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Notes and anecdotes on the annual host of Masters as the 2025 edition approaches.

Megha Ganne set the Augusta National Women's Amateur record on Wednesday with a 9-under 63 at Champions Retreat, giving her a two-shot lead over defending champion Lottie Woad.

LIV Golf star Brooks Koepka says he thought the breakaway league would be "further along" four years into play, but new CEO Scott O'Neil says he likes the league's current "positioning."

Three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson won't be surprised if Augusta National Golf Club is in spectacular condition at next week's Masters, which will be played about six months after the course was heavily damaged by Hurricane Helene.

Near the top of the Coolest Things I Saw at the PGA Show list was the Toptracer demo range. I thought all Toptracer did was give you very basic launch data and a cool tracer for each shot.

As my wife likes to say, “Wrong again, honey.”

Toptracer, the driving range technology owned by Topgolf Callaway, actually has some pretty cool capabilities beyond just tracing your shots. It has an aggressive game mode, so your kids can play Angry Birds while you’re trying to straighten out your slice.

But what’s really cool is its classic course simulation mode.

You can, for example, get a foursome together at a nearby Toptracer-equipped driving range and play Pebble Beach.

Callaway just dropped three new drivers. Here are four things to know about the Callaway Elyte Mini, TD Max and TD Tour Draw drivers.

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Look alive, gearheads—Callaway just dropped two new members into the Elyte driver family. One you probably saw coming from a mile away while the other might raise an eyebrow or two.

Elyte Triple Diamond Max

First up is the Elyte Triple Diamond Max, a club whose arrival was inevitable after last year’s runaway success. When the Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Max landed last year, it exceeded expectations. Callaway had to scramble with reorders just to keep pace with higher-than-anticipated demand.

Worth mentioning: it wasn’t just weekend warriors who took to the TD Max. By season’s end, it had become Callaway’s most-played driver on the PGA Tour.

Go figure.

So, yeah, there was approximately zero chance we weren’t getting an Elyte Triple Diamond Max this time around.

We’ve been talking about mini drivers quite a bit already this year. We’ve covered why you might want a mini driver and why you might want to consider an alternative. We’ve written about the PXG Secret Weapon and the Titleist GT280.

I’m confident more are coming.

The latest mini to hit the market is the Callaway Elyte Mini Driver. That’s the entirety of the name. I appreciate the simplicity but also, after last year’s Paradym Ai Smoke Ti340 Mini, I feel a little shortchanged. Slackers.

The Elyte Mini backstory

As you’re likely aware by now, the recently invigorated mini driver category is absolutely exploding and I can tell you from recent conversations that everyday golfers are intrigued, if not excited.

I’m not saying everybody is going to buy a mini driver but with so many companies entering the mix, awareness has never been higher.

If you think Augusta National is meticulous about course conditions, imagine what it's like to sit down for a meal in the dining room there.

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Jack Nicklaus' fifth title at Augusta made the 1975 Masters the original “Best Masters Ever.” The panorama of high drama lingers still.

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Imagine, for a second, you’re packing for that once-in-a-lifetime buddies trip. Maybe Bandon, or perhaps heading over to the Home of Golf. It doesn’t matter where. You’re just excited to get there and slap a few balls around with your buddies.

The only problem? You put a little too much weight onto your custom fit driver while you’re smooth-talking your spouse into letting you stay a couple extra days.

Snap! There goes your driver (and with it, the dream of taking money from your buddies).

There’s no way you can go on this trip without your driver … but there’s no way you can get fit for one AND get it built in time. Right?

Wrong. PGA Tour Superstore has taken perhaps the biggest pain point about custom fitting and flipped it on its head. Custom golf clubs usually take weeks, even months to build. With PGA Tour Superstore’s Fit & Go program, golfers can walk out of the store with a custom fit driver that same day, upgraded shaft, grip and all.

Adidas influence in sport has been shaping fashion and culture movements for decades.  

This week’s re-launch of Originals Golf brings the three-stripe brand’s iconic Trefoil logo back to the golf course with a range men’s and women’s apparel, footwear and accessories born of sport and rooted in golf.    

During the Originals Golf media reveal at adidas World of Sport headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany, MyGolfSpy contributor, Rick Young conducted a roundtable discussion with adidas Golf’s, Dylan Moore, senior creative director; Shaun Madigan, global apparel director and Masun Denison, global footwear director to talk about Originals Golf and how the design trio balanced adidas heritage with the modern game. 

Q: How does Originals elevate adidas brand authenticity in the golf space? 

Moore: First and foremost with us we hang our hat on performance. That’s at the root of everything for adidas and obviously on a performance range were working with the best athletes in the world and what we build to help them perform at their level, the highest level, we know those products will perform for everyday golfers. The key to Originals for us was making sure the style of Originals is relevant to the modern culture of what’s happening inside of golf but also outside the game. I mean, fabrication-wise, look and feel, we still wanted it polished for the lifestyle lane.  

Q: Was there a conscious effort to create separation between mainstream Originals product and Originals Golf?  

Moore: The key difference is the performance qualities we’ve put into Originals Golf. It doesn’t necessarily look like performance has been built-in for the game but it’s all there – stretch, breathability, fit – and we worked in key areas to make sure it moves with you. Same on the footwear side for cushioning, waterproofing and traction.  

