Macgregor Golf Club
Macgregor Golf Club
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US $145.00
A glance at the Golf Digest 2009 Hot List
Whether you're a fan of team golf or just a casual observer of the latest offerings and trends of golf clubs and accessories, the Golf Digest 2009 Hot List is a smorgasbord of golf. Of drivers, fairway woods and hybrids, irons, wedges putters and bags, oh, and the balls and also the computer gurus in Golf Digest break it down into its annual ranking of popular teams.
The Process
If you wonder how the experts rate golf equipment, for example, drivers or the Callaway TaylorMade, think Excel spreadsheets with thousands of data points, hundreds of pages of technical data of the golf equipment manufacturers, scientists, a four-part test to judge, and a visit two weeks a resort in San Jose, California, for field testing.
The process is, in short, exhaustive. Golf Digest evaluated the "universe" golf clubs-471 entries, to be exact-and judged by four weighted criteria: 1) performance (40%), 2) innovation (30%), 3) look / sound / Am (20%), and 4) demand (10%).
After all the facts and data have been collected, the judges participating in nine days of meetings that included 800 debates to reach the 116-club Hot List. On the road, ate a lot of takeaways.
What follows is a look at the list this year.
Drivers
Golf Digest category is broken into two parts golf drivers: Drivers of more than $ 350 and drivers under $ 350. Then the two categories is divided into gold and silver winners.
Three of the gold winners in the category of over $ 350 are the Callaway FT-9, PING Rapture V2 and the TaylorMade r7 Limited Partnership.
No one is better than Callaway in the use of multiple materials, the judges said about the FT-9. Players such as appearance, balance and lead to the PING Rapture V2, which looks similar to the PING G10. The TaylorMade r7 Limited has movable weights and has an Ozik shaft. Some said they were obtained greater sense of any club in the market.
The winners of gold at U $ 350 including Speedline Adams, Callaway Big Bertha Diablo, PING and TaylorMade G10 Burner.
Irons
Irons is divided into three categories that correspond with the ability to play and interests: to improve the game, to improve plates and super game players.
The gold winners in the category for improving the game includes Callaway X-22, G-10 PING and TaylorMade Burner. One player said it could hit the Callaway X-22 Irons blindfolded. Register said. Callaway X-22 was in the category of demand, which is an assessment of reputation, interest, intrigue and excitement. The G-10 is a long PING the category leader, and TaylorMade Burner irons really shined, leading three of the four categories Judging: performance, innovation and the look / sound / feel.
TaylorMade was also a winner of gold in the super game improvement: Burner Plus, with a clubhead large and strong to help offset the golf ball in the air.
Plate in the players category, Titleist AP2 reached the top, along with TaylorMade Tour Preferred, Callaway X-22 Tour Callaway X-Forged PING S57 models, four women in the total of six winners of gold.
Putters
Arguably there are no golf club more important than the putter. Golf Digest took a close look at two main categories: blade putters and mallet putters.
Gold winners blade putter in the category of over $ 200 includes the Odyssey Black Series # 6 IN, TP-KIA TaylorMade Daytona MA and Cameron Titleist Studio Select, which led in three of four criteria: performance, look / sound / feel and demand.
In the category blade putter under $ 200, were the best selections of Odyssey White Hot Tour 1, two models PING Anser TaylorMade Daytona.
Gold winners in the category including mallet putter Odyssey Black Series I 2-Ball, PING and TaylorMade iwi craz E Itsy Bitsy Spider. And putters mid-mallet leaders Odyssey, Titleist Cameron MacGregor and models.
Bags
Hot List judges threw out bags bring light and "make all the shopping bags", the selection of his 21 favorites. Leading the list of winners of gold and silver were models of Callaway, Ping, Taylor Made, Titleist, Bag Boy, Nike, Ogio, Sun Mountain, Wilson and Izzo.
What Tour Pros Play
What do the professionals tour up play? Here are just a sample.
Callaway: Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, Annika Sorenstam
TaylorMade: Kenny Perry, Sergio Garcia, Paula Creamer
PING: Angel Cabrera, Lorena Ochoa, Hunter Mahan
Titleist: Steve Stricker, Zach Johnson, Adam Scott
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