Golf News – March 19, 2018

Callaway Customs Rogue Driver

CARLSBAD, CA – Callaway Customs provides the ultimate customization, allowing golfers to create detailed personalization Using Callaway’s interactive configurator, you can add detailed personalization to your Rogue Driver (available for all 3 models: Standard, Sub Zero, or Draw).

– 2 different zones and 9 color options allow for 81 combinations to make the Rogue Driver completely their own.

Rogue Driver
To dramatically change driver performance, you have to dramatically change driver dynamics. That’s what inspired Callaway R&D to break away from our own industry-leading metalwood design protocol to once again re-invent the driver. We took the revolutionary technologies that made GBB Epic the best-selling driver in the U.S.* and supercharged them to create Rogue, a driver that combines all we know about boosting ball speed with a new, MOI-enhancing shape that delivers extraordinary forgiveness.

Industry-leading ball speed comes from what we call “The Jailbreak Effect.” First, we enhanced our revolutionary Jailbreak technology with new, hourglass-shaped titanium bars, making them significantly lighter without affecting their ability to minimize crown and sole deflection at impact. That allows for a thinner face and better energy-transfer to the ball, to promote faster ball speed. Next, our enhanced X-Face architecture thickens and thins strategic areas of the face to promote higher ball speeds on off-center impacts and consistently high ball speed and long distance overall.

Rogue’s new and more forgiving 460cc shape boasts a larger address footprint than Epic, encouraging golfers to relax, cut loose and make a free and fast swing. Rogue’s extreme forgiveness is also made possible by our incredibly light and strong triaxial carbon crown, which allows more weight to be distributed into the head’s perimeter to increase stability on off-center hits.

Customize Your Rogue Driver
Using Callaway’s interactive configurator, you can add detailed personalization with 2 different zones and 9 color options for 81 combinations to make the driver your own.

Exceptional Ball Speed from The Jailbreak Effect
Rogue employs improved Jailbreak Technology with new, hourglass-shaped titanium bars that are 25% lighter, while fulfilling their function to stiffen the crown and sole. The stiffer body allows the face to take on more impact-load to promote faster ball speed, and makes possible our new X-Face VFT face architecture, which promotes fast ball speed across an expansive area of the face. Together, Jailbreak and X-Face VFT work together to create what we call the Jailbreak Effect, which promotes a remarkable boost in ball speed and distance.

More MOI and Forgiveness from Our Triaxial Carbon Crown
Callaway is the leader at using carbon composite materials to enhance metalwood performance. Our proprietary triaxial carbon composite is extraordinarily light and strong, saving substantial weight. We’ve redistributed that weight into the head’s perimeter to significantly increase MOI and forgiveness, which helps preserve distance and direction on off-center hits. Rogue has the largest triaxial carbon crown of any Callaway driver ever.

Industry-leading Boeing Aero Package
Boeing and Callaway collaborated to develop the Speed Step technology used in past Callaway metalwoods. In Rogue, we worked with Boeing to redefine the geometry of the leading edge to improve airflow to promote faster head speed.

Premium Shaft Selection at Multiple Weights
Callaway offers a wide range of premium aftermarket shafts at 40g, 50g, 60g, and 70g weights, including Aldila Synergy, Aldila Quaranta, Project X EvenFlow, and Project X HZRDUS Yellow.

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Skin Sunscreen™ Announces Partnership With Revo

Goodyear, AZ – SKIN Sunscreen™, providers of a premium sunscreen product specifically designed for the golf athlete and their families, has announced a new partnership with Revo.

SKIN Sunscreen will be working with Revo to enhance and expand the mission of providing proper SKIN and eye protection through specially designed products. Each Revo retail shipment will include a co-branded card with a SKIN Sunscreen sample pack attached.

“Sunscreen and quality eye protection are both essential to lifelong enjoyment of any outdoor sport – but especially important for the golfer, given the number of hours played under the sun,” said Jessica Folino, General Manager/Partner, SKIN Sunscreen. “Partnering with Revo gives us the opportunity to work together to provide more people with options for everyday sun protection, while increasing their awareness of skin cancer and UV damage.”

“Revo is so excited to partner with SKIN Sunscreen to support the need for proper skin protection from harmful UV rays. All Revo.com orders will features a special SKIN Sunscreen sample as a “Thank you” from us to our customers,” said Cliff Robinson, President of Revo. “Revo is unique among sunglass collections in that we manage the full spectrum of light, including harmful ultraviolet light, Blue Light, and high-energy visible (HEV) light. Our customers are looking for the ultimate sun protection in their eyewear and we think they will be pleasantly surprised to receive a sample of high-quality SKIN Sunscreen so they can also protect their skin.”

The SKIN Sunscreen sample contains the company’s premium preventative SPF30+ lotion formulation that is oxybenzone-free, non-greasy, sweat resistant and water resistant for up to 80 minutes. Uniting the company’s resources in a quest to spare others the pain and loss associated with the insidious health threat of skin cancer and UV damage, SKIN Sunscreen is proudly promoted as the optimal wellness preventative in a healthy daily hygiene routine.

In addition to the SPF 30+ lotion formulation, SKIN Sunscreen offers an SPF50 Continuous Spray in a light weight, non-greasy, oil free formula that sprays on from any angle, helping protect the entire body from harmful UVA/UVB rays. This highly effective, Broad Spectrum formula features a no-run application that doesn’t require rubbing in. It provides water resistance up to 80 minutes and applies and dries clear while allowing the skin to breath.

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Rory McIlroy wins Arnold Palmer Invitational; 6th Victory on PGA TOUR for TaylorMade’s New M Drivers with Twist Face Technology

CARLSBAD, CA – Rory McIlroy plays a full 14 club bag of TaylorMade product, featured by his M3 460 driver. He added a new Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro Orange 70X shaft in this week, which he averaged 316.5 yards off the tee and recorded the second longest drive of the week at 373 yards.

In addition to his driver, Rory plays both a 15° & 19° M3 fairway, each equipped with a Mitsubishi Chemical Tensei CK Pro White 80X shaft. Rory’s irons, the P730 Rors Proto, have been in his bag since he joined Team TaylorMade last May. He has them equipped with his trusted Project X 7.0s.

Looking for some consistency with a his putter leading into the Masters, Rory asked the TaylorMade Tour team to build him a TP Copper Soto to spec. It’s built at 34.25″ with 2.75° of loft and a total weight of 508g at a D1 swingweight. The result? McIlroy led the field in Strokes Gained: Putting, where he took more than 2.5 strokes on the field, on average, per round.  The TP Copper putter will be available at retail on April 20.

Like TaylorMade stablemates Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm and Justin Rose, Rory McIlroy also has a new Milled Grind Hi-Toe wedge in the bag, which he’s praised from the first day he put it into play.

TaylorMade’s 2018 M Drivers featuring Twist Face Technology now have victories in 6 PGA Tour events this season, with Rory joining TaylorMade stablemates Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm, Jason Day, Gary Woodland & Paul Casey as tournament champions winning with Twist Face on Tour.

With 44 in play, TaylorMade drivers led all manufacturers at Bay Hill, there are more players with the #1 Driver in Golf in their bag than any other brand; more than Callaway and Ping combined.

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Michael Feland

Born in Houston, TX, raised in New Orleans, LA, Mike and his family currently live in Orlando, FL. Mike is a First Tee Level 1 Certified instructor and enjoys sharing his love for the game with the Orlando area youth that participate in The First Tee of Central Florida program.

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