Callaway FT-IQ Driver

CALLAWAY FT-iQ Tour Driver

The clubs just keep getting stranger looking. I wonder at what point they run afoul of the USGA rule on the traditional shape and form of clubs:

The club must not be substantially different from the traditionally and customary form and make. The club must be composed of a shaft and a head. All parts must be fixed so that the club is one unit, and it must have no external attachments except as otherwise permitted by the Rules.

This one apparently is ok.

The goal of the Callaway FT-iQ—like all strangely shaped clubs—is to use geometry to raise the moment of intertia. That’s supposed to increase distance and accuracy on off-center hits. Callaway also has packed an entire mad-scientist’s lab worth of technology into the club. It’s got a “Hyperbolic Face Technology” that’s supposed to raise ball speeds across the entire face; “Face Fusion Technology”, which is supposed to create maximum perimeter weighting by fusing a carbon composite body to the titanium face cup; and “Complete Intertial Design,” which Calllaway says moves weight down and to the corners.

The key of all of this, though, is that the iQ Tour is designed to produce a lower, more penetrating ball flight than its cousins—clearly a club designed for better players.