Equipment

Iron sets on the PGA Tour are seeing more breakups than a divorce attorney. The majority of tour players now have sets that feature two or more models of irons. This includes replacing long irons with a utility iron, and the practice of playing iron sets that can be easily interchanged depending on the playing

Webb Simpson plays a lot of golf with everyday golfers in pro-ams. When asked what he believes is the biggest mistake amateurs routinely make, Simpson doesn’t hesitate. “They use clubs that are too heavy,” he says. “It’s not that they’re weak, but most don’t have the proper golf muscles to swing the clubs they’re using.”

About 85 percent of LPGA Tour players use a hybrid. Because they swing at similar speeds as amateurs, maybe you should consider hybrids, too. Whether it’s hitting long shots from the fairway, blasting out of the rough or even saving shots around the green, hybrids are an important component of many players’ bags. RELATED: The

ORLANDO — A cart speaker might not be your thing, but when you decide to make one and you’re Bushnell, the premier company for providing golfers with on-course yardage information, it becomes a whole lot more than a music machine. The Bushnell Wingman is a speaker that doubles as a GPS yardage device, providing front,

Knowledge is power. That’s literally true when it comes to your adjustable driver, says Charles Howell III. “One thing I’ve learned to do with the adjustable drivers is try them in every possible setting, even ones I know I’ll never end up using,” Howell says. “I want to see what it does. I purposely run

Grab ahold of the new Sacks Parente putters and immediately you might lose your balance. And that’s the point. Designed with what founder Steve Sacks called “ultra-low balance point technology,” these lightweight putters at once seem to float and at the same time swing themselves. That’s the point, Sacks says, and that’s what’s wrong with

Bettinardi is a name synonymous with short-game excellence. Its latest edition to its lineup—a limited-run Queen B 6 SBS—does little to dispel that notion. But Bettinardi’s prowess is not confined to the dance floors, as we are reminded by the company’s release of the HLX 3.0 wedge. Founder Robert Bettinardi has totally redesigned the technology

Titleist Vokey wedges take another move forward with its latest lineup by … well, moving forward. Debuted in its SM6 line in 2016, Vokey’s Progressive Center of Gravity concept featured a design that renovated the series, with lower-lofted wedges constructed to blend more easily into the set from the pitching wedge as the CG was

If you think fairway woods with more loft are for weaker players, tell that to Brooks Koepka, Adam Scott or Tony Finau. Fact is, about 15 percent of PGA Tour players have their strongest-lofted fairway wood at 16 degrees or higher. RELATED: The Best Golf Equipment of 2020: Hot List Fairway Woods Although tour players

The first thing you notice about the Ping Golf’s new Heppler putters is what you don’t see. The company that has made great strides in understanding the role grooves play in how putts roll and then executing that understanding in multiple models over much of the last decade has introduced a model with a perfectly

If you think the Honma TR20 family of clubs, which debuts two drivers and two sets of irons this week, simply continues the company’s long-standing approach to aesthetically refined craftsmanship, you’d barely be half right. Fact is, while the attention to cosmetics is unrelenting as usual with the brand that often gets attention for its

The new Tour Edge Exotics Ti-Utility iron is the latest in a lengthy history the company has in producing iron-replacement clubs dating back to the original Tour Edge Iron-Wood in the 1990s. Since then it has seen the category change from clubs that looked more like irons to clubs that looked more like woods. Now

Sometimes the way forward is looking into the past. That seems to be the sentiment with Scotty Cameron and his latest iteration of the Scotty Cameron Special Select lineup. “I wanted to get back to the pure-milled shapes and faces that I’ve been crafting for Tour players for over two decades now,” Cameron said. “We’ve

For Odyssey, the mission in 2020 seems to be not just about making better putters. It’s about making golfers into better putters. That effort will pursue multiple levels, and includes introducing putters that not only improve performance on mis-hits but models that improve the consistency of the stroke, the consistency of the way the ball

The new Titleist Tour Soft and Velocity golf balls may not grab all the headlines of the company’s world famous, tour-played Pro V1 family, but don’t be fooled. The audience for these products is just as demanding as any tour player and maybe more so. After all these golfers speak loudly with their wallets. “Golf

