Wednesday 9 September 2020
We tested a driving range ball against a premium five-piece tour golf ball to find out if your practice ball could actually be having a negative impact on your performance on the golf course. How many times have you hit golf balls at the driving range and thought I’m sure I hit my 8-iron further than 120 yards? Most golfers assume that...
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...
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...
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
Pro V1 performance… at half the price? Can the new mail order balls really compete with a Titleist? We found out. Mail order golf balls weren’t even a thing five years ago. Back then your choice of premium tour-level balls boiled down to the traditional major brands – Titleist, TaylorMade, Callaway and Srixon. All brands who’d like you to believe tour-level...