Fact is, a metalwood’s shelf life is a lot shorter if you’re a tour pro like Fox, who ranks among the top 20 percent on tour in driver ball speed at 180 miles per hour.
The Titleist GTS fairway woods feature more composite than in past models with the lightweight piece wrapping around the crown to the sole. The saved weight allows for adjustable heel and toe sole weights, two different shapes and face heights and deeper centres of gravity and higher launch compared to previous models.
TaylorMade has launched the Shadowfall Collection, an all-black limited-edition range across Qi4D drivers, fairways and P790 irons focusing on unified design and unchanged performance.
Callaway is expanding the Quantum line-up with two clubs aimed at finding something more versatile and forgiving off the tee than a traditional driver, without giving up performance.
We ran Ping’s most recent fairway woods, hybrids, utility iron and long iron on a swing robot at two different swing speeds and attack angles to determine how much head delivery at impact affects launch, spin and carry.
Cobra’s OPTM fairway woods and hybrids are engineered around optimised Products of Inertia (POI), a design philosophy focused on delivering greater stability, forgiveness and consistency through precise mass distribution.
A healthy percentage of average golfers are playing too little loft on their lowest-lofted fairway wood, and our Hot List testing reveals that more loft is going to be a better choice more often for as many as a third of all golfers.
The Cobra Darkspeed fairway woods and hybrids use an L-shaped face that wraps around the front of the sole combined with an internal weight bar that’s suspended like a bridge low and forward in the head to create the ideal blend of high launch and low spin with more speed all across the face.
Fundamental to each of those offerings are the unique face designs that maximise distance and ball-flight needs for four distinct golfer groups, ranging from tour players to grandparents.
Australian Golf Digest
