Gear Smart

Callaway Golf Global Director Brand and Product Management of Golf Balls and Packaged Sets Jason Finley joins this week's episode to chat with Ryan about golf ball development over the years, increases in visual technology in balls and more.

Golf broadcaster, podcaster, and author Shane Bacon joins this week's episode of Gear Smart to chat about being a lefty, playing baseball as a righty, caddying at the Old Course for a summer after college, tinkering with clubs, old school drivers, the first big club purchase he made and more.

This week Ryan opens the show discussing the many new releases from this week in gear, including Cobra's Chipotle Collab, new Wilson Wedges, and more. Then its a deep dive on questions sent in from listeners.

Ryan breaks down Bryson's unique irons used during the PGA Championship, dives into Titleist's sneak peek of their latest T-series irons debuting on tour this week, and chats with Callaway Tour Content Manager Johnny Thompson on all things gear.

R&D veteran Jeff Sheets joins Ryan Barath on this week's episode to discuss building clubs, driver designs, playing with blades and more.

Nico Darras of Golf Blueprint joins Ryan on this week's episode to talk about their shared loved for gear, how he got into the game, the proper way to get fit for clubs, and how a study on golfers' central nervous systems helped him improve his players' practice and performance.

Ryan chats with Titleist golf ball R&D expert Courtney Engle and Golf Ball R&D Project Manager Doug Jones about ball flight, testing, spin axis, materials and more.

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Skratch's Gear Smart, a golf gear and equipment-focused podcast intended to help make you smarter about your equipment to help you make informed decisions on the golf course, in your next fitting, or when you're looking to fill that next spot in your bag. To kick off this new series, host Ryan Barath - Skratch's Gear Editor offers up some background on himself a...