The United States will feature the largest contingent of golfers set to compete in the men’s competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics. But it will not include U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau. The International Golf Federation announced the full list of 60 qualifiers for the men’s competition that will take place Aug. 1-4 at Le Read more…
A healthy percentage of average golfers are playing too little loft on their lowest-lofted fairway wood, and our Hot List testing reveals that more loft is going to be a better choice more often for as many as a third of all golfers.
Despite all the sturm und drang over the “sanctity of par,” the “half-stroke penalty of the rough” and the pressing desire of course setup types to “get every club in the bag dirty” as if they were fiendishly conducting some kind of torture experiment disguised as a morality play, the U.S. Open really is the Read more…
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Callaway will launch its version of the backup tee-shot club with the new Paradym AI Smoke Ti 340 Mini Driver, hopping on the trend for elite men’s golfers to find a slot in their bags for a more compact, shorter-shafted but reliably hot-faced alternative to the biggest stick. The AI Read more…
The appearance kicks off the usual two-year cadence for the company’s woods launches, and Titleist also indicated that GT fairway woods will be making the rounds at this week’s Memorial Tournament.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Vice Golf, the direct-to-consumer ball brand that’s made a name with its edgy approach to mixing aesthetics with big-idea technology, takes a broader step into the golf-equipment arena with a new line of irons, wedges and putters. The clubs include two multiple-material, hollow-body iron designs, forged wedges and blade and Read more…
Smash factor is one of those club-fitting terms that insiders like to get all excited about because it sounds like a combination of Mortal Kombat tactics and sex appeal. But this is golf so in reality smash factor is as boring and as essential as, well, physics. To review, smash factor is simply the ratio Read more…
Director of golf experience for Golf Galaxy and Dick’s Sporting Goods, Chris Marchini, talked to Golf Digest about the hurdles to getting everyday golfers to embrace the benefits of the “right” clubs.
When Golf Digest ran a test with average golfers, less than half could tell the difference between a non-urethane cover ball and a urethane cover ball.
With the best tour players throwing a game-improvement iron in their bags, it got us thinking: Should everybody start opting for more forgiving irons, and specifically, is there any real reason for a regular golfer to game players irons? First, let’s remember what players irons are for our purposes. In terms of how we produce Read more…
PGA of America president John Lindert said the quiet part out loud when it comes to the golf ball rollback that the R&A and USGA have slated to take effect in 2028: namely, that average golfers might not abide by it. At least initially.
I don’t think we talk enough about Brooks. Not the “brothers,” though I am in need of seersucker and a particularly sporty rep tie. No, not “Garth” or even “and Dunn,” even though both country-music legends would seem ideal for a major championship played in a state famous for consuming distilled spirits surrounded by “friends in Read more…
The new Cobra LIMIT3D irons will break new ground as the first commercially available clubs made completely through additive manufacturing, or what’s known as three-dimensional (3D) printing.
Bob Parsons, the 73-year-old billionaire behind PXG, the golf upstart brand that has become an industry stalwart in its decade of existence, likes to say that luck and a guardian angel have been integral parts to his success. The biggest hits in his career include selling his microcomputer software company Parsons Technology to Intuit for Read more…
Two of the biggest players in the grip market will now be as close as an interlocking grip. Superstroke, the leader in putter grips for the better part of the last decade, announced Monday that it has purchased Lamkin Grips, the venerable family-owned rubber grip manufacturer that started nearly 100 years ago when it essentially Read more…
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Snell Golf launches three new urethane-cover balls—Prime 2.0, Prime 3.0, Prime 4.0—to cater to three different levels of play. Rather than breaking down the universe by swing speed or driver distance, the three balls can be sorted by a player’s typical 7-iron distance. While all balls feature a new cross-linked Read more…
The new, sleeker P•UDI and wider-soled P•DHY aim to replace the long irons, hybrids or high-lofted fairway woods in the bag by offering a flatter, more penetrating flight, but still exhibiting the ball speed of a flexible-face iron.
Sometimes the best instruction is so simple it could teach a reasonably intelligent dog to execute a high draw (see the molded grip), and sometimes, especially in the modern era of deep-dive analytics and motion-capture animation, you need a Ph.D. in biomechanics and physiology just to begin to formulate words to describe what you think Read more…
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Vice Golf, the one-time small, discount direct-to-consumer ball company that has gone on to become an edgy lifestyle brand with a global presence, launches its newest collection of golf balls. The group includes three new multilayer cast urethane-cover models covering a full range of swing speeds, as well as two Read more…
Australian Golf Digest
