Category: Drivers
Articles and informationa bout drivers fromT aylorMade, Nike, Titleist, Callaway, Ping and others.
Acer XP 905 Composite Titanium Driver
In the Acer XP 905 Comp Driver, Hireko has replaced most of the titanium in the crown with a lighter carbon graphite material, allowing more weight to be repositioned on the club’s perimeter. This increases the moment of inertia, creating more forgiveness and higher ball launches. At 460cc, the club also features the maximum allowable volume by the USGA.
The GolfBlogger happens to really like the looks of this one.
With Hireko’s online fitting, you can get the club made just the way you want it, choosing shaft flex and length, grip size and grip type.
Hireko golf clubheads are not clones, but original designs made with top quality materials. They’re so sure you’ll like the clubs that they offer a 60 day guarantee.
GigaGolf Ozzy 460 Ti
The Ozzy is a 460cc club with a low profile and large footprint that’s constructed of 6-4 forged titanium. The larger head size is going to produce a greater moment of inertia, so that off center shots still will produce decent results.
When you order from GigaGolf, you can customize your clubs with a variety of options, including shaft and length, grip and grip size. And all GigaGolf clubs come with a 30 day playability guarantee.
TaylorMade Burner TP Driver
I had a chance to try one of these during a group golf lesson that I was taking at a local course. The pro brought out a bag of clubs when we were warming up and offered them for us to try.
The Burner TP has got sort of a different look about it—almost as if they took one of their more traditional pear shaped drivers and squashed it. But I hit it well. The thing I liked best about it is that the ball flight was relatively low. Since I hit the ball high—often too high—that was a real boon.
The TP version of TaylorMade’s Burner driver is sold as the same club that TaylorMade’s pros use. To this end, it’s got the same swing weight and launch conditions and Fujikura shaft. Normally, I would say that pro ine clubs are too much for a mid handicapper like me to handle, but my TaylorMAde TP 3 wood is my favorite club, and the Burner TP Driver I tried
The driver uses what TaylorMade calls its SuperFast club technology. That’s supposed to offer a lighter weight and longer clublength for higher clubhead speed. And, of course, it has TaylorMade’s Inverted Cone Technology, which is supposed to expand the sweet spot and increase the effective moment of intertia. I’m a big fan of the Inverted Cone Technology; it simply works. I play a TaylorMade Driver, three wood and irons, and on all of them, even off center hits tend to fly in the direction of the target.
Hireko Golf’s Oxygen Type X 460cc Offset Driver
The Oxygen Type X Offset titanium driver is designed to help the mid to high handicapper get the most off the tee. With a 460cc head—the highest allowed by the USGA—the Type X offers a gigantic sweet spot. This means that you will get better results even with off-center hits.
The club also features an offset hosel, which pushes the center of gravity further behind the shaft to allow the head to square more easily. Internal weighting inside this model moves weight even further rearward to lower and improve spin rates for greater distance.
The Oxygen Type X comes with Hireko Golf’s 60 day playability guarantee, so you can try it without risk.
Adams Insight BUL Driver
Adams Insight BUl driver is designed to offer the benefits of the new square drivers while maintaining a more traditional shape.
Adams says that its engineers developed the Insight BUL driver to achieve a MOI of 5,000 resulting in more forgiveness, and through this forgiveness, more accuracy and distance through this unique geometric design. By moving the mass as far away from the Center of Gravity as possible, Adams increased the moment of inertia (resistance to twisting) to 5,000.
“With the Insight BUL Driver, we were able to maximize the two important MOI measurements of the clubhead; MOIy, the vertical axis, and MOIx, the horizontal axis,” said Tim Reed, Vice President of Research and Development. “By strategically shaping and weighting the clubhead we were able to increase the stability for increased forgiveness while producing a CG location for optimal launch conditions.”




