New Tourstage GR Line Clubs in the house!
Today was our annual Kiminomori summer matsuri (festival), so I was rather busy gathering at Mugiwara park with all the other neighbors in 5 Chome and 3 Chome who share this day for family fun. It was a scorching 35C all afternoon and when I got back late in the day I was happy to [...]
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Tourstage New X-Blade GR Irons – Image of the Day
We’re waiting for our new Tourstage demos to come in some time after Japan’s Obon holiday. In the meantime we’ve got some preview pics of the new X-Blade GR Iron and GR Forged.
Both are great looking irons with the mid sized GR Iron featuring a pocket cavity and a nice new modern back face. The [...]
New Tourstage GR Lineup Announced!
Tourstage held a press conference today to announce the all new GR lineup. The GR lineup fits right between the X Series and ViQ and is aimed at the low to mid handicap player (the X Series is aimed at pro to low handicap while the ViQ is aimed at mid to high handicap). The [...]
Japan Forged Irons Comparison – Preview
Japan is known to get some of the best forged irons in the world, especially Japanese domestic models (JDM) that nobody else in the world gets. Being an online retailer, we rarely stock test or demo irons on hand but I still frequently get a lot of inquires about comparing a certain iron to another. [...]
Tourstage X-Drive 703 Limited Initial Impressions
This weekend I’ll be lucky enough to test 4 great drivers side by side, the Tourstage X-drive 703 Limited, Titleist VG3, Taylormade Superdeep TP and Burner Superfast TP Black. I did however have a quick session with the Tourstage 703 Limited before hand for some pictures and brief hitting so I thought I would give [...]
TourStage X-Drive 703 Limited Driver & X-Blade 703 Limited Irons
TourStage has just recently announced a February release of two new limited X Series products. The first is called the TourStage X-Drive 703 Limited Driver and we had a chance to take many images as well as give it a test run at the 2010 Tokyo Golf Show just a short while ago.
The new Limited [...]
Tour Only Tourstage X-Wedge 101HB M Grind Wedges
While at the driving range today I ran into Manami Ogawa, an up and coming 21 year old pro on the Japanese ladies tour. I happen to know her father from our Kiminomori community where he helped us out with our garden. She is a fully sponsored Tourstage pro and I noticed she had new [...]
TourStage Finishes Year with #1 Most Win’s in Japan!
The TourStage company owned by Bridgestone produces high performance and quality golf equipment, apparel, and accessories. In the states they are fairly new and known as Bridgestone Sports while in Japan they have been around for decades and operate at least a dozen other co brands in the golf industry. With huge backing like that behind [...]
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Tourstage 2010 X-Drive and ViQ Driver Review
Before leaving for Hawaii for a 9 day working holiday, I had a chance to spend a week with the new 2010 X-Drive 703 and 2010 ViQ drivers. Tourstage has long battled the likes of Srixon/XXIO, Taylormade and Yamaha for driver sales in Japan year in and year out. People who know Tourstage can tell [...]
Tourstage 2010 ViQ Iron Review
We thought the ViQ had left us…
Earlier this year when Tourstage announced 5 new X-Blade models in a one time release including newly designed and forgiving X-Blade GR models, many of us in the golf industry thought it signaled the end of the ViQ line. The largest segment of golfers in Japan is comprised of [...]
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Tourstage 2010 X-Blade 703 Review
Our new Tourstage demos have come in and I started out by testing the new 2010 X-Blade 703 today. This premium Japan forged S25C cavity back fits right in between the X-Blade 701 series and X-Blade GR for size and target audience. The X-Blade 703 is slightly larger than the 701G making it fall between [...]
Golf wear at TSG – and my blurb on pricing…
Demand for clothes…
Due to many requests from customers and vistors to Tourspecgolf, we’ve begun our little experiment at carrying golf clothing. We’ve actually been getting many requests for golf wear over the years but to be honest we never decided to make a commitment to clothes because it is probably the one most difficult [...]
TourStage X-Drive 703 In Depth
Top brands in Japan have just recently announced their new winter releases and TourStage & Yamaha appear to take the cake as far as the quality of design goes. We will be highlighting new products from both brands as more information becomes available. Today we will go in depth and take a look at the [...]
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Tourstage new X-Series 703 and ViQ for 2010
Tourstage recently held a demo day open to the public. They do this for every pre-launch at major driving ranges throughout Tokyo so that regular golfers like you and I can check out their new gear before launch and try them out at the range. I was unable to attend this pre launch this time [...]
Tourstage ViQ lives on for 2010!
So rumors of the death of the Tourstage ViQ line for the average golfer were indeed premature. The ViQ line has beed completely redesigned from ground up for the 2010 season and will be launched along with the new X-Drive 703 series that Tourspecgolfer mentioned earlier on December 4th. I’ll be getting demos of all [...]
TourStage 703 X-Drive & 703 X-Blade Irons Coming December 4th!
New TourStage 703 Drivers & Irons are set to release December 4th, 2009. The new 460cc features a round semi pear orthodox shape which improves the performance especially in the area of face expansion and the drivers ability to grab the ball and rebound like a trampoline off the face.
The TourStage 703 Driver uses CUP [...]
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Asics Shoes are Coming – Challenger One Tourstage
With the imminent release of Asics’ flag ship golf shoe, the Gelace Top, dominant Japanese golf shoe makers like Tourstage and Mizuno are preparing to have a bite taken out of their market share. Already having to contend with overseas makers like Footjoy, ecco, Adidas and others. Asics with years of shoe experience enters the [...]
Chie Arimura – Tourstage Pro Swing Video
I’ve posted previously about Tourstage Pro Chie Arimura on the blog here. One post about what’s in her bag and another about her detailed course note taking. Chie, 21 years of age and now in her third year on the Japan Ladies tour is still coming into her own as a player with 2009 being [...]
New Products Launch at TourSpecGolf!
A bunch of new items have been released and TourSpecGolf as usual is the first to have them available. This week’s new listings come from big brands like Fujikura, TourStage, Honma, and Fourteen Golf. Let dive right into the new products recently made available.
Whats New @ TSG!
– ONOFF Tour Issue Custom Built Drivers: [...]
Pro Support: New TourStage Pro Series Caddy Bags
New Colorful Bags from TourStage
Some JPGA pro’s are sporting some new bags we have never seen before from TourStage Japan. Watching what the pro’s use is a good indicator of what’s coming over the horizon.
These are not your normal caddy bags, usually Japanese manufactures use higher quality and more expensive materials when compared to [...]
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TourStage Releases New 2009 Wedge Grinds!
2009 TourStage X-Wedge 101MID & 101WS
TourStage Golf has annonced the release of their two latest wedge models the 101WS and 101 Mid. For those of you who dont know about TourStage they are the biggest golf club company out of Japan with the most sponsored JPGA tour players and a fast paced release schedule of [...]
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New Hat’s arrive at the TourSpecGolf Pro Shop!
Golf to Impress in Style
For those of you who like to bring style to the links TourSpecGolf.com has been the #1 source for Japanese Domestic Market golf gear and apparel over the last 7 years. TSG features a selection of hats that cant be found anywhere from brands like TourStage, Dance with Dragon, [...]
Chie Arimura’s Bag: A new trend signalling the end of the Tourstage ViQ line??
A few months ago, a fellow TSG forum member from Hawaii was talking to me about what’s in the bag for serveral JLPGA pros and he noted that many of the Tourstage pros were no longer playing the ViQ line, the most dominant line on the Japanese ladies tour which also happens to be one [...]
