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Golf equipment discussion and reviews with a focus on drivers, irons, hybrids, wedges, putters, balls, shoes, and apparel.

Posts from category: Drivers

Nike Golf rolls out 2010 club line

Between the parent company’s historic status as a sports-manufacturing colossus and the obvious stature of a staff player whose status as No. 1 player in the world doesn’t begin to do him justice, it’s always been easy to assign an asterisk of sorts to the remarkable success of Nike Golf.
After all, there was no way [...]


Nike Launches Victory Red Driver in February

From the wires:
 Nike Golf is unleashing new and exciting innovation in the premium driver category.
 
The new Nike Victory Red (VR) drivers are the latest addition to the premium VR line, which began with the introduction of the successful Nike VR irons in November, 2008. 
 
This week, Nike Golf will also announce:
• The premium Victory Red STR8-FIT Tour [...]


Titleist: Tweaks AP Line-up, Brings on FJ Icons, New Camerons

Last week at Eagles Nest the fine folks from Titleist sat down with the Canadian golf press and walked through the line up of new product that has either just hit shelves, or will hit shelves in coming months. In many ways it is sprucing up the existing product rather than an overhaul, including tweaks [...]


Brains vs. Brawn in Camp Callaway: the FT-iQ vs. the FT-9

It’s a little bit like the difference between a surgical strike and a blow with a blunt instrument.
For the bludgeoner, there’s the FT-iQ _ Callaway’s less-than-subtle premium tee-ball offering for 2009, a square-headed, perimeter-weighted,
MOI-maximized weapon that’s indisputably long and remarkably hard to hit off-line, sort of like a mallet putter for the tee box.
The FT-iQ, [...]


Gear Review: TaylorMade’s R9

TaylorMade R9
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Price: $499
What they say:

TaylorMade Flight Control Technology
What sets the R9TM driver apart from all other drivers is that it incorporates our new TaylorMade Flight Control Technology, or FCT for short. With a simple twist of a wrench, FCT allows you to change the R9’s face angle, loft and lie angle. [...]