Ping G5 Golf Review

It is the most important club in golf. At a time when courses keep getting longer and greens keep getting firmer and pins keep getting closer to the edges, here’s a tool that hits it far from fairway lies, launches it high and replaces those useless long irons in your bag. The hybrid club is [...]

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Hybrids: Tour Advice

Even the best players
use hybrids
The days of the 1- and 2-irons are coming to an end, even for the best ball-strikers in the world. Only 18 of these butter knives were in play at the 2006 PGA Championship compared with 57 in 2004. Although tour pros appreciate forgiveness on off-center hits just [...]

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Long irons continue their methodical retreat into history. Indeed, when Tiger Woods replaces his 2-iron with a 5-wood, as he frequently did last year, can a hybrid be far behind? Hybrids are that delicious hanging curveball; they’re easier to hit and almost certain to produce a better result than long irons, the sinking slider [...]

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Photographed Oct. 27, 2005, at the Scotty Cameron Putter Studio in San Marcos, Calif.
Photographs: Michael Grecco

My Shot: Scotty Cameron
What’s next in equipment (and why don’t we make that little four-footer)? A putter guru takes you inside the lab to explore the difference between fact and myth
Interviewed by Guy Yocom
Age 43 • San Diego, [...]

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Clubmaker Jesse Ortiz has re-emerged with a hot new product, but he knows too well the price of success can be steep

On the upswing: Ortiz with his new creations, metal woods for the Bobby Jones brand.
Photo: Thomas Broening

COMEBACK STORIES ARE ALWAYS INSPIRING, BUT WHEN the saga involves the rupture of a close father-son [...]

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Photographs: Jim Herity

Forging forgiveness
Game-improvement technology finds a home in forged irons.
Spice up forged irons with a bit of technology, and what do you have? A new breed of irons made for traditionalists preferring the classic look of blades but no longer owning the game to match.
In the past, manufacturers relied on the casting [...]

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Ping G10 (Irons)
Ping | Irons 

Ping G10
Back View
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The 17-4 stainless steel G10 irons are engineered with extreme low toe weighting to increase the moment-of-inertia for added forgiveness and consistency. The large, perimeter-weighted head features a new cavity shape and wider sole.
The centre of gravity is positioned away from the face and low [...]

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Ping Rapture Driver Review
The Ping Rapture driver is probably the most technologically advanced driver that the company has ever produced. Ping has pulled out all the stops here… a composite/titanium head, a  design, robotic plasma
welds all in an effort to make the best driver on the market.
What The Company Says;
The entire Ping Rapture line is [...]

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I now have a Ping G5 Driver in my golf bag after thinking about it for a while before buying. I finally decided to get my own after testing those belonging to my golf buddies who were forever telling me how good it was. I suppose having the opportunity to hit golf balls from the [...]

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The right mix
The latest gear to help you play better

Photo: Jim Herity

Hybrid golf clubs don’t grow on trees, but if a designer can mix just the right amount of fairway wood and iron, the result can bear much fruit. Above are a few examples of golf’s current efforts in cross-pollination (clockwise from [...]

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