Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Friday 5 November 2010
Ping is a brand that prides itself on providing clubs for a wide range of golfing abilities from better players to high handicappers. The i15 range is designed for the former category – the better player – and the fairway wood in the range is the prime example of that. Designed with a slightly open face and a Tour-profile head, it can...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Friday 5 November 2010
Yonex are making a big play in the golf world at the moment – thanks in no small part to the performance of Japanese sensation and Yonex ambassador Ryo Ishikawa. But behind the Bashful Prince lies some really technologically-advanced golf clubs, such as the Yonex Nanospeed 3i fairway wood, which performed brilliantly in our 2010 fairway woods test bagging a silver...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Monday 25 October 2010
Italian hotshot and Titleist ambassador Matteo Manassero wowed the golfing world with his incredible victory to become the youngest ever winner on the European Tour. The 17-year-old shot to prominence in last year’s Open Championship where he won the Silver Medal as an amateur after winning the British Amateur Championship – a victory that also qualified him to play in this...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Saturday 16 October 2010
Nike have wowed the golfing world with the launch of their stunning new SQ Machspeed black driver. The new driver follows up on the previous Machspeed model but this is enhanced not only in terms of incredible aesthetics but in performance too. It is designed to be even more streamlined and aerodynamic than ever before leading to faster clubhead speed and...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Sunday 10 October 2010
Renowned GPS and satnav firm Snooper have entered the range finder market with the launch of their new Shotsaver S400. The device has been designed specifically for golf and can pinpoint targets up to 400 yards away. It also features a specific Pole Position technology setting which will automatically hone in on a flag from up to 250 yards away. But the big...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Thursday 21 October 2010
TaylorMade caused a storm earlier this year when they launched the Corza Ghost mallet putter complete with bright white head – and now they’ve followed that up with a more traditional-shape Rossa Corza Daytona model. If you are an eagle-eyed follower of the Tours you’ll have noticed several players using a prototype model in recent months. Players such as Sergio Garcia,...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Wednesday 20 October 2010
Padraig Harrington may have won his first tournament for two years at the weekend but the big story from an equipment point of view is that he did it with the brand new Wilson Staff FG Tour wedges in his bag. The Irishman is considered one of the best wedge players on the planet and he used the new FG Tour...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Friday 29 October 2010
At Today’s Golfer we always go on about the latest technology in golf clubs such as the Nike Method putter and how they are designed to help your game. What we don’t usually show is just how these clubs are painstakingly constructed from a single block of steel and the attention to detail that goes into each and every club. We’ve managed...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Thursday 28 October 2010
As gear stories of 2010 go, the launch of the TaylorMade Rossa Corza Ghost putter is right up there in terms of exposure. The launch of a putter with a white head really captured the imagination of Tour pros and amateur golfers alike. In fact Justin Rose had one of his finest ever years on the greens and attributes much of...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Wednesday 20 October 2010
There’s no doubting that Yes are one of the hot putter brands on tour at the moment with many a player using them without endorsement. Henrik Stenson, Edoardo Molinari, Peter Hanson and Jim Furyk are just a few of the players to have put a Yes into play. In fact, Furyk won the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup using a Yes model...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Thursday 21 October 2010
Yonex may not be known for their pedigree when it comes to putters but our team at TG’s 2010 putters test all agreed that the Yonex Cyberstar CP-01 short stick would be a worthy addition to any bag. The putter features a new face material called “M2052”, which is apparently used in precision audio equipment to absorb bad vibrations and allow...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Friday 17 September 2010
To complement the launch of their their JPX-800 irons, Mizuno have created a new line of JPX Series game-improver wedges. The JPX Series wedge is designed to follow on from the JPX-800 irons – or any other game-improvement set of irons. They are slightly oversize to inspire confidence and to make the transition from a larger cavity-back PW easier. They also feature stronger lofts...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Tuesday 7 September 2010
Titleist staff player Charley Hoffman produced an amazing run of back-nine birdies to win the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston, beating Geoff Ogilvy, Luke Donald and Jason Day back into a tie for second. The American shot a stunning 29 on the back nine for which his competitors had no answer and he eventually went on to win by five...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Monday 13 September 2010
Big-hitting American Dustin Johnson has bounced back from his final-round USPGA heartache to win the BMW Championship and catapult himself to second-place in the FedEx Cup play-offs. The TaylorMade staff player was penalised with two strokes for unwittingly grounding his club in a bunker on the 72nd hole of the USPGA Championship last month, which cost him a place in a...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Wednesday 15 September 2010
Jose-Felipe Lima may be classed as Portugal’s number one golfer – but the Titleist staff player learned his craft in France. Lima has Portuguese parents but was born and raised in France, representing them at every level up until 2004, when he switched allegiences to the country of his parentage before representing them at the WGC World Cup in 2005. He started...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Thursday 9 September 2010
Nike staff player Richard Finch already has two European Tour titles to his name in the five years since he joined the Tour and the man from Hull is desperate for more. He made his breakthrough in 2007 at the New Zealand Open and then followed that up with victory at the Irish Open in 2008. He hasn’t found the winner’s circle...
Written by Jonathan Greathead, TG Senior Equipment Editor on Monday 20 September 2010
Jose Manuel Lara relied on the Wilson FG Tour irons on his way to victory at the Austrian Open. The 33-year-old shot a final-round of 64 to finish on 17-under-par, before seeing off Englishman David Lynn in a play-off. Up until two weeks ago, the Spaniard looked like he might be heading back to Q School, but a fourth-placed finish in the KLM...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Monday 13 September 2010
German Martin Kaymer made it a fantastic double win on the world’s Tours this weekend for TaylorMade with victory in the KLM Open. Kaymer’s victory ensured a double celebration for TaylorMade as Dustin Johnson capitalised on Paul Casey’s late wobble to seal victory in the BMW Championship. Kaymer, who will be making his first Ryder Cup appearance for Europe at Celtic Manor,...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Monday 6 September 2010
He may be the elder statesman in Colin Montgomerie’s Ryder Cup team but Miguel Angel Jimenez has proven that he fully merits his place following victory in the Omega European Masters at Crans-Sur-Sierre. The Ping staff player held off the challenge of Ryder Cup team-mate Edoardo Molinari to give Monty a boost with two of his charges maintaining excellent recent form. It...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Wednesday 8 September 2010
When setting out to create the new JPX-800 iron, Mizuno steadfastly stuck to the mantra that forgiving didn’t have to mean big and ugly. Instead, they wanted to develop a game-improvement iron that would outperform everything else on the market not only in terms of performance, but in looks as well. The JPX-800 signals the end of the popular MX-line up of...