Let the big dog eat! For me, these are the most fun clubs to swing. If you don’t feel the same way, then this summary is especially for you.
The 1st thing I look for in a driver is something with a big ol’ forgiving clubhead, but not so huge that it looks like I could be ironing my clothes with it. I also am more partial to the traditional pear shaped clubs (see below) then the crazy geometric shapes, but that’s just my personal preference, some of my friends really love the new aerodynamic clubhead designs.
Aerodynamics – For those of you less interested in choosing the shape of your ball flight and just looking to hit it straight and long consistently, I would recommend trying one of these clubs shaped like a jet wing. My two favorites are the Taylormade Burner SuperFast and the Adams Speedline Fast 10.
Adjustable – Another great advancement in driver technology is the adjustable driver head. I was late to get on this train, but now I’m leading the charge as well as most of the low handicappers that I play with. The most popular is the Taylormade R9. My good friend Brian bought one of these about two months ago. He adjusted the driver head slightly closed. When his typical fade became a draw he added 20 yards to his drives. (It is not something that I am really excited about, because he is hitting it further than me now.) I also like the adjustable Mizuno MP-630 FastTrack.
Workable – Finally for those of you who like to make the ball talk and adjust your ball flight to the specific hole, you should stay away from the gargantuan driver heads. Titleist still is the best choice for playability. The traditional pear shape 909s are the way to go. The 909D2 is the bigger of the two at 460cc. The 909D3 has a smaller 440cc clubhead that provides for a lower launch angle and the ultimate in workability.
I have to come clean: I've never been a big fan of the MachSpeeds. They have improved them, though. Both the square and round ones have bigger faces with more aerodynamic shapes. Nike has dialed down the extreme shape and made it a bit sleeker.
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I will say that Nike has improved this driver over last year's model. The face is larger, and the shape is sleeker. Having said that, it's like saying Toyota improved the Corolla. It's still a Corolla.
And like a Corolla, this club will get you from ...
When it comes to hot faces, I rank Ping and Nike at the top. There is no science behind this opinion -- just my own experiences and those stud golfers that I play with. One of those said studs in my foursome showed up with this driver earlier ...
Oh, oh, oh, an ice cold milk and an Oreo cookie... They forever go together…
I apologize, but there is something about the color scheme of this driver that makes me sing that song.
I had an opportunity to hit this driver last month at the driving range after a nice ...
There's no doubt that this driver was the best new product of 2011. I see these Oreo cookie-looking things all over the place. They're on the Tours and all over the muni's that I play. Maybe it's just that I notice them more because they stand out ...
PGA Tour Pro Phil Mickelson plays this driver, and Alvaro Quiros won the 2011 Omega Dubai Desert Classic with this bad boy. 'Nuff said, right? Do I really have to write a review?
Okay, fine here you go… Callaway and Lamborghini joined forces to bring you this ...
The RAZR Hawk is designed for golfers who want a cannon in their hands. The 460cc head is more than 6 yards farther then Callaway's FT 9. It has all the pop and forgiveness that modern technology can provide. Although the driver is a little more ...
Nike drivers (going all the back to the Ignite) have really hot faces. The ball explodes off the face better than any other manufacturer I've seen.
This 2011 VR Pro is the second generation of this driver whose claim to fame is the compression channel at the bottom. ...
Attention Slicers: This is your driver.
The S3 Max has several devices built into it to help fix that banana ball and fire it straight down the fairway. The biggest thing they've done is offset the hosel so that the club face is already closed a little bit. ...
The nice thing about Cobra Drivers is they are reasonably priced. This game-improving S3 has all the modern technology to hit the ball long and straight without the prevailing price tags of most of the market leaders.
Let's talk about some of that modern technology. The face ...
US Open Champion Geoff Ogilvy swings this driver. That's a pretty good endorsement. You might remember Geoff, the thin Australian that who has also won three World Golf championships.
Everything about this driver screams playability. It is designed for elite players who want to work the ball, not ...
Dear Santa,
Remember me? I’m the one that promised you that if I got the Sky Caddy last year, I’d quit throwing my clubs and fix all my divots and ball marks. And for the most part, I stuck to our deal. Surely you can understand me losing my temper last ...
This driver is so light, it comes with a leash for you to tie around your wrist. (Not really, but the driver is one of the lightest ones on the market.) It weighs in at a willowy 290 grams. Wait.. Where have I seen that number? ...
