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...
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...
Monday 23 July 2018
Adam Scott rocked up to the recent Players Championship in Florida with an eight-year-old driver. That’s right, a 13-time PGA Tour winner – with over $47 million in the bank – thought his best golf driver option was a Titleist 910 D3, which launched in 2010. You could pick one up today on Golfbidder for £61. Scott hit eight of 14 fairways...
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 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,...
Written by Simon Daddow on Friday 22 June 2018
Bag Boy have made trolleys and bags for over 70 years. Their latest bright idea is Top-Lok. It means golfers can attach a cart bag to the trolley without the need for any straps. The bag can’t spin or rotate solving an annoying issue which has plagued golfers for years. We asked four TG readers to put the idea through its...
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 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...
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 Thursday 31 May 2018
Tracking golf shots wasn’t even a thing a few years ago, but with some big brands now in the market and millions of rounds being played on their platforms, it’s safe to say this tech is here to stay. Modern GPS technology has made shot tracking both easier and more useful. Some systems are now so sophisticated they offer an electronic...
Tuesday 22 May 2018
If the 5-iron is the least-used club in your bag, there are plenty of easier-to-hit, more versatile replacements available. The best irons lofts just keep getting stronger, the modern golf ball spins less and the average age of golfers is on the increase, so it’s easy to see why many club golfers struggle to launch a 5-iron from the turf nowadays.
Written by Simon Daddow on Thursday 17 May 2018
Four regular golfers put Callaway’s all-new graphene-infused Chrome Soft balls to the test… and love them. Callaway promised the original lower compression Chrome Soft was “the ball to change the ball”, and a couple of years on, softer balls have never been so popular. For 2018 there’s a new Chrome Soft model hitting the shops that’s infused with “graphene”, a phenomenally light...
Thursday 17 May 2018
Can your shoes REALLY add distance? Under Armour says the new Spieth 2 shoes can… so four TG readers put the claim to the test. How often have you watched the world’s best players on TV and thought: “How do they hit it so far with seemingly so little effort?” There are many differences between a tour player’s swing and a club...
Written by Simon Daddow on Tuesday 15 May 2018
PXG have launched four new iron sets, coming in at £400 a club. We got fitted to see what all the fuss was about… PXG have come a long way, quickly. News first broke in 2015 that billionaire Bob Parsons, who made his fortune setting up web giant GoDaddy.com, was building a golf club business, and many brushed off the idea...
Written by Simon Daddow on Tuesday 15 May 2018
If you’re in the market for a brand new driver, but don’t want to spend more than £350, there are some great options – and the latest is Callaway’s Speed XR. Callaway’s “jailbreak” technology (two titanium rods attaching the sole to the crown) features in their Rogue and Epic drivers, but the tech is costly to produce, which means those two...