# Grading Every Equipment Manufacturer's Year (So Far)! Plus, Joe Tells All About His Open Qualifying Experience! Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/kick-point-the-golf-gear-show-6943914/grading-every-equipment-manufacturer-s-year-so-far-plus-joe-tells-all-about-his-open-qualifying-experience Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/kick-point-the-golf-gear-show-6943914/grading-every-equipment-manufacturer-s-year-so-far-plus-joe-tells-all-about-his-open-qualifying-experience.md Podcast: [Kick Point: The Golf Gear Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/kick-point-the-golf-gear-show-6943914) Published: 2026-06-26T13:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/kick-point-the-golf-gear-show/episodes/grading-every-equipment-manufacturers-year-so-far-plus-joe-t Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6852891668b0c25e38f5873e/e/6a3e6fd0a3fa97823765e4a7/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/kick-point-the-golf-gear-show-6943914/episodes/grading-every-equipment-manufacturer-s-year-so-far-plus-joe-tells-all-about-his-open-qualifying-experience Duration seconds: 5329 ## Resource Big thanks to our friends at GolfClubs4Cash for sponsoring this week's episode. You can visit them in store now at its locations in Edinburgh, Warrington, Milton Keynes and Southampton or head to www.golfclubs4cash.co.uk to browse the more than 50,000 items in stock. Happy midsummer! It's that time of year again, when we take stock of all of the main equipment manufacturers' years so far, and send them home with a summer report for 2026. Which brand is going home with an A to happy parents, and which brand has plenty to work on going into the next phase of equipment releases? Before all of that, Joe finds his favourite driver on the GolfClubs4Cash website for under £200, we discuss the rollback on the golf ball rollback, and Joe tells us the good, the bad, and the ugly from his experience at regional qualifying for the Open Championship. Enjoy! Chapters: 0:00:00 Coming up this week... 0:02:26 How would Joe spend £200 on a second-hand driver? 0:06:14 Joe tells all about his Open Qualifying experience 0:22:22 The golf ball rollback, rollback - our opinions! 0:32:34 Grading every equipment brand's year so far! 0:34:32 Titleist 0:41:55 TaylorMade 0:51:23 Callaway  1:00:08 Ping  1:04:29 Cobra  1:06:53 PXG 1:13:02 Mizuno 1:17:00 Srixon 1:21:05 Wilson 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. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/kick-point-the-golf-gear-show-6943914/episodes/grading-every-equipment-manufacturer-s-year-so-far-plus-joe-tells-all-about-his-open-qualifying-experience/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/kick-point-the-golf-gear-show-6943914/grading-every-equipment-manufacturer-s-year-so-far-plus-joe-tells-all-about-his-open-qualifying-experience.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.