The Mole has uncovered an interesting little story that did the rounds on CNN last week. A Danish research team has discovered that golf balls take roughly between 100 and 1000 years to decompose naturally. Now before you try to work out why or how they discovered that, consider that there are 300 million balls that “go missing” or are trashed in the US annually, and you end up with a lot of “litter”.
TaylorMade and the USGA have been at odds over TaylorMade’s new TP wedge with xFT (exchangeable face technology). These wedges allow the golfer to change the face on his wedge simply by unscrewing it and taking it off. But that’s not what has caused the issue…
So the Mole just returned from a whistle-stop tour of the great smoke (aka Joburg, Egoli, the City of Gold) where he popped his head up in the offices of some of the leading equipment brands to see what they were hiding away in their storerooms… And, since he's a huge fan of GolfSpy, the Mole is chuffed to have snuck away with spy pics of his own.
The Mole must confess that on some days he doesn’t think his job is that particularly special in comparison to the rest of the mole population. But, today he realised that, after finally getting his paws on an R9 460, other moles could possibly have it tougher (especially those who are still in the dark when it comes to the optimal driver for their game).
Nike Golf has released images of its latest square-headed driver, the SQ MachSpeed. It’s a well known fact that square drivers sacrifice a little bit of distance for accuracy, but Nike claim to have fixed this problem by improving the aerodynamics.
It’s the time of year when manufacturers are all rushing to release their new irons ahead of the Christmas rush. TaylorMade has officially launched the R9 irons to complement the family of R9 drivers and fairway metals.
Yes, it’s that time of year. If you haven’t seen the Christmas crackers in your stores already then you need to take a closer look because, everyone is gearing up for Christmas; even golf manufacturers! Paul Casey recently tweeted these pictures of the, yet-to-be released, Nike Victory Red driver.
The Mole posted a few spy photos of TaylorMade’s new TP wedge a couple of weeks ago and now it’s official, they will be releasing the new TP wedge with exchangeable face technology (no surprises with the three-letter abbreviation, then: XFT...). The wedge looks pretty sleek in the Mole’s opinion but, he wonders if it will actually catch on.
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