With 2026 release season just around the corner and the competitive season complete, now is a great time to look back at some of the golf equipment that made headlines and captured the attention of gearheads in 2025.
While it was an excellent year for drivers, fairway woods and hybrids, the wedges, irons and two putters listed below deserve a respectful golf clap as we sign the scorecard on the year and get excited for next season.
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L.A.B. DF3 putter
No golf equipment category was hotter in 2025 than zero-torque putters, and no brand has benefited more from the growth in the category than L.A.B. Golf. Over the last few seasons, several pros who have historically struggled on the greens started using the company’s lie-angle balanced putters with success, including Adam Scott and Lucas Glover. Other pros like Rickie Fowler, Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson have switched to a L.A.B. putter too, but when J.J. Spaun used a L.A.B. DF3 to drain a 64-foot putt on the final hole of the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club, the floodgates opened for L.A.B. (which saw a spike in demand for a club that was already popular at retail) and the zero-torque putters.
“I didn’t have a great putting year (in 2024) statistically, and I’m not, statistically, an overall great putter. I’m pretty hot and cold,” Spaun said before the start of the Travelers Championship two days after his win at Oakmont. “But I got (the L.A.B DF3) last off-season and tinkered with it and had enough time—maybe five, six weeks at home—to play with it and get comfortable with it and see what my tendencies were with it. I felt really good with it, so I put it in play. First week was the Sony Open with it, and I almost won there with it. I’ve just been putting a lot more consistently with that putter. It’s obviously proven itself this season.”
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Cobra’s 3DP Tour irons
The Cobra 3DP Tour irons have an internal lattice that reduces weight in the middle of the head that is impossible to create by casting, forging or milling.
With a price tag north of $2,400, there is a good chance that you haven’t seen a set of these irons at your local club or ever had a chance to hit them, but Cobra is all-in on the concept of 3D printing and sees it as the future of golf club design. This alternative to casting, forging, or milling allows club makers to create things that would otherwise be impossible to manufacture.
On the outside, the club may look like a traditional iron; inside, things can be radically different. In the 3DP Tour irons, that means a steel matrix to remove weight from the middle of the head and a pair of tungsten weights that boost stability. Will 3D printed irons take over golf in 2026, probably not, but in the not-to-distance future as prices come down, 3D printed golf equipment could make today’s designs seem as quaint as a persimmon driver.
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TaylorMade Spider putters
Ben Griffin won the 2025 World Wide Technology Championship after switching from a heel-toe weighted blade to TaylorMade Spider Tour Black putter.
TaylorMade Spider putters have been around for a long time. They have been tweaked and modified and updated numerous times over the years, but you would be hard-pressed to find a piece of gear that had a better year than the venerable Spider Tour.
At the top of the Official World Golf Ranking as of December 21 are three names – Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood – and each of those players is using a TaylorMade Spider Tour. Scheffler won two majors with his and finished the season ranked 22nd in Strokes Gained: Putting, his best finish ever in that category. Rory McIlroy used a Spider to complete the career Grand Slam by winning the 2025 Masters. Tommy Fleetwood switched to a Spider Tour putter after the Masters, had a few close calls and then broke through to win the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup.
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Oh yeah, Robert MacIntyre, ranked seventh, and Ben Griffin, ranked eighth, also use a TaylorMade Spider Tour putter, making it half of the world’s top 10.
Titleist Vokey Design wedges
Titleist Vokey WedgeWorks A Grind lob wedge
Released just less than two years ago, there are a lot of Vokey wedges in play every week on the PGA Tour. And by “a lot,” we mean more than 55 percent of the combined gap, sand and lob wedges played in 2025 were Vokey wedges. That’s more than any other club in any other category.
But when it comes to Vokey wedges, it’s not just quantity, it’s also the quality of the non-Titleist staffers who quietly use Vokey wedges that’s impressive. The No. 1 player in the world – who won the PGA Championship and the British Open in 2025 – plays three of them. The winner of the 2024 PGA and British Open uses two.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: 2025 Golf equipment major winners popular golf clubs
