Equipment
New ultra-lightweight Wilson D7 driver features 192-gram clubhead, RE-AKT Technology
Wilson Golf has unveiled its latest driver, the Wilson D7, which with its superlight design, aims to provide golfers with a driver that produces greater clubhead speed with added forgiveness.
The Wilson D7 driver contains a clubhead which weighs just 192 grams and features RE-AKT Technology plus a combination of superlight design and reactive face technology, the combination of which aims to deliver faster clubhead speeds and ball speeds for added distance.
The new Wilson D7 driver features a (K)omposite lightweight crown design, which has helped the company to lower the CG position of the driver. The composite crown is made with a layer of Kevlar sandwiched between layers of carbon fiber, which aims to offer improved sound off the clubface while dampening any unwanted vibration.
This 2019 Wilson driver contains a fixed hosel and weighs in at just 280-grams total weight. The idea behind the lightness of the driver is to offer slower-swing speed golfers the chance to increase their club speed significantly.
Speaking on the new release from Wilson, Jon Pergande, Global Innovation Manager at Wilson Golf stated
“The process of creating the D7 driver started with designing the head shape and then stripping out all available weight, almost 25 grams. This weight was strategically returned to the head with the goal of improving the sound of the driver and optimizing ball flight with Dynamic Launch Control.”
In the Wilson D7 driver, golfers will have the opportunity of choosing between three different lofts (9, 10.5, 13 degrees).
The 9-degree driver is targeted for players with a faster swing speed, with internal weights moved forward in the aim of reducing spin and offering a lower launch. The 10.5-degree option is designed for golfers with a moderate-to-fast swing with weighting towards the middle to provide for more spin and a higher launch, while the 13-degree option is aimed at those with a slow-to-moderate swing speed with weighting further back for a high launching and spinning driver.
The Wilson D7 driver contains the new UST-Mamiya Helium Series shaft, which is available in A-flex (45 grams), R-flex (46 grams) and S-flex (57 grams). The new release also contains Wilson’s Staff MicroLite Lamkin grip, which weighs just 28 grams.
The driver will hit retail stores on January 21 and will cost $299.99.
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Equipment
Limited-edition gear spotted at the PGA Championship
The second major of the season is here, and with it, custom gear aplenty! Taking inspiration from both Louisville, Kentucky, and host course Valhalla, the OEMs have been having some fun with the designs.
Check out PGA Championship staff bags, some custom kicks, and a very cool putter grip from SuperStroke.
2024 PGA Championship staff bags
Callaway
PGA Championship Staff Bag Giveaway ? See below how you can win the bag and headcovers being used this week by #TeamCallaway at the second major of the year:
-Follow @callawaygolf
-Tag 2 friends in the comments pic.twitter.com/8HbGdPHiFK— Callaway Golf (@CallawayGolf) May 13, 2024
Cobra
TaylorMade
From the stables to the fairway. ?
This year’s PGA Championship staff bag and accessories pay homage to the Derby City with callouts to the run for the roses, the fastest lap in track history and more.
Dive into all the details of this beauty: https://t.co/afhEVKHWLj pic.twitter.com/8eoP6tDZq1
— TaylorMade Golf (@TaylorMadeGolf) May 13, 2024
Scotty Cameron’s putter cover features the Scotty Dog in Viking helmet
Bettinardi’s KFC-inspired putter covers
Ping’s bourbon-inspired putter cover
Rory McIlroy’s Kentucky Bourbon Trail-inspired Nike Air Zoom Victory Tour 3 shoes
FootJoy x Todd Snyder Mint Julep Premier Series
Brooks Koepka’s Kentucky Bourbon Trail-inspired Nike Air Zoom Infinity Tour shoes
SuperStroke’s PGA Championship grip
Check out all of our photos from Valhalla here.
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Whats in the Bag
John Daly WITB 2024 (May)
- John Daly WITB accurate as of the PGA Championship. More photos from the event here.
Driver: Ping G430 LST (9 degrees)
Shaft: Newton Motion 6-Dot
3-wood: Ping G430 LST (15 degrees)
Shaft: Newton Motion 4-Dot
Hybrids: Ping G430 (17, 22, 26 degrees)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold
Irons: Sub70 659-CB (6-PW)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold S300
Wedges: Sub70 TAIII (50, 54, 60)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold S300
Putter: Odyssey Ai-One Milled One T CH
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Tour 2.0
Grips: SuperStroke custom
More photos of John Daly’s WITB in the forums.
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Equipment
Toulon Golf collaborates with Valhalla Golf Club for latest Small Batch putter
Toulon Golf has today officially announced its latest Small Batch putter — the Valhalla.
Discussing the putter, Preston Toulon of Toulon Golf said: “This putter is a collaboration with the club at Valhalla and incorporates three of the many things that make the state of Kentucky great – horseracing, bourbon and championship golf. The head of the putter and headcover have several allusions to a jockey’s silk and there are thoroughbreds on the sole.”
Inspired by Toulon’s classic tri-sole Santa Monica design, the company sought to modernize the profile and design leveraging its 904 stainless steel and 6061 aircraft aluminium across the sole. Toulon describes the Valhalla’s profile as “slightly oversized blade whose proportions are meticulously balanced to maintain the look and feel of the Santa Monica, while increasing the putter’s inertia to create one of the most forgiving putters we have ever designed.”
