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…
While the industry has fully embraced iron lofts that in some cases are two and three clubs stronger than they were a generation ago, making them work for you ultimately requires re-thinking the make-up of your iron set.
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…
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…
The hottest initial public offering of 2023 was a golf company you’ve never heard of that was significantly in debt, had almost no sales, was short on supply of its most important component and claims to be manufacturing shafts at a facility that local officials have never seen or heard of.
The new wedges feature a more compact overall look with a thinner top line and a shorter distance from heel to toe to accentuate a player’s ability to control these essential scoring clubs.
The proposed rollback of the golf ball by the R&A and USGA is now moving to its next, and perhaps most definitive – and potentially most contentious – stage.
What Vu’s setup shows us is that each of the clubs in your bag needs a specific distance (and playability) function, and too many average golfers have clubs that might serve little distinct purpose or are overlapping with what other clubs are doing.
The fourth generation of TaylorMade’s Milled Grind wedges continues the consistency benefits of machined sole shaping of its predecessors while expanding the range of distinct grinds to include three new options at the higher lofts for a total of seven.
TaylorMade’s fourth-generation P·790 irons continue the trend of bringing high-speed face flexing and a progressive approach to forgiveness across the full set in the guise of compact shaping that better players prefer as much as those aspiring to be better players.
Titleist’s biennial iron launch includes four models in ascending order of how much help they provide the user, but this time with a renewed emphasis on improved feel.
AI’s expanding role in golf, particularly when it comes to club fitting, might just be a peak into the Tomorrowland all golfers (and fitters) have dreamed of.
When Jay Monahan let slip a memo assuring PGA Tour players he would be informing the USGA and R&A that the tour would not endorse a golf ball rollback proposal, don’t think for a minute that he was simply updating his constituents.
Unlike past efforts that described specifically what a green book was allowed to look like, this model local rule takes a simpler, more direct approach.
Hoylake is a venue known perhaps as much for its legacy of world-class winners as it is for its historically insidious holes where out-of-bounds plays a somewhat outsized role.
The perception that only good players can benefit from a fitting isn’t correct. A new Golf Datatech study on fitting confirms everybody loves their game after a fitting.
There’s a simple set of rules to guide whether you should be looking at making the switch to a dramatically different putter in terms of length, weight, flex and even possibly stroke.
Australian Golf Digest
