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TaylorMade TP5x Ball Review: For When You Want Tour Speed Without Tour Spin (or Tour Talent)

by Bang Average Golf’s Head of Overconfidence and Underdelivered Drives. Ah, the TP5x. TaylorMade’s “faster, firmer, flyer” alternative to the TP5. This is the ball…

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Original RAM Zebra Putter Review: The Striped Sledgehammer That Shouldn’t Have Worked (But Did)

by Bang Average Golf’s Chief Curator of Retro Chaos Before milled faces and tour-pro-approved toe-hangs, there was the Zebra. Not just a putter. A statement….

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TaylorMade Tour Response Stripe Review: The Ball for Those of Us Who Can’t Putt Straight

by Bang Average Golf’s Director of “Just Inside the Left Lip” Misreads. TaylorMade claim the Tour Response Stripe is here to “redefine alignment.” Which is…

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TaylorMade TP5 Ball Review: Played by the Elite, Lost by the Rest of Us

by Bang Average Golf’s Director of Premium Ball Regret. The TaylorMade TP5 is the ball of choice for guys like Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Collin…

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Cognizant Classic 2025

After a week in Mexico, the PGA Tour returns to America and PGA National for the Cognizant Classic. A wide open field will tee it…

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Shot Scope Pro L2 Laser Rangefinder Review

While my rangefinder of choice is my trusty Garmin Approach Z82, for a couple of years I have also carried the  Shot Scope Pro L1…

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Zebra Milled Series 003 Putter Review

Any time I see a Zebra putters I can’t help but think of watching golf in my youth and remembering how the Zimbabwean Nick Price…

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Odyssey Ai-One Double Wide Putter Review

Odyssey have really outdone themselves this year with their Ai-One and Ai-One Milled range of putters. Already the most played brand on the professional tours,…

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Odyssey Ai-One Milled Seven T Putter Review

Odyssey have really outdone themselves this year with their Ai-One and Ai-One Milled range of putters. Already the most played brand on the professional tours,…

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2024 Ping Anser D Putter Review

Ping consulted their Tour players in the design of this putter, which is a variation on their classic Anser design, with a slightly wider footprint…

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