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Scratch Golf 1018 Controversy Test Results!

  • Categories: GTI Exclusive, Golf News, Golf Opinion, Golf Tech Talk, Industry Insider, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus, New Equipment, Recommended, Rumors, Special Promotions, Uncategorized
  • Posted on: March 18th, 2010 by: Tourspecgolfer

Test results are in!   For those who have missed it there was a big controversy about Scratch Golf’s advertising claims that spanned across multiple forum’s and blog websites.  Here were the claims I made against Scratch Golf last week:
1.  It was my opinion that they did not use 1018 carbon steel for their Irons & Wedges
2.  [...]

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R9 TP Forged vs Burner TP – Taylormade Iron Comparison

  • Categories: Featured, GTI Exclusive, Golf Opinion, Golf Tech Talk, Industry Insider, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus, Recommended, Recommended Posts
  • Posted on: March 17th, 2010 by: gocchin

I got my hands on a few demos from Taylormade Japan. They were kind enough to send me the new R9 TP Forged along with the Burner TP, Japan R9 and R9 Max irons for comparison. I am sure many people are interested in comparing the two TP models so I would like to note [...]

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  • Tags: burner tp, forged, irons, player, r9 forged, R9 MAX, Taylormade Japan, tour, tp
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Driver Real Loft Real Face Angle Real Specs

  • Categories: Golf News, Golf Opinion, Golf Tech Talk, Industry Insider, Japanese Golf, Product Previews
  • Posted on: March 12th, 2010 by: gocchin

So after a week of being away in the very hot tropical island of Palau, I am back in the golfing world here in Japan. The weather was great, the water was crystal clear and diving was fun, but it was hard to believe a place as beautiful as Palau did not have a golf [...]

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  • Tags: 2010 drivers, Burner, custom, japan, MachSpeed, real face angle, real loft, real specs, superdeep, vg3, viq, x-drive, xxio
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How much do you think you know about Japanese Golf Club Manufacturing Part 1

  • Categories: Featured, GTI Exclusive, Golf News, Golf Opinion, Golf Tech Talk, Industry Insider, Japanese Golf, Polls, Recommended, Recommended Posts, Special Promotions, Uncategorized
  • Posted on: March 5th, 2010 by: Tourspecgolfer

Over the last several years we have been asked a good amount of questions about 1018 Forged steel also known as “soft steel”, and for the last several years I have been inquiring about its availability in raw head form and bar form for our projects with various Japanese brands.

All is not what it appears [...]

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  • Tags: 1018 Forged, Forgings, made in japan, Miura, Scratch
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Gold’s Factory Putter Tune Up: Black Edition Cameron’s

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  • Posted on: March 1st, 2010 by: Tourspecgolfer

Putter Guru and Master CraftsmanMasayuki Sasaya of Gold’s Factory has had his hands full recently enhancing other putter companies products.  He has been working on many Odyssey, Scotty Cameron, and Bettinardi Putters working miracles and improving performance and aesthetics for the player. 
In this blog post I wanted to highlight some of the recent Black Edition Scotty Cameron Putters he [...]

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Would you Sacrafice Shaft Durability for MORE Distance?

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  • Posted on: February 24th, 2010 by: Tourspecgolfer

We have been speaking with many Japanese Shaft manufactures recently and they have concerns about how some Americans abuse their golf clubs as well as the capabilities of a large portion of U.S club makers.
The .350 tip size is used in the states mostly to increase durability. Often golfers use the driver as support when [...]

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Iomic X-Fusion Diarrow and Rombo Grips Introduced

  • Categories: Gear Sneak Peaks, Golf News, Golf Tech Talk, Image of the Day, Industry Insider, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus, New Equipment
  • Posted on: February 23rd, 2010 by: gocchin

Last year saw the introduction of the first cord grip ever from ultra popular minus ion, soft and sticky, super colorful grip maker Iomic. It was a very popular seller but Iomic discontinued it early this year. The reason why? They simply designed a better cord grip to replace it! Iomic took feedback from many [...]

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Mizuno Forged MP Craft Putters at the Japan Golf Fair!

  • Categories: GTI Exclusive, Gear Sneak Peaks, Golf News, Golf Opinion, Golf Tech Talk, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus, New Equipment
  • Posted on: February 23rd, 2010 by: gocchin

We all love putters don’t we? It’s the one club we don’t mind hording and having a huge collection of. It’s the one club we don’t hesitate to spend big bucks on. I remember at one time when the putter craze bit me and I had maybe 20 putters in my collection. You know the [...]

