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11 stats from the USGA/R&A Distance Insights Project that show just how split people are on distance
If you’re looking for definitive conclusions in the massive reports that contributed to the USGA and R&A’s recently released Distance Insights Project, they are quite nearly at every turn and occur so often they can occasionally contradict themselves.
Here’s what tour pros say the next steps should be following the USGA/R&A distance report
With the USGA and R&A having released the preliminary results of their Distance Insights Project – and concluding that something needs to be done to keep the cycle of distance increases from continuing – it seemed a worthwhile exercise to ask the players responsible for much of the handwringing what it is, exactly, they think needs to be done.
USGA/R&A declares distance increases MUST STOP in findings from Distance Insights Project
While golf’s ruling bodies are unclear as to what should happen next, the nearly two-year study of how far the golf ball is flying – known as the Distance Insights Project – is resoundingly clear on one specific conclusion: Distance must be stopped.
Webb Simpson: His winner’s bag from the Waste Management Phoenix Open
Simpson’s bag is not typical of most tour pros as he carries a driver, two fairway woods and a pair of hybrids, starting his iron set at the 5-iron and carrying only two wedges along with a pitching wedge.
TaylorMade SIM drivers added to USGA conforming list, being used this week in Hawaii
There are three models within the TaylorMade SIM entries added to the conforming list
GOLF EQUIPMENT TRUTHS: Iron faces are nearly as fast as a driver’s. Here’s why
In short, today’s irons are longer with better stopping power.
Winner’s Bag: Rory McIlroy’s equipment at the WGC-HSBC Champions
As is often the case with McIlroy, he used his driver as an effective weapon.
New PGA Tour driver testing protocol set to begin in 2019-2020 season
Among the changes are a more thorough procedure for testing players’ drivers.
Winner’s Bag: Rory McIlroy’s equipment at the Tour Championship
It wasn’t just the long game that served McIlroy well in his second run to a FedEx Cup title.
Still Grinding Away
After more than two decades in the business, wedge wonder Bob Vokey continues to make headway along the cutting edge of golf club design. Here, he speaks to Australian Golf Digest about his career, and what’s next in wedges.
Callaway boss on failed driver test: ‘If anybody deserves blame… it’s us… But in all fairness, I’m not sure we did anything wrong.’
Brewer says part of the issue is the testing location, a tent on the back of the range, where people not directly involved in the specific testing can walk in-and-out too freely.
Driver testing on tour: What happens, what doesn’t and what probably should
All of this surfaces two simultaneously simple yet complex questions: How big of a problem is this, and what to do about it?
TaylorMade stretches limits of speed and manufacturing
The flagship products of TaylorMade’s new lineup of metalwoods are about many things, but mostly they’re about being so fast they’re just this side of illegal.
Welcome To The Family
Top of mind for Callaway’s 2019 equipment line include Epic Flash woods, Apex irons, Odyssey Stroke Lab putters and the all-new ERC golf balls.
The wait is over. New Callaway Apex, Apex Pro irons and Apex hybrid make their debut
Three years, three months and six days. That’s how long golfers have had to wait for the introduction of the next iteration of Callaway’s Apex and Apex Pro irons as well as its player’s-style Apex hybrid.
Callaway Epic Flash drivers fundamentally change face technology through artificial intelligence
To say the new Callaway Epic Flash drivers shift the paradigm for face design is to not understand the word “paradigm.”
TaylorMade M5, M6 drivers stretch limits of speed – and manufacturing
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 latest equipment manufacturer to caution against distance rollback
Statement from CEO David Abeles on USGA-R&A distance report calls any potential rollback as “detrimental” to the game
The most important questions – and answers – on distance
Our equipment editors dissect the latest distance report from golf’s governing bodies to help you understand what it really means
Everything you need to know about the new Titleist Vokey wedges
Available in golf shops worldwide beginning March 9, new Vokey SM7 wedges provide all golfers the opportunity for a better, more confident short game through unmatched craftsmanship, technology and performance.
