May 4th in Gear, In The Bag.
Lots of new clubs can claim wins on Tour, but how many can claim a green jacket? Nike’s new STR8-FIT can. It turns out that while the STR8-FIT drivers won’t be available in stores until Apr. 1, Nike’s been field-testing the clubs with its Tour pros for the last year, resulting in four wins — two by Anthony Kim, one by K.J. Choi and one by Trevor Immelman at a little Southern tourney called the Masters. With the STR8-FIT, which …
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May 2nd in Gear, In The Bag.
By reinserting the shaft at any of eight different positions, golfers can adjust the face-, loft- and lie-angles of the r9.
Pat Perez has certainly always been a good golfer — two second-place finishes on Tour and a top-100 World Golf Ranking will certainly pad the pocketbook. But when Perez fired rounds of 61, 63, 67, 67 and 69 to win January’s Bob Hope Classic — including a PGA Tour-record 36-hole score of 20-under-par — more than one person …
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January 1st in Gear, In The Bag.
Cleveland HiBORE XLi Irons
Where designers at Cleveland went traditional with the Launcher, they’ve completely thrown tradition out the window with the HiBORE XLi irons. Truthfully, if you find yourself in the Cleveland booth at the PGA Show next year, you may have a hard time believing the two clubs came out of the same design shop — of course, while the appearances may differ, the shift towards increased control and playability, higher MOI and faster ball speeds make the …
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January 1st in Gear, In The Bag.
Cleveland Launcher
If you’re a traditional golfer — the kind who prefers the classic look of the rounded clubhead — you’ll appreciate the latest release in Cleveland’s successful Launcher series. Most notable in this year’s Launcher is the increased size of the clubface — a full 21 percent larger than the original Launcher 460. That extra surface area allows for greater forgiveness on mis-hits, while a slimmer crown and perimeter weighting on the sole mitigates the additional weight factor and …
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January 1st in Gear, In The Bag.
Callaway FT-iQ
If the PING Rapture V2 is a rocket, Callaway’s FT-iQ is a finely tuned sports car – which, in at least one small part, it is. According to Callaway designers, the back side of the FT-iQ was designed to mimic the tail end of a Lamborghini Reventon (see cover). The FT-iQ may not blow your hair back in the same way accelerating down the freeway at 90 miles per hour would, but the speed and power generated by …
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