Knuth Golf Brings the Heat—Again

A year after its driver wowed the PGA Merchandise Show, Knuth’s follow-up Fairway Wood and Hybrid receive similar raves. Tony Dear I did it again. Another comically off-center strike, and another perfectly satisfying result. Regular readers may recall at this exact same time last year, I posted a less-than-professional-grade photograph showing the face of a … Read more

TaylorMade’s Latest Putter Line Brings Stability and Forgiveness

The new OS and OS CB putters will dramatically reduce the effect of imperfect strikes. Tony Dear Putters aren’t really TaylorMade’s thing. No, let me rephrase that: Putters aren’t the first product category you think of when someone mentions TaylorMade. The Carlsbad, CA-based company has obviously built its fame, brand and fortune over the last … Read more

Dimples Add Distance to Nike’s Tour Platinum and Tour Black RZN

More than 13,000 dots cover Nike’s longest balls to date. Tony Dear The bloodline of Nike’s new RZN golf balls—available at nike.com this coming Friday and retail outlets from the 29th—can be traced back to 2011’s launch of the 20X1, the first ball to feature the RZN core. It had taken Nike, working in conjunction … Read more

Callaway’s Flight Club

The golf company teams with Boeing to combine impressive forgiveness and optimal aerodynamics. Tony Dear Golf club manufacturers have collaborated with companies in other industries for a number of years now. In some cases, the other company has benefited from its association with the golf company (TaylorMade designed Porsche golf clubs and CCM’s RBZ hockey … Read more

PXG Explodes Onto the Golf Scene

Signing Zach Johnson and 11 other tour pros, GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons’ club company shakes up the industry. Tony Dear Although the company was officially founded in September 2014, the first time anyone outside of its small group of employees and golf industry observers heard of it, however, was last January. That's when Ryan Moore … Read more

The Best of 2015 in Golf Gear

Our favorite golf products of the year Tony Dear It is difficult to pinpoint the one obvious golf equipment moment, discovery, or trend of 2015. Centers of Gravity have dropped a millimeter or two, and manufacturers have done what they can to find you an extra few miles an hour of ballspeed. But these increases … Read more

XXIO Clubs: Brand New Products from a Brand That’s New to Many

Roughly 33% of wood and iron sales revenue in Japan is generated by a manufacturer few Americans are familiar with. Tony Dear Likely a result of economic and cultural differences, the equipment Japanese golfers use to swat their pill is often very different to that of Americans. A number of highly reputable brands in Japan—the … Read more

Would You Sacrifice Appearance to Hole More Putts?

The BioMech AccuLock ACE putter sure looks strange. But it could help you become a wizard on the greens. Tony Dear According to Dr. Frank Fornari, Ph.D. and CEO of Rhode Island-based BioMech Sports, most golfers don’t make a stroke when putting, but rather a ‘massive isometric contraction’. Ooh, sounds painful. “It’s really just a … Read more

Cobra’s Ultra-Cool, Space-Age King LTD Driver

Cobra’s new super-high-tech King LTD driver is coming to a galaxy near you soon. Tony Dear Cobra Golf’s fortunes have fluctuated wildly since Tom Crow, the 1961 Australian Amateur champion, founded the company in 1973. Now owned by German sports clothes and footwear giant Puma SE, Cobra got a shot in the arm when when … Read more

The Legend of Tour Edge Exotics Grows

Tour Edge’s new Exotics driver will enhance the brand’s reputation still further. Tony Dear Tour Edge Exotics drivers are the epitome, the quintessence, the very embodiment of the “if-we-could-just-get-them-in-people’s-hands” golf club. But not everyone who plays the game has had the good fortune to have gotten them in their hands. Why? In the 30 years … Read more