Throughout numerous prototypes, Toulon paid particular attention to the L-neck, with its full shaft of offset, adding a bit of length for better blending with the slightly wider and longer blade.
On the rear of the putter are homages to horse racing in the form of jockey silk diamonds and Churchill Downs-inspired font.
The sole of the putter features a large cavity covered by a 6061 aircraft aluminum sole plate. According to Toulon, this allowed for the addition length to the putter and improved inertia as well as moving more mass to the perimeter for greater forgiveness.
In another nod to Valhalla, Toulon uses a milled watermarked limestone pattern, a reference to stone featured widely on the property.
As with all the Toulon Small Batch putters, the team paid particular attention to the topline thickness and radius to achieve a desired look. “Soft yet crisp was the design intent,” according to the company.
Toulon Golf Small Batch Valhalla specs
- Material: 904L Stainless Steel/6061 Aluminum Sole
- Face Mill: Fine Double Fly with Big Tuna
- Finish: Kentucky Bourbon PVD
- Grip: Custom Toulon Collection Vintage Blue Pistol
- Shaft: Chrome Stepless Steel
- Headcover: Valhalla Custom Leather
- Head Weight: 355 g
- Toe Hang: 40 degrees
- Loft: 3 degrees
- Lie: 70 degrees
Pricing and availability
The Small Batch Valhalla is available for purchase today via the company’s website — ToulonGolf.com.
Supply is extremely limited. The price is $1,800.
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TLW
Jan 16, 2019 at 7:38 pm
Finally, something to replace the old Cortex!
jgpl001
Jan 15, 2019 at 1:28 pm
I don’t know how Wilson are still operating in the golf world, but its time they gave up gracefully and slipped away
From a once great company they now a joke and mixing it with the likes of Dunlop, Spalding, Benross, etc.
Before the bashing starts I learned to play golf with an old set of Staff Blades, now there was a club to mix it with the best
Tim
Jan 15, 2019 at 8:58 am
It seems that evey non-golf related ‘Wilson’ product is a high quality, no nonsense item. From footballs to tennis equipment, everything else is just good product. At one time in history, Wilson was synonymous with sincere quality.
Wilson Staff, on the other hand, churns out gimicky garbage. Watching their show, its clearly just a bunch of old dads trying to come up with the next slick thing that the kids will like. Like the chevy guys trying to peddle thier dorky Camaros to us.
I wonder if Wilson had taken a different rout in the early 90s, they would have been a company similar to Titleist. Perhaps a significant competitor of no bs golf equipment.
coops
Jan 14, 2019 at 7:00 pm
You can open a copy of “Search For the Perfect swing” by Cochran and Stobbs to find out why making a driver head lighter and lighter (from the usual 200gm) does NOT result in greater distances for most people.
This was researched and written in the 1960’s!
This link refers to that section in the book
http://probablegolfinstruction.com/PGI%20Newsletter/news02-12-04.htm
“Ball speed actually peaks when using a clubhead with mass 0.210 kg or 210 g. This result is for a kinetic energy of 227 Joules. Different players with different swings and strengths would all have a slightly different optimum clubhead mass. For most, it is around 200 g, thus most drivers have clubhead masses that correspond to this.”
Tom
Jan 14, 2019 at 6:07 pm
Wow! at 192 gram club head weight, this driver will have little feel and the player won’t get much feedback thru the swing. This has been tried before, without success at the player level. Reminds one of the Dave Pelz feather lite concept which failed miserably in the 80s.
Daryl Verbanic
Jan 15, 2019 at 12:43 am
Seems much to lite seems like an attempt to get the old theory of lighter is faster and longer no sense ..the Cortex driver I bought I have all Wilson drivers over last 6 years have 7 sets of there better player irons great irons only one driver seems to be close to my Epic .Rougue or the other thirty drivers I own I am certiable club addict can shoot even par with any set of clubs I own …seem to hit all the irons the same distances with in a few yards the Wilson Cotex is a great looking driver great shaft BUT BEING THE D 7 IS JUST THE OPPOSITE TO LITE CERSUS TO HEAVY WAKE UP WILSON YOUR ENGINEERS ARE MISSUNG THE BOAT REACH OUT TO ME ILL GET YOUR DRIVERS TO SELLLOWER RETAIL ..GOOD SHADT LESSEN THE CORTEX WEIFHT GET THE LOFTS VORRECT THE CLUBS LOFTS ARE OFF THE CLUB GROUNDED DOES NOT SIT AT ACTUAL LOFT OF CLUB THEY ALL ASD LOFT ??? CHECK THIS OUT WILSON ,one extreme to another sad great irons balls are even good drivers suck as I said I bout the last 6 years of drivers and the F5 olis a great driver to much roll and buldge on their drivers oh well u need good insight
Thomas A
Jan 15, 2019 at 11:04 am
Could you please write this again in English? Thanks.
Bryan from Boston
Jan 15, 2019 at 7:16 pm
Wow, honestly I don’t drive the ball as far as that run on sentence… On a good day… Downhill… With the wind at my back.
TLW
Jan 16, 2019 at 7:41 pm
I couldn’t stop laughing at this comment.
Go home, Daryl! You’re drunk!