Kick Point: The Golf Gear Show

Happy Monday - hope you had a good weekend, thanks for downloading this week's Tour Issue! Plenty for us to cover as the 'Free Agent Finn' Sami Valimaki wins on Tour with a massively mixed bag of equipment featuring four brands and, our favourite, a mini driver. On the LPGA Tour, Jeeno Thitihul broke records with her full bag of Callaway equipment, including a first win for the brand's newest range of putters. Will this start a new trend in the zero-torque putter space? Also, Titleist's 24/25 DP World Tour report was released this week, revealing a truly dominant share of golf balls and wedges on Tour this year. With driver counts increasing year on year for the brand too, we ask: why are Titleist so dominant in the bags of Tour players?

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Happy Friday, everyone! This week, we welcome our biggest guests to date: George and Wesley Bryan, also known as the Bryan Bros. Two of the biggest content creators on YouTube stopped to chat with our very own Sam De'Ath at the International Series in the Philippines last month. Expect insight on their experiences with Takomo irons, driver tinkering stories and why they've decided to switch to L.A.B. putters.

But before you listen to any of that, we've got much more in this week's episode to get stuck into. Firstly, Joe runs us through his 'Mount Rushmore' of golf equipment components. Which grips, shafts, or other golf components are in Joe's top four? We've also got what we think is our best collection of Ask The Pods to date this week. One listener wants to know why the line between equipment fitter and golf coach isn't more blurred, and we've also for a great message from a fellow equipment junkie and club builder who wants to know if the Frankenstein's monster of a club he's concocted is too daft to play in reality.

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Happy Monday, everyone. The start of a new working week means a new episode of Tour Issue, and we're here to recap Fitzpatrick's win in Dubai, Rory's 7th Order of Merit win, Adam Schenk's one-handed putting chaos, and Nelly Korda's under-the-radar iron switch. Why can't Fitzpatrick quit his old Ping irons? Has Rory found a new best friend in Qi4D? And has Rory's 2025 been the best year of golf in the modern era since the Tiger Slam? All of that and more answered this week!

Thanks for your positive feedback on our first episode of Tour Issue last week - we really appreciate it. We're still working on how to structure this show every Monday, so any feedback is most welcome. We want this show to reflect what you'd like to hear us discuss on Tour, so do get in touch if you have any burning requests (we do read everything!).

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Happy Friday, folks, thanks for downloading. This week, there's an update on Joe's vobesman set, we call out wedge manufacturers and plead with them to stop over-designing their wedges, Joe pines for Robert Rock (again), and we go through some of the best-looking irons of the '80s and '90s after a listener wanted to know what set he should be for his own vibesman set.

We also welcome Adrian Retiveld back onto the show to chat all things equipment from one of the best fitters in the professional game. We unearthed this interview from our time in California at The Kingdom in the summer, and it's a wide-ranging interview about Adrian's life on the Tour van and some of the most interesting experiences he's had with players on the Tour. Thanks for your kind words on the first episode of Tour Issue, which dropped on Monday. We'll be back next Monday with much more of the same - enjoy!

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Welcome to the first episode of Kick Point: Tour Issue, your weekly roundup of the weekend's Tour golf and equipment breaking news stories. We couldn't have asked for a more exciting week to bring you our first episode, with new equipment from TaylorMade, Ping and Cobra being seeded on Tour far earlier than we expected. We have our first impressions of all these new clubs and react to Aaron Rai's stunning playoff win in Abu Dhabi. How fitting that, on a week with so much new equipment, a man with a six-year-old model goes and wins big - we love you, Aaron.

It's our first Tour Issue, so feedback on our new weekly episodes will be much appreciated. You know where to get in touch! We'll be back on Friday with our normal weekly episodes of Kick Point: The Golf Gear Show.

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Welcome to Kick Point: Tour Issue, our brand new weekly show! Every Monday (well, providing one of us isn't away), we'll be sitting down to react to the weekend's golf and all the equipment news we can't react to as quickly as we'd like to on our Friday shows. We've got a a humdinger of a first episode for you. Episode one will arrive later this afternoon with our reaction to Aaron Rai's win in Abu Dhabi, TaylorMade's Qi4D hitting the USGA conforming list, Ping G440 K driver being spotted, S259 wedges and a Cobra mini driver too. Episodes will arrive on all podcast platforms at Monday lunchtime and you can also watch it over on YouTube, too!

