Kick Point: The Golf Gear Show

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Welcome to Kick Point: The Golf Gear Show brought to you by Golf Monthly. Each week a new episode will land providing you with in-depth gear-related insights. Whether you are thinking your next purchase or you’re interested in the finer details behind golf club design and fitting, this show provides a light-hearted, informative look at all areas of golf equipment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 4D AGO

    What Was The Best Golf Club Of 2025? Plus, What Was The Best Equipment Change On Tour This Year? (The 2nd Annual Pointy Awards!)

    Happy Friday, everyone! We hope you had a great Christmas and aren't feeling as hungover as Dan or as fat as Joe does today. To cure any Boxing Day/post-Christmas fatigue, we've got some fun for you this week in the shape of the 2nd Annual Pointy Awards! For those who weren't with us this time last year, this is our annual light-hearted look at the year in equipment, loosely based around a cheap award ceremony. We've got plenty of awards to give out, including: the best golf club of the year, the best dressed of the year, the most innovative release of 2025 and the best WITB of the year. Expect some surprise visits from Adrian Meronk, out-of-sync drum rolls and Robert Rock on the way. Chapters:  00:00 Intro and introducing the awards  03:50 Best WITB of the year  11:40 Best equipment change on Tour this year 14:20 Best golf club of 2025 18:19 Most innovative golf club release of 2025 26:26 In memorium - the golf clubs we lost in 2025  27:56 Most popular non-contracted club award  32:40 Most innovative use of a golf product off the golf course award 35:50 Best dressed golfer of 2025  39:26 Rising golf brand of 2025 43:42 The Kick Point interview of the year award Watch us in FULL on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KickPointGolf Get in touch with Dan and Joe and 'Ask The Pod' via our email: kickpointpodcast@futurenet.com Sign 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.

    54 min
  2. DEC 19

    Ranking The 25 Best Golf Clubs Of The 21st Century! Plus, How To Use Equipment To Drill Swing Basics This Winter

    Well, we think the title pretty much explains this week's episode! After we saw Rolling Stone magazine's Top 250 Albums Of The 21st Century, we thought it was time Kick Point delivered its own version. Thankfully, despite the relative length of this week's episode, we trimmed our list down to 25 rather than 250. Think TaylorMade M2 (2016), TaylorMade P790, Ping G2, Nike VR Pro Blades, Odyssey 2-ball, Vokey SM6 wedge, you get the idea. We've exhaustively analysed every golf club release of this century to offer you this definitive list of the very best. Prepare to agree (and most likely disagree) over the next 90 minutes or so. We hope you enjoy this week's episode, and all it leaves us to do is wish you a Merry Christmas (yes, it is next week). We're going nowhere over the break, though, and will be back on Boxing Day for the 2nd Annual Pointy Awards and on January 2nd for a very special guest episode. Watch us in FULL on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KickPointGolf Get in touch with Dan and Joe and 'Ask The Pod' via our email: kickpointpodcast@futurenet.com Sign 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.

    1h 28m
  3. DEC 12

    Peter Finch What's In The Bag Special! Plus, Catching Up On Our Week In Pinehurst & What Are The Golf Clubs To Beat in 2026?

    A very special episode for you this week, filmed outside The Cottage at Pinehurst No. 8! Yes, we're back from our very special week in golf heaven, and we've got loads to catch up on. From playing Pinehurst No. 2 and No. 10 to snooping around inside Golf Pride's new Performance Lab and Global Innovation Center, we've been busy boys. We'll update you on our time in North Carolina, including our time in the Golf Hall Of Fame and the USGA testing facilities, too. After the self-indulgence, there's plenty of equipment chat to get stuck into. With the 2026 releases just around the corner (most of which we've already seen), what clubs from 2025 and before and the ones to beat? We've also got some of your excellent correspondence, including one listener who has managed to caramalise his golf clubs... We then welcome Peter Finch onto the podcast for a What's In The Bag looking ahead to his 2026 season. Though now a Titleist staffer, Pete has a wealth of club knowledge, having been a club reviewer for much of his YouTube career and has had the privilege of a VIP fitting at TPI. Massive thanks to Golf Pride, the Pinehurst Resort and GMS for hosting us last week. We'll have a special pod coming from inside Golf Pride's Global Innovation Center in the New Year. Also, shout out to Jake and George from GMS for standing out in the cold and filming us so beautifully! Watch us in FULL on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KickPointGolf Get in touch with Dan and Joe and 'Ask The Pod' via our email: kickpointpodcast@futurenet.com Sign 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.

    1 hr
  4. NOV 28

    Can You Trust Online Club Fittings? Plus, How Reducing Shaft Length Can Help Your Driving & Peter Uihlein What's In The Bag Special?

    Happy Friday, folks, and happy Thanksgiving weekend to our American friends. Another jam-packed episode this week, one that gets very techy in places, so strap in. Firstly, Joe has a Big Question. Why are club fittings all working in such small parameters? Lie angles never go more than two degrees upright or flat, swing weights are rarely altered outside of standard, grips are normally standard size - why don't we think bigger when it comes to fittings? Speaking of swing weight, Joe's got a new digital swing weight machine to show off, and we do a little live experiment showing how adding a taking away a little weight at either end of the club can drastically affect the swing weight reading. He's also got some tidbits on driver shaft testing, and how reducing the shaft length in your driver could be a solution that most amateur golfers aren't utilising to improve their game off the tee. Finally, we've sent our roving reporter, Sam De'Ath, back out to the Philippines for another What's In The Bag special, this time with Peter Uilhein. Watch us in FULL on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KickPointGolf Get in touch with Dan and Joe and 'Ask The Pod' via our email: kickpointpodcast@futurenet.com Sign 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.

    57 min
5
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11 Ratings

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Welcome to Kick Point: The Golf Gear Show brought to you by Golf Monthly. Each week a new episode will land providing you with in-depth gear-related insights. Whether you are thinking your next purchase or you’re interested in the finer details behind golf club design and fitting, this show provides a light-hearted, informative look at all areas of golf equipment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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