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Sweet Rossa! TaylorMade Golf's latest winning product
 TaylorMade
Golf (TMAG), the hottest golf manufacturing company in 2001, followed
their outstanding success with the 200 and 300 Series of clubs
with their new line of Rossa putters. To date, the putter has
had 8 wins (as of April 15) on Tour and approximately 70 PGA Tour
players have a Rossa in their bag and garnered 80 – Top
Ten finishes. The putters are stunningly well designed and come
in 20 different models.
The two models, the Tour and the Sport both feature
a two-piece red Titallium insert: one in the face and one in the
back, separated from each other by a 1mm steel membrane. According
to Sean Toulon, vice president of new business development and
head of Rossa's product development team, the proprietary Titallium
insert is a lightweight alloy mix of seven exotic metals that
has a strength-to-weight ratio three times that of steel. This
alloy allows for improved putter launch conditions, a higher moment
of inertia, superior distance control, and unparalleled sound
and feel. The Titallium insert adds 12 -to-15 grams to the putter's
overall mass, giving it the advantage of a lightweight polymer
insert, but by it's being metallic, the feel at contact is superb.
Replacing what would weigh 50 grams in a metal putter, it then
allows for more than 35g of discretionary weight to be moved to
the perimeter of the clubhead, creating a lower, deeper center
of gravity. There are eight Tour models that are forged and milled
from 1020 carbon steel. They are expected to retail at $275.00.
The 12 Sport models are cast and milled from 304 stainless steel
and are expected to sell for $165.00.
Visit www.taylormadegolf.com
for details on all the styles of Rossa available.
Royal Precision Spinner Wedge Shafts- One of Golf's Best Kept
Secrets
 It
is no coincidence that top-ranked Tour players worldwide play
Rifle shafts. A new addition to the Rifle line is the scoring
wedge shaft, the Spinner Wedge shaft, which was designed for sand,
lob and gap wedges. The Rifle Spinner Wedge shaft was developed
for PGA Tour players who like a softer feel in their scoring irons,
the wedges, which are used primarily for less-than-full shots.
These shafts also offer the consistency and performance of Rifle's
primary steel shaft lines.
Over 30 professionals on the six PGA Tours (including
Rifle Spokesmen, Lee Janzen and Colin Montgomerie) are presently
using the Spinner shaft. The Spinner Wedges are sticking shots
on greens around the world. Their unique and patented features,
with proprietary flex distribution technology to create a shaft
with exceptional feel, offer players measurable performance benefits
such as: more Spin, lower launch angle, better control and improved
accuracy.
Spinner Wedge shafts are also standard in Mizuno
and Porsche Design lines and the custom programs of Ping Wrx,
Cleveland and Titleist. Your local club maker can retrofit existing
clubs with Spinner Wedge shafts, which are available from all
golf component distributors or at www.royalprecision.com.
Many flexes are available (4.5,5.5 and 6.5) and each shaft retails
for a MSRP of $13.75.
 The
new TaylorMade wedges are Aesthetically Superb, Technologically
Advanced and Unsurpassed in Playability – Three wins on
the PGA and European Tour are indicative of their performance.
TaylorMade strikes again with what is undoubtedly
the most pure feel, well-balanced and strikingly handsome wedges
to hit the market in years – The Tour Preferred RAC Wedges.
With the introduction of these wedges TMAG now
has a complete product line that completes the company's promise
of and across-the-board category resurgence that started with
the launch of the 300 Series driver.
The high quality 8620 Carbon Steel Tour Preferred's
classic shapes combine an updated groove design, milled face and
improved score line offer consistent launch conditions with unmatched
feel. In addition, the wedges contoured profiles integrate thin
top lines, wide soles and TMAG's two CNC-milled back pockets,
which quite simply offer superior distance and spin control. The
aforementioned profiles are indeed unique to the industry, and
were developed using proprietary TMAG technology – RAC (Relative
Amplitude Coefficient).
The beauty of the RAC technology is that it can
precisely quantify and predict the feel of the wedge thereby allowing
engineers to control how energy is channeled through its head
after impact. The result, unheard of in the industry, is a consistent
feel across each club's face and throughout the entire line from
club to club. The wedge delivers the ball with laser-like accuracy
and ease of use second to none.
The Tour Preferred's groove design features a
dual-draft profile with maximum width and optimum spacing allowed
by the USGA between grooves. The top portion resembles a "V"
groove with wide open mouth and large symmetric edge radii, while
the lower portion employs a "U" groove, made to be deep
and straight to maximize total groove volume.
After exhaustive testing of Nike, Vokey, Cleveland
and Bettinardi wedges, 24 of our 25 testers at Torrey Pines Golf
course became instant converts to the TaylorMade wedges. The most
often quoted phrases were "pure feel" and "well
balanced". What also impressed the pro testers were the mill
tracks which let the more insightful player know of the personal
touch added to the club.
As for bunker play, these wedges are most impressive
for accuracy and gracefulness. The biggest beneficiaries of the
wedges will undoubtedly be the mid to high handicapper.
Selling for $129 (MSRP),
the wedges come in a variety of lofts of between 52-to 60-degrees,
seven bounce/loft combinations and have a nickel/chrome plated
finish with premium ferrules. The shaft is the Dynamic Gold Wedge
Flex (S200) and customs shafts are also available.
Visit www.taylormadegolf.com
for details.
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