Callaway has added to it’s line of graphite topped clubs with the Big Bertha Fusion Fairway Wood.

The club’s steel face and sole combine with the carbon composite top to keep the center of gravity low and back. The result, Callaway says, is the ability to hit a ball with a penetrating flight from almost any lie. Fusion Fairway Woods include patented Callaway Golf technologies, including Variable Face Thickness (VFT(R)), Short Straight Hollow Hosel (S2H2(R)) and Tru-Bore(R), all of which are important in optimizing feel and ball flight while increasing forgiveness.

Big Bertha Fusion Fairway Woods come with the Callaway Golf Fusion NVS from Aldila(R) graphite shaft, available in Light, Regular and Stiff flexes.

Adams RPM Low Profile Fairway woods continues its line of “upside down” profile woods—a tradition which extends back to the original “Tight Lies” clubs (and purists will argue that actually go back to the Concorde clubs). The clubs feature a flared twin-rale sole design, which Adams says reduces ground interferene by 54%.

The clubs come in two flavors: the standard, in which 28 grams of weight are positioned low and back; and the Draw, in which the same weight is placed in the heel.

I’ve always thought that Adams clubs were extremely easy to hit, although I also have concluded that I didn’t hit them as far as other manufacturers woods. If you have trouble getting your ball into the air with fairway woods, these may be the trick.

The Adams Redline RPM Titanium Fairway Wood has what Adams says is the lowest center of gravity of any fairway wood on the market. By moving large amounts of weight from the crown to the sole plate, Adams can deliver increased ball speed, better launch angle and a higher spin rate.

Adams says that the result is a club that delivers longer, hotter shots.

TaylorMade is adding to its amazingly successful line of adjustable weight woods with the R7 Steel and R7 Ti fairway woods.

The R7 steel is a more compact, traditionally shaped fairway wood. Adjusting the weights allow the user to develop either a neutral shot, or a draw. TaylorMade says that shifting the weights can create a movement of up to 15 yards.

The R7 Ti offers a larger, more forgiving clubhead. As with the R7 Steel, players can shift the weights to create either a neutral, or right to left ball flight. 

The r7 Steel is available in Tour Strong 3-wood (13°), 3-wood (15°), 4-wood (16.5°), 5-wood (18°) and 7-wood (21°) at a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $300 per club with graphite shaft, $270 per club with steel shaft. The r7 Ti is available in 3-wood (15°), 5-wood (18°) and 7-wood (21°). for $400. Both will go on sale in April 2006.

TaylorMade now says that it has something for everyone in its moveable weight technology line:

“The r7 TP is engineered with a smaller head and a higher CG, features that are typically favored by skilled players like tour pros,” said Todd Beach, TaylorMade’s director of metal wood development. “We wanted to make Movable Weight Technology available in fairway woods that are easier to hit, which is why we created the r7 Steel and r7 Ti. The r7 Steel is similar in size to the r7 TP but features a precision-positioned CG and shallower clubface that combine to make it easier to launch on a high, long-carrying ball flight. Likewise the r7 Ti also features a low and deep CG that makes it easy to launch high and long, plus its larger size adds forgiveness, making it even easier to hit than the r7 Ti. Now there’s a model of r7 fairway wood for every type of player that wants to take advantage of the distance and accuracy made possible by TaylorMade’s Movable Weight Technology.”

I had a terrific opportunity to play with the R7 TP fairway wood this last summer and will attest to the ease of play and sitance offered by that club. I can only imagine that the new clubs—especially the Ti, with its larger head—offer even more forgiveness.

Adams Golf has introduced a new line of fairway woods with a low profile design, and Adams signature Upside Down Technology. Like all Adams clubs, they’re designed to be extremely easy to hit.

I’ve always liked Adams’ products in terms of their ability to get the ball in the air, but felt that they didn’t give me as much distance as some other brands. I gave up my Adams GT 3 Wood when I started playing the TaylorMade R7 Fairway Wood largely because I thought it offered a better forgiveness/distance ratio.

I haven’t been able to try any of Adams’ new offerings, though, so it might be worth taking a look.

The full press release is below: