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Cleveland HiBore XL, HiBore XL Lite drivers

Cleveland developed the HiBore XL’s unique shape using artificial intelligence.

Gear: Cleveland HiBore XL, HiBore XL Lite drivers
Price: $399.99 with Aldila Ascent shaft and Golf Pride Tour Velvet 360 grip
Specs: Titanium face and chassis with adjustable hosel
Available: Dec. 6

Who it’s for: Mid- and higher-handicap golfers who want a blend of distance and forgiveness off the tee.

What you should know: Cleveland used artificial intelligence to develop a triangular head shape that optimizes forgiveness, ball speed, and sound.

The deep dive: In the late 2000s, Cleveland HiBore drivers were easy to spot at PGA Tour events for two reasons. First, stars like Vijay Singh and David Toms played them, and second, in a few cases, those HiBore drivers looked nothing like the other drivers. Several models featured a dramatic downward swoop in the crown that drastically lowered the center of gravity (CG) location at a time when carbon fiber was scarcer in golf equipment than golfers who weren’t intimidated by Tiger Woods.

Over time, and with the introduction of new technologies and materials, the HiBore drivers’ look toned down, but now Cleveland is announcing the HiBore XL and HiBore XL Lite drivers and designing them for recreational players who want a blend of distance and forgiveness.

Cleveland HiBore XL — The HiBore XL’s triangular shape was developed using artificial intelligence. (David Dusek/Golfweek)

While artificial intelligence has been used to create many drivers’ faces and hitting areas, Cleveland designers turned to A.I. to create a chassis shape that would create the ideal blend of forgiveness, distance and enhanced sound. So, instead of seeing a swooping crown, the first thing golfers will notice when they set the HiBore down is the triangular shape and extended back portion of the crown.

The face and hitting area of the HiBore XL drivers are also 19 percent larger and look significantly taller. The variable-thickness MainFrame XL design and enlarged shape broaden the sweet spot and help golfers who struggle to consistently make center-face contact by protecting ball speed on mis-hits.

To help golfers make solid contact more often, Cleveland also added ActivWing, an aerodynamics-enhancing feature to the heel portion of the crown. ActivWing does not make the driver go faster on the downswing but instead acts like an airfoil and helps to keep the head more stable as it approaches the ball. The two notches in the crown make the air move around the head in a way that encourages the face to square through the hitting area, which should result in better performance.

While ActivWing is not designed to help golfers swing the HiBore XL driver faster, the Action Mass CB shaft design might make the club feel lighter. With an 8-gram weight at the top of the shaft, it counterbalances the weight of the head, so with the same effort, the club should feel lighter.

The 12-gram weight in the back of the head helps to pull the CG down and back, away from the hitting area. The weight can be adjusted by custom fitters who want to change the club’s swing weight.

For players who want even more clubhead speed or who battle a slice, the HiBore XL Lite features the same technology as the standard HiBore XL but is designed with a draw bias and comes standard with a lighter shaft and grip. It generates slightly more spin than the standard HiBore XL driver to help slower- and moderate-speed players create more carry distance.

Both the HiBore XL and the HiBore XL Lite feature Cleveland’s new hosel sleeve that allows players and fitters to increase or decrease the loft by up to 1.5 degrees.

Here are several close-up images of the Cleveland HiBore XL and HiBore XL Lite drivers:

Odyssey drops ‘zero torque’ Ai-ONE Square 2 Square putters

Classic Odyssey shapes combine with artificial intelligence and torque-reducing balance.

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Gear: Odyssey Ai-ONE Square 2 Square Putters
Price: $299.99 each
Specs: Center-shafted putters urethane insert, 3.3-degree forward press, and navy blue PVD finish.
Available: Now (pre-order), Nov. 29 (in stores)

Who it’s for: The Ai-ONE Square 2 Square putters should appeal to golfers who want to minimize face rotation and increase their consistency on the greens.

What You Need to Know: This line extension blends a White Hot face insert that was developed using artificial intelligence, with toe-up weighting and balance intended to help golfers reduce face rotation during the stroke.

