Big Bertha Callaway

Callaway Big Bertha 460

Street Price: $300.
Lofts: 9, 10, 11, 13HT.
Key Technology: Its wider body and flatter crown are designed to approach the USGA’s five-inch-box size limit, and Callaway says the shape produces the highest MOI of any all-titanium driver in the company’s history.
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Although the rash of promotions offering free fairway woods with the purchase of a new driver signaled some measure of desperation in the golf industry, it might have been a suggestion that the appeal of the fairway wood has been waning, and anything to prop up interest (including giving them away) [...]

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Ed Lane of St. Louis has a very good question about this year’s Hot List:
I usually put a lot of weight into your club rankings, which is why when I knew it was time to replace my relic 3- and 5-wood TaylorMade Burner fairway woods (I’m talking about the bronze looking ones), [...]

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There is no easy way to decide which kind of iron is the right style for you. But rest assured, there are differences. That’s why we break down our review of irons into three categories.

To analyze performance, we had golfers test a 6-iron from the Player’s (Ping S58), GI (Ping G10) and [...]

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This quote from sportswriter Jim Murray recently appeared on a popular golf blog: “A golfer on the scent of new clubs makes Don Juan look like a dependable nine-to-five type, the marrying kind. … He’ll dance with every girl at the prom.”
Murray had the attraction part right, but if you’ve been to [...]

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What’s the hot driver on tour these days? Well, for some players, it’s a club with a head about 200cc, roughly the size of the original Big Bertha. It also has more loft than they’re used to, somewhere between 13 and 15 degrees. Finally, it doesn’t go as far as their 9-degree, [...]

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