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TaylorMade revs up sexy new R9 irons

The glory days of the Big Three automakers might be the stuff of history books and Happy Days, but the aesthetic legacy of the American muscle car still pops up in some of the least expected places, not the least of which is the golf course. It appears that someone in the design department at [...]


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 [...]


Fairway Stevie Gets Fitted for the Makkar PPM

Earlier this summer I was introduced to the Makkar PPM mouthguard. Simply put, the mouthguard realigns your jaw putting your spine in a more powerful position, giving you getting stength, flexibility and range of motion. It won’t help you become a better golfer but it will help you maximize whatever abilities you currently have. The [...]


A Phresh Canadian take on golf-course couture

It’s a good time to be a young clotheshorse on the golf course _ even better if you’re Canadian. The number of prominent Canuck brands making their way onto the world’s fairways these days seems to get more impressive by the year: Hollas and Second Skin, Dunning, Sunice, Quagmire _ and now Phresh. Phresh has [...]


More layers than planet Earth: TaylorMade’s new Penta TP ball

Wondering about that funky new logo on Sergio Garcia’s visor? Here’s Oxford’s take: Penta- combining form five; having five: pentagon. Five, a number more commonly associated with wasted strokes and Monday finishes, isn’t usually very popular on the golf course _ Garcia had eight of ‘em through the first three rounds of the Deutsche Bank [...]