The deep dive: Odyssey released the first Ai-One putters in late 2023, promoting them as tools that could enhance a golfer’s distance control thanks to a White Hot face insert engineered with the help of artificial intelligence. The lineup expanded last month to include several new Ai-One and Ai-One Milled putters, including 2-Balls, Jailbirds and other midsize mallets.

Now, Odyssey is introducing the Ai-ONE Square 2 Square line and bringing the AI-designed face insert to a putter category that’s gaining a lot of attention — zero torque putters.

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The new Ai-ONE Square 2 Square line includes two mallets, the Jailbird and #7, as well as a heel-toe weighted blade with an extended back flange that is called the Double Wide. All three putters have a center-shafted design, but instead of bringing the shaft into the topline, it connects well behind the face and a few millimeters toward the toe from the center of gravity (CG) location. As a result of that hosel location, if you hold the putters freely across your hands, the toe goes up and the face naturally points forward, toward your target.

Each Ai-ONE Square 2 Square putter is also designed with a 3.3-degree forward press, so the shaft leans toward your target when you address the ball.

The combination of the toe-up balance and forward press takes away the putter head’s bias to rotate closed on the backswing and rotate open on the downswing. So, the Ai-ONE Square 2 Square putters remain square to a golfer’s stroke path, regardless of whether that path is relatively straight, slightly arched, or strongly arched.

Odyssey believes this combination of reduced torque (face rotation), the AI-designed White Hot insert, and the latest counterbalanced Stroke Lab shaft can help golfers produce a smoother stroke with a better tempo that naturally keeps the face square to the path, and that should help golfers hit better putts.

Odyssey is not claiming that this is the first or only zero-torque putter out there, but the Ai-One Square 2 Square putters conquer one of the challenges faced by club designers in this category: zero-torque putters often look very unconventional. The Ai-ONE Square 2 Square putters have classic head shapes that will be familiar to just about every golfer.

The Jailbird, originally released in 2014 and used by Wyndham Clark to win the 2023 U.S. Open, incorporates Odyssey’s signature Versa alignment stripes. The #7 is a fang-style mallet with dual white alignment lines that help frame the ball, making alignment more intuitive. The Double Wide completes the lineup as a modern, heel-toe weighted blade with a T-shaped white alignment aid.

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Below are several images of the Odyssey Ai-One Square 2 Square putters.

The PXG Desert Golf Club is made for rocks, cacti, gritty sand and more

Is the PXG Desert Golf Club something every golfer needs?

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Gear: PXG Desert Golf Club
Price: $99.99
Specs: 36.5-inch shaft, 44° loft, mid-bounce sole, made from raw hardened 17-4 stainless steel

Who It’s For: Golfers who frequent desert terrain or who often find themselves in a bit of a rugged predicament after a wayward drive.

What You Need to Know: PXG has crafted the Desert Golf Club specifically for shots where your golf ball might be a little too cozy with cacti, rocks or desert brush and you don’t want to damage or gash your clubs.

The Deep Dive: One of the great things about desert golf is after hitting a wayward shot that slices right of the fairway or goes over the green and into a nature area, finding your ball can be surprisingly easy. The bad news is you may not like what you see once you have found that ball. Rocks, rooks, cacti, sand, pebbles — it’s all out there, waiting to damage your shiny new irons and wedges.

PXG’s new Desert Golf Club doesn’t shy away from off-road adventures, it was designed for them. When wise judgment says, “Declare the ball unplayable and take a drop,” the Desert Club sits in your bag, gleaming, covered in saguaro cactus stamps, whispering, “Go ahead, I’ve got this.”

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PXG Desert Club — The Desert Club has 44 degrees of loft, like a pitching wedge. (David Dusek/Golfweek)

The Desert Club is made using 17-4 stainless steel, a harder material than the 8620 carbon steel and 431 stainless steel PXG uses in the body of its irons and wedges, so it should be more durable. It comes standard with the length of an 8-iron (36.5 inches) and the loft of a pitching wedge (44 degrees). A combination like that should allow players to make a fast swing, get the ball over trouble and back into play.

