Ok. so you want to jump on the latest PGA Tour trend, and carry two drivers like Phil Mickelson. But you can’t drop a thousand dollars for two namebrand clubs.

You COULD, however, spend $200 and get a pair of Pinemeadow Tour 780 Ti drivers.

The Tour 780 Ti has a 460cc titanium head and a movable weight system that lets you set up the driver the way you want it. Included with the club are two six gram tungsten weights and two two-gram aluminum ones. Placing the heavier weights on the heel will encourage a draw, while palcing them on the toe will cause the club to tend toward a fade. Putting the heavier weights toward the front will produce a lower ball flight, while moving them back produces a higher one.

So with this syystem, you could set one up for a low, distance gobbling draw, while the other is set for a high, accurate fade.

The best of both worlds.

Just like Phil.

Pinemeadow Golf Tour 780 TI Driver

As with all Pinemeadow products, the Tour 780 Ti driver comes with a 30 day playability guarantee, so there’s no risk to you.

For me, Mizuno has always had the aura of high end clubs that I can’t hit. Maybe that’s because when I played with guys that had them, they were kicking my butt.

But Mizuno has been making some highly rated game improvement clubs in recent years, among them the MX series of clubs.

The MX-500 Driver builds on the MX Game improvement series, offering “high launch trajectory, optimum spin rates, and maximum ball speed.” It made the Golf Digest 2006 Hot List.

The technology that drives this begins with a graphite toe insert, a graphite crown and a perimeter weight slot, allowing Mizuno to distribute weight around the club head, and positioning the CG low and deep in the head. Six different CORTECH face areas generate high initial ball velocity for greater distance X-Sole design for solid feel and sound. The head ofers the maximum allowable USGA 460cc volume.

The heads come mounted on Mizuno’s new Exsar® 50 Graphite shafts.

MIZUNO MX-500 Composite Ti Driver

I thought the USGA had rules about clubs having to be of a certain “traditional” shape.  This pac man club from Nassau Golf certainly doesn’t look traditional, but apparently it’s all kosher.

The idea is brilliant. Take a chunk out of the back of the club and redistribute the weight to the perimeter. The only downside that I can see is that it would move the weight forward, rather than back, which is the opposite of what other club designers seem to be trying to do these days.

You should check out their site. They’ve got a lot of other interesting stuff, like a midget putter and a very strangely shaped iron.

I think I’ll write more about them in the future. They look like they’re in a contest to out-mad-scientist Ralph Maltby at the Golfworks.

MacGregor Golf made the Golf Digest 2006 Hot List with its MacTec NVG2 driver. MacGregor says that—because there are no welds on the face of the club—the MacTec has the largest sweet spot of any driver on the market. Three grades of titanium are used in the face, body and crown. The .6mm crown thickness has allowed MacGregor to move extra weight lower and deeper, moving the center of gravity down. Strategically placed tungsten weights increase the moment of inertia.

MacGregor also says that the club has a higher Coefficient of Restitution at every point on the face than either Callaway or Cobra’s drivers.

The venerable company—it’s 108 years old now—has by far the most high tech-looking of this year’s drivers. It’s almost got a Frankenstein Monster sort of look, complete with bolts and a blocky looking head. Still, I find it attractive.

What’s the difference between the “regular” R7 425 and the “TP” version? The TaylorMade Blog has the scoop.