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2009 Golf Digest Hot List Winners Review
Eye on the Golf Digest 2009 List of news
Whether you're a fan of 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 an assortment of material courses. Drivers fairway wood and hybrid, irons, wedges and putters, bags, oh, and balls and equipment Gurus decomposition in Golf Digest annual ranking of popular teams.
Process
If you are wondering how the rate of golf equipment experts, for example, the driver or Callaway TaylorMade irons, Excel spreadsheets with thousands of data points and hundreds of pages of technical data of the golf equipment manufacturers scientists, part four endpoints, and a two-week visit to a station in San Jose, California, for field trials.
The process is definitely not exhaustive. Golf Digest has called the "universe" of golf clubs-471 tickets to be exact, and determined on four weighted criteria: a performance) (40%), 2) innovation (30%), 3) look / sound / sense (20%), and 4) demand (10%).
After all the facts and data have been collected, the judges who participated in nine days of meetings that included 800 debates to get to the list of Hot 116-Club. On the road, ate a lot of takeaways.
Here's a look at the list this year.
Drivers
Golf Digest breaks the drivers golf category in two parts: $ 350 drivers and drivers under $ 350. Then divide the two categories of gold and silver winners.
Three of the winners gold in the category of over $ 350 are the Callaway FT-9, PING Rapture V2 and the TaylorMade r7 Limited Partnership.
No one is better than using multiple materials Callaway, the judges said in the FT-9. Players like the look, the balance and make the PING Rapture V2, which looks similar to the PING G10. The TaylorMade r7 Limited has movable weights, and has a Ozike tree. Some have said he made the best sense of a club on the market.
Gold winner in the category of under $ 350 Includes Speedline Adams, Callaway Big Bertha Diablo, PING and TaylorMade Burner G-10.
Irons
Ironing Irons were divided into three categories corresponding to the ability to play and interest: improving the game, improved super game players and irons.
The gold winners in the category of games including improvement of Callaway X-22, G10 PING and TaylorMade Burner. Player said it could hit the Callaway X-22 irons and blindfolded. I love you "he said. Callaway X-22 resulted in the application category, which is a reputation assessment, interest, intrigue and excitement. The G-10 PING a leader in the category of time, and TaylorMade Burner irons really shined, leading three of the four judging categories: performance, innovation and look / sound / meaning.
TaylorMade has also been a winner of gold in the super game improvement: Burner Plus, which includes a heavy-headed club and large size to help offset the Golf ball in the air.
In the category of players irons, Titleist AP2 has reached the top, with TaylorMade Tour Preferred, Callaway X-22 Tour Callaway X-Forged and PING S57 models, four of the six gold winners total.
Putters
Without doubt, there is golf club more important than the putter. Golf Digest has looked closely into two main categories: blade putters and mallet putters.
win gold at the Class blade putter over $ 200 includes the Odyssey Black Series I # 6, Daytona KIA TaylorMade TP-MA and Cameron Titleist Studio Select, which has led in three of four criteria: performance, look / sound / meaning and application.
The blade putter category of less than $ 200, were the first choice of the Odyssey White Hot Tour 1, two models Anser PING and TaylorMade Daytona.
Gold Winners in the category of Mallet Putter Odyssey Black Series I included 2-Ball, iwi Ping craz-E and TaylorMade Itsy Bitsy Spider. And leaders in mid-Mallet putters have been Odyssey, Cameron Titleist MacGregor and models.
Bags
List of judges have taken a look popular in the manufacture of bags of light and "mark" bags basket, the selection of his 21 shots heart. Leading the list of winning gold and silver were the models of Callaway, Ping, Taylor Made, Titleist, Bag Boy, Nike, Ogio, Sun Mountain, Wilson and Izzo.
Play Tour What benefits
What is Top Tour Professionals play? The following 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
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