On the Green 84 Hot Picks Game Boosters From at-home practice to on-course gear, the latest and greatest must-haves for golfers At Home There is no piece of golf gear that will improve your game – and make your life more fun – than a home simulator. You can play world-class links with your favourite foursome rain or shine, even in the middle of the night – and that with concrete data. The Full Swing Pro 2.0 Simulator (fullswinggolf. com) is the official simulator of the PGA Tour (and the one Tiger Woods has). For peerless accuracy, it combines high-speed cameras with infrared sensors, displaying ball flight in real time with no delay – just like on the course. You can play more than 100 top courses, with dynamic training options, including the ability to review video playback of your club head through impact. For data at the range, check out the portable Launch Pro, from Bushnell Golf (bushnellgolf.com), far and away the number-one choice of rangefinders on the PGA Tour – and every professional tour, for that matter. Unlike radar-based units that use algorithms to guess what happened at impact to cause ball flight, the Launch Pro combines three high-speed cameras with infrared to deliver accurate data for carry distance, ball speed, launch angles, total spin and much more. Clockwise from top left: Full Swing’s Pro 2.0 Simulator; the Launch Pro by Bushnell Golf; Callaway’s Paradym Ai Smoke MAX Driver; the Q Follow e-trolley by Stewart Golf; Cobra’s Darkspeed LS driver On Course In recent years, golf shoes have become much more comfortable – and much less fashionable. A notable exception is London’s Royal Albartross (albartross. com), which combines modern athletic shoe soles and support with the finest leathers and a touch of pizzazz for a stylish take on golf footwear, with many options for men and women. Golf is a walking sport, but that doesn’t mean you have to carry your bag – not when your robot caddie will do it for you. The Stewart Golf Q Follow (stewartgolf.com) is the most compact following cart ever, with four wheels for stability on even the hilliest courses, and it folds up into a tiny package that easily fits in most car boots. The Q Follow tracks a sensor on your belt or back pocket, is made of light but strong carbon composite, and runs for 36 holes on a single charge. As for the bag itself, why go off the rack when bespoke will set your game apart? Orca Golf (orca-golf. com) makes custom bags with whatever look or art you want. Pictures, logos, colours, national flags, golf clubs, names, monograms – you imagine it and they’ll make it, in stand/carry models or cart/tour bags. Clockwise from above: Royal Albartross’s Soho Storm shoes; the PXG Black Ops driver; a customised bag by Orca Golf In Hand The golf industry is known for marketing tiny changes in new clubs with the promise of game improvement, but since the advent of artificial intelligence and its ability to test thousands of design variations, there has been a quantum leap in the current crop of drivers. Callaway (callawaygolf. com) was an early leader in AI, and its Paradym, the industry’s 2023 darling, just got upgraded for 2024. The Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max ran away with Golf Digest’s Hot List awards and is lighter, more forgiving and goes further, offering four versions for different abilities and swing speeds. For better players with high-swing speeds who are most concerned about more distance, the new hot pick is the lower-spinning Cobra Darkspeed LS (cobragolf.com). At the opposite end of the spectrum, for golfers who need more spin and a higher launch angle, try the new PXG Black Ops (pxg.com). – LO PHOTOS COURTESY THE COMPANIES CENTURION-MAGAZINE.COM
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