thing: we don’t think you should.

May 7th, 2024

Should better golfers consider a more forgiving driver like Nelly Korda and Scottie Scheffler?

Dig into the weekly driver usage on the professional tours and you find that drivers designed for maximum forgiveness are gaining popularity.

April 17th, 2024

Tour Edge New Releases for 2024

Looking to learn what you need to know about the latest new products from Tour Edge? These handy thumbnails will keep you up to date on the company’s new releases across all club and ball categories. Tour Edge Hot Launch 524 woods: The Tour Edge Hot Launch 524 series of metalwoods once again brings together Read more…

March 11th, 2024

Cobra New Releases for 2024

Looking to learn what you need to know about the latest new products from Cobra? These handy thumbnails will keep you up to date on the company’s new releases across all club and ball catetgories. Cobra Darkspeed drivers: The Cobra Darkspeed drivers (X, LS and Max) take a multi-faceted and player-specific approach to speed in Read more…

March 15th, 2023

The R&A and USGA golf ball rollback: Your questions answered about what they said and what it means

The test would not change for the golf balls used for recreational play, but the balls used under this new proposed test for elite competition could result in a distance decrease of at least 15-20 metres, perhaps more.

December 2nd, 2020

QUANTUM LEAPS: Five innovations that revolutionised golf

Feverishly anticipated by many, decried by others, golf products have relentlessly pushed forward technologically throughout Australian Golf Digest’s 50 years, a time that’s probably seen more innovation in each successive decade than in the preceding century.

November 22nd, 2019

GOLF EQUIPMENT TRUTHS: Does a club deteriorate over time?

Your game is going to deteriorate long before your golf clubs do.

September 26th, 2017

Titleist CEO and president Wally Uihlein announces his retirement

Wally Uihlein, president and chief executive of Titleist and FootJoy parent Acushnet and an industry force for much of the past three decades, unexpectedly announced his retirement overnight.

September 2nd, 2016

Hot List: Golf Balls

You get what you pay for