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Ping Anser Forged Irons Review – First Take

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  • Posted on: February 22nd, 2010 by: gocchin

PING ANSER IRONS – A REVIVAL
It looks like the revealing of the new Ping Anser Forged irons has cause a bit stir in the golfing world and on lot of golf enthusiast sites around the internet.  After posting about the new iron last Friday, we decided to head back to the Japan Golf Fair [...]

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Titleist VG3 Driver Release at Japan Golf Show!

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  • Posted on: February 21st, 2010 by: gocchin

With the official showing to the public of the new Titleist VG3 driver at the Golf Fair this weekend here in Japan, I thought I would go into a bit more detail on what will most likely turn out to be one of the most in demand drivers of 2010.
Titleist has long been known as [...]

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PRGR Red 505 Driver, Fairway, Woods, Irons

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  • Posted on: February 14th, 2010 by: Tourspecgolfer

 
New PRGR 505 Driver, Fairway Woods, and Irons are scheduled to hit the Japanese market this march with their official announcement at the 2010 Tokyo Golf Show late this month. PRGR also known as ProGear is owned by the Yokohama Rubber Co. yup that’s right the same company that produces tires globally.

The new Red 505 [...]

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Epon Golf AF-102 Driver Info Release!

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  • Posted on: February 11th, 2010 by: Tourspecgolfer

Epon Golf AF102 Information:
Production Method: Super – Precision Forging
Material – High Intensity Titanium Alloy
SLE confirmation – Conformed
Target Customer = Tour Level or Better Player
Features:
・A thinner, lighter yet strong crown piece for maximum low CG positioning.
・Competition preferred mid trajectory by the mix of deeper face height and super low CG.
・Persimmon like softer feel by head deflection [...]

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New 2010 Taylormade FCT Shaft Sleeve

  • Categories: GTI Exclusive, Gear Sneak Peaks, Golf News, Golf Tech Talk, Industry Insider, Manufacturer Focus, New Equipment, Product Previews, Uncategorized
  • Posted on: February 10th, 2010 by: Tourspecgolfer

Taylormade has made another adjustment to their adjustable FCT shaft sleeve that controls the features in their new R9 series drivers. This time Taylormade was able to shave 2 grams off of the total weight of it and while many of you think 2 grams isn’t a lot this is a breakthrough.
3 years ago I was [...]

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Matrix Ozik Radix – Ozik Phi – Ozik Reign Shafts Coming Soon!

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  • Posted on: February 9th, 2010 by: Tourspecgolfer

Matrix Shafts is about to release several new offerings that were highlighted at the 2010 PGA Golf show in Orlando Florida.
Matrix Ozik Radix
Radix- Latin for “root” or “base” is built over the HD mandrel so it will have a technology story under the $150 price point. Will have weight classes from high 40g to high 70g. [...]

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Nike Machspeed Forged Iron – GTI Initial Review

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  • Posted on: February 6th, 2010 by: gocchin

I was lucky enough to have Nike Japan send me a demo for their new Japan Only 2010 Machspeed Forged Iron. I’ll be honest that I have had a mixed opinion when it came to Nike designs in recent years and when I saw the Machspeed line back in October I felt the irons might [...]

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Taylormade Updates – R9 TP Forged, Five TP Ball, Monza Spider Max Putter

  • Categories: Golf Tech Talk, Industry Insider, Japanese Golf, Manufacturer Focus, New Equipment, Product Reviews
  • Posted on: February 5th, 2010 by: gocchin

I spoke to TM the other day and arranged for them to send me the new R9 TP Forged for review along with the current R9, Burner Forged and Burner TP iron so it’ll be good to get some comparison pictures of all the new releases. The standard R9 Forged is slated for May so [...]

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The Easiest Driver to Hit is the Longest Driver

  • Categories: Golf News, Golf Opinion, Golf Tech Talk, Industry Insider, Japanese Golf
  • Posted on: February 3rd, 2010 by: gocchin

As you can imagine I still get so many emails asking, what’s the longest driver you sell, or what’s the hottest driver on the market you have. Many average golfers and slower swingers and even faster swingers are always looking for what is dubbed “the longest driver”. If there was such a thing as the [...]

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Royal Collection 2010 Type Bite Forged Wedge Review!

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  • Posted on: February 2nd, 2010 by: gocchin

Many people consider the wedge to be the most beautiful club in the bag. It’s simple design and shape is not cluttered by technology and and over design like many high tech cavity backs and woods today.   I have learned to understand why so many athlete golfers long for the basic look blade and treat [...]

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  • Tags: 2010, conforming, copper, forged, japan, raw, Royal Collection, spin, wedge
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New 2010 Mizuno Stability Style Golf Shoe

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  • Posted on: January 29th, 2010 by: gocchin

Today I’m going to take a look at Mizuno Japan’s all new 2010 Stability Style Golf Shoe 45KM0189. The original Stability Style shoe from 2008 was perhaps one of the best golf shoes ever made in Japan and that position was well reflected as it was the best selling golf shoe for both 2008 and [...]

