8 Intriguing Charts from the Distance Insights Report
This week, the USGA and R&A released their joint Distance Insights Report. The full document runs 102 pages and looks at everything from distance on tour to the sustainability of 7,500-yard courses...
View Article(5) TESTERS WANTED: Fujikura Motore X Shafts
The Fujikura Motore X shaft is engineered to help golfers multiply speed not just add it. Increases in performance are based mostly on linear — “if A, then B” — thinking. For example, if we push more...
View ArticleUnion Green Golf Balls
Introducing Union Green Even if you’ve never heard of Union Green (and I’m guessing you haven’t), its reputation precedes the launch of the brand. Union Green’s golf balls are manufactured in the USA...
View ArticleCallaway Mavrik Max Lite Driver (2020)
Is Callaway poised to expand its Mavrik driver lineup? There’s evidence that might the case as the Mavrik Max Lite has landed on the USGA conforming clubs list. Mavrik Max Lite Isn’t For the Tour Given...
View ArticleTHE USGA DISTANCE INSIGHTS REPORT | #NoPuttsGiven 31
The USGA and R&A have released their joint Distance Insights Report; are they overlooking a potentially simple solution to their looming distance issue? Also, Taylormade’s new Truss putter, and...
View ArticleCallaway Releases Its 2019 Financials: $1.7 BILLION
Press releases are interesting things, especially when they are about the financials. Callaway’s 2019 financial performance press release sure is interesting. As in $1.7 billion worth of interesting....
View ArticleOdyssey Toulon Design Chicago and Seattle Putters
Odyssey Toulon Design Chicago and Seattle Putters I doubt the release of the Odyssey Toulon Design Chicago and Seattle putters is going to generate the same emotional response as some other recent...
View ArticleREAL vs FAKE Challenge [VIDEO]
Jailbreak? Impact Reactor? Flux Capacitor? There are a lot of fake-sounding golf club technologies out there. We asked around at the 2020 PGA show to see if the average golfer could identify which...
View ArticleTommy Armour 845 Irons
Nostalgia can make people more optimistic and inspired about the future. That’s not the exact tagline for the revamped Tommy Armour 845 Forged irons. However, it’s a reasonable summary of the...
View ArticleSub70 Golf
How long has Sub70 owner Jason Hiland been selling golf gear online? Well, if you were alive, you were either doing the Macarena, playing with your new Tickle Me Elmo, watching Season Three of Friends,...
View ArticleTitleist CEO, David Maher, Responds to the Distance Insights Report
In the wake of the USGA and R&A’s latest distance study, it’s no surprise that you won’t find much support for a rollback from golf equipment manufacturers. However, the majority have either been...
View ArticleHonma Announces New Mobile Fitting Van Program
Honma has said it’s getting serious about North America. Apparently, it’s serious about getting serious. Exhibit A was Honma’s Demo Day booth at the PGA Show, most certainly outsized for the company’s...
View ArticleDirect To Consumer Golf Clubs? | #NoPuttsGiven 32
Today on No Putts Given we talk Direct To Consumer golf clubs. You may be familiar with Direct To Consumer (DTC) golf balls, but how should you best navigate the growing world of DTC clubs? Also, we go...
View ArticleSuperSpeed Golf C-Club
The premise of the SuperSpeed Golf Training system is simple. Kinda. “OverSpeed Training”: the body moves faster than usual during any given motor program. Swinging a golf club, tennis racket or...
View ArticleDean Snell Weighs-In on the Distance Debate
As the distance debate rages on, stakeholders, including those heading up golf equipment brands are weighing-in. Last week it was Titleist President and CEO, David Maher. This time around it’s Snell...
View ArticleThe MyGolfSpy Community Forum Celebrates 10 Years of Golf Talk
In 2009, where did you go to talk about golf equipment? Most likely, you were having a post-round beer or three with your buddies, and you were discussing whether the Hot List is legit, Eddie’s new...
View ArticleTop Dog No More: Acushnet Releases its 2019 Financials
There’s a new top dog in golf and, for the first time in a long time, it’s not Acushnet. Or maybe it still is. It depends on how you keep score. Acushnet’s 2019 financial report hit the streets last...
View ArticleECCO 10th Anniversary Fred Couples Shoe
The 2010 Masters is remembered for three big things: Phil’s 6-iron from the pine straw, Tiger’s return from exile and Fred Couples’ ECCO shoes. That was literally the first time many of us had ever...
View ArticleGolf.com x True Spec Golf – Lack of Transparency? | #NoPuttsGiven 33
Special guest Ryan Ballengee (Owner of GolfNewsNet.com) joins us to talk about his reporting on Golf.com’s conflict of interest in its recently released article on the Top 50 Fitters in North America....
View ArticleA 2020 Look At Wilson Staff
Wilson Staff has a heritage most brands would kill for. It also has as vocal a band of loyalists as you’ll find in golf. But for many others, it’s an also-ran challenger brand that’s barely a blip on...
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