TaylorMade Golf is one of the most visible equipment manufactures in the industry in large part because of its high-profile white drivers and fairway woods. The company was one of the first to introduce moveable weight technology in the R7 …
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Review: TaylorMade R1 driver
TaylorMade Golf is one of the most visible equipment manufactures in the industry in large part because of its high-profile white drivers and fairway woods. The company was one of the first to introduce moveable weight technology in the R7 …
Posted in Drivers, GEAR REVIEWS, PRODUCT LAUNCHES, Taylormade Also tagged Brian Sommer, Drivers, TaylorMade R1 driver Leave a comment
Lewis switches putters midway through Kraft Nabisco Championship
I.K. Kim’s devastating miss Sunday night of a one-foot tap-in on the 72nd hole to win the Kraft Nabisco put an exclamation point on one of the major stories of the season’s first major championship.
From former prodigy Michelle Wie’s bagging …
Posted in ON TOUR, Putters, Taylormade Also tagged Corza Ghost, I.K. Kim, Kraft Nabisco Championship, Michelle Wie, Raylor Ghost Daytona, Stacy Lewis, Sun Young Yoo, Yani Tseng Leave a comment
My Pals From Marin CC Test the New Penta TP5
In early February TaylorMade Golf introduced the first and only five-layer Tour ball, called the Penta TP5. Each of its five layers is reputedly engineered to improve performance in five key shot categories – – off drivers, long irons, middle-irons, short …
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Taylor Made Ghost Putters “Scare the Hole” Very Often
There are putts we’ve all stood over–even in the six- to eight-foot range–and not had a “ghost” of a chance of making them. Main problem isn’t the read or our stroke mechanics, it’s our alignment. At moments like that, it would …
Dave Stockton Lived by the Flatstick–Here’s His Quick Take on Ghost Spider
It’s cool when you see a Tour player who’s ball-striking is pretty average and whose success depends on holing putts. And then, yes, he keeps holing them and keeps succeeding. Before Ben Crenshaw and Loren Roberts there was Dave Stockton. …
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TaylorMade launching new Ghost Spider putter
TaylorMade-adidas Golf is combining two of its more familiar putter names – Monza Spider and Corza Ghost – into the Ghost Spider, which it says combines the head construction, size and high MOI of the Monza Spider with the white …
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Woods’ former teacher Haney jumps to TaylorMade
Hank Haney has traded in his Nike Swoosh for a TaylorMade Golf logo. Tiger Woods’ former swing coach has signed with TaylorMade to play and teach with its equipment, wear the TaylorMade logo on his headwear and shirt sleeve and …
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What Happens When a Mid-80s Shooter Goes to the (Taylor Made) MATT
My colleague at TheAPosition.com, Jeff Wallach, has been known to finish one of his gigs as a whitewater rafting guide and play golf barefoot with six clubs as a transition back to civilized existence. He gets enough pleasure from golf that …
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A Dozen Plus of the 2011 PGA Show’s Most Exciting Products
In attending a PGA Show and identifying the ten best products there, based on my opinion and those of my colleagues, one faces a major hurdle – having enough time to visit and talk with the inventors and sales teams. …
Iron Trends: The More Things Change …
There is no denying the tide of technology is carrying all to longer and higher, and perhaps straighter, if not truer of chip and putt—the equalizers. Yet when looking at the larger grid, a good amount of the buzz that’s …
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Going Through Every Ball on the USGA’s Vast “Conforming” List
Tax code? Child’s play. For sheer, unadulterated regulatory chaos, check out the USGA’s list of conforming golf balls. That sucker runs to some 35 pages. And what about those advertising copy writers? Apparently every ball is thermonuclear long, with the …
Furyk Adds the Burner SuperFast 2.0 Fairway Wood to his Set
I was looking through the TaylorMade Tour Rep notes from Kapalua a couple of days ago and saw a note in there about Jim Furyk that was interesting. This is a top-ranked tour star with every equipment resource in the …