As golfers, we are all -- or most of us anyway – searching for that extra length in our shots, but none more so than the driver. If you have followed golf club technology with even the barest of glances over the past few years, you’ve seen some remarkable improvements in ...
As the race for more distance in golf continues to rage on, Nike has entered another driver option into the market. The SQ Mach Speed Driver with its sleek black head is a take-off the original SQ design from a few years ago. The basic idea behind the SQ series ...
The (simplified) formula for distance potential of the golf club striking a golf ball is: M x S2. (For the formulaic challenged, M Mass and S Speed). Thus, the way to hit the ball farther is to increase either the Mass (weight of the club) while maintaining ...
Driver technology: an area that could send a NASA engineer into orbit, much less the average golfer just looking for 10 more yards on his tee ball. Cleveland golf makes another entry into this market with the Cleveland Launcher DST Driver.
This driver features what Cleveland calls "MaxCOR Face ...
"Smooth" is what Wilson named this new driver. Based on their literature, the name mostly has to do with its smooth, mostly understated styling. With a head size of 460cc, this driver compares with most others in the current market, but it doesn't have much of a "wow" ...
The variety of drivers available today is simply staggering. How do you know where to turn when there are great choices from every major manufacturer: TaylorMade, Wilson, Cleveland, Nike, Titleist, and of course, Ping? Despite the myriad of choices, don't fail to give the Ping K15 Driver model a ...
This driver offering from Callaway employs a myriad of their technical features including Fusion Technology (FT), a combination of a carbon-composite body with a titanium face cup, and Hyperbolic Face Technology. There is a lot going on with this driver, and I'm sure Callaway has spent millions of dollars ...
I gotta tell ya, the new look of the R11 is growing on me. It's a white crown with a black face. I didn't like it at first, but after watching Jason Day at the Masters, now I'm thinking of buying the driver and the ...
I like this TW914 the best of all the Honma drivers that I’ve reviewed. It more closely resembles the golf clubs that I’ve seen on the PGA Tour. I really the black clubhead, and the sound it makes at impact is “Tour Quality.”
It is designed for players with fast swing speeds, but ...
If you drive a big ‘ol V8 truck, then here's your chance to get a driver to match. The sole of the driver is a "V." The idea is to get as much weight as possible to the back corners of the club. This raises the ...
This Hex2 has a very unique shape that I haven't seen before. When I first looked at it, I thought of one of those measuring devices they use in department stores to get your shoe size. Remember you'd pull out your nasty funky foot and ...
I’ve read that Honma drivers can add up to 50 yards to my tee shot. WOW! I also hear that Jack Nicholson, Roger Clemens, and Donald Trump play these sticks. Guess I’m going to have to try ‘em. Anybody have Jack’s number?
Don’t be surprised if you haven’t heard of this driver that ...
"May I have the password, please? If you want to come in here, you are going to need three forms of I.D. and have at least two notarized signatures from accredited Japanese dignitaries."
You have wandered into Zipgolfer.com’s VIP room, and this driver that you are gawking at ...
I like Tour Edge products because they are usually on the cutting edge. With this Tour Edge XCG-4, I'm not seeing any new material, just a different combination. The head is made out of titanium, carbon fiber, and tungsten.
Now, class, if you've been reading in your ...
Titleist is getting on the adjustable club bandwagon. And it's about time. The trend towards longer, straighter drives consists of tweaking your driver to each individual golf swing. I give you the 910 D2.
Titleist and I were on the same page for a sometime. We purists felt that ...
I can't believe my eyes. TaylorMade's new 2011 driver is going smaller! What happened to the modern day adage "bigger is better?" I just assumed by 2011 we'd have clubheads about the size of microwave ovens.
Au Contraire, my young apprentice -- TaylorMade is abandoning this theory for ...
This driver has received liposuction! That's right; the good folks at Cleveland are taking more weight out of their 2011 drivers. The theory is: lighter is longer. Duhh! When was the last time you saw a beer-bellied couch potato outrun a ninety-pound Kenyan ...
I just finished watching Robert Garrigus pound monster drives with this new TaylorMade Burner SuperFast 2.0 during the 2011 Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Maui. The driver jumps out at you because it's very unique-looking with an all-white crown and a charcoal black face. Garrigus lost in a playoff to Jonathon ...