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Bridgestone J38 Driver, J38 Forged Irons, J38 Dual Pocket Irons

  • Categories: Gear Sneak Peaks, Golf News, Golf Opinion, Golf Tech Talk, Industry Insider, Manufacturer Focus, New Equipment, PGA Tour, Product Previews, Uncategorized
  • Posted on: January 29th, 2010 by: Tourspecgolfer

Thanks to Rob over at Sandbox8.com for his early reports from the Bridgestone Golf USA demo tent in Orlando Florida.  Rob showed us some of the new items that Bridgestone will be releasing in the USA like the J38 driver, J38 Forged Cavity back irons and J38 dual pocket forged irons that will be coming in March.

Bridgestone J38 [...]

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Mitsubishi Fubuki Alpha Shaft

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  • Posted on: January 28th, 2010 by: Tourspecgolfer

Fubuki Alpha Shaft
Mitsubishi has released several new products recently like the next generation Diamana’s, Tour Prototype Stingers, and now the all new Fubuki Alpha Shaft. The new Alpha features enhanced torsional stability, low spin rates and a new updated bend profile.
 The Fubuki Tour shaft that has been out for a little while was a [...]

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Masda Golf Slick Fit Grips – Get ready to race!

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  • Posted on: January 26th, 2010 by: gocchin

One of the great things about working for a golf company and living in Japan on a golf course is the opportunity to not only try lots of gear, but to discover new products that people have never heard of. Today I received a sample grip from Masda Golf called Slick Fit. At first the [...]

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Titleist VG3 Driver Japan Only!

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  • Posted on: January 25th, 2010 by: gocchin

Titleist VG3 Driver!
Titleist has a large following all around the world and very much so in Japan as well. But as an American brand in Japan they have not followed in the same footsteps as Taylormade and Callaway when it comes to releasing Japan only products. Besides a few putters and the recent Vokey [...]

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Sky Dream Jump Copper Power Wedge

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  • Posted on: January 24th, 2010 by: gocchin

Three Luck’s Sky Dream Jump line is slowly becoming known as one of the best wedge makers in Japan. Their D-Tour Type Bite, WS Type Bite as well as DP-2010 all suit the better player wanting premium feel and optimal spin in a great looking package. Recently, their CU Power wedge has grown in considerable [...]

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Kamui Custom Hand Made Fairway Woods Now at TSG!

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  • Posted on: January 23rd, 2010 by: gocchin

After many requests from customers to get Kamui’s fairway wood in the pro shop, so we thought we would get a few heads in to check out. Yesterday I received a custom 3 and 5 wood from Kamui and they are indeed a simple and clean design with a very traditional shape and mid height [...]

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PRGR Limited Edition TR500 Forged Iron First Impressions!

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  • Posted on: January 21st, 2010 by: gocchin

PRGR has put out some great irons in the past like wonderfully forged 900MD and 500bl athlete models, and while their GN502 line has moved to capture a large share of the average golfer market, they haven’t had a stand out forged iron for the athlete golfer in a while. This February, PRGR or Pro [...]

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XXIO 2010 Iron Review

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  • Posted on: January 21st, 2010 by: gocchin

ze-ku-shi-oh, say that quickly…
There are many people outside of Japan who have probably never heard of the brand XXIO (pronounced ze-ku-shi-oh, say that quickly…). However, those who are in Japan or know Japanese golf equipment, know that XXIO, a wing of Sri Sports/Dunlop has long been the number one selling average golfer brand in Japan. [...]

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Honma BERES 7 Series – MG710 & MG700

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  • Posted on: January 21st, 2010 by: Tourspecgolfer

Honma MG710 Driver
Honma Golf will be releasing its all new 7 Series line of clubs this February 1st 2010.  The New 7 Series is considered part of their flagship and best selling  line up that they offer.
The BERES MG710 is a 460cc driver with a cast 6-4 titanium body yet featuring a lightweight 6-4 Titan ( forged )face [...]

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Nike Golfers React to PGA Grooves Rule Changes

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  • Posted on: January 20th, 2010 by: Tourspecgolfer
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A Look into the “Crazy” Shaft Brand

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  • Posted on: January 19th, 2010 by: Tourspecgolfer

Many Golfers stateside have never heard of the Crazy Shaft brand from Japan. I must admit off the start I thought the graphics were cool some of the best to ever be placed on a golf shaft but would substance follow design?
In the last 2 years Crazy has exploded in Japan becoming one of the [...]

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