The patent-infringement lawsuits and countersuits filed by PXG and TaylorMade have ended in a cross-licensing agreement announced in overnight press releases.
The new Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls – somewhat remarkably given their near two decades of consistent dominance across all levels of the game – enter a fundamentally different space technologically this year than ever before.
Srixon’s new Z-Star and Z-Star XV balls feature an inside distance story fuelled by power and an outside spin story so detailed it reaches the supramolecular level.
The update to Callaway’s PM Grind wedge involved a collection of subtle and not-so-subtle tweaks, about what you would expect when you combine the input of one of golf’s most legendary wedge players with one of the game’s most legendary wedge designers.
Callaway’s lineup of new balls for 2019 are a reminder that as compelling as tour-played golf balls might be, there are a lot more golfers who aren’t tour players and those golfers just might need a different kind of ball.
The new TaylorMade TP5 and TP5x balls continue the company’s technological heritage of using a five-layer construction to optimise launch, spin and speed specifically for the requirements of wood, iron and wedge in your bag. But the latest iteration’s upgrade focuses on the layer just below the cover.
The new TaylorMade M5 and M6 drivers, the flagship products of the company’s new lineup of metalwoods that also includes fairway woods and hybrids, are about many things, but mostly they’re about being so fast they’re just this side of illegal.
TaylorMade’s M5 and M6 drivers, set to be officially unveiled to the world on Thursday (US time), already made their existence legal with the ruling bodies with their appearance this week on the USGA list of conforming clubheads.
It appears Justin Rose, the No.1 player in the world, the current Olympic gold medallist and the recently crowned FedEx Cup champion, is leaving the only equipment company he has known in his 20-year professional career.
Moderate swing speed players will benefit off the tee and with other full swing shots because its lower compression core will launch shots higher and with less spin.
The Cobra King F9 Speedback drivers, the company’s engineering team will tell you, exhibit specific performance parameters that other companies cannot achieve.
Every model in the Sigma 2 lineup is offered only with the adjustable shaft feature, largely because Ping’s team believes the effect of having the right length is so crucial to good putting.
Australian Golf Digest
