Tidbits, Iomic Black Armor, Yamaha Inpres Z Series, Vokey Forged Update

It’s hard to believe we’re already into the first week of November. Some of our friends in the West have already seen their golfing seasons for this year come to a close. In Japan, golf is all year round luckily, unlike when I was back in Toronto and we’d suddenly have a 5 month layoff starting late November. The weather here is still very nice seeing temperatures during the day still hit 24-25C. This of course means, new releases continue to roll out.

Iomic has introduced a new combo grip called the Sticky Evolution Black Armor. As you can probably tell from the picture and the name, the Black Armor is a combination of both the X-Evolution and the Sticky series patterns.  The left hand gets the firmer less torque X-Evolution feel for stability while the right hand gets the softer tackier Sticky feel. The new Sticky Evolution is available now initially only in Ribbed versions. It is a 1.8 core with M60 size and around 48g with a black body and blue cap.

Our Vokey Forged demos finally arrive tomorrow for a photo session and some testing. There has been crazy demand for the new wedges and Titleist way oversold the pre orders before launch. We continue to get an onslaught of orders and at this point customers are waiting 1-2 weeks for standard specs and a bit longer for custom specs. We do suggest that if you want these wedges you don’t hesitate to go ahead and place your order as the demand shows no signs of dying down. This means the longer you wait to place your order, the longer you’ll most likely have to wait for your wedges.

Amazingly, one of the hottest irons of the past year, the Titleist VG3 Forged is still just as hot. Titleist is still back ordered on the VG3 periodically and that includes right now where customers are again waiting for clubs.  With the launch of new models like the MB, CB, AP2 forged, Titleist production must be struggling to keep up with all the demand.

Finally I thought I’d take the chance in this post to introduce the new 2012 Yamaha Inpres X Z Series of clubs. I’ve already posted about the athlete golfer V series, the better and improving golfer D series and now the newly introduced Z series for the higher handicapper and average golfer.  The Z series is designed with ease of use in mind and falls under the category “Automatic”. With a new Z202 driver which is made to maximize distance and forgiveness, the Z series brings a a premium forged driver with all the same materials and technologies as the D and V series but in a user friendly package. The new Z Cavity iron is made for maximum ease of use, with offset, thicker top line and sole as well as a multi piece design with tungsten weighting and under cut cavity. The Z Iron is a distance iron with unrivaled forgiveness and pretty good feel from its ES230 Maraging face.

Here is the video promo for the new Inpres X Z Series. It is of course in Japanese but as always you get a good look at some of the technology and see/hear the clubs in action.

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