Equipment

TaylorMade: Introduces the Monza Spider Vicino putter, Vicino meaning “near” or “next” in Italian. because this is the next generation in this phenomenal family of putters.

Aldila: Thunderball, a Las Vegas-based long drive competition, selects Aldila’s RIP as its official driver shaft.

TaylorMade: Introduces the Burner SuperLaunch, an iron designed for a certain segment of players – mainly slower swingers and low-ball hitters – to get more distance. Burner SuperLaunch iron’s offset also helps straighten a slice and promote a draw.

Aldila: Thunderball, a Las Vegas-based long drive competition, selects Aldila’s RIP as its official driver shaft.

TaylorMade: Introduces the Burner SuperLaunch, an iron designed for a certain segment of players – mainly slower swingers and low-ball hitters – to get more distance. Burner SuperLaunch iron’s offset also helps straighten a slice and promote a draw.

Graphite Design: Allianz Championship winner played its Purple Ice shafts in his driver, 3- and 5-woods.

Fourteen Golf: TC-910 forged irons won the iron count at the Asian Tour International in Bangkok, Thailand. Also, Fourteen Golf’s MT-28 Wedge ranked as the second most played wedge.

Club Glove: Introduces its HotStepper II, the company’s lightest stand bag to date, weighing just three and a half pounds.

Henry-Griffitts: Clubfitting company introduces the Stripe-It shaft, a proprietary, filament-wound graphite shaft produced exclusively for H-G by Neo-Fiber Industrial Company Ltd.

Club Glove: Introduces its HotStepper II, the company’s lightest stand bag to date, weighing just three and a half pounds.

Mitchell Golf Equipment Institute: Offers the Teaching Professional’s Club Performance Teaching School, a three-day training program that educates teaching pros on how to add club performance evaluation and alterations to their lesson programs.

Graphite Design: Reports that four of the top 10 finishers at the Mayakoba Golf Classic played its Tour AD shafts. Also, the company reports having 44 shafts in play on the PGA Tour, 15 of which were the new Tour AD DI shafts.

Nike Golf: Introduces the SQ Machspeed hybrids, which use Nike’s Total Swing Aerodynamic technology that is designed to create a higher initial ball velocity and launch angle with less spin. Nike staffer Suzann Pettersen used the new hybrids in competition for the first time at the Honda PTT in Thailand and finished second.

Mitchell Golf Equipment Institute: Offers the Teaching Professional’s Club Performance Teaching School, a three-day training program that educates teaching pros on how to add club performance evaluation and alterations to their lesson programs.

Datrek: Announces a successful launch of its 2010 golf bag collection at last month’s PGA Merchandise Show. The show served as the first industry forum for Datrek, now a division of Dynamic Brands, to showcase its new line, which includes the Assault, Raptor and Sabre models.

Aldila: Wins, according to Darrell Survey, the wood and hybrid shaft counts at the Mayakoba Classic, and the hybrid count at WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.

True Temper: Dynamic Gold shafts were played by the respective winners of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and the Mayakoba Golf Classic.

Rife Putters: Reports that the winner of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship played its Antigua putter for his ninth career victory.

Fujikura: WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship winner played its Motore Speeder shaft in his driver.