The Wilson Duo line of golf balls has become synonymous with soft feeling, two-piece distance balls. Still, making a ball that feels soft and flies far is a challenge. For Wilson’s new Duo Soft+ line, a change was made to the core formulation to increase velocity while maintaining a cushy feel. “There are different forms

Miura Golf’s TC-201 irons were five years in the making but mark a continuation of a ramped-up production introduction schedule from a company that historically has taken its time bringing new product to market. Still, the traditionally minded forged iron company from Japan appears to be expanding its technological capabilities beyond one-piece forged irons to

Tour Edge founder and master designer Dave Glod made clear the priority of the company’s new EXS 220 and EXS 220h irons. “Distance, distance, distance,” said Glod when speaking of the design goal. “Yes, there’s a lot more to this club than that, but that was the priority.” Of course, there’s really no reason to

Mizuno is not foreign to the putter market. Scotty Cameron manufactured a line of Mizuno flat sticks in the early 1990s, and Bob Bettinardi had a partnership with the company from 2005 to 2008. Count T.P. Mills as a former collaborator as well. However, it’s been years since Mizuno had a flagship putter, at least

The Mizuno ST200 drivers and fairway woods use new titanium and high-strength steel alloys to fuel new levels of performance. Yes, that’s right. Golf club technology is still finding new titanium and steel alloys to enhance distance. Topping the company’s search is the use of what’s called a “super titanium alloy” in the face of

The new Srixon Q-Star Tour makes the case that golfers with average swing speeds shouldn’t play the same ball as tour players. It also makes the case that you can achieve some tour-like qualities in a golf ball that costs $10 to $15 less than most high-end golf balls. Like most tour-caliber golf balls, the

Jin-Young Ko, the No. 1-ranked player on the LPGA Tour, swings the driver nearly 30 miles per hour slower than Brooks Koepka, the No. 1 male player in the world. Yet Ko uses a driver with 9 degrees of loft—1.5 degrees less than Koepka. What gives? Aren’t golfers with slower swing speeds supposed to use

Wilson Golf has a long heritage of producing irons for better players, including U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland. It also has catered to the less skilled with a number of offerings, including its D7 iron. Its latest iron, the D7 Forged, is a creation geared towards both. The D7 utilizes a soft, forged 8620 carbon-steel

The Tour Edge Exotics EXS 220 metalwoods are dedicated to the proposition that golf is mostly a game of misses, and that is mostly true with the longest clubs in your bag. The challenge in making a driver or fairway wood forgiving, though, is that while the simplest solution is increasing the size of the

We are lucky to have two of the most knowledgable golf gearheads in our office. And they are sharing their golf equipment knowledge with you. Golf Digest’s equipment editors, Mike Stachura and E. Michael Johnson, have covered the golf equipment business for decades, and there are few who know the equipment industry better. We’ve asked

There was a time when Jeremy Freeman, a photographer and avid golfer from Atlanta, was no more enthralled by vintage golf balls than the rest of us. Then, in 2017, while rummaging through his father’s attic, he found his late grandfather’s golf bag. It contained a sleeve of Top-Flites from the 1970s, still fresh in

Ringing in the new year usually means players changing equipment companies and while it’s been quiet on the endorsement front, leave it to PXG’s Bob Parsons to start the new year off with a little bit of news. The company announced it has signed two-time PGA Tour winner Chez Reavie, Jason Kokrak, Joel Dahmen and

Wilson Golf produces golf clubs for players of all ability levels but there is no doubt that its new Staff Model wedges are geared towards the better player. The new line has a standard model and a high-toe HT version. The standard model is made from 8620 carbon steel, providing a soft feel while the

Three new TaylorMade SIM drivers have been added to the USGA conforming list of club heads, one of which was featured in an Instagram video posted by Dustin Johnson, who will be competing this week at the PGA Tour’s 2020 kickoff event, the Sentry Tournament of Champions in Hawaii. The TaylorMade SIM drivers added to

The new XXIO lineup of Eleven and X woods and irons continue the company’s push toward helping average golfers boost their potential for distance with graphite shafts that get lighter and lighter. But in a slight shift in design focus, these new models of drivers, fairway woods, hybrids and irons aim to make these golfers’