The R9 saga rolls on . . . and up and down, and left, and right. Flummoxed, apparently, by the latest flight-control features built into TaylorMade’s brand new R9 driver, the Gear Head is getting a free drop courtesy of Cameron Jacobs from TM’s fitting centre in Toronto. Regular readers will recall a recent post [...]
If you were paying attention to last week’s post about TaylorMade’s newest driver offering, the R9, you might have noticed something odd about the company’s description of the club’s adjustable playing characteristics. Specifically, I’m talking about the remarks of Dr. Benoit Vincent, the company’s chief technical officer, who was quoted in the company’s release talking [...]
Back in the day, you could flip to the back of Golf Digest or Golf magazine, to that pseudo-classifieds section filled with mischievous products like exploding balls, muscle pills and telescoping putters, for proof positive that the notion of adjustable golf clubs has been around for some time indeed. Someone, no doubt a curmudgeonly inventor [...]
If you’re over the age of 35, you probably heard long ago the angry rumour that ended the fledgling music career of High-Fi _ Fred Flintstone’s one-hit-wonder rock ‘n’ roll alter ego. If not, it goes something like this. “There’s one thing that’s unforgivable to teenagers,†says conniving Wilma as her pageboyed, bespectacled husband twinkle-toes [...]
If you thought the square-headed driver phenomenon was just a passing fad, think again. In an effort to follow up on its successful FT-i line, Callaway Golf has taken the wraps off its latest offering: the decidedly peculiar looking FT-iQ. Available in Canada in mid-November, the FT-iQ is being billed by Callaway as a new [...]