The new Titleist 718 irons collection may be the widest-ranging offering in company history, but all six new irons are linked by an overriding goal: a singular focus on improving consistency—of impacts across the face, of iron distance gaps neatly fitting within the set and of feel from one club to the next.
Already debuted on the PGA Tour this summer, the six new models include five updates of the 716 collection from two years ago (MB, CB, AP1, AP2, T-MB) and a new model (AP3) set to compete in the emerging category of distance technology irons housed in a better players preferred shape, a category that might be called players performance. As a whole, the range covers and sometimes mixes classic forged blades (MB), forged cavity backs (CB), forged-body irons with face inserts (AP2) and hollow irons with thin face inserts (T-MB, AP3, AP1).
Even to a certain extent with its most classic forged MB blade and CB cavity back irons, the design philosophy all starts with an effort to position..

Icon SportswireGREENSBORO, NC – AUGUST 19: Zac Blair tees off on the 16th hole during the third round of the Wyndham Championship on August 19, 2017 at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, NC. (Photo by William Howard/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)It turns out, Zac Blair does have a tee time this week.
Blair, this year's FedEx Cup Playoffs bubble boy, didn't make it into the field at this week's Northern Trust. However, he returned to his home state to play in the Siegfried & Jensen Utah Open, which is run by Utah's PGA section.
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It's a good way for Blair, 27, to stay sharp ahead of the Web.com Tour Finals, which begin next week and allow players who finished Nos. 126-200 on the FedEx Cup points list an opportunity to earn back their PGA Tour cards for next season. Blair finished the dreaded No. 126 after being passed by J.J. Henry by a single point on the final day of the PGA Tour's ..

Ryan Young/Getty ImagesMaverick McNealy reacts to his putt on the third hole during the first round of the Web.com Tour's 2016 Ellie Mae Classic at TPC StonebraeMaverick McNealy would have been a unicorn: A national college player of the year not swayed by the lure of the PGA Tour’s big bucks, the first in more than two decades to remain an amateur.
Ultimately, though, the Stanford All-American, who graduated last spring tied with Tiger Woods and Patrick Rodgers for the most school wins at 11, came to the conclusion most expected. After playing for the U.S. in his second Walker Cup next month, the 21-year-old will in fact pursue a career as a tour pro. His debut as a professional is set for the PGA Tour’s Safeway Open, Oct. 5-8 not too far from where he grew up in Northern California
For much of his college career, McNealy professed that turning pro wasn’t the obvious matter of when, but if, the idea of following in the entrepreneurial footsteps of his father Scott, co-founder of ..