{"id":404827,"date":"2026-01-10T20:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404827\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:42:10","slug":"how-you-know-this-is-a-year-to-buy-new-golf-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/404827\/","title":{"rendered":"How you know this is a year to buy new golf clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The marketing engine gets going every year with, \u201cThis new driver will go this many yards farther,\u201d and \u201cThese new irons will be so many times straighter.\u201d <\/p>\n

So how can you sort through all of that and decide if this year\u2019s tech is really worth buying new golf clubs?<\/a><\/p>\n

That exact question was posed by GOLF multimedia wiz Darren Riehl to our gear team, and co-hosts Johnny Wunder and Jake Morrow tackled it on this week\u2019s episode of GOLF\u2019s Fully Equipped.<\/p>\n

Basically, as Wunder puts it, you know when every OEM has incredible products<\/a> and 2026 might be one of those years.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis year is one of those years that you can just go, do you know what? I\u2019m gonna spend a couple bucks this year, because there\u2019s some really good stuff, because you kind of can\u2019t go wrong anywhere this year,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve experienced in the past, like this year, I always feel like everybody has bangers all the time. Some better than others, but this year, I feel like neck and neck is more of a true statement now than it\u2019s ever been. And that\u2019s for the smaller companies and the gargantuan ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TaylorMade<\/p>\n

TaylorMade Qi4D Custom Driver<\/p>\n

SHAPED FOR SPEED<\/p>\n

The re-engineered head profile increases ball speed thanks to improved\u00a0aerodynamics developed through advanced simulations.<\/p>\n

FACE FOR DISTANCE<\/p>\n

60x Carbon Twist Face\u2122 is a technological cornerstone that provides weight savings, incredible\u00a0ball speed and more consistency vs. a titanium face.<\/p>\n

ADJUSTABLE PERFORMANCE<\/p>\n

4\u00b0 loft sleeve can be used to adjust loft, lie and face angle for optimized flight.<\/p>\n

TOUR PROVEN TECHNOLOGIES<\/p>\n

New and improved cut-through Speed Pocket\u2122 protects ball speed and reduces spin\u00a0on low-face strikes.
\nAdvanced CAD modeling creates a design with a clean and powerful sound, a foundation\u00a0of TaylorMade driver performance.
\nMulti-Material Construction allows engineers to strategically place mass in areas of the\u00a0head where it maximizes performance, speed, and stability.<\/p>\n

View Product<\/a><\/p>\n

ALSO AVAILABLE AT: PGA Tour Superstore<\/a>, TaylorMade<\/a><\/p>\n

Morrow compared this year of driver releases to 2016, when TaylorMade had the M1 and M2 \u2014 the latter being Rory McIlroy\u2019s favorite driver \u2014 Callaway was about to unveil the GBB Epic driver (the first to feature Jailbreak technology) \u2014 Titleist had the 915 line of drivers that Jordan Spieth used for years and Cobra had the King LTD used by Bryson DeChambeau.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of what made that year so successful for everybody was they were all doing their own thing,\u201d Morrow said. \u201cAnd depending on the kind of player that you were, you fit into a brand better.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said there\u2019s a difference now, because each OEM offers three or four different driver models,<\/a> as opposed to one or two then, but he expects many to fit into the same brand that they played 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if you were an Epic or an Epic Flash player, I think you\u2019re going to really like the new Callaway stuff,\u201d Morrow added. \u201cI think if you are an M2 person, you\u2019re going to really like the Qi4D stuff<\/a>. And the same thing, I think, and Cobra actually said this to us too, the new lineup is the closest they\u2019ve gotten in internal and tour hype to LTD and then F9.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The marketing engine gets going every year with, \u201cThis new driver will go this many yards farther,\u201d and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-404827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}