Equipment

As the initials give away, the PM Grind Wedge was co-created by five-time major champion Phil Mickelson, arguably one of the game’s greatest ever wedge players, and Roger Cleveland, one of the game’s most revered wedge designers. The original PM Grind started as a one-off prototype built specifically for Mickelson back in 2014. It was characterised

As the hat on his head at the Sentry Tournament of Champions indicated, Gary Woodland has signed with Wilson Golf. The multiyear-deal calls for Woodland to play 10 Wilson clubs (he’s already been using Wilson blade irons) and wear a hat with Wilson on the front. Of course, while irons and wedges are likely to

TaylorMade has released details of its new TP5 and TP5x golf balls, which promise increased speeds without affecting control through the bag. Eric Loper, Director of TaylorMade Golf Ball R&D, said: “With the new TP5 and TP5x golf balls, we knew there was an opportunity to make them even faster. Our research into the driver and

TaylorMade’s M5 and M6 drivers, set to be officially unveiled to the world on Thursday, already made their existence legal with the ruling bodies with their appearance this week on the USGA list of conforming clubheads. While details will be laid out fully later this week, what the news from the USGA website shows is

Honma Golf has signed world No.2 Justin Rose to a multi-year equipment contract that will see the Olympic champion play a minimum of 10 Honma clubs, wear a side-branded cap and carry a staff tour bag. The premium Japanese brand secured the reigning FedEx Cup champion’s signature towards the end of last year, but was

In theory, iron design is pretty simple: To achieve distance, you need a face with a fair amount of spring-like effect that precisely matches the correct center-of-gravity position, all while maintaining the feel of a one-piece club. So says Scott Manwaring, Callaway’s director of iron design. But then Manwaring explains how complicated this actually is—a

TaylorMade Golf has teamed up with four-time major champion Rory McIlroy to create a new range of equipment designed for junior golfers. The two Rory Junior Sets are designed for 4-7 year olds and 8-12 year olds, and comprise five and seven clubs respectively, and come with a stand bag. Incorporating many of the same

PowaKaddy is offering a free cart bag with the purchase of every new PowaKaddy lithium trolley as part of winter promotion. Starting on November 5, and running until midnight on December 24, every golfer who buys a PowaKaddy lithium trolley will be entitled to a free PowaKaddy Cart Bag worth up to £229.99. Golfers who

Ecco Golf has renewed its commercial partnership with Champions Tour player Fred Couples. Couples’ performance in the 2010 Masters, while wearing Ecco’s new Golf Street shoe, launched the hybrid golf shoe category to the world, and the 59-year-old American will continue to wear the brand’s shoes and sport the Ecco Golf logo on the left

Callaway Golf has unveiled the latest addition to its iconic Big Bertha range of equipment with the launch of the new Big Bertha irons and hybrids. Both models are aimed at the super game improvement market and are designed to help high handicap players launch the ball high and low with the minimum of effort.

Since debuting in 2016, TaylorMade’s Spider Tour putter has eclipsed expectations both on Tour and at retail. World-class players like Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm have proven that a large mallet can conquer the game’s most treacherous greens as Spider Tour has become the No. 1 putter model on the PGA Tour. The Spider

TaylorMade Golf has launched a bespoke putter design service that enables golfers to customise almost every element of their chosen putter’s from the brand’s Spider range. Inspired by the custom service offered to tour players, the new putter design programme, which goes live on January 7, lets consumers chose virtually every element of their putter’s

Back in the late 1990s, TaylorMade reshaped the long game with a new category of hybrid clubs called Rescues. Since then, countless updates have been made to wood-based hybrids, iron-like hybrids and driving irons. Now comes TaylorMade’s GAPR (pronounced gapper), which packages the three aforementioned head styles into one neat product line. “For some players,

Callaway Golf has worked its Mack Daddy wedge line with the efficiency of Phil Mickelson’s short game, offering a number of one-off options to sustain consumer interest in an already well-regarded club. Today brings yet another addition to the Mack Daddy 4 line with the addition of the Tactical model. The Tactical boasts an aggressive

Maria Torres was one of four women tied for the lead through 36 holes at the Evian Championship at eight under. But she was the only one not wearing golf shoes. Torres is wearing a pair of On Cloud running shoes, which retail for $130. The company boasts lightweight shoes with high amounts of cushion,

Titleist is once again getting into the Christmas spirit by offering a free personalisation service on its complete range of golf balls, including the Pro V1 and Pro V1x. Personalisation is available in black printing and messages can include three lines of 17 characters, and with a minimum order requirement of just one dozen. Orders must be

Tour Edge’s Exotics EXS line is something different. But given the heritage of the Exotics sub-brand, that’s not a remarkable statement. Initially famous for its unique technologies—like “combo-brazing” lightweight titanium cup faces to steel bodies in its tour-popular fairway woods from nearly a generation ago—the Exotics line always has been about doing something technologically dramatic

The 300-yard drive, a distance that nearly would have won the first World Long Drive Championship a generation ago, is now commonplace in professional golf. In fact, there are 70 players on the PGA Tour averaging at least 300 yards off the tee this year, five times as many as there were five years ago.