This week during the Memorial’s practice rounds, Scott debuted a custom set of muscleback blade irons from Miura, the legendary forging house in Japan led by founder Katsuhiro Miura, whom the Japanese golf media once labelled as having “the hands of God.”
Golf’s ruling bodies continued their stated intention to curtail driving distance with an announcement Thursday that if adopted as an equipment rule by the R&A and USGA very likely would make nearly every current golf ball played on tour nonconforming.
The Cobra LTDx fairway wood and hybrid line-up continues the thinking about the balance between centre of gravity and forgiveness seen in the just-launched LTDx drivers.
The three Cobra LTDx drivers – LTDx, LTDx LS, LTDx Max – continue the company’s push to mix varying degrees of front-loaded weight to lower the centre of gravity with varying degrees and locations of perimeter weighting to add forgiveness as needed for three distinct classes of players.
Two new models join Mizuno’s ST line of drivers, the ST-X 220 and the ST-Z 220, and both use expanded carbon-composite sections in the sole and crown to create more stable heads designed to produce more consistent launch conditions all over the face.
Honma, the legendary Japanese high-luxe golf brand, introduced its latest two premium lines under the Beres name, both with the same internal technologies but completely distinct aesthetics.
A carbon-composite face – not the crown or even the body as we’ve seen in various stages over the past 15 years or so, but the part of the club that makes contact with the ball – is the foundation for TaylorMade’s three new Stealth drivers.
Callaway’s lineup of Rogue ST fairway woods and hybrids, which includes seven versions (three fairway wood models, four hybrid models), 33 different heads and a loft range that runs from 13.5 to 36 degrees, looks to boost ball speed through two new approaches to its internal “Jailbreak” structure that joins the crown and sole.
Srixon’s two-piece Q-Star, now in its sixth generation, debuts with a softer compression core to facilitate distance, particularly for moderate swing speeds.
Mizuno’s ST-G 220 joins a lineage of weight-kit drivers that dates back more than a decade, features three tracks – heel-side, toe-side and rear-centre – that fit two seven-gram weights to tweak launch, spin, forgiveness and direction.
Australian Golf Digest
