TM’s announcement from today. Note Sergio Garcia was playing one of these balls when he almost won the British Open… The TaylorMade-adidas Golf company has introduced six new golf ball models engineered to promote longer distance and better performance for a broad spectrum of player types. For the first time, four ball models will carry [...]
Saw this press release from TaylorMade today. Interesting to see the ball quietly gaining widespread acceptance: CARLSBAD, Calif. (June 27, 2007) –Introduced just over a year ago, TaylorMade’s Tour Preferred (TP) golf ball line, comprised of the TaylorMade TP Black™ and TaylorMade TP Red™ have made TaylorMade the fastest growing golf brand on professional tours [...]
This crossed the Ontgolf.ca inbox today… Maxfli Golf, a brand of the TaylorMade-adidas Golf Company, has introduced a new multi-layer golf ball called Maxfli Tour Fire, which delivers tour-caliber performance for $29.99 per dozen – about $10 less than competitive tour balls. PGA Tour star John Daly was intimately involved in Tour Fire’s development and [...]
The guys at Acushnet brought the circus to town this past week to unveil the latest developments in their Titleist and Cobra lines. A couple hundred CPGA pros and media were captivated by the 3.5 hour presentation that covered everything from flight vectors to explaining MOI and introducing staggered wave parting lines. What’s new? [photopress:IMG_1975.jpg,full,pp_image] [...]
I had the opportunity to go through a full club fitting at the Callaway Performance Centre which included my first look at the FT-1 driver. I’ll write more about the fitting later (and, hopefully, post some video) but I wanted to quickly share some of my impressions of the square driver.I began by swinging the [...]