Is the PXG Desert Golf Club something every golfer needs? No, it’s not. It is, however, a clever alternative to the old, beat-up iron that many golfers in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas and the desert regions of California commonly carry for handling off-the-fairway trouble shots.

Garmin’s Approach R50 combines a portable launch monitor with a high-end simulator

A three-camera system and portable design let you use the Approach R50 on the range or at home to collect data or play simulated holes.

Garmin is a massive company that has proven good at creating products that track things. For years, the company has been making Global Positioning System (GPS) devices for pilots and sailors. It makes watches and wearable devices for runners, cyclists, and fitness enthusiasts, and over the last decade, Garmin has made several well-regarded golf GPS devices and laser rangefinders. Garmin also made the Approach R10 and Approach G80 launch monitors, but with the release of the new Approach R50, the Olathe, Kansas-based brand is offering its most sophisticated and versatile golf product ever.

The Approach R50 ($4,999.99) is a portable launch monitor that can provide up to 15 club and ball metrics, indoors or on the range, that is also a fully integrated simulator that comes pre-loaded with over 43,000 courses.

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How does the Garmin Approach R50 work?

The Approach R50 uses a three-camera system to capture each shot in high resolution, frame by frame. This allows the system to accurately track both the club as it goes through the impact zone and the ball’s movement to collect comprehensive swing data and launch data.

The R50, which comes with a carrying case to make it easier to move, is straightforward to charge and its battery supports up to 4 hours of simulator or launch monitor use.

What does the Garmin Approach R50 do?

The three-camera system allows the Approach R50 to capture data and reveal stats like ball speed, spin rate, launch angle, spin axis, carry distance, and total distance. Golfers see that information on a massive 10-inch color touchscreen that can also replay high-speed impact videos. The Approach R50 can provide this information on any club in a player’s bag, from driver to putter, and it can do it on the range or indoors when a golfer hits into either a net or screen.

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In addition to being a sophisticated launch monitor, the Approach R50 can be used as a golf simulator, again, either outside or inside. Using Garmin’s Home Tee Hero software, up to four players can play and compete on up to 43,000 different courses.

On the range, the 10-inch color touchscreen makes it easy to see the simulated hole and shots you are playing, but indoors the unit can be attached to a projector using an HDMI cable to create a realistic indoor simulator. And, because the Approach R50 gathers such detailed information about the shots you hit, the virtual flight of the ball in the simulator is more realistic.

The device also offers compatibility with third-party simulators like GSPro, E6 Connect, and Awesome Golf, expanding the options for virtual play beyond Garmin’s own platform.

Who is the Garmin Approach R50 for?

The $599 Garmin R10 is a more portable launch monitor and the Approach G80, at $499, is also very small and features a colorful screen, but the Approach R50 is designed for a completely different player. While those units can certainly provide valuable insights and information, the three-camera system of the Approach R50, along with its ability to provide tour-level metrics and information make it a product that could be considered by elite golfers who play and train year-round, college golfers, instructors and deep-pocketed recreational golfers who may have tinkered with the idea of creating a simulator in their basement or garage.

The large color screen on the Approach R50 makes seeing the data easy, and with over 43,000 courses pre-loaded, it should make the idea of “playing holes” on the range easier, which can make practice sessions more meaningful.

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Titleist releases Vokey Design WedgeWorks K* Grind wedge

This wedge’s wide sole makes it great in the sand, but it works great on other short game shots too.

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It has been a very busy year for Vokey Design, the wedge division of Titleist. Back in January, the brand released the SM10 wedge family, but throughout the year, WedgeWorks, the tour-inspired custom division of the Vokey brand has dropped several limited-edition offerings, including the L Grind, A+ Grind and V Grind. Now we can add the K* (pronounced K Star) Grind wedge to that list.

Available only as a 58- and 60-degree lob wedge with True Temper Dynamic Gold S200 shaft and Titleist Universal 360 grip, the K* Grind wedge was developed after tour players approached Aaron Dill, Vokey’s PGA Tour rep, and requested he modify the sole of a standard low-bounce K Grind wedge. Instead of keeping the wide sole smooth, they wanted extra pre-wear on the leading edge and more relief in heel, toe and trailing edge.

