Yukon Anti-Slice Driver

Golfers slice balls because they can’t get the clubface back to square at impact. It’s really no more complicated than that.

So the Yukon Anti-Slice Driver incorporates two technologies intended to help you get things back to square.

First, it has five millimeters of offset. That means that the leading edge of the clubface is 5mm behind the leading edge of the hosel. What this does is to allow the golfer a fraction of a second more to square the face before impact.

The other bit of helpful tech is that the face is one degree closed. That also will help you get the face closed in time.

It also come sin inly 10.5 and 12 degree lofts. Higher lofts equal more backspin, which equal straighter shots.

The only other trick you could pull with this club is to cut it an inch or so shorter. A shorter club also will be easier to square. That’s why you slice your driver, but not your pitching wedge.

ADAMS Idea Pro Gold Hybrid with Matrix Ozik Graphite Shaft

The Idea Pro Gold Hybrids, Adams says, were designed with strong input from the tour pros who have made Adams hybrids the most played in professional golf.

Adams claism that the new “boxer” design, improved maraging steel face and new weighting system offer significant improvements over the previous line. The result is a club that has 5% more forgiveness on off center hits with a 10% improvement in launch conditions.

MIZUNO Bettinardi Black Carbon Putter

Mizuno has the reputation of producing some of the best-feeling irons on the planet, and they’ve extended that to their putters with the help of renowned putter designer Bob Bettinardi.

These clubs are milled from a single piece of carbon steel and outfitted with their Feel Impact Technology face. The FIT face area reduces the surface area of where the ball makes contact, delivering what Mizuno says is a solid, yet soft feel to every putt.

The black carbon finish is designed to cut the glare.

CALLAWAY Tour ix

This is the ball that so many seem to be talking about. Rocco Mediate says that the Callaway Tour ix is so good, “it should be illegal.”

The Tour ix is a FOUR piece ball, adding a tungsten infused outer core that’s supposed to shift weight away from the center (and adding tungsten certainly would do that), for reduced driver spin and straighter shots. The inner core is still soft, though, for the feel that players today seem to prefer. On the outside is a urethane cover with Callaway’s excellent hex pattern “dimples.”

I’ve been meaning to review the Tour ix, but at $45 a box, it may be a while before I give it a go.

CALLAWAY FT-i Squareway Wood with Graphite Shaft

Squareway Wood. Cute name.

Callaway’s “Squareway” design is supposed to position more discretionary weight to the corners of the clubhead, raising the moment of inertia for straighter, more forgiving shots. The club has a stainless steel face, sole and body with a lightweight carbon crown, allowing even more weight repositioning than the shape alone would allow. Callaway engineers have also made the clubhead oversized, for even more stability and accuracy.

If you can get over the odd shape, this might just be the thing for your fairway wood woes.