We’re only one week away from the Masters.

You know what that means—we’re all Masters all the time here at MGS.

One of the many charming parts of the Masters is the tournament’s illustrious history. The great champions are revered; the storybook endings are celebrated for as long as golf is played.

Included in that lore are all the Masters winners we never saw coming. These are the guys who caught lightning in a bottle and, against all odds, took down top competition to don the green jacket.

When putting together this list, I realized there is an argument to be made for the two most famous Masters tournaments in history: 1986 (Jack Nicklaus) and 2019 (Tiger Woods).

If you are tired of your golf grips slipping in your hands, this article is for you. Our hands provide the only physical connection to the golf club and a grip that fails has got to go. Check out these grips to find the best one for your game and say goodbye to slipping.

Golf Pride MCC

The MCC from Golf Pride is one of the most popular grips on the PGA Tour (and my personal favorite), and for good reason. This hybrid grip combines performance benefits of both corded and rubber grips. A brushed cotton cord in the upper hand provides secure all-weather grip paired with performance rubber in the lower hand to maximize feel and responsiveness. See for yourself why some of the best in the game play this grip.

Iomic Sticky 2.3 Grips

Iomic Sticky 2.3 grips were created to provide golfers of all skill levels and playing styles a comfortable and durable grip. Stand out on those dreary days with a splash of vibrant color while keeping a secure grip on your clubs.

Winn Dry-Tac

Winn’s most popular grip ever, the Dri-Tac is composed of WinnDry polymer material. Designed to combine comfortable feel, tackiness and exceptional non-slip performance in wet weather conditions, you’ll feel confidence in every swing. This grip delivers maximum shock absorption, helping prevent hand fatigue throughout your round.

Golf Pride Z-Grip Cord

The Z-Grip Cord is the firmest cord grip offering from Golf Pride and it was born ready to help you combat moisture. A “Z” pattern that winds around the grip vertically creates two layers of texturing for increased feedback and control. Take on the rain in confidence with this grip.

Golfers have a language all their own. If you’ve spent time around the game, you’ve probably heard someone mention a “scratch golfer.” What does that mean? Is it just a fancy way of saying someone’s good at golf or is there more to it? If you’ve ever wondered what a scratch golfer is, whether it’s something worth aiming for or how hard it is to get there, we’ll break it down. And if you need a refresher on other common golf terms, we’ve got that, too.

What is a scratch golfer?

A “scratch golfer” is commonly accepted as someone with a 0.0 handicap index. The handicap index reflects a golfer’s potential ability, adjusted for the difficulty of the courses they play.

Each golf course has a course rating that estimates what a scratch golfer is expected to shoot under normal conditions.

When scratch players shoot even par on a course rated 72.0, they play exactly to their handicap. On a tougher course rated 74.2, that same scratch golfer could shoot 74 and still play to their 0.0 index.

Understanding the handicap index fluctuations

Handicap indexes don’t stay the same. Under the World Handicap System, your index is calculated using the lowest eight differentials from your last 20 rounds, reflecting your potential, not just your average.

Already have a guess which two brands dominate the bags of the world’s top golfers? If you said Titleist and TaylorMade, you’re right. When we looked across every club in the bags of the top 10 players in the world, no other brand came close in terms of representation.

Who has what in their bag?

Here’s a look at the presence of Titleist and TaylorMade golf clubs in the golf bags of the top 10 players in the world as of March 2025. Titleist and TaylorMade are tied with seven out of those 10 players carrying at least one of their clubs.

Golfer	Titleist	TaylorMade
Scottie Scheffler	(Wedges)	(Driver, 3W, Irons, Putter)
Rory McIlroy		(Full bag)
Xander Schauffele	(Wedges)
Collin Morikawa		(Full bag)
Ludvig Åberg	(Driver, Irons, Wedges)	(3W, 7W)
Hideki Matsuyama		(3W)
Russell Henley	(Driver, Irons, Wedges, Putter)
Viktor Hovland	(Irons, Wedges, Putter)	(3W)
Justin Thomas	(Driver, Irons, Wedges, Putter)
Tommy Fleetwood	(60° Wedge)	(Driver, Woods, Irons, 52° Wedge, Putter)

TaylorMade dominates in the driver and woods category

Some of the biggest players in the game trust TaylorMade drivers and fairway woods. Of the top five, only Xander Schauffele is not using a TaylorMade driver or wood. Interestingly, players like Aberg have chosen to hold on to older TaylorMade Stealth 2 models because of the consistent performance.

While we have yet to finish testing fairway woods, in the 2025 driver test for amateur players, the Titleist drivers performed much better than the new TaylorMade Qi35 drivers. We’ve even seen some professionals like Rory McIlroy move back to the Qi10 after switching to the Qi35.

Titleist owns the wedge category

The Titleist Vokey wedges are seen in seven of these 10 players’ bags. Even Tommy Fleetwood, who is not otherwise a Titleist guy, has a 60-degree Vokey in his bag. If you include Titleist golf balls in this table, you can add a green check for Hideki Matsuyama.

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