Written by Jake O'Reilly on Friday 3 August 2012
There was a huge amount of buzz around TaylorMade’s RocketBallz range when it launched at the start of the year and it’s fair to say the RBZ irons (which effectively replaced the Burner irons) stand up to the impressive woods very well. So well infact that they claimed silver in our June irons test. The first thing to note is the...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Thursday 2 August 2012
The S56’s offer Ping’s most compact head for the better player. Having said that, they do offer some forgiveness, with a tungsten weight in the toe. The clubs shot to prominence when South African Louis Oosthuizen won the 2010 Open at St Andrews, weeks before they appeared in pro shops up and down the country. The tungsten toe weights optimise...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Thursday 2 August 2012
The Nike VR_S game improver irons are the lastest edition of excellent clubs aimed at the higher handicapper from the American manufacturing giants. These clubs have been designed with the Nike’s innovative NexCor face technology which gives golfers more distance on a wider area of the face. Our test team loved them so much that they awarded them gold during our June 2012 irons test. Here’s...
Written by Jake O'Reilly on Thursday 2 August 2012
British born PGA Tour Professional Brian Davis has signed a deal to wear Sunice golf apparel. Mark Fletcher, President of Sunice, said: “We are excited to partner with Brian. He has had a very good year finishing 4 times in the top 10 on Tour so far this year and he brings a very good game and technical insight to our product...
Written by Jonathan Greathead, TG Senior Equipment Editor on Monday 30 July 2012
After a highly-successful inaugural TG Demo Day at The Belfry last year, we’re getting ready to do it all over again at Europe’s foremost golfing facility this August Bank Holiday – but this time it’s going to be even bigger and better! Not only are many of the game’s leading equipment manufacturers offering amazing individual custom fit sessions and the...
Sunday 29 July 2012
New Mizuno MP59 and MP69 irons: Photo Gallery intro copy. SEE THE MIZUNO MP59 IRONS HERE >>> SEE THE MIZUNO MP69 IRONS HERE >>>...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Wednesday 25 July 2012
Whatever your thoughts are on magnotherapy products are, European Tour star Thomas Aiken insists the Bioflow wristband played a significant role in his return to fitness and rise to thew upper echelons of the game. In December 2004 South African golf star, Thomas Aiken, was faced with surgery on a troublesome wrist injury and lengthy lay-off from the game. However, a...
Written by Jonathan Greathead, TG Senior Equipment Editor on Tuesday 24 July 2012
Sergio Garcia and Dustin Johnson played their part in a sensational stunt on the River Thames to celebrate golf’s inclusion into the Olympic Games in 2016 and the new adidas Red Shoe campaign. Just a few days before the start of this year’s iconic sporting event, PGA Tour stars Garcia and Johnson attempted a nearest the pin challenge to a floating...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Monday 23 July 2012
Mizuno spent all last week at The Open Championship teasing us with images of their new gear from the Tour truck – and they’ve done it again with a peek at the new MP-64 irons. These are set to replace the MP-63 irons in the range and will sit alongside the MP-69 and MP-59s next year. There is no word as...
Written by TG staff writer on Monday 23 July 2012
The controversial topic of belly and broomhandle putters rumbles on and in fact has gained momentum with the top two players (Ernie Els and Adam Scott) in yesterday’s Open using them. In fact three of the last four major champions have triumphed with long handle putters which many golfing traditionalists feel should be outlawed. Using the longer putters is becoming a...
Written by Jonathan Greathead, TG Senior Equipment Editor on Monday 23 July 2012
Callaway staffer Ernie Els rolled back the years to claim an epic Open Championship victory at Royal Lytham and St Annes on Sunday afternoon. The 42-year-old took full advantage of a monumental collapse from overnight leader Adam Scott to win his first Major for a decade. The South African relied on a bag full of Callaway equipment, including the new Hex Black Tour...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Thursday 19 July 2012
Often the acid test of a golf club is the reaction it extracts from Tour pros – and the Nike VR_S Forged irons have won praise from none other than Tiger Woods. Despite being designed for mid-low handicap golfers looking for a touch of forgiveness, the 14-time Major winner has included a Nike VR_S Forged 3-iron in his bag on numerous occasions this...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Thursday 19 July 2012
Mizuno may be better known for catering for better players with their heritage in forged irons – but they also produce clubs for higher handicappers as well in the form of the JPX-800 HD irons. They are bigger than the sleeker blades for which Mizuno is renowned but instead are built to offer the maximum amount of forgiveness for inconsistent players. The...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Thursday 19 July 2012
MD Golf have a reputation for producing irons that outperform their price point and this year they have brought the new Superstrong ST2 range to market. To see if they would continue previous form and perform better than their £199.99 price point TG’s equipment team Jonathan Greathead and David Connor took a closer look. To hear what they thought take a look...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Tuesday 17 July 2012
Another new addition to the Mizuno range looks to be the new MP-H4 – a hybrid-style long iron designed to replace the MP Fli-Hi. Mizuno’s Tour reps have been showcasing the new head to their staff players at The Open Championship, where a lot of players traditionally ditch their hybrids for long irons because of the wind and the firmer turf. The...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Tuesday 17 July 2012
Mizuno have given us a sneak peek of their brand new MP-T4 wedges which they are unveiling to staff players at The Open Championship. We don’t have a great deal of detail at the moment but we believe the wedges will replace the hugely popular MP-T11 that had been it the bag of Luke Donald during his ascent to world No1...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Monday 16 July 2012
Zach Johnson sealed his second PGA Tour victory of 2012 with a playoff win against Troy Matteson in the John Deere Classic. The former Masters champion, who lives just an hour away and is on the board of the John Deere Classic, tapped in for birdie on the second playoff hole to wrestle the title from Matteson after both finished on...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Monday 16 July 2012
Jeev Milkha Singh came from nowhere on Sunday to win the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open in a playoff against Italian Franceso Molinari. The Callaway man fired a final round 67, the joint lowest round of the day, to set the clubhouse lead at 17-under par at a windswept Castle Stuart course near Inverness. Singh watched as the leaders, including home favourite...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Saturday 14 July 2012
You’d struggle to find a more successful putter range in terms of victory ratios than the Nike Method models with two Major wins and a host of PGA and European Tour victories in its short career to date. Now Nike have updated the range with three new models in a stunning Method Midnight finish. The original range consisted of five putters –...
Written by David Connor, TG Equipment Editor on Friday 13 July 2012
The long-awaited new addition to the Bushnell range of laser rangefinders has arrived – the Tour Z6. It is designed to be their smallest, most technologically-advance laser rangefinder to date in order to offer amateurs the same luxury of added yardages that the pros enjoy. The Tour Z6 features what Bushnell call Vivid Display Technology for clearer views while the new red...