Christmas Gift Guide 2021: Best Golf Equipment Picks
GolfMagic selects some of its favourite products to help you fill Santa's sack this Christmas...
In the second part of our Christmas Gift Guide series, we have hand-picked six more crackers that will most definitely appeal to the golfer in your life this December 25.
This time around, we have more of the game's biggest brands, including Puma Golf, Cleveland, Srixon, PING Apparel and G/FORE.
If you like what you see in the list below, simply click on the link to purchase and pick out your required specs.
Should you need any more purchasing advice, please get in touch with us over on our social media channels.
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It would be nice if, every time we played golf, we played under a cloudless sky, with just a gentle breeze wafting past to alleviate the warmth. Sadly that is often not the case, and we are out on the course in some fairly poor conditions that requires extra protection to be worn. For such an occasion, The Ping SensorDry Pro Jacket would be a superb choice as it provides 100% waterproof performance combined with additional warmth in cold and wet conditions. Designed with superior comfort and adjustability, this garment allows golfers to adapt to the ever-changing conditions during play.
This jacket features Sensordry Technology that is Waterproof, Windproof and Breathable, offering the ultimate protection from all the elements. The fabric is lightweight and noiseless for no distractions in play, and the fabric also has a natural stretch for optimum movement. The Sensor platform from PING is an innovative performance fabric technology system designed to ensure that every garment is worn is specifically engineered to respond to the body's requirements and demands of the game, maximising playability whatever the conditions.
£134.95
The PROADAPT ALPHACAT is the “King of Comfort” and it boasts an impressive array of innovative materials including PUMA GOLF’s proprietary ADAPT Foam, which is made from a combination of EVA Cushioning and an impact resistant polymer. The combination of the materials creates a platform that provides impact resistance, energy return, and ground feel. While the PROADAPT Multi Material Outsole, which features a high-durometer, abrasion resistant TPU perimeter that provides great stability and traction on soft surfaces while the central Crystal Rubber unit, provides exceptional ground gripping traction and a soft under foot feel on hard surfaces, giving you the confidence to hit any shot no matter the lie. The upper is an EXO Shell comprised of engendered mesh with a TPU Film that provides both structure and support as well as waterproof performance. This shoe comes complete with a 1-year guarantee.
£119
Refuse compromise; demand the best. From its molecules to its dimples, Srixon have pushed every feature of the Z-STAR XV to its limit. They have stopped at nothing to achieve ultimate performance and a reformulated inner core boosts overall resiliency for a faster snap off the clubface. This translates to blinding ball speed and extreme distance with the driver.
Srixon golf balls always perform extremely well in independant tests for distance, spin and consistency.
£39.99
The irons as used by Srixon's new staff player Brooks Koepka.
The new Srixon ZX7 is a club that does exactly that. Not only does it look absolutely superb but its performance is simply astounding. Let's take a closer look at what you can expect to find with the Srixon ZX7 iron. Much like its larger ZX5 cousin the ZX7 is a beauty when placed behind the bal. It has a thin top line and a compact profile that better players everywhere will love. For all intents and purposes, it looks like a full blade at address.
The ZX7 iron sees Srixon reposition the mass of the club directly behind the sweet-spot and also around the perimeter. This gives the club amazing feel and performance on centred strikes and more forgiveness when the strike is less than perfect. The set features progressive groove styling with the shorter irons benefitting from deeper, sharper and narrower grooves than in the longer irons, providing high levels of control where it is needed most.
The Srixon ZX7 iron has a new Tour VT design on the sole and there is a visible ridge running straight down the middle of it. This is to provide the ultimate in turf interaction and helps golfers when they have attacked the ball a little too steeply, by preventing the club from digging in excessively. The head is a multi-piece construction to allow Srixon to piece together all the tech that makes this iron such a top performer. There is a forged SUP10 face which produces class leading ball speeds and tungsten inserts in the 3-iron to 7-iron to increase forgiveness and M.O.I. The main body of the club head itself is forged from a single billet of 1020 carbon steel and provides incredible feel and feedback at impact.
If you are a golfer looking at moving to a compact players iron but you don’t want to give up too much in the way of distance then the Srixon ZX7 is the perfect club for you. With stunning looks and performance that leaves many cavity-backed irons in the dust Srixon have produced a superb class leading iron.
£899 £849
Cleveland Golf have been making class leading wedges for over four decades now, and each of their new golf wedge releases are hotly anticipated by the golfing public. The Cleveland RTX Zip Core wedge is the latest offering from these masters of golf wedge design.
The Cleveland RTX ZipCore wedge is a muscle-back wedge that features many of the technological advancements initially found in their superb CBX-2 cavity backed wedges. The idea of making golf wedges more game improvement based, and bringing them more in line with the average golfer’s iron set, was a huge step forward in wedge design. The better players however, as much as they would appreciate help from new technology, would still prefer to look down on a smaller, tour proven shape.
This led Cleveland to bring a golf wedge to market that looked like a tour wedge but retained a lot of the CBX-2's game improvement features. The stunning looking Cleveland RTX Zip Core wedge is the result.
By replacing heavy stainless steel in the middle of the wedge with a much lighter core they have been able to redistribute the saved weight around the head giving the RTX Zip Core a much higher M.O.I. and 9% more resistance to twisting on low and high strikes than the RTX 4.
This has also enabled them to bring the CG much closer to the face of the wedge, really ramping up the amount of feedback and feel you receive at impact. Distance control is also improved and the change in CG brings class leading levels of spin, allowing the golfer to become far more precise with their wedge game than ever before.
The RTX ZipCore wedge has Ultizip grooves which are another innovation from Cleveland. Using a special heat treatment process the grooves will remain sharper for longer, thereby giving the wedges much more longevity. The grooves are both deeper and closer together than on previous models which has allowed them to put an extra two grooves on the face. If it’s spin you’re looking for then this wedge is where you will find it!
Although the head shape on the Cleveland RTX ZipCore wedge is designed to appeal to better players, it offers far more playability to golfers of a higher handicap than any wedge of this type has done before. If you are in the market for a new golf wedge then the RXT Zip Core would be a stellar choice.
£149.99 £129
FEATURES
- MADE WITH FINE TECH JERSEY FABRIC WITH ADDED STRETCH FOR MAXIMUM MOBILITY
- CONTAST TIPPING ON THE COLLAR & SLEEVE HEMS
- FEATURES A SILICONE G/FORE LOGO ON THE BACK YOKE
- 3 BUTTON PLACKET
- FINISHED WITH A TENNIS TAIL HEM
- LOOSLEY BANDED SLEEVES
$120
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