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• Visiting Gold’s Factory – New Hand Grind Wedge

  It's been a while since I have dropped by Gold's Factory and in the mean time, Gold's has grown more popular than ever, especially here in Japan where their brand has received major publicity in most major golf magazines. Being featured in... Posted Nov 27 2012, 07:50 AM by Golf to Impress Filed under: Golf News, Gear Sneak Peaks, GTI Exclusive, Manufacturer Focus, Golds Factory, Featured, japan, Club Making, custom, Golf Opinion, forged, wedge, Industry Insider, sasaya, hand grind

• New Epon Tour F3 and F4 Golf Balls Preview!

  You can imagine how surprised I was when Epon contacted us to announced that they were releasing new premium tour level golf balls. Epon is of course best known for creating some of the most premium high performance forged golf clubs known to man and... Posted Nov 06 2012, 07:03 AM by Golf to Impress Filed under: New Equipment, Gear Sneak Peaks, Manufacturer Focus, Japanese Golf, japan, Product Reviews, Epon Golf, Golf Opinion, forged, Industry Insider, Golf Balls, tour f3 f4

• ONOFF 2013 Product Launch!

  Tourspecgolf was invited to the ONOFF 2013 New Collection launch so I headed out yesterday to Shibuya to check out all the new gear for the new year. Every year they hold their launch event Ebisu/Daikanyama area which is just south of Shibuya. While Shibuya... Posted Oct 17 2012, 11:45 PM by Golf to Impress Filed under: Irons, Golf News, New Equipment, GTI Exclusive, Manufacturer Focus, Golf Tech Talk, Japanese Golf, driver, onoff, Golf Opinion, forged, hi cor, shibuya, 2013

• Yonex – Japan Golf Fair 2012 Report

  Yonex has always been a solid performing golf brand and a few years ago when they signed a 16 year old phenom named Ryo Ishikawa, many in the golf industry wondered what impact the singing would have on Yonex. Fast forward to 2012 and Ryo Ishikawa is... Posted Mar 02 2012, 07:33 AM by Golf to Impress Filed under: Golf News, New Equipment, Gear Sneak Peaks, GTI Exclusive, Manufacturer Focus, japan, Golf Opinion, forged, Ryo Ishikawa, Industry Insider, yonex, EZONE, Japan Golf Fair 2012, royal ezone

• Callaway – Japan Golf Fair 2012 Report

  Callaway always has one of the biggest booths at the Japan Golf Fair and this year was no exception. In past years there was a huge emphasis on the Japan only Legacy line but this year focus was instead placed on the new RAZR Fit series which took up... Posted Feb 28 2012, 06:52 AM by Golf to Impress Filed under: Golf News, New Equipment, Gear Sneak Peaks, GTI Exclusive, Manufacturer Focus, Golf Tech Talk, Featured, Japanese Golf, Golf Opinion, forged, Industry Insider, legacy, Japan Golf Fair 2012, Callaway Japan, odyssey ix, flip face

• Taylormade 2012 Japan Market Clubs Update!

  Taylormade added all their new 2012 Japan market offerings to their site today so I will briefly go over some of the products and you can see what the lineups now look like below. We will get demos to review at a later date and at that time I will go... Posted Jan 16 2012, 08:43 AM by Golf to Impress Filed under: Golf News, New Equipment, Gear Sneak Peaks, GTI Exclusive, Manufacturer Focus, Japanese Golf, japan, taylormade, Golf Opinion, forged, Industry Insider, titanium, 2012, gloire, tour preferred ghost, atv wedge, r11-J, deep milling

• ONOFF 2012 Demos in the house!

  A box of 2012 ONOFF demos arrived yesterday and as I noted when I first saw them at the ONOFF Product Launch in Tokyo in October, they look amazing. Top notch designs and finish and I can't wait to test them out. As always the ONOFF clubs are divided... Posted Dec 08 2011, 03:20 AM by Golf to Impress Filed under: New Equipment, Gear Sneak Peaks, GTI Exclusive, Manufacturer Focus, japan, onoff, Golf Opinion, forged, plus, Industry Insider, red, 2012, type s

• Yururi Iron Models Side By Side Comparison

  There are currently 4 great Yururi forged irons golfers can choose from but which one is for you? All four models are premium forged in Japan from S25C steel and provide wonderful feel and looks. Today's post is not a performance test but more of... Posted Sep 30 2011, 02:36 AM by Golf to Impress Filed under: Golf News, Recommended, Manufacturer Focus, Golf Tech Talk, Featured, Japanese Golf, japan, Golf Opinion, forged, Industry Insider, Yururi, keigekiku

