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Best Golf Clubs Of 2010 Part 3 - Fairway Woods

Before I let you into the main topic, I was telling about white coloured drivers and Cobra introduced a Limited Edition last year and I was telling about the a new driver the R11 from TaylorMade which comes in a ghostly white I was wrong. Wrong in that they are not releasing one but two white drivers in the R11 and the Burner 2.0 probably from April. Have a peek here on the R11. If you are doing r5, you are behind the times. r7 too as the R9, R9 460, R9 SuperTri, Burner Super Fast have already happened so quickly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvwT4LNaPVM Most drivers come in black, a few in dark hue of grey, occasionally dark blue and at times deep red. The black paint job they splashed on the crown of drivers are made glossy so that it looks attractive to you rather than Matt but you take note that glossy crowns is a source of distraction to the eyes when looking down at it with the sunlight's reflection. Immediately, a white coloured crown will not have that effect on yo...

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When I started golf, the golf set was fixed, dated and dead. They give you a driver (no. 1 wood), a 3-wood and a 5-wood followed by 3-9 irons and a pitching wedge, a sand wedge and a putter. That's 13 clubs when you are allowed up to 14. Some of us find that those old 3 and 5 woods are not ideal for hitting from the fairways and they have introduced a thing called a fairway wood and we wanted to experiment with it. Now fairway woods can come in different numbers for a variety of distance and therefore if you are looking at a 3-wood, it is usually a 15 degrees that comes today in 43 inches length which is just 2 inches short of an average driver length of 45 inches. It is all well and good when you use a fairway wood for teeing off but using it off the deck from the fairway is another matter. You will often hear folks talking about how well they could tee off with a 3-wood with a result of 10-20m less than if you were to use a driver. That is the natural order of things. Why? ...