List of names moving from various brands to PXG

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As per GM's article:

http://www.golf-monthly.co.uk/news/gear-news/pxg-add-eight-to-playing-staff-85214

Some serious names moving from established brands to market newcomers.

Names include Zach Johnson, Billy Horschel, Chris Kirk, Ryan Moore, Rocco Mediate, Sadena Parks and Beatriz Recari, James Hahn, Charles Howell III, Alison Lee, Gerina Piller and Cristie Kerr who will be carrying PXG clubs next season.

Very surprised at Zach Johnson switching from Titleist after his Open win! Like wise Horschel's move away from PING.

If you're interested in the brand, here's a link to their website:

https://www.pxg.com/

Pretty rank looking to my eye, but clearly there must either be something to the hardware or they are paying mega bucks to create a 'player-stable'. to make the brand attractive.
 
Hardware is meant to be decent, but they're definitely paying mega bucks too. Says in the article that Bob Parsons "hired a pair of ex-PING engineers and gave them the task to build golf clubs under no limitations and with no deadlines, with money as no object." Seems like he's got plenty of cash in his pocket and wants to build a massive brand. Be interesting to see how it takes off, and how popular they become. Has been a while since a new player made a big splash in the Golf market. Wonder who else they'll manage to sign.
 
Don't they cost a fortune? If they can genuinely get more distance and forgiveness under the restrictions/limitations any club manufacturer has then they may sell a few. If not then I expect they will be nothing more than a very niche manufacturer, no matter who plays the clubs.
 
Got to be honest, I'm not a fan of these. They look to perform well, I've watched Crossfield have a bash of the 0811 driver in a review and it is up there with the other guys, but I just don't like the looks.

A bit rough and ready, "industrial" (to quote Crossfield), and fiddly. I like clubs that are streamlined, modern and with a bit of flair. The bolts in the bottom just look a bit unfinished to me, and if I remember rightly from something I read a few months ago, that's how they came up with it. They had a prototype with all these weight screws that were eventually going to coalesce, but one guy was like "that works quite well, why don't we leave it?". So they did and here we are.

Good luck to them though, like everyone's saying, it's nice to see a smaller company try to nudge it's way in.
 
Seems to me someone swallowed the advertisers dictionary, They talk of "finest alloys", steel face and a forged body....and show a casting of said body......
In any case, they look plain fugly.
 
Wow, they are some ugly clubs. Those weights look awful. It says 'Eleven strategically placed interchangeable weights on the sole allow players to optimize trajectory to achieve both maximum distance and accuracy'. Is'nt that what everyone else does with a simple sliding/movable weight? Surely creating a new brand, they could have come up with something better looking.
 
The website is full of barely restrained hyperbole. I expect we will now see Ryan Moore et al winning a few events?

Looks like an attempt to infer quality from a premium price. A very hard trick to pull off. I won't be trying to test the theory myself.
 
MarkE said:
Wow, they are some ugly clubs. Those weights look awful. It says 'Eleven strategically placed interchangeable weights on the sole allow players to optimize trajectory to achieve both maximum distance and accuracy'. Is'nt that what everyone else does with a simple sliding/movable weight? Surely creating a new brand, they could have come up with something better looking.
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I agree, others already do this. Realistically who the chuff is going to spend a lot of time and effort adjusting 11 weights on the back of a club?

It's a bit like buying a new telly. You can pay quite a considerable sum for someone to come round your house and configure all the TV settings so you achieve the optimal picture possible for your room. Or you can just have a bit of a play with the preset options till it looks OK to you and then forget about them for the rest of the life of the TV. Think these clubs are aimed at the former. I'm sure people wanting this experience do exist and you can build yourself a nice niche business doing it. But probably not enough to pay a load of tour pros in the hope that Joe public will the go out and buy the clubs themselves.
 
In any sport the best Pros do not necessarily have etc best equipment but compete for the brands that pay well for their athletes to be seen using it and to endorse it. Of course, over time they will help and apply their knowledge and feel to get the good equipment better.

I guess someone like Rory McIlroy or Jordan Spieth could pick up a set of Dunlops and still be fairly competitive once they adjusted to it.

Coming from triathlon I had a bike the fastest biker in triathlon used. It gave me fun using it, but I wasn't necessarily the fastest out there. Or even mid pack.
 
I like the look of these 😱

Plenty of options to fine tune for each individual but could end up a nightmare if you started to fiddle about with the weights.

A full bag would probably be well over £5k 😧
 
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