Tony Covey

1 week ago | mygolfspy.com | Tony Covey

Following the April Major edition that kicked off Callaway’s 2024 limited-edition Major Series, the company is back with its May Major offering – the Chrome Tour Queen City edition. These special golf balls pay tribute to Charlotte, North Carolina – the “Queen City” and host of this month’s PGA Championship at Quail Hollow. They also have hornets on them, because (also) Charlotte.

1 week ago | mygolfspy.com | Tony Covey

Golf equipment marketing tends to simplify complex concepts. For example, this oversimplification creates a tidy equation in the minds of most golfers:Low spin driver = better player driver = faster swing speed driverBut what if this conventional wisdom misses a whole lot of nuance? What if, for many golfers, the math doesn’t work? In years of Most Wanted testing, we’ve frequently seen “low spin” models rise to the top of rankings, even for our slower swing speed players.

1 week ago | mygolfspy.com | Tony Covey

When it comes to golfers getting the most out of their equipment, I suppose it boils down to two things:  performance and personalization. Performance is all the stuff manufacturers build into a club – technology, exotic materials, whatever it happens to be that makes it universally better than what came before it (hopefully). Personalization is the fitting stuff that makes it perform better in your hands, or, in some cases, the aesthetic tweaks that make it look better or maybe cooler to you.

2 weeks ago | mygolfspy.com | Tony Covey

TaylorMade is giving everyday golfers a rare opportunity to experience Rory McIlroy’s irons with the limited release of RORS•PROTO irons. The hook for this limited run of irons is that they’re the exact specifications of the set McIlroy has used to capture 18 PGA Tour wins since joining Team TaylorMade in 2017.

2 weeks ago | mygolfspy.com | Tony Covey

Golf balls may seem simple from the outside but their internal construction significantly impacts performance. Let’s explore how golf ball design affects both backspin and sidespin in a way that’s easy to understand, even if you’re new to the technical side of golf equipment. Golf ball performance can be broken down into three main categories:Flight is primarily determined by the dimple pattern.