Callaway and Lamborghini (yes, that Lamborghini) have joined up to bring you a new material. It's a forged composite. It's the lightest, strongest, most precise material used to date (in a golf club or an automobile).
Woah! Now that a good starts.. I’m intrigued. Gettleman, start your engines. ...
What does this Lamborghini and the new Callaway Diablo Octane Driver have in common? They are both made out of the exact same material. I kid you not! What's more is these two successful companies are joining up in hopes of helping each other make the next giant leap in their markets. My knowledge ...
This Cobra ZL is a sick long! In the pursuit of more yards, Cobra uses all the latest technology to build this monster driver. Let's take a look at what they've done.
The designers took out titanium and added graphite in the crown and sole sections so that the ...
This is the big-headed version of the popular R9 TP Driver. The maxed-out 460cc adjustable driver gives you the adjustability of a ginormous clubface.
With TaylorMade's Flight Control Technology (FCT), you can change the head to eight different positions. FCT will give you up to 40 yards of ...
This Mizuno MP 630 Fasttrack is another one of those adjustable drivers. It has the most options of any of the drivers I've seen so far. With ten different positions for two 8-gram weights, the MP630 has 45 different trajectory settings. Wow!
It's pretty easy ...
"Don't swing angry!" as my golf buddy, Joe, is fond of saying. Usually, he mutters this sarcastic statement after I just three-jacked the previous hole. Ironically enough, some of my straightest, longest drives come when I'm fuming over a three putt.
This Rage Driver makes no bones ...
You are looking at the Tour Edge XCG-3. This is a high tech work of modern engineering. Hence the large price tag. It's my job to tell you what you are getting…
This is a big freaking driver that hits the ball a mile.
Any questions?
Alright, here's what's ...
This club is a bit pricey, but for good reason. Owning this driver is like owning five or six different drivers, because it has TaylorMade's Flight Control Technology (FCT). FCT will give you up to 75 yards of right-left variance, 3 degrees of variance in ...
Now that club makers have maxed out the size of our drivers, the latest trend is aerodynamics. How else are we going to add clubhead speed to those toaster ovens on the end of a stick?
The TaylorMade Burner SuperFast uses extra length and extra speed to give you ...
Ahh, I love a Titleist Driver. Let's just get this out there: I'm a Titleist guy. (No, I'm not paid by them -- but if they want to make me an offer, I'd oblige.) However, I've played more Titleist clubs than any other ...
Vroom Vroom. You're looking at a Ferrari. This bad boy looks like it can really go, too! The question is: can you handle it?
Let's take a closer look. The ball really jumps off of the face of this driver. The high MOI combined with ...
With all the gargantuan 460cc drivers, this R9 TP is a breath of fresh air with its 430CC head. I like this Taylormade R9 TP Driver because it's a more compact club head. What happened to actually trying to work the ball with your driver instead ...
Hey, check it out: If you purchase this driver, you get a free pack of Starbursts! Mmmm, yummy. Wait.. Check that. This driver uses something called "Starburst" variable face technology. I'm not sure what this is, but Srixon says it increases the C.O.R. by ...
This Callaway Diablo Edge Tour Driver face was formed using an "acid chemical reduction" process. Wow! No wonder they call it “The Devil! Talk about hi-tech — I wonder how many scientists it took to build this thing.
The idea is to extend the sweet spot across the entire face. ...
I was out playing golf with my buddy Dino last weekend and I noticed he had added this Ping G15 to his bag. I really like the Ping G10 and couldn't wait to hit it. However, I did wait until the first par 5 to ...
This driver is the best driver that you've never heard of. Fourteen is a company out of Japan that's been around for 30 years, but it's just now bursting on the scene in America. You are going to want to get this driver in ...
This Cobra S2 Driver has a huge, hot face! The driver is specifically designed to give you the same ball speed across the entire giant clubface.
The way they accomplish this is with their "9-point Face Technology." Let me explain. (Please turn in your text books ...
Sing it with me, "He's going the distance... He's going for speed." (Don't know that one?)
It's all about speed with the new drivers these days. This FT-iZ is triangular-shaped. This crazy shape is for aerodynamics. With driver heads getting bigger and bigger, the club ...
Two of the best golfers that I play with, both bought one of these Ping G10 drivers last year. Joe and Nick are both single digit handicappers, that have very quick swing speeds and they hit the ball a mile.
The two biggest reasons this club is so popular is because ...
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