Dynacraft Avatar XMOI Fairway Wood

Dynacraft Avatar XMOI Fairway Wood - Custom Assembled

I’ve built and played with a large number of Dynacraft golf clubs over the years. The company originally was in Newark, Ohio, and I visited their tiny showroom (the front of a larger warehouse) on several occasions as I traveled from Michigan to visit family on the East Coast. Not a clone or knockoff company, they did original designs for custom clubmakers (like Golfsmith and Ralph Maltby’s Golfworks). Dynacraft was, in recent years, bought by a much larger company, Hireko Golf, which has continued the original designs.

The Dynacraft Avatar XMOI is a good example. Hireko writes:

Our design aim was to create a driver that possessed the highest moment of inertia (MOI) implemented to date. From the first detailed initial drawings begun at the end of last year, to CAD, to the first sample received back in the early part of summer ’08, we produced a head that had an MOI of over 5400g-cm2. We could have stretched the MOI close to the highest allowable limit, but we wanted to maintain the normal 200g head weight we use on our other driver models.

The extra large face area is augmented by a taller face height than most high MOI drivers on the market today and it will boost even more confidence off the tee. We exploited the full potential of the size as it looks larger than any other driver in our line to provide for the maximum stability on off-center shots. In addition, the Avatar XMOI driver produces both a pleasing sound at impact and brilliantly sculpted traditional shape which will be preferred by a wide range of golfers seeking maximum distance and accuracy.

The best part is the price. In these toughening economic times, the $180 fairway woods of some manufacturers don’t make sense. But the Dynacraft Avatar XMOI is right around $50.