Articles by Mike Stachura

Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke drivers: What you need to know

The Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke family of drivers feature four distinct faces designed through big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence, all fuelled on the details of some 250,000 swings of golfers of all types.

Wilson Fit AI accelerates the fitting process via Blast Motion sensors

It’s nearly a certainty that fitting works for all golfers. It’s almost nearly as much of a certainty that the process in club fitting requires a time commitment. But technology is doing its part to make the path to your potential a little shorter. We’ve seen great strides made in shortening the club fitting process Read more…

Odyssey Ai-One putters: What you need to know

Odyssey borrows some of the variable face thickness ideas generated by artificial intelligence that have fuelled the driver designs of parent company Callaway in recent years to re-imagine how its putterfaces might work.

New research: The way we buy golf clubs may be changing—for the better

Going on 25 years, Golf Digest has been stressing the value of getting fit for your clubs. Now, the latest research suggests most serious golfers are listening. That’s true across all ages and handicaps, according to numbers just released from Golf Datatech’s semi-annual study of the attitudes and usage of serious golfers. One of the Read more…

Mizuno ST-G driver (2023): What you need to know

The new Mizuno ST-G driver features the compact pear shape and deep face that better players naturally gravitate to, but it expands the range of appeal through enhanced adjustability, the increased flexibility in the face fuelled by a new beta rich, lighter and stronger titanium alloy and the low-spin effects of a weighted through-slot in the sole.

Tour Edge Template Series putters (2023): What you need to know

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Tour Edge launches a new installment of its Template putters, a collection of classic shapes cast from soft 304 stainless steel and each featuring a milled face and friction grooves. There are seven new shapes in the series, among them a heel-toe weighted Anser-style blade, a parallel-winged mallet, a clamshell Read more…

Tour Edge Exotics Wingman wedges: What you need to know

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The Tour Edge Exotics Wingman wedges, which constitutes the broadest line of short-game clubs in the company’s history, combine game-improvement features like a distinctive increase in offset and a larger, multi-friction face and grooves with game-enhancing features like a high-toe weight shift to control trajectory and spin, and three distinct Read more…

Ping founder Karsten Solheim named to sporting goods Hall of Fame

Karsten Solheim, the founder of Ping and the inventor of some of the most iconic golf clubs in the game’s history including the Anser putter and the perimeter-weighted Eye2 irons, has been named to the National Sporting Goods Association’s Hall of Fame. Solheim, whose son John A. followed in his footsteps and grandson John K. Read more…