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2009 Golf Digest Hot List Winners Review
A glance at the 2009 Golf Digest Hot List
Whether you're a fan golf equipment or just a casual observer of the latest offerings and trends in golf clubs and accessories, the 2009 Golf Digest Hot List is a heterogeneous mixture golf equipment. Of drivers, fairway woods and hybrids, irons, wedges and putters-oh, and bags and balls, the computer gurus too decompose Golf Digest in its annual ranking of popular teams.
The Process
If you wonder how the experts rate golf team, for example, Callaway drivers and TaylorMade irons, Excel spreadsheets with thousands of points data, hundreds of pages of technical data of the golf equipment manufacturers, scientists, a four-part test to judge, and a two-week visit to a station San Jose, California, for field testing.
The process is, in short, exhaustive. Golf Digest evaluated the "universe" of golf clubs-471 the tickets, to be exact-and judged by four weighted criteria: 1) performance (40%), 2) innovation (30%), 3) Find / sound / feel (20%) and 4) demand (10%).
After all the facts and data were collected, the judges participating in nine days of meetings that included 800 debates reach the list of 116 Hot Club. Along the way, they ate a lot of takeout.
What follows is a look at the list this year.
Drivers
Golf Digest breaks for golf drivers into two categories: drivers over $ 350 and drivers under $ 350. Then divide the two categories to the winners of gold and silver.
Three of the gold winners in the category over $ 350 are the Callaway FT-9, Ping Rapture V2 and TaylorMade r7 Limited.
Nobody is better than Callaway in the use of multiple materials, the judges said on the FT-9. Players such as appearance, balance and carry the PING Rapture V2, which looks similar to the PING G10. The TaylorMade r7 Limited pesos furniture and has an axis Ozik. Some said that delivers the best feel of any club in the market.
Gold winners in the under-$ 350 category, Adams Speedline, Callaway Big Bertha Diablo, G10 PING and TaylorMade burner.
Irons
Plates are divided into three categories which correspond to the game of skill and interests: the improvement of the game, super game improvement irons and players.
Gold winners in the category for improving the game including 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 a reputation assessment, interest, intrigue and excitement. PING G-10 is a category leader for a long time, and TaylorMade irons Burner really shined, leading three of the four judging categories: performance, innovation and the look / sound / feel.
TaylorMade also was a winner of gold in the super game improvement, the Plus burner, it has a club head large and strong to help offset the golf ball in the air.
In the category of players irons, Titleist AP2 reached the top, along with TaylorMade Tour Preferred, Callaway X-22 Tour Callaway X-Forged and PING S57 models, four from the total of six gold winners.
Putters
One can argue that golf is not the biggest club the putter. Golf Digest took a close look at two main categories: blade putters and mallet putters.
Gold winners in the blade putter over $ 200 including the Odyssey Black Series # 6 IN, TaylorMade Daytona KIA TP-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 teams in the Odyssey White Hot Tour 1, two models PING and TaylorMade's Anser Daytona.
Gold winners in the category mallet putter Odyssey Black Series I 2-Ball, iwi PING Craz-E and TaylorMade Itsy Bitsy Spider. And leaders in mid-mallet putters is Odyssey, Titleist Cameron MacGregor and models.
Bags
Hot List judges looked at lightweight carry bags and "do All "Shopping bags, the selection of his 21 favorites. Leading the list of winners of gold and silver were the models of Callaway, Ping, TaylorMade, Titleist, Boy Bag, Nike, Ogio, Sun Mountain, Wilson and Izzo.
What Tour Pros Play
What do the professionals turn up to play? What follows is 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
About the Author
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