Written by Instruction Editor on Tuesday 10 June 2008
They say: Official Guinness Golf Drive World Record Holder, Professional Karl Woodward, uses the Powerball Gyro to train. His 408-yard world record was the culmination of strength and power gained from the gyroscopic forces of his powerball. Simply rotate it with your wrist and you’ll feel the forces kick in. The faster you spin, the more demandign it becomes. Wayne’s...
Written by Instruction Editor on Wednesday 11 June 2008
They say: The Pro Swing Weight is the ideal pre-round practice aid. The slip-free Velcro securely attaches to any club shaft, adding weight to your iron or wood. Swinging a heavy club helps to synchronise your swing to the flex of the shaft, promoting a proper followthrough and strengthening your golf muscles, adding power and consistency to your drives. Wayne’s (TG reader)...
Written by TG Instruction Editor on Wednesday 11 June 2008
They say: Each end of the Orange Whip has a unique weighting system that works together with the flexible shaft to improve your golf swing and physical fitness. The Orange Whip conditions the user to maintain balance and swing in an athletic, rhythmical motion that creates power, accuracy and consistency. Wayne’s (TG reader) verdict: I found the Orange Whip way too...
Written by TG Instruction Editor on Tuesday 10 June 2008
They say: The impact Ball is the only golf training aid that improves your whole game, by developing feel with no mechanical thoughts. You can hit balls while using the Impact Ball to feel what a Tour player feels in the golf swing. It takes your focus away from trying to affect the golf ball and places the focus squarely on...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Monday 18 August 2008
Lots of us struggle with our longer irons and, with that in mind, Mizuno have launched their new Mizuno MX Fli-Hi iron hybrids as a direct replacement for those 3, 4 and 5-irons. Fitted with the ultra-forgiving Y-Tune Technology, the Mizuno MX Fli-Hi offers a high flying, soft landing direct alternative to those tricky-to-use traditional long bats. Exact iron lengths are complemented by a unique...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Monday 18 August 2008
Want to get your children into golf, but don’t want to fork out a national debt on clubs when the little blighters are still growing? Well check out the new Mizuno Academy clubs specifially aimed at children. The Mizuno Academy 120 is aimed at those ankle-biters aged between 5 and 8, while the Mizuno Academy 140 sticks are intended for the...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Monday 18 August 2008
Bob Bettinardi has extended the award winning Black Carbon Series of putters with the addition of two new models and a ‘belly’ shaft model. The Mizuno Bettinardi BC4 heel toe, with elegant, milled round double bend neck and the BC5 centre shaft mallet – available at 395 grams for 43″ belly length. To see a first hit video of the new...
Written by TG Equipment editor on Monday 18 August 2008
Wow! These are the new Mizuno MP62 irons, one of the four new additions to the Mizuno family. These particular beauties are specifically named the Mizuno MP62 Tour Ready Dual Muscle and have been designed very much with the better player in mind. The minimal amount of offset and a versatile soleplate, inspired by Luke Donald’s personal grind, ensures crisp ball striking which all better...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Monday 25 August 2008
The nation’s better golfers better prepare to get VERY excited about the launch of the new TaylorMade Tour Preferred irons. Why do we say that? Because the TG test team took delivery of the Taylormade Tour Preferred iron several days ago in order to bring you a world first review of the Taylormade Tour Preferred iron. And the feedback from our testers...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Monday 25 August 2008
Average golfers start salivating because TaylorMade reckon they’ve created the answer to your game issues – the TaylorMade Burner Plus irons! The 2009 iron range has been launched to help make the game as easy as possible for the nation’s golfers and having received one of the very first finished Taylormade Burner Plus our test team can testify to this. The irons,...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Monday 25 August 2008
TaylorMade have revealed they are to launch four new putters for the 2009 season in the form of the TaylorMade Rossa Core Classics. Putting purists are the target for the new TaylorMade Rossa Core Classics putter line and from what we’ve seen they won’t be disappointed from the Taylormade suzuka, lambeau, daytona and Fontana putters. Each of the four TaylorMadeCore Classic putter...
Written by TG Senior Equipment Editor, Sean Ramsdale on Tuesday 26 August 2008
The incredible new 2009 gear is coming thick and fast and TG are first on the case yet again! TaylorMade, the No. 1 driver brand on Tour have just revealed a sexy new tweak on their Movable Weight Technology drivers. Four years after the first r7 drivers hit the scene, TaylorMade have now come up with the r7 Limited. Not to be confused with the adjustable shaft r7...
Written by TG Senior Equipment Editor, Sean Ramsdale on Tuesday 26 August 2008
TG Exclusive! TaylorMade’s 2007 Burner driver was a massive hit with golfers across the world and that looks set to continue in the very latest 2009 model. We’ve not seen or tried these just yet, but here’s a special sneak preview of the 2009 TaylorMade Burner driver to keep you going! The 2007 Burner driver introduced TaylorMade’s SuperFast technology, allowing golfers to swing the...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Tuesday 26 August 2008
As well as a new range of drivers, woods and rescue clubs Titleist is also reengineering its short game products for 2009 with a keenly awaited new line of Titleist Vokey SM wedges and some further additions to Scotty Cameron’s Studio Select putter range. The new models follow hot on the heels of the stunning 2008 Newport range which won Best on Test...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Tuesday 26 August 2008
The much sought after Titleist Vokey SM wedges are to undergo a revamp for 2009 and Todaysgolfer.co.uk has all the official details. Following the same principles as the rest of the Titleist 2009 range the new Titleist Vokey wedges offer a wholehost of different options to suit different swing styles, different preferred shot types and different course, turf and sand conditions. The...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Tuesday 30 September 2008
Better players and avid Titleist fans love the new Titleist DComp, D2 and D3 drivers as TG has found in recent testing. After spending time on the range with some real golfers the clear message is that Titleist have only improved on the current offering with the Titleist 909 drivers. rather than launch one driver the development tteam there have realised that...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Tuesday 26 August 2008
Think of Titleist fairway woods and you conjure up images of high performance better player clubs that are harder to hit than some game improvers – well you can think again with the launch of the Titleist 909 F2 and Titleist 909 F3 fairway woods. The all-new fairway woods for the 2009 season have been developed to produce mid-to-high spin rates,...
Written by Jonathan Greathead, TG Equipment Editor on Monday 6 October 2008
You may well have heard that MD Golf have snapped up Seve Ballesteros, but over in Munich we’ve had a good look at the new MD Golf Icon range he’s helped develop…and it’s good stuff! The MD Golf Icon golf club range features an MD Golf Icon driver, fairway wood, hybrid, forged irons, wedges and putter and all of the equipment...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Thursday 29 January 2009
TG’s Golf Equipment Editor is on sitte at the world’s biggest golf equipment show in Orlando Florida. He is there to bring you all the new golf equipment exclusives from the show and below is his golf blog of his experiences… ——————————————————— Sunday, February 1st… Well, after a week in glorious Orlando, I am on a plane back to the less-glorious...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Thursday 29 January 2009
One of the first new golf clubs to be unveiled at the Orlando golf equipment show is the Nickent 5DX Iron Wood. TG golf equipment editor Jon Greathead took the new Nickent 5DX Iron Wood out on the range over at the show in Florida and sent us this exclusive first hit golf equipment review video. In it he tests the new...