Tuesday, 26 February 2019
From Golf Pride to Lamkin and Superstroke, the top 10 golf grips on the market Golf pride Tour Velvet 360 – from £6 www.golfpride.com | Weight: 50g (Tour Velvet standard is 45g) | Colours: Black | Sizes: Standard (Tour Velvet is available in Standard, Midsize, Jumbo and Junior) Our verdict: The most popular grip in golf and favoured by more tour players than any...
Monday, 21 January 2019
Driver Test: We put four of the latest drivers up against each other Ping just launched their brand new G410 Plus driver on Monday, so we decided to put it up against the other two big releases from Callaway and TaylorMade in 2019 and the Cobra F9. Find out which performs the best in the video below!...
Written by Simon Daddow on Thursday, 10 January 2019
Speed is the most heavily researched area of driver design right now. The idea is simple – by improving aerodynamics, you swing at the same speed but the clubhead travels quicker, equalling more yards. Some brands claim aerodynamics and drag reduction can improve clubhead speed by 2.5mph, whereas others say gains are closer to 1.5mph. But what you have to realise...
Friday, 7 December 2018
When we put the best mail order tour level balls up against the game’s top-selling ball (the Titleist Pro V1) in the summer, we had no idea how good they were going to be. Not only in terms of data, but feel, too. With the Snell MTB Black and Red models performing so well in our test – and because they’re available...
Written by Simon Daddow on Saturday, 1 December 2018
TWIN TEST: TaylorMade HI-TOE vs Ping Glide Forged wedges More than ever, the one-off clubs and prototypes afforded to the world’s best players now make it onto the shelf of your local pro shop. Callaway and Phil Mickelson started the trend when they introduced the highly specialised PM Grind wedges and “Phrankenwood” (remember the fairway driver?). TaylorMade then knocked a home run...
Friday, 30 November 2018
Is a 7-iron still a 7-iron when it has the loft of a 5-iron? Before launch monitors appeared on the scene, iron lofts barely got a look-in when it came to designing, making and marketing the best golf irons. It was pretty much a given that a 7-iron was… well, just a 7-iron. But since launch monitors gave golfers and club...
Tuesday, 13 November 2018
Aiming at the hole and setting up correctly ultimately leads to more holed putts. PGA Tour star Danny Lee would agree. His sponsors Odyssey say that if he holed just one more putt a week, he’d have earned an extra $500,000! To address the issue, and help you set up and align correctly more often, Odyssey designed the new Red Ball...
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...
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...
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Never use your 4-iron? Hybrid go as far as your 5-wood? Then read this… We’ve all boomed a drive down the middle on a tough par 4, only to stroll to our ball and realise there’s 200 yards left to the flag. Fifteen years ago, we’d need to get out a 3 or 4 iron and pray the shots got airborne.
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...
Written by Simon Daddow on Monday, 15 October 2018
Forged Irons: We’ve ranked every leading model and given them a forgiveness rating Forged irons used to be the domain of decent golfers. Many players, especially those who make it to single digits, see a beautiful set of forgings as the absolute pinnacle of the game. RELATED: Tested – Best Forged Irons 2020 Why? Forged irons generally have smaller, more compact heads, while...
Wednesday, 19 September 2018
Size is everything when it comes to technology, and smaller is generally better. It’s so important for electric trolleys that the two market leaders, PowaKaddy and Motocaddy, are locked in a size war. Motocaddy started the “compact” trend with their M-Series a few years ago; PowaKaddy hit back last year with the Compact C2, and then C2i for 2018. But Motocaddy...
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...
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
The 2018 season on Tour has ended, so it only seems fair to see which iron models won the most trophies and pocketed the most cash on the PGA Tour. (Click here for 2019) With both Dustin Johnson and Jason Day winning multiple times this season already, it’s no surprise that TaylorMade has come out on top – with both players...
Tuesday, 11 September 2018
The 2018 season on Tour has ended, so it only seems fair to see which driver model won the most trophies and pocketed the most cash on the PGA Tour. (Click here for 2019) There have been seven multiple winners on Tour in 2018, so it’s no surprise that TaylorMade have come out on top given four of those players (including...
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...
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...
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...
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...