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Happy Friday, and thanks for joining us this week! Another bumper episode for you this week, and we're starting with a rant about driving ranges. Since the introduction of Trackman ranges, it's safe to say the demographics and sheer volume of people going to driving ranges are changing. Is this newfound love for ranges making it tougher for the less casual golfers to get practice in? Or are we too busy looking down our noses at new people joining the game?

On Tested This Week, Joe has a new toy - a Foresight GC3 launch monitor to be precise. Off the back of this, we wanted to chat about why the one metric in particular on this (and all) launch monitors should be totally ignored by all levels of golfer.. Ask The Pod this week wants to know why more manufacturers don't switch to two-year release cycles, and then we're excited to welcome Harry Hall onto the show for a What's In The Bag interview. Sam De'Ath met up with Harry at Wentworth to discuss some of the more unique equipment decisions he's made this year.

Massive thanks to our sponsors, Golf Gear Giveaways. Use the code 'KICK20' at checkout at https://golfgeargiveaways.co.uk for a 20% discount for entry into any competition.

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Happy Friday and happy Halloween! Nothing spooky for you in this episode, unless you find an hour of rambling about golf equipment scary. One thing some people do find scary is the shaft lean in zero torque putters. Odyssey's new line of Tri-Hot Square 2 Square putters has been designed to get rid of this nearly entirely, and we have our immediate reaction to the new launch and what it might mean for zero torque putters going forward.

Also, this week, we chatted about how Jason Day added Avoda irons to his bag, and Joe gained insight from Avoda's Tom Bailey on how and why the switch took place. Ask The Pod wants to know about spin axis on golf balls, and, finally, we welcome Robert Rock onto the show for one of our most detailed ever What's In The Bags. While most know Robert for his beautiful, meticulous swing, he's also a meticulous equipment builder. Often building his own clubs, he takes us through his current bag of equipment that features four different brands and plenty of old equipment, too.

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Happy Friday, and thanks for downloading this week's episode! There's loads to cover in this jam-packed episode, including the breaking news that TaylorMade's Kingdom fitting centre is finally coming to the UK! But, what does this mean for the average golfer in the UK, and what are the pros and cons of being fitted in a 'single brand' fitting centre? We've also got the viral Sausage putter in the studio with us this week. We alluded to it a few weeks ago, and it's finally arrived. Joe's tested it, and Dan gets to see it in person for the first time - so what's the verdict? Ask The Pod follows before we welcome Matt Wallace onto the show! Sam De'Ath met up with Matt at Wentworth at the end of the summer for a deep dive into the Englishman's mixed bag of equipment.

Chapters:

0:00:00 Intro and catching up

0:02:45 A sneak peek at PXG's newest equipment

0:07:56 Help us rank the best 20 clubs of the 21st century!

0:09:05 The Kingdom is coming to the UK - our thoughts

0:18:04 Our full verdict on the Sausage Boudin Noir putter

0:27:09 Ask The Pod - Does your choice of golf ball affect spin axis? 

0:47:51 Matt Wallace What's In The Bag?

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Happy Friday, folks, thanks for joining us for another week of equipment deep dives. After our direct-to-consumer chat a few weeks ago, we've received some comments asking for more data comparing the drivers and irons of these brands versus the OEMs. So, Joe's brought some receipts from his testing. How close, from a data perspective, are the DTC brands getting to the big dogs? Also, this week, Joe's been out and purchased a golf club with his own money. As a man who gets every club he wants for free (for testing purposes, FYI), why has he gone and purchased an old Callaway Apex UW, and how does the 2025 version stack up against his favourite club?

We've got more of your brilliant correspondence and Ask The Pods, and then we welcome 2024 British Masters champion Niklas Norgaard onto the show for a what's in the bag chat. Joe embarrassed himself in front of Niklas just as the cameras started rolling. Could he recover and get through the rest of the interview in one piece?

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