Imagine stepping up to the first tee on a chilly morning, feeling comfortably warm in your gear. As you make the turn, the temperature rises, but you’re still at ease, without needing to adjust a thing. It’s not magic – it’s the result of advanced technology built into your apparel, keeping you comfortable no matter Read more…
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: LA Golf, the high-end shaft manufacturer that has started to dip its toe into golf clubs, makes its biggest splash with the new Face ID driver, which was developed in conjunction with reigning U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau. DeChambeau worked extensively with LA Golf’s Jeff Meyer, chief design officer, on Read more…
We love that golf apparel keeps getting more versatile. Now more than ever, we’re seeing golf clothes and shoes that work off the course as well as they do on it. As you’re building your golf shoe collection, a pair of spikeless shoes that can also pass as street shoes can be a useful addition. Read more…
The iron play was strong all week for Hovland, as he finished seventh in greens in regulation and sixth in strokes gained/approach the green with his Ping i210 irons.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Have you ever picked up a Maxfli golf ball in the woods and immediately discarded it? In the year of our lord, 2025, that may be a colossal mistake. The new Maxfli Tour Series golf balls, played by PGA Tour pro Ben Griffin and LPGA pro Lexi Thompson, may be Read more…
Forgiveness is one of the buzzwords in drivers today. It’s usually surrounded by scientific terms like moment of inertia (MOI), center of gravity and grams-centimeters squared, and although there is a way to measure certain mass properties on a clubhead, numbers sometimes can get overinflated to the point of distortion and confusion. (To be clear, Read more…
Shane Popham, 36, is a former Division I punter and placekicker who has found a new passion with golf in the last decade. A channel sales director, Shane leans on his athletic background for plenty of clubhead speed but struggles to control which direction it might be going on a particular day. His best hits Read more…
Matt Singer, 52, is a trial lawyer in Oregon and Alaska with three years of Hot List testing experience. He plays most of his golf at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club near Portland and gets out multiple times a week. “I played more than 100 times last year. Lots of those were six-, nine-, or 12-hole Read more…
Davis Thompson is a former World No. 1 Amateur who set a John Deere Classic scoring record of 28 under for his first PGA Tour victory last July. It helped the 25-year-old St. Simons Island, Ga., native earn a spot in his first Masters this coming April, along with qualifying him for all the PGA Read more…
ORLANDO, Fla. — During Wednesday’s pro-am at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Rory McIlroy record a 307-yard poke on the par-5 6th hole. A drive of 300-plus from one of the longest players on tour normally wouldn’t register during a practice round. McIlroy’s used to bombing it out there with regularity. But this drive deserved further Read more…