Kick Point: The Golf Gear Show

• Jake Knapp’s Clubs & Ranking The Best Mini Drivers Of 2025

  This week, we're getting stuck into the min-driver market, comparing and ranking those currently on the market, including the TaylorMade R7 Quad, PXG Secret Weapon, Callaway Elyte, and the Titleist GT280, to see which is Joe's favorite and which might be right for your game. Some top drawer Ask The Pod's this week, before diving into a WITB of one of the coolest customers on the PGA Tour (with an even cooler bag), Jake Knapp. Enjoy!Chapters:00:00:00 Intro and waffling00:03:55 Titleist double left dot ball chat00:07:49 Intro to Mini Driver00:09:35 Mini Driver ranking00:38:10 Ask The Pod & correspondence00:49:52 Jake Knapp WITB Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Ranking The Best Low-Handicap Irons Of 2025, How To Retrofit Second-Hand Equipment & Matt Wolff What's In The Bag Special

  It's a Kick Point first this week, a head to head to head to head to head to head! We've taken what we think are the six best low-handicap irons of the bunch and pitted them against one another in six different categories. Which of the Ping Blueprint S, Srixon ZXi7, Mizuno Pro S3, Callaway Apex CB, TaylorMade P7MC and Titleist T100 will come out on top? We also have a brilliant Ask The Pod on how to 'custom fit' yourself to second-hand clubs, and Matt Wolff joins us for an in-person What's In The Bag. Chapters:00:00:00 Intro and waffling00:08:43 Best low-handicap irons intro00:11:21 Best-looking low handicap irons00:24:20 Best feeling low-handicap irons00:32:32 Most workable low-handicap irons 00:37:54 Most playable low-handicap irons00:43:16 Spinniest low-handicap irons00:44:00 And the winner is...00:48:34 Ask The Pod - How do I retrofit second-hand golf clubs?01:04:29 Matt Wolff What's In The Bag interview Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Retief Goosen What's In The Bag Special & What Are The Best Direct To Consumer Brands?

  Happy Friday!! We're back in the studio this week for more equipment fun. The bulk of this week's episode is dedicated to direct-to-consumer brands. These golf brands - like Takomo, Ben Hogan, New Level and Tour Edge - are becoming increasingly more popular and prevalent, but what are they and how do they differ from the original equipment manufacturers like Callaway and TaylorMade? Is the gap between these brands and the OEMs closing? Which categories, if any, do these brands still struggle to compete in? Joe picks his favourite brands for each equipment sub cateogry to let you know which brands to target in certain areas of the bag, and which to avoid.We then welcome two-time U.S Open winner and fellow equipment nerd Retief Goosen onto the show. Our co-host Sam De'Ath met up with Retief at this year's Senior Open to talk all things equipment about a man who still builds his own clubs to this day - one of us!!Watch us in FULL on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KickPointGolfGet in touch with Dan and Joe and 'Ask The Pod' via our email: [email protected] up for the weekly Kick Point newsletter, released every Friday: https://www.golfmonthly.com/newsletter Get three issues of the Golf Monthly magazine delivered to your door for just £5 at https://www.magazinesdirect.com/kickpoint Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Marco Penge What's In The Bag Special & On The Range At The British Masters!

  We've been let out of the studio again, and this week's episode comes live from the range at the British Masters. We spent Tuesday interviewing some of the best and biggest names on the DP World Tour, and thought we might as well cobble together a podcast episode while we were there! Alongside our reactions to what we'd seen in players' bags up and down the range, we've also got a couple of excellent Ask The Pods and a superb WITB interview with last week's winner (and outsider for a late Ryder Cup pick), Marco Penge. A Mizuno staffer and one of the highest ball speed players on any world tour, it's a fascinating and highly detailed bag with some superb insight from the man himself. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Trottie Golf On His Best (And Worst) Moments On The Tour Truck & Fitting The World's Best Players

  We're back in the studio! After a month or so on the road, we're back with a Tested This Week on the new Maxfli Tour and Tour X balls and your correspondence and questions on Ask The Pod. Our guest this week is Trottie Golf, or just Chris Trott to his friends and family. Now a YouTube star in his own right, you'll likely have seen Trottie on TaylorMade's YouTube channel creating content with some of the best players in the world, but, before all of that, he was Tour Director at Taylormade. Sitting down with us in the Californian sunshine in June, Trottie shared some of his insights to life on Tour as a fitter with TaylorMade. Stand by for some superb impressions of Stephen Dodd, Padraig Harrington and Richard Sterne, insights into club building for the very best golfers in the world and why the Qi10 fairway wood is such a unicorn club fairway wood.Watch us in FULL on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KickPointGolfGet in touch with Dan and Joe and 'Ask The Pod' via our email: [email protected] up for the weekly Kick Point newsletter, released every Friday: https://www.golfmonthly.com/newsletter Get three issues of the Golf Monthly magazine delivered to your door for just £5 at https://www.magazinesdirect.com/kickpoint Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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