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Welcome to the first issue of Golf Club Revue Monthly. We hope you find it helpful. We'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions, and if you have a tip, we will try to include it in the next newsletter. Feel free to pass this along to your friends. We'd love to have more golf lovers join us. To your golfing success...

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Tip of the Month...

When asked whether he thought "puring" was beneficial to a golf club shaft, Frank Thomas, Golf Channel Equipment guru had this to say:

"I’m no “purist.” To my mind, a shaft that needs to be “pured” is a bad shaft to begin with.

Frank went on to say...

If you were making a decision about what to put into your club, I’d suggest that you’re better off getting a shaft that does not require "puring" in the first place. A better quality shaft may give you more peace of mind but since you’ve already had your shaft "pured", and cannot detect any difference in performance then my advice is not to worry too much about it."

Check out Frank's website here.

Reader comment...

One of our readers had an interesting comment about the SkyCaddie:

"Rick:

I received an SG3 for Christmas. Luckily the weather has been warm so I got a chance to try it out a couple of times and have been really pleased with
the ease of use and the information you can get for each hole, especially if
it is a 4 star course. The only draw back is that you have to be careful how
much you play with the SG3. It's like a toy. You can have an adverse effect
on your speed of play, contrary to Peter Jacobsen's ads, because you want to use all the options available.

I have found out one thing from using the SG3. My distance is not as long as
I thought. Reality is a killer on the ego."

Bob LaPorte

Here's some more information about the SkyCaddie.

The New Square Drivers...
Is It Hip To Be Square?

You've probably heard about the new square drivers. As one golfer commented..."Looks like a tank on a stick." Another said it looks like an upside down brownie pan. Anyway, what's up with these clubs and are they good enough to get us to play these ungodly looking clubs?

The idea behind this technology is that when you move the weight in the club head away from the club face you create a more stable golf club that won't twist on mishits. This is called greater Moment of Inertia (MOI). Greater MOI should lead to more center-of-the-face contact and theoretically make the ball go further and straighter.

With a square head you now have places to move the weight that club designers never had before. I guess you could say manufacturers have gone to extremes with the theory and this new square design.

Both Callaway and Nike have already come out with clubs using this concept. More will probably follow. Nike has the SQ Sumo 2 and Callaway has the FT-i. They won't be available until February but there is already quite a buzz about them. Golf Digest has given each club a "Gold" rating in it's Hot List for 2007. There are already clone versions available too.

The Sumo, or SUper MOment of inertia, has already been seen on tour with K.J. Choi winning with it at the Chrysler Championship in November. It manages a very high MOI because of it's massive size (almost 5 inches square) and it's carbon-composite crown insert. We haven't heard if Tiger, a Nike endorsee, will be using one yet. Should be interesting to see.

One Golf Digest tester said "It has a nice high ball flight...Better players would rate it a 6 out of 10, but high-handicappers might like it." What that says to me is it's forgiving and long but might have too high of a ball flight for a good golfer.

The CALLAWAY FT-i is a little smaller than the Sumo but still moves the weight into the back corners to achieve it's high MOI. It also uses a titanium face with a carbon-composite body to get the weight out to the extreme edges. At a street price of around $500 this baby better deliver. We'll have to wait to see it hit the streets before we can get some feedback.

Even though the Sumo is not available it has been reviewed on some golf forums. On GolfMagic.com. Bob Warters and his buddies took the Sumo and a clone version out for a test ride. They said all the clubs were long and straight and might actually live up to the hype. In particular he mentioned..."It's not perhaps what a leading manufacturer like Nike Golf would want to hear, but first impressions comparing the company's latest SasQuatch Sumo (traditional shaped) and Sumo 2 (square-headed) drivers and a cheaper copy - the Turbo Power XQ MUTO 460Ti - detected little difference in performance." With the new brand drivers selling for between $400 and $500 dollars and the clone selling for under $100 it makes you wonder if all those endorsement dollars are getting a little out of hand. I guess that's a discussion for another time.

Well get ready golfers. The square headed drivers are coming and we'll get to see if they are worth the money. Watch your local golf dealer or check back at Golf Club Revue to get the scoop. Hit 'em straight.

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