The result of Dill’s work and experimentation is a wedge that is ideal for players who like to hit shots with a shallow attack angle and sweep the ball off the turf from a square stance.

Titleist Vokey WedgeWorks K* wedge — The leading edge of the K* wedge stays low, but the sole’s width makes it perform well in greenside sand. (David Dusek/Golfweek)

However, because the K* Grind has extra material removed in the heel and toe areas, when golfers open the face, skilled players can still slide the leading edge under the ball because the leading edge stays down. At the same time, in bunkers, the overall sole width acts like effective bounce and makes the K* Grind an excellent choice from greenside sand.

With that level of versatility, it should come as no surprise Justin Thomas, Cameron Young, and Ludvig Aberg are among the players who frequently have a K* wedge in their bag.

The WedgeWorks K* wedge, which will cost $225 and come in a raw-steel finish that will rust over time and with exposure to air and moisture, is only available as a right-hand club.

Winner’s Bag: Nico Echavarria, 2024 Zozo Championship

A complete list of the golf equipment Nico Echavarria used to win the PGA Tour’s 2024 Zozo Championship.

A complete list of the golf equipment Nico Echavarria used to win the PGA Tour’s 2024 Zozo Championship:

DRIVER: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees), with Mitsubishi Diamana BB 73 TX shaft

FAIRWAY WOODS: PXG 0311 Black Ops (15 degrees), with Project X HZRDUS Red RDX 70 TX shaft, PXG 0311 XF GEN5 (19 degrees). with Project X HZRDUS Smoke Green 80 TX shaft

IRONS: Srixon ZX5 Mk II (4, 5), Srixon ZX7 Mk II (6), PXG 0317 CB (6-PW), with Nippon N.S. Pro Modus3 125 shafts

WEDGES: PXG 0311 Sugar Daddy III (50 degrees), with Nippon N.S. Pro Modus3 125 shaft, (54, 60 degrees), with True Temper Dynamic Golf Tour Issue S400 shafts

PUTTER: Odyssey Tri-Hot 5K #7

BALL: Titleist Pro V1x

GRIPS: Golf Pride Tour Velvet (full swing) / SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol Tour (putter)

Odyssey releases more Ai-One and Ai-One Milled putters

Face inserts designed using artificial intelligence help these putters enhance your distance control.

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Gear: Odyssey Ai-One, Ai-One Milled Putters
Price: $299.99 (Ai-One), $349.99 (Ai-One 2-Ball Jailbird Cruiser), $449 (Ai-One Milled)
Specs: Milled stainless steel head with co-molded aluminum insert with grooved urethane coating (Ai-One) or milled titanium face insert (Ai-One Milled)
Available: Oct. 25 (Pre-Sale), Nov. 1 (in stores)

Who it’s for: Golfers seeking precision and forgiveness with improved distance control on off-center strikes.

What you need to know: Odyssey is adding more putters, head styles and options to the Ai-One and Ai-One milled lineups to allow golfers more choices while still getting the benefit of enhanced distance control.

The deep drive: Last year, Odyssey’s Ai-One and Ai-One Milled putters brought artificial intelligence to the world of precision putting. Both lines featured a face insert designed to boost distance control, particularly on off-center strikes, a challenge most golfers face when it comes to consistency on the greens.

The Ai-One putter family was launched with five popular heads, including the #1 blade and the Rossie S, but now the 2-Ball Jailbird, Wingback Mallet and 24 Mallet are being added.

Like the original Ai-One putters, the new releases are built around a co-molded aluminum insert with Odyssey’s famous White Hot urethane material that was created using artificial intelligence (A.I.). The combination ensures golfers experience the classic soft feel and feedback White Hot putters are known for, while the AI-designed contours on the back of the insert help maintain consistent ball speed—even on less-than-perfect strikes. According to Odyssey, putts hit with an Ai-One putter finish an average of 21 percent closer to the hole, and that can mean not only more made putts but also fewer three-putts.

