Mar 13th, 2016 Article
PXG Launch The Darkness
PXG launch their 0311 and 0311T irons in a black finish, unlike anything seeen in golf before...
PXG launch their 0311 and 0311T irons in a black finish, unlike anything seeen in golf before...
“They look like a blade, they play like a cavity back, and they have a sweetspot the size of Texas.” That’s how Bob Parsons describes his PXG 0311 irons. But as great as they are, when you sign up a tour staff, they want clubs a little bit different to the rest of us.
We've sifted through everything so you don't have to. Here they are, the best of the best of 2015's golf equipment, worthy of the much sought after GolfPunk Seal Of Approval...
What is it with Rory and the Honda Classic? He wins in 2012 and now he's missed Honda Classic cut for the second time in a row.
Even big cheeses at golf companies get to go on holiday sometimes. But if you’re a Solheim, and golf and engineering are in your blood, you never truly stop thinking about golf equipment. When you happen across a dragonfly on a tropical island, you or I would think “Hmmm, pretty". John Solheim, grandson of the great Karsten Solheim, thought ‘innovation'.
It’s not an iron. It’s definitely not a wood. It’s not a hybrid, and it’s 100% not a driving iron. It’s the new Ping G Crossover, and they feel it’s a club totally in it’s own category. What we know is it’s easy to hit. Well it is, unless you edit a popular golf website (don’t know what you mean-Ed).
Week in week out the majority of tour players putt with some variation of the classic Ping Anser putter. While the model has been refined in many small ways over the years, they are all modelled of Karsten Solheim's breakthrough 1966 Anser design.
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.
Titleist have switched things up with the launch of the 816 H1 and H2 hybrids. Realising that hybrids need to be gapped distance wise with a set of irons, they've switched the release schedule to come out the same time as the irons rather than with the driver and irons.
Forget a half time livener, according to research, coffee will get your handicap down...
So the big one this week is this video from TaylorMade. We don’t know what is launching, and we’re trying our best to find out. But by the looks of this video though it’s something that will send the ball far!!!
Troy Merritt got safely across the line for his maiden PGA Tour title win, shooting a 4 under 67 to win on 18 under, 3 shots clear of Rickie Fowler.