2019-06-01_Golf_Digest

xxio

prime

▶ A lighter club can give you

the speed you lack, and this

club weighs 20-percent less

than most drivers, featuring

a 36-gram shaft that’s lighter

than most grips. $850

tommy armour

atomic

▶ The rare, ultra-durable

titanium alloy in the face

provides pop, and air foils

on the crown and aerody-

namic ridges on the sole

boost swing speed. $400

36 golfdigest | june 2019

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aybe the most amazing thing about golf-

club technology is that even with all the brain-

power spent coming up with different designs

over the centuries, new things still surprise us. Like iron

faces nearly as thin as strands of spaghetti. Or driver

shafts that weigh less than a car key. Or clubs made of

materials originally developed for rocket parts and arti-

ficial bones. Imaginative thinking like this is meant to

maximize design features for a specific type of player

while keeping the looks as classic as possible. That in-

cludes everybody from high-intensity, greyhound-sleek

scratch players to still-improving, silver-haired 20-hand-

icappers. TaylorMade’s Tomo Bystedt talks about the

company’s new mini driver this way: “Maybe it isn’t for

everyone, but for the people that like this kind of club,

this is potentially a game-changer.” Here are seven new

clubs to change your perspective and your potential.

tour edge

exotics cbx 119

▶ Better players asked for

a smaller fairway wood for

workability—without giving

up power. The answer: a tita-

nium face brazed to a spin-

reducing steel body. $300

ivory serra