WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Cleveland’s CBX 2 wedges were designed to help golfers who, well, need help with their short game. Its latest black satin offering employs all the hallmark technologies of the original CBX 2, including a precise center-of-gravity location, face-milling pattern and numerous loft/sole grind options in a striking murdered-out look. Price:
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Cobra’s Radspeed metalwood lineup includes three driver options, four fairway wood options and two hybrid versions. Each distinctly different head explores the benefits of pushing saved mass to extreme locations: Forward to optimize energy transfer and lower spin for better players; rearward to improve off-center hit forgiveness for average golfers;
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Mizuno’s M.Craft lineup of forged carbon steel putters, which debuted earlier this year, adds three new models for 2021, including two new mallets and a wide-body blade. Price: $300 (new models available Feb. 4). THE DEEP DIVE: Mizuno got back into the putter business earlier this year by concentrating on
TaylorMade put two new drivers on the conforming list of golf clubs published by the R&A this week, both apparently follow ups to the current SIM line of drivers. Placed on the weekly updated list are the SIM2 and SIM2 Max. The SIM and SIM Max are TaylorMade’s current flagship drivers. (It is likely that
OCEANSIDE, Calif. — “If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.” I’ve heard people say that before, but I’ve never quite believed it when they do. That is, until I met Bob Vokey. On this particular day, the legendary club maker has spent more than three hours with me,
Steve Stricker won the U.S. Senior Open on Sunday, and on Tuesday, added an endorsement deal with puttermaker Odyssey, which is one of the most unusual endorsement deals we’ve seen. There is no signage on the cap or shirt or anywhere, for that matter. The deal only applies to tournaments on the PGA Tour Champions,
L.A.B. Golf’s new Blad.1 putter continues the same unique approach to putter design that it debuted with the Directed Force oversized mallet introduced in early 2016, but it’s added one crucial element: A shape that’s as simple as the Directed Force is complex. But that doesn’t mean the Blad.1, which is kind of a modern
Harold Varner III might have shot 81 while playing in the final group of the recent PGA Championship, but today he has an endorsement contract with Callaway Golf to play the company’s woods, an Odyssey putter and use a Callaway-branded staff bag. The signing does not signal any significant shift in his equipment as Varner
If Ping’s G Le2 collection of women’s clubs proves anything, it is this: Contrary to what you might have seen on The View or read in books about men and women and Mars and Venus, all humans—at least when it comes to golf—basically are the same: They all want more distance. It’s just that getting
Titleist Vokey wedges have been on the radar of golfers ever since 1997 when master craftsman Bob Vokey started designing wedges for the company. During those two-plus decades, Voke has created a number of models and grinds, including his latest D grind, which offers high measured bounce along with the crescent shape of the M
The Honma T//World TW-X irons got their start as a long-iron replacement club preferred by tour players as a driving iron. Now, the company is ready for the new T//World-X to serve as a replacement for all the irons you carry. The new T//World-X set, which features a forged hollow body construction and a high-strength
The Srixon Q-Star’s two-piece construction isn’t what you would think of for a tour-level ball, but a deeper look into the design reveals some of the same guiding technologies found in the company’s tour-played Z-Star and Z-Star XV balls. While the ionomer-covered Q-Star won’t ever be a choice of elite players who prefer the versatility
Last year we brought you our 13 Dumbest Things in Golf—a collection of egregious traditions, decisions and products that cause golfers to raise their collective eyebrows, snicker or in some cases, get fired up about. Of course, golf being what it is, there’s no way that our original 13 things covered the entire landscape of
The Epon AF-305 irons find that difficult place in the current landscape of iron design: pushing a players irons shape toward a more forgiving design without pushing too far. The only way to get there was to maximize the company’s long-standing expertise in forged iron technology to a new cavity shape. Epon is the subsidiary
When the first U.S. Open was played in 1895 at Rhode Island’s Newport Country Club, some spectators and competitors, perhaps even winner Horace Rawlins, had at one time likely worn clothes made of hemp fibers. In the 1800s, hemp — made from stalks of the Cannabis plant — was commonly used to make a variety
Tipping points can have the most unlikely origins. Back in 2008, TaylorMade debuted a supersized putter, coined Spider, on the PGA Tour. The fifth week it was out, a player who’d been struggling on the greens tried Spider at the FBR Open in Phoenix and went on to win the event. “From that moment, Spider’s
When Wilson Golf first introduced its C300 Forged irons, Jon Pergande, the company’s manager of golf club innovation, said, “We wanted a decent ,good clean look. We’re starting with a look and adding distance technology to it. Now Wilson is adding even further to that look with the introduction of a limited-edition C300 Forged with