A Panlite window in the back of the heads not only adds to the modern look of these clubs but also allows golfers to see the intricate design contours behind the insert.

2-Ball Jailbird: The tour-winning Jailbird mallet shape, combined with the popular 2-Ball alignment system.
Wing Back Mallet: A forgiving, high-MOI mallet with a double bend hosel for golfers with a straight stroke who prefer a face-balanced putter.
24 Mallet: The S-neck hosel on this mallet creates toe hang for golfers with an arched putting stroke.

Four new Ai-One Milled putters are also being made available, and like the original Ai-One Milled offerings, they feature a milled titanium face insert.

This advanced material offers a firmer feel and a sharper sound compared to the softer Ai-One models, catering to golfers who prefer more feedback from their putter. Like its Ai-One counterpart, the Ai-One Milled models also benefit from AI-designed contours behind the face that expand the sweet spot and reduce speed loss on mishits. According to Odyssey, putts struck with Ai-One Milled putters finish about 10 percent closer to the hole

2-Ball T: featuring the iconic alignment system that’s proven popular on tour.
Jailbird Mini T: bringing the Jailbird’s stability in a smaller profile mallet head.

Rossie V T: a major-winning shape redesigned for this lineup.
One Wide V T Blade: a more forgiving version of a traditional blade, with a wider sole and V-shaped hosel.

Below are several images of the just-released Ai-One and Ai-One Milled putters.

Evnroll Zero putters

A unique hosel and balance creates Face Forward balance to reduce twisting as you make your stroke.

Gear: Evnroll Zero putters
Price: $449 each
Specs: Milled 303 stainless steel with tungsten and steel sole weights and grooved face (Z2s, Z5s); Milled 6061 aluminum with tungsten weights and grooved face (Z1)
Available: Nov. 7

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Who it’s for: The Zero putters are designed for golfers seeking maximum stability and consistency along with enhanced distance control.

What you should know: Evnroll’s Zero putters are designed to look familiar but greatly reduce face rotation and torque during your stroke. They also reduce the forward press some zero-torque putters create.

The deep dive: In order to be a great putter, or at least putt with consistency, you need to gauge the speed of putts correctly, judge how balls will curve and break, and develop a stroke that repeatedly brings the face of the putter back squarely to the ball so it starts on your intended target line.

Evnroll can’t help you read greens more effectively, but for several years its SweetFace design has helped golfers enhance their distance control. Now, with the release of its three new Zero putters, the Carlsbad, Calif.-based brand feels it has a technology that can help golfers return the face to the square position more often.

Evnroll Zero putters — The Z2s has a reversed plumber’s neck hosel that drops down into the head on the target side instead of going back. (David Dusek/Golfweek)

The Zero Z1 mallet, Z2s blade and Z5s mallet are all designed with that Evnroll calls Face Forward Technology. Basically, the designers of the putters took a classic plumber’s neck hosel, which bends away from your target and then goes straight down into the putter head, creating offset, and reversed it. Now, the hosel presses forward before dropping down, so the shaft points directly at the putter’s center of mass. The result is the hitting area shifts forward, creating on-set instead of offset, and face naturally wants to point forward, toward your target.

According to Evnroll, this hosel mechanism, when combined with tungsten and steel weights in the heel and toe areas of the sole, encourages the face to stay square to your stroke path, so regardless of whether you create an arc or have a straight putting stroke, the Evnroll Zero putters will encourage a square clubface at impact. In theory, that should help golfers start more putts along their intended target line.

This design also reduces the level of forward press, which optically can be awkward for golfers who want a zero- or reduced-torque putter but have been using a conventional putter.

Each of the Zero putters has also been made with Evnroll’s SweetFace grooved hitting area. The grooves are deeper in the center and gradually get shallower toward the heel and toe. According to Evnroll, this helps to normalize the speed of the ball across the hitting area, so putts that golfers mis-hit toward the heel and toe roll out to nearly the same distance as putts struck in the center of the hitting area, resulting in enhanced distance control.