• There is a Yururi for Everyone

  It's not everyday that we are lucky enough for a manufacturer to send over their entire product lineup for us to review and photo shoot but that's exactly what Keigekiku Yururi has done for us. I received a huge box from Hyogo Prefecture today... Posted Sep 26 2011, 03:00 AM by Golf to Impress Filed under: Irons, Golf News, Wedges, Gear Sneak Peaks, Manufacturer Focus, Golf Tech Talk, Japanese Golf, japan, Club Making, Golf Opinion, forged, Yururi, keigekiku

• Sky Dream Jump Limited Tour Wedge Review

  Three Luck is another one of those smaller companies that goes by relatively unnoticed. It's Sky Dream Jump wedges however have been very popular among hardcore golf enthusiasts looking for soft forged feel, an awesome grind and monster spin. With... Posted Jul 08 2011, 08:06 PM by Golf to Impress Filed under: Golf News, Recommended, New Equipment, Gear Sneak Peaks, GTI Exclusive, Recommended Posts, Manufacturer Focus, Featured, Japanese Golf, japan, Product Reviews, Golf Opinion, forged, Industry Insider, spin, sky dream jump, tour wedge

• Dance with Dragon Wedge Review – 60* Sand Wedge?

  So I've actually had a new Dance with Dragon 60* forged wedge here for the last couple of months. The new DWD wedge is made by one of Japan's true grinding masters, Masahiro Tomaru of Grind Studio. When I first received the wedge for testing I... Posted Jun 07 2011, 04:01 PM by Golf to Impress Filed under: Golf News, New Equipment, Gear Sneak Peaks, Manufacturer Focus, Golf Tech Talk, Japanese Golf, japan, Product Reviews, golf, Golf Opinion, forged, dance with dragon, wedge, dwd, Grind Studio

• Royal Collection DB Forged Wedge Review

  I've always had a soft spot for Royal Collection clubs and wedges. RC compared to most brands is a very small company with only 20 employees dedicated to designing and producing golf clubs that look great and perform great. While Royal Collection... Posted Apr 30 2011, 09:13 AM by Golf to Impress Filed under: Golf News, Recommended, Gear Sneak Peaks, Recommended Posts, Manufacturer Focus, Golf Tech Talk, Featured, Japanese Golf, japan, Product Reviews, Royal Collection, Golf Opinion, forged, wedge, Industry Insider

• GTI Forged Cavity Shootout Part 2 – Performance

  I finally got some time to whip together a post on my testing for the forged cavity back shootout. Part 1 feature a focus on each irons design an aesthetics while part 2 here will talk about performance aspects of each iron. As I mentioned in part 1,... Posted Oct 17 2010, 09:50 AM by Golf to Impress Filed under: Irons, Golf News, Recommended, GTI Exclusive, Recommended Posts, Manufacturer Focus, Golf Tech Talk, Featured, Japanese Golf, pro, japan, tour, Product Reviews, performance, golf, Golf Opinion, test, forged, japanese, rankings, distance, feel, cavity back, shootout

• Japan Tour News Report – Keigekiku Yururi

  Some great news from the Japan tour front from Keigekiku Yururi. Last weekend Eun-A Lim won the Miyagi TV Dunlop Ladies Open by holding off fellow country women In-Bee Park and Na-Ri Lee by one shot and Momoko Ueda and Rui Kitada who were 2 shots back... Posted Oct 04 2010, 01:41 AM by Golf to Impress Filed under: Golf News, New Equipment, GTI Exclusive, Manufacturer Focus, PGA Tour, Japanese Golf, japan, tour, prototypes, LPGA Tour, Golf Opinion, forged, blades, Industry Insider, jlpga, JPGA Tour, Yururi, flat back, lim, keigekiku, eun-a

• Taylormade Japan Burner Forged and R9 Forged Comparison

  As many of you may have read, the Taylormade Japan Burner Forged and R9 Forged were supposed to be part of my forged cavity shootout however they demos never came in time from Taylormade for the initial test. Because of the delay I had broken the test... Posted Aug 22 2010, 08:25 AM by Golf to Impress Filed under: Recommended, Gear Sneak Peaks, GTI Exclusive, Recommended Posts, Manufacturer Focus, Golf Tech Talk, Featured, Japanese Golf, japan, golf, taylormade, Golf Opinion, r9, forged, Burner, japanese, comparison, Industry Insider, compare