golfdigest.com
If we’re going to be brutally honest, ball fitting is more important than most average golfers think. Yet unlike every other kind of equipment fitting in the game, it’s simply impossible for most average golfers to do properly. Because the right golf ball for you involves a series of metrics unique to you that might involve everything from price to durability, let alone performance, feel and even look on every type of shot you hit from tee to green. Moreover, those are your metrics. The next gol…
5 months ago
golfdigest.com
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 sole grinds to improve each player’s impact consistency. The Wingman wedges finally add an element of feel through a forged constr…
4 months ago
golfdigest.com
Ask anybody in the golf equipment industry—even the casual observer of golf club trends—and you’re likely to get a dissertation about iron lofts. Specifically, something like, “Of course you hit your 7-iron 175 yards. It now has the loft of a 5-iron.” The idea is that iron lofts over the last 30 years continually have gotten stronger and stronger in a search for more distance. Does it work? The answer is, of course it does and incredibly well at that. Except in those cases where it doesn’t. It a…
4 months ago
golfdigest.com
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The Spider Tour mallets revolutionized TaylorMade’s position in the marketplace with near equal top-level success on tour and at retail, but while the company explored other versions and shapes the last two years, the use and demand stayed with the original now-iconic shapes like Spider Tour and Spider Tour X. So rather than try to discover a new Spider, the company is launching a new Spider Tour Series with five options all built on the original platforms, including shape…
4 months ago
golfdigest.com
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 shaped mallet and a plumbers neck, heel-toe weighted half-mallet. PRICE: $130. 34 and 35 inches, in both black and silver PVD finishes. Available at retail Nov. 1.…
4 months ago
golfdigest.com
Like most things these days, the Ryder Cup and in particular how the opposing captains choose to partner the individuals on their teams, is in analytics overload. Everything from each player’s left rough tendency to his three-putt avoidance on the back nine has been put through any series of pseudo-egghead blenders and churned out as a defining metric for why this Swede speaks the same language as that Norwegian, or why this cordial Texan naturally completes this abrasive South Floridian. But on…
4 months ago
golfdigest.com
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Cobra debuts the latest version of its Air-X line of clubs, including drivers, fairway woods, hybrids and irons designed with lighter weights to appeal to more moderate swing speeds. Among the notable improvements are a major boost in off-center hit forgiveness (moment of inertia) and slice-fighting technologies on the driver (an offset option, heel weighting, more upright lie angle) and a thinner face and shallower face heights on the irons. PRICE: $350 (driver); $230 (fa…
4 months ago
Search by beat, location, outlet & position to find the right journalists for your story.
Sign up for freegolfdigest.com
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The new Mizuno ST-G driver features the compact pear shape and deep face that better players naturally gravitate to, but it expands the range of appeal through enhanced adjustability, the increased flexibility in the face fueled by a new beta rich, lighter and stronger titanium alloy and the low-spin effects of a weighted through-slot in the sole. PRICE: $600, 9.5 and 10.5 (adjustable). At retail Oct. 5. 3 COOL THINGS 1. A lighter, faster, stronger face. The new ST-G drive…
4 months ago
golfdigest.com
When we talk about the driver, we’re talking mostly, of course, about distance. And when we talk about distance, we are bombarded with confusing terms and science. Things like moment of inertia and coefficient of restitution and aerodynamics and ball speed and low spin and shaft loading and variable face thickness. All of those play a part, but the most important key to distance for most golfers is the simplest bit of science there is: launch. You have to get the ball in the air if you’re going…
4 months ago
golfdigest.com
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Odyssey borrows some of the variable face thickness ideas generated by artificial intelligence that have fueled the driver designs of parent company Callaway in recent years to reimagine how its putter faces might work. The result is two new putter lines, one featuring an aluminum-backed urethane face insert and the other a milled titanium insert, and each uses a distinct and asymmetrical thickness pattern to create more consistent off-center distance control. PRICE: Ai-On…
3 months ago
golfdigest.com
It may be the wind down to the competitive golf calendar year, but the season of new clubs is just heating up. As manufacturers begin their respective pushes to the 2024 launch season in a few months, occasionally there will be glimpses of what they’ve been working on. While those of us who are already neck deep in the 2024 Hot List process already have seen what’s coming, three equipment companies showed their respective hands recently with photos on the USGA and R&A conforming lists of drivers…
2 months ago
