The three-piece Z-Star and the four-piece, dual-core XV both feature core designs that start soft but get decidedly firmer towards the perimeter to give higher swing speed players more potential for longer driving distance.
At the Farmers Insurance Open on the PGA Tour, that meant a new driver shaft and wedge grind for Adam Scott, a putter switch for Jon Rahm and Lefty doing Lefty things. On the European Tour, Paul Casey had a new driver in the bag for his win in Dubai.
According to Ping, the process for Watson’s new G425 LST started more than a year ago with some concepts developed in-house by the company’s designers.
Mizuno’s woods lineup for 2021 is led by two drivers aimed at vastly different player types with very subtle differences in their internal weighting.
In pursuing more distance both off the driver and through the bag, the three-piece ERC Soft ball marries that benefit with a focus on the different way many average golfers approach their short games compared to better players.
Now English is trying to pull off an Aloha double the way Justin Thomas did when he won both of the PGA Tour’s Hawaii events in 2017. And he’ll have the familiar flatstick by his side.
All three Apex irons have cupfaces designed by artificial intelligence and tungsten encased in urethane with microspheres (tiny bubbles of air within the urethane).
The Callaway Epic, the company’s most successful driver franchise since the introduction of the Great Big Bertha in 1995, looks to have three new models on the verge of being introduced to start the new year.
Jon Rahm is the No.2 player in the world, winner of five PGA Tour events and six more on the European Tour, and one of the more intriguing players in pro golf. He’s also now a member of Callaway Golf’s tour staff, having been lured away from TaylorMade.
Australian Golf Digest
