Top gear news from the British Open at Royal Liverpool — so far

The British Open brings the very best gamers on this planet collectively annually to seek out out who can conquer the check that’s links golf. This yr that check is taking place at Royal Liverpool, a.k.a. Hoylakeand with all the highest gamers in a single place, the tools producers are all arms on deck with some very cool and new gear.

Let’s break all of it down!

New Mizuno woods & wedges

Mizuno likes to drop new golf equipment across the British Open, and as soon as once more they haven’t dissatisfied the gear junkies anticipating what’s coming to retail quickly.

To this point we now have noticed three new golf equipment in photographs from round Hoylake they usually embrace a brand new titanium STG fairway wooden, and hidden behind that in Mizuno’s Instagram submit seems to be the matching STG driver that we now have additionally discovered on the USGA conforming golf equipment listing (under).

What’s much more fascinating is we initially noticed a prototype of the STG fairway over a yr in the past on the Vacationers Championship, and now it’s lastly making its manner onto Tour and into full manufacturing, which matches to point out simply how lengthy the event course of could be.

Final however not least from Mizuno, they snuck a few of their new T24 wedges into an Instagram story submit about their irons, after which we went to the conforming listing once more to substantiate that they’re the truth is the most recent wedges from the Japanese producer.

Wonderful golf luggage

The OEMs and their design groups have pulled out all of the stops for the ultimate males’s main of the yr by delivering a number of the most lovely and inventive golf luggage but.

With themes round water, the occasion, and naturally The Beatles, do you might have a favourite?

New outdated irons for Stenson

Look, we are able to’t blame the man for realizing what he likes — heck, after I stroll right into a pizza store, whatever the menu, I already know what I would like too.

For former Open Champion Henrik Stenson meaning a recent new set of his Callaway Legacy Black solid irons which date again over a decade to once they have been launched in 2013. Though it is a “new” set for the main champion, it’s fairly protected to say that these are a number of the oldest irons in skilled golf on the highest stage.

Wedges, wedges all over the place

The situations of hyperlinks golf in comparison with North American parkland golf means gamers typically need to make some changes to each ends of their luggage.

On the high finish meaning new lengthy irons and driving irons, like what Rory used to hit his clinching shot last week at the Genesis Scottish Openand on the opposite finish it means new wedges with recent grooves, and in some circumstances decrease bounce angles to cope with the extra coarse sand and tight lies.

The Vokey crew on the Titleist truck has been busy this week with a complete bunch of latest wedges, they usually shared a few of them on their Instagram.

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Ryan Barath is GOLF Journal and GOLF.com’s senior editor for tools. He has an intensive club-fitting and -building background with greater than 20 years of expertise working with golfers of all ability ranges, together with PGA Tour gamers. Earlier than becoming a member of the workers, he was the lead content material strategist for Tour Expertise Golf, in Toronto, Canada.