Friday 20 April 2018
Distance might not be everything, certainly not when it comes to irons. But golfers don’t often complain about having too much of it. And if there are any extra yards going spare, most golfers would snatch your hand off to get them. Today’s latest game improvement irons specifically target distance, which explains why every new 2018 model (aimed at club golfers)...
Friday 9 February 2018
Head to head: They are set to be three of the most popular drivers of 2018, but which one should you put in your bag? TG top 50 coach Kevin Hale puts the new TaylorMade M4, the Callaway Rogue and the Ping G400 driver through their paces to see how they perform against each other. Watch the video to find out what...
Tuesday 17 April 2018
We lose loads, we buy loads… it’s no wonder this price point is so popular. Find out what we learned and made of 12 different golf balls under £30 Ten years ago, a box of £30 golf balls were perceived to be lacking in performance compared to tour balls. Most were basic two-piece constructions with durable distance covers and zero short...
Written by Simon Daddow on Thursday 14 June 2018
Shaft weight has become more important than flex in the modern game… and this is why. Shafts aren’t the first thing most club golfers think of when trotting off to buy a new driver or set of irons. But in 2018, brands now offer a wider selection of shaft weights (stock models) than ever before. It doesn’t matter whether you’re buying...
Written by Simon Daddow on Wednesday 3 January 2018
Blade vs Cavity irons reviewed: We put the latest forged blade and cavity irons to the test. Blades or cavity-backs? It’s a debate that’s raged over a pint in golf club bars ever since Ping invented the first Ping Eye cavity iron in the 1960s. Forged blades, with their smaller, sleeker heads often catch the eye of golfers prone to buying with...
Wednesday 7 November 2018
Head to head: Callaway Chrome Soft vs Titleist AVX golf balls Soft, low-compression golf balls are trending up. Fact. And since Callaway introduced the original Chrome Soft in 2014, they’ve bagged a decent-sized chunk of the premium golf ball market – and ignited a completely new sector in low-compression balls. To counter this, Titleist launched the AVX earlier this year. It’s...
Written by Simon Daddow on Friday 9 November 2018
Tiger Woods’ Driver Test: 2004 Nike Ignite Driver vs 2018 TaylorMade M3 Tiger Woods’ comeback win at the Tour Championship capped many firsts. His first win since 2013; first win since back-fusion surgery; first win with a Bridgestone ball; and it was his first win with a TaylorMade driver. His last victory (in fact, all his wins since 2002) came with Nike...
Written by Simon Daddow on Friday 15 June 2018
Every new major putter launch promises to roll putts better nowadays, but do the face grooves actually make a difference? Where some putter designers reckon face grooves grab and grip the ball at impact, creating more topspin and reducing skid, others insist hinges on the face lift putts into a better roll. Some even say you don’t need face tech at...
Wednesday 24 October 2018
Twin Test: Cleveland RTX 4 v Titleist Vokey SM7 Ever since Titleist introduced Vokey wedges back in 1997, there’s been debate among serious golfers about whether they, or Cleveland, make the best scoring clubs. Cleveland is famous for its wedges – they’ve been creating them for many of the world’s best players since 1979 – but the all-new RTX 4 is said to...
Friday 14 September 2018
With the exception of all the new drivers, hollow-body irons have been the hottest equipment launch of the last 12 months. They weren’t new when PXG introduced their first model in 2015; TaylorMade made some in the 1990s. But PXG’s thinking lit up a whole new product category – and now all the major brands bar Callaway and Mizuno are getting...
Monday 10 September 2018
The 2018 season on Tour has ended, so it only seems fair to see which putter models won the most trophies and pocketed the most cash on the PGA Tour. There are only seven styles of putter that have been used more than once in 2018 to win tournaments on the PGA Tour (all because of multiple winners); the TaylorMade Spider...
Written by Simon Daddow on Monday 10 September 2018
Can Srixon’s new driver hold its own? Imagine spending $55 million a year on tour – and not one player puts your driver in the bag. It must be heartbreaking, but that’s what Srixon has been up against ever since investing in big-name signings like Graeme McDowell, Keegan Bradley, Shane Lowry and Hideki Matsuyama. Part of the issue is how Srixon...
Written by Simon Daddow on Wednesday 29 August 2018
It’s 22 years since Sir Nick Faldo won his last major. It was 1996 and he tore 11 shots out of Greg Norman in the final round of the Masters at Augusta. For eight years (from 1988 to 1996) Faldo was the dominant force in golf, winning six of the biggest tournaments in the game – and he did it all...
Thursday 30 August 2018
Meet the entirely legal 15th Club that has probably already told Thomas Bjorn who’s on the plane to Paris… It’s often said that every football team needs a 12th man. But rarely do you hear about a golfer needing – and using – a 15th Club. Doing so is usually grounds for disqualification, but not so if you’re a European Tour...
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Four TG readers give their verdict on TaylorMade’s Spider Putters: “The Spider’s feel, appearance and roll is the best I’ve ever used” Thanks to the success of Jason Day’s red putter, TaylorMade have for the first time got a serious foot hold in the premium putter market. Spider putters having weaving their web across the world’s tours and are now available in...
Written by Simon Daddow on Monday 13 August 2018
Moment of inertia is a buzz phrase in golf that’s normally associated with drivers. But recently, as more Tour pros – including Tiger Woods – have switched to big, MOI-style putters, the phrase has been associated with flatsticks. At one point in 2017, nine of the top 10 players in the world used mallet and MOI putters (yet club golfers reckon...
Written by Simon Daddow on Friday 13 July 2018
Could you ever really wear a jacket for the 95% of rounds you play? That’s the claim Galvin Green make with their new Interface-1 range. Galvin have cornered the market when it comes to premium performance waterproofs over the last 15 years. Now their focus has turned to changing how golfers think about sweaters and wind jackets thanks to a brand-new...
Written by Simon Daddow on Wednesday 20 June 2018
One is a 2018 Tour winner, the other is a retail special… So how do they compare? TaylorMade’s current M3 and M4 drivers are played by many of the game’s biggest names including Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose, Jason Day and Tiger Woods. But for all the hype these two clubs have generated in 2018, they aren’t TaylorMade’s only...
Written by Simon Daddow on Friday 15 June 2018
There isn’t one perfect way to hit a putt – just like drivers or irons, every golfer has their own unique way of presenting a putter to the ball and launching shots across a green. Everyone’s numbers are different – the real skill comes down to a fitter’s ability to find a way to compliment your natural stroke, with a putter...
Written by Chris Jones, Editor on Wednesday 27 June 2018
The Red Arrows are perfectionists. You need to be when you’re hurtling towards each other at more than 300mph, before breaking off at the last second in a cloud of red, white and blue smoke. With their trademark Diamond Nine shape and combinations of close-formation, precision flying, the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team has been wowing crowds since 1965. In this,...