By John Steinbreder – Global Golf Post The newest members of Callaway’s XR family are the Steelhead XR irons and hybrids, and both are designed to provide more distance, even on off-center hits, and greater forgiveness and control. Start with the irons, which feature next-generation 360 Face Cup technology. That is made to generate higher…
By John Steinbreder – Global Golf Post Cleveland Golf engineers say they have employed three key technologies in the company’s new RTX-3 line, which they describe as the most accurate wedges they have ever made. First is “feel balancing,” which entails the shifting of the center of gravity closer to the impact zone to decrease…
The days of choosing between distance and feel are over! The new JPX irons from Mizuno combine the feel that comes from Mizuno’s Grain Flow Forged Player’s irons with the advanced weighting strategies and aggressive style of known from the JPX series in the past. The results of the development provide us with 3 families of irons…
Most all of us would love to see how an old classic car would perform with today’s technology. Say a 1965 Ford Mustang. A friend of mine is doing just that, taking a ’65 Mustang and completely renovating it with the comforts of today. Power windows, electronics, suspension you name it. But, when you get down to…
Earlier this golf season, adidas Golf debuted the Tour 360 Prime Boost, with Sergio García being the first touring professional to don that shoe in competition, at the 2016 Masters. They are most notable for their seamless knitted uppers that are designed to provide what company officials describe as “breathability and stretchability” in an effort…
The idea behind progressive irons sets is to give players a way to optimize the performance of each club in the bag. And that is what engineers at Cobra Golf were looking to achieve when they created the King F6 line. For starters, the F6s are built in four different ways. The long irons, Nos.…
By John Steinbreder – Global Golf Post Odyssey Golf engineers endowed their new Toe Up putter with something called “stroke-balanced technology,” so players can minimize twisting and reduce torque when they putt – and get the club-face back to square more easily. And they say they accomplished that by strategically placing more weight toward the…
By: John Steinbreder – Global Golf Post Two years after introducing its S55 irons, Ping has produced a successor to those very popular player clubs, the iBlade. And company officials say that new offering already has become its most-played iron on tour. The body of the iBlade is precision-cast from soft, high strength-to-weight ratio 431…
By: John Steinbreder – Global Golf Post The three new shoe models that make up the latest Adipure collection share one feature: They all were built on a new pure MTO last handcrafted by the noted footwear designer Toshiaki Omori, and made, in the words of Adidas technicians, to have “elegant lines, refined shaping and…
By John Steinbreder – Global Golf Post FootJoy officials say the three-layered outsole of the new Pro/SL and its use of a lighter-weight polymer called Fine-Tuned Foam is what sets the shoe apart from other entrants in the performance spikeless category. The top layer of the Pro/SL outsole is the one that cradles the foot,…
