An eventful weekend had Argentinian Emillano Grillo winning his first PGA Tour event as a full member, Andy Sullivan taking his third win of the season, and Lexi Thomson bombing it to victory in Korea. Here’s what gear they were using.
Vice Golf are a new golf ball brand that offer premium quality golf balls at a significant discount from the usual price. Oh, and they're pretty cool too. GolfPunk has a look at what they're all about.
Mizuno have gone down the EZ route with their new hybids. these are designed to hit it high and land soft.
Mizuno have gone down the EZ route with their new Fairway Woods. Distance is important but not at the expense of being easy to use.
So we’ve hit it. The new TaylorMade M1 Driver. A monochrome bomber. TaylorMade are sure this will be the number one driver on tour at the BMW Championship in its first week out there. After hitting it we know why they're so confident. We got to hit the 430, and the 460 heads, and they are both belters.
For 2016 Mizuno have simplified things. They set out to design a very EZ (say it in an American accent) to hit driver designed for forgiveness and distance. Rather than hundreds of adjustable options they've given you a handful to make things obvious.
The Apex Pro is a simple hybrid for the better player. In a world where everything is built for distance, and adjustability, Callaway have bucked the trend with a hybrid that is built for consistency for the good golfer.
Callaway’s Apex Pro 16 is the most forgiving forged players iron they have ever produced. With a shape and size similar to the X forged, but with the forgiveness of the original Apex Pro’s, expect these to be filling up both tour and club bags next season.
TaylorMade's PGA Tour Truck is like a rolling BatCave for golf geeks, full of the latest shiny sticks, and latest golf gizmo's. You could even call it the golf Tardis, as it actually is bigger on the inside than the outside, at least it is when it pushes its walls out when stationary. However you want to think of it though, it's bloody cool.
Callaway’s Apex irons were one of the big success stories over the last couple of seasons. We all want more help, but we don’t want to use chopper big bats. The Apex felt great, and the ball flew miles, without looking like a garden rake. The Apex CF16 is their update.
Jordan Spieth missd the cut at the first two event's in the FedExCup playoffs, but he didn't let that stop him. Going back back to his old Titleist 714 AP2 irons, Jordan finished 13th last week, and won the Tour Championship this week to win the FedExCup and the $10 Million bonus.
TItleist are on a roll this year. The Pro V1 is on fire. The 915 Woods have been a massive success. And Titleist irons win a tour event seemingly every other week. The one area people don’t to think of Titleist though is forgiving mid handicap irons. Yet with the AP1, they’ve got a set of irons that combines offers shed loads of help, without looking like a chopper big bat.
