Srixon ZXiR: Where ZXi4 Left Off, New Material
Srixon's ZXi4, a hollow-body iron, dropped from the lineup. Its replacement, ZXiR, adds distance via a new material instead of a hollow structure.
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Steel Shafts' Five-Year Atlantic Gap
Steel shafts became legal under the USGA in 1924 but not the R&A until 1929. The five-year gap is a case study in how golf's two rule bodies diverge.
The 1744 Rules of Golf: What's Still Standing
Some 1744 provisions vanished as equipment and courses changed. Others, dealing with fairness, are essentially unchanged 282 years later.
TaylorMade MG5: 21 Combos, One Full Spec Table
TaylorMade MG5 spans 21 combos across five grinds — and the published table shows lie is a flat 64 degrees on every one of them.
TaylorMade P770: Compact Outside, Hollow Inside
P770 looks like a pure player iron, but it is hollow with tungsten inside. See the confirmed specs and the 2-degree loft gap between generations.
TaylorMade P790 2025: The 5th Gen's Big Change
The P790 popularized the 'players distance iron.' The 2025 5th-gen changed one thing at its core — face material — and that pulled several others with it.
TaylorMade P7MC: Publishes Every Spec
P7MC specs online mix two generations with conflicting claims. This piece separates what is confirmed on official spec sheets from what is not.
P7MC vs P770 vs P790: What the Loft Charts Show
Overlay TaylorMade's official P7MC, P770, and P790 spec sheets and one pattern emerges: the loft gap isn't performance, it's a one-club shift.
TaylorMade Qi4D, Not Qi35: What Actually Differs
TaylorMade's current driver is the Qi4D, not the Qi35. All four models share one loft-sleeve range; weight, 9g to 15g, is what separates them.
TaylorMade Qi4D Rescue: The Naming Trap to Know
The Qi4D Rescue layers a loft sleeve on a moveable weight — but the bigger risk when buying one is mistaking the older Qi35 for the newer model.
Spider ZT: Where TaylorMade Publishes the Numbers
Zero-torque putters rarely publish figures. TaylorMade does — 25mm of onset on the Spider ZT, and 2 degrees of lean with 34mm on the ZT Max.
TP5 and TP5x 2026: The Only Five-Piece Tour Ball
TP5 and TP5x are the only five-piece balls in the tour category. The 2026 update changed the coating, not the layer count.
Ten Years to Reunify Golf's Driver Rules
After the USGA and R&A split over driver coefficient of restitution in 1998, unification took a decade — and testing shifted to a 239-microsecond standard.
Thirty Clubs: Golf Before the 14-Club Limit
Before the 14-club limit, golf had no cap on how many clubs you could carry. Some players carried thirty or more — and the average was eighteen.
Why Golf Capped Club Count at Fourteen
The 14-club limit traces to three concerns raised in the 1930s: skill, fairness, and — unusually for a rule — the caddie's physical burden.
Titleist GT Hybrid: Driver Is GTS, Hybrid Isn't
Titleist's driver switched to GTS in 2026, but the hybrid is still GT1/GT2/GT3 — and GT2/GT3 share identical lofts. Here's what separates them.
Titleist GTS, Not GT: What Changed in 2026
Titleist replaced GT with GTS in June 2026. The low-spin model got bigger, not smaller — the opposite of what the prior generation's pattern predicts.
Pro V1 vs Pro V1x: Same Price, Different Build
Pro V1 and Pro V1x read as an upgrade pair, but Titleist prices them the same. The difference is layer count and dimple pattern, not rank.
Checking the Schenectady Grudge Myth
A well-known story says Britain banned the Schenectady putter out of wounded pride after Walter Travis won with it. We looked for evidence. We found none.
Golf's Two Rule Bodies (Mexico's the Twist)
The USGA and the R&A split the world by jurisdiction: USGA covers the U.S. and Mexico, R&A covers everywhere else. Here's how that split came about.
Two Opposite Swing Paths, One Shank
An over-the-top move and an extreme in-to-out path both produce the same shank, so standard advice can make one group of golfers worse.