The three Zero putters have been designed with familiar, modern shapes.

Z1: This high-MOI mallet is designed using 6061 aluminum and
Z2s: A wide-body blade, this club is milled from 303 stainless steel.
Z5s: A classic midsize mallet, the Z5s is also milled from 303 stainless steel.

Here are several close-up images of the Evnroll Zero putters:

This is the 25th year since Titleist introduced what would become the most popular ball in golf

Titlelist says the Pro V1 accounts for more than 4,000 worldwide professional victories.

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The Pro V1 was introduced in October 2000 at the PGA Tour’s Invensys Classic in Las Vegas, but Titleist had been developing the ball for about five years, trying to blend the short-game spin and control of wound balata-covered balls with the distance of two-piece, solid-core balls.

The Pro V1’s large rubber core, firm mantle layer and soft urethane cover created more distance off the tee, consistency with irons and spin control with wedges for players in prototype testing. At the Invensys Classic that week in 2000, Titleist hoped the seeding process would convince 20 to 25 players to use the ball, and Mac Fritz, then senior vice president of tour promotion, brought 60 dozen golf balls to the tournament.

That turned out to be an underestimation, as 47 players immediately switched to the Pro V1, including that year’s tournament winner Billy Andrade as well as runner-up Phil Mickelson.

Such an incredible memory. Honored to be the First player to win with the Pro V1!!! @Titleist https://t.co/MdL54hfSeY

— Billy Andrade (@BillyTAndrade) October 15, 2024

In the weeks that followed, the buzz surrounding the Pro V1 grew and demand swelled, prompting Titleist to move the ball’s retail release forward from March 2001 to December 2000.

MORE: 2025 Titleist Pro V1, Pro V1x debuts at Shriners

Within four months of Andrade’s win in Las Vegas, the Pro V1 became the best-selling golf ball in the marketplace – a position it has held ever since.

Six months after Andrade’s victory in Las Vegas, the Pro V1 was the most-played ball at the 2001 Masters, and Retief Goosen used it to win the 2001 U.S. Open.

Titlelist says the Pro V1 accounts for more than 4,000 worldwide professional victories on different tours.

On Monday, as pros arrived at the practice area at TPC Summerlin to prepare for this week’s Shriners Children’s Open, they were greeted by white boxes containing the newest versions of Titleist’s flagship golf balls: the 2025 Pro V1 and Pro V1x.

Cleveland prototype wedges spotted at Shriners Children’s Open

Cleveland wedges labeled ‘RTZ’ were spotted at TPC Summerlin on the eve of the PGA Tour’s event in Las Vegas.

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Equipment companies love to bring new gear to PGA Tour events in Las Vegas because it is close to many brands’ headquarters in Southern California and the weather is dependably good during the Shriners Children’s Open, making golf at TPC Summerlin akin to playing in a dome.

Cleveland Golf has brought some new wedges to this year’s event, referring to them simply as “CG Proto,” but the clubs appear to be labeled RTX Tour Rack.

The Cleveland RTX 6 ZipCore wedges were released in January 2023, and have been popular with many of the brand’s staff players, and with the company often updating its wedges on two-year product cycles, Cleveland appears to be introducing its next generation of wedges to tour players now.

Cleveland CG Proto Wedge — Cleveland CG Proto wedges at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Historically, Tour Rack wedges from Cleveand have been made using raw steel instead of a chrome finish. Raw steel is preferred by many tour players because it reduces glare and, if special grind work is needed, the steel will rust evenly, along with the rest of the wedge head after being exposed to the air and to water. Grinding on a chrome wedge creates a raw area that will rust while the chrome portion of the club remains shiny.

A close-up look at images of the toe of some of the wedges shows the words “Full” and “Mid,” which likely refers to the amount of bounce in the sole.

Cleveland has not released any official details about the CG Proto or RTZ wedges, but historically the company makes new equipment available in late January or February, after the PGA Merchandise Show concludes in mid-Janaury.

As more details become available, Golfweek will bring them to you.