2025 PGA Show Gear: Exciting As Ever

With the usual array of cool, new products, the 2025 PGA Show didn’t disappoint

By Tony Dear

We hoped to get the reactions from all of Colorado’s exhibitors at last week’s PGA Show for this week’s Gear page. However, Few of them had made it back from Florida in time for us to speak with them, so you can expect that next week.

We’ll talk to the most interesting companies/brands among the 17 Colorado firms that attended (we’re not sure you need to hear from the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs, at least not in the Gear section), highlighting the products they showcased and asking how successful the show was for them.

We’re guessing it was pretty good because the PGA of America, and its partner Reed Exhibitions, have published some impressive numbers from what they say was the biggest PGA Show since 2009. There were 400 new exhibitors and over 33,000 people attended, including industry professionals from 94 countries and all 50 U.S. states. More than 1,300 buyers representing 840 golf facilities and retailers were there. Together, they generated roughly $885 million in purchasing power, driving nearly $2.2 billion in net sales.

It would seem the golf equipment industry is in rude good health.

This week, we’ll take a look at 20 companies/products that got our attention.

1. Blue Tees bundling its most popular products

We featured Blue Tees’ rangefinders in November 2021, and have been interested in how the company has evolved since then. It seems to have taken a similar route to True Classic apparel by bundling together some of its most popular products enabling consumers to save big. The Ringer Pack brings together the handheld Ringer which has over 49,000 preloaded courses, and the GPS-enabled Player GO Magnetic Speaker ($199). Its rangefinders, watches, speakers, and accessories are available individually too – blueteesgolf.com.

2. Sunday Golfnew kids’ golf bag line

Another company whose products we liked and have featured is Sunday Golf (July 2023) which makes small, lightweight golf bags ideal for a few holes on a Sunday afternoon with just a few clubs. We liked the Recess Kids bag which weighs just 3.6lbs – sundaygolf.com.

3. Pinned Golf – The Caddie

The Caddie is a tablet with an eight-inch touchscreen display, showing distances to the front, back, and middle of the green. It has a built-in magnet and 72-hole battery life ($450). There are over 45,000 course maps, it’s waterproof, and there are no fees or subscriptions. And because it’s GPS-powered you don’t need an internet connection – pinnedgolf.com.

4. A. PUTNAM – women’s clothing brand

We weren’t surprised the Cleveland, OH-based company won the Women’s Apparel award. Despite having to manage five kids, Allison Putnam has designed an impressive range of golf/resort/athletic/work/lifestyle garments – aputnam.com.

5. Rhone – men’s clothing brand
Nor were we shocked that Rhone won the Men’s award. In an extremely competitive category, populated by numerous quality brands, it takes something special to stand out. Rhone did – rhone.com.

6. FlightScope – i4 Laser Rangefinder

The sports tech industry is growing at the rate of 18.9% CAGR and is set to be worth over $105 billion by 2033 according to a study published on golf.einnews.com. Golf has a somewhat smaller piece of the pie than soccer or the NFL, perhaps, but it’s still a significant player. Flightscope is at the forefront of golf tech and its new i4 laser rangefinder brings club recommendations to your rangefinder screen (plus climatic conditions, slope indicator, and effective playing distances) via launch monitor information – flightscope.com.

7. Bushnell and 8. ForeSight together introduced something similar with the ProX3+ Link Laserwhich retrieves data from Foresight’s new GC3S launch monitor using LINK-Enabled Technology – foresightsports.com, bushnellgolf.com.

9. Ping – BunkR Wedge

You’ll remember PXG launched its Desert Club late last year and Ping’s own ChipR from the summer of 2022. Ping introduced its latest named, specialty club at the show. The BunkR Wedge has a wide sole and curved leading edge to make escaping the sand easier than ever – ping.com.

Ping BunkR

10. Garmin  G20, Approach R50 portable launch monitor

Garmin introduced the game’s first GPS golf handheld with unlimited battery life in sunny conditions and the impressive Approach R50 launch monitor, the only portable launch monitor with a built-in simulator – garmin.com.

11. Precision Pro Golf – Titan Elite

Another feature-packed rangefinder from Precision Pro, the Titan Elite connects to the Precision Pro app to give you distances to the front middle and back of the green – precisionprogolf.com.

12. Greenup – coffee ground tees

This Danish startup makes tees made from coffee waste collected from local cafés and restaurants. The tees are biodegradable, smell delicious, and give the turf a small but healthy injection of nitrogen and phosphorus – greenupgolf.com.

13. Bal.On – monitor the location of your weight

This product tracks your weight transfer using 18 highly sensitive Force Sensing Resistors (FSR) which sync with an accompanying app – bal-on.golf.

14. CaddieVision AR golf glasses

Augmented reality glasses that give you real-time visual and audio feedback – rangefinder with overlays of the course. A tech company without a website? For now anyway – Facebook says it will be launching soon on IndieGoGo.

15. Putt Out AirBreak – Green contours to order

To be honest, we’re a little surprised it’s taken until now for someone to come up with this idea. Simply stand on the pumps to inflate certain parts of the ‘green’ and, thus, create breaks. Simple and very effective – puttout.golf.

16. Greatness Wins – Derek Jeter’s clothing line

The former Yankees shortstop is obsessed with golf so it’s no surprise his athleticwear (designed alongside Untuckit’s Chris Roccobono) includes a range of golf polos, windbreakers, hoodies, jackets and quarter-zips – greatnesswins.com.

7. PUR – simple training aids

A good training aid has to be both simple and effective and the three products (alignment sticks and putting aids) introduced by Wisconsin’s PUR meet both criteria – pur.golf.

18. Volviknew three-piece urethane ball

Volvik was born in South Korea 45 years ago but it’s only come to most golfers’ attention, in the U.S. at least, during the last 10 years or so. It began life making basic two-piece balls but its products have become steadily more sophisticated. It now makes a range of attractively-priced three and four-piece balls and we were particularly interested in its new three-piece urethane cover ball – the VTU 3 – which will retail for $40 – volvik.com.

19. SensorEdge – How firmly is each hand gripping the club?

SensorEdge works in golf and baseball providing pressure-mapping equipment to show how firmly you are holding the club/bat (hands) and where your weight is positioned (feet). Hold the Sensor Grip and the SensorEdge Sports app interface displays a graph of the pressure applied by each hand – sensoredgesports.com.

20. TRUE Linkswear – three new models for 2025

The Washington state-based company, founded by PGA Tour player Ryan Moore and his brother Jason, has been a favorite of ours since it launched its original shoe in 2009. Its 2025 shoes include two spiked models – the LUX2 Player and LUX2 Maven – and the classic zero-drop OG3 PRO – truelinkswear.com.

 


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Tony Dear is a former teaching professional and First Tee coach, now a freelance writer/author living in Bellingham, WA. He can be reached at [email protected] 

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