April 29th in Gear, In The Bag.

Fine-Tune Your Driving

By Brian Beaky, CG Editor

For more than 200 years, humans have continued to find ways to reinvent the golf club. You’d think they’d eventually run out of ideas – I mean, how many different ways can you really repackage a grip, a shaft and a clubhead?

Well, until we are all able to hit that little white ball exactly where we want it to go, every time, the answer is apparently — not enough.

Fifteen years ago it was metal …

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 …

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 …

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 …

January 1st in Gear, In The Bag.

Bridgestone B330-RX

It’s rare that a new ball generates a significant amount of buzz — after all, while decades of technological advances have contributed to significant changes in the appearance and construction of drivers, putters and irons, a golf ball is still a golf ball. Therefore, when we heard rumors flying across the internet this fall about a new ball from Bridgestone that promised to change the game, we perked our ears up. Indeed, industry insiders were so geared up …