Golf World Monday - March 21, 2011

�debuts callaway has unveiled a pair of new balls—the three-piece hX diablo tour and two-piece hX diablo. the tour version features a core with a soft center that gets gradually firmer toward the perimeter, for less spin off the driver and more spin on short irons. the cover is made from a soft ionomer. the hX diablo is a low-compression distance ball with a firmer ionomer cover. both balls feature the company’s heX dimple pattern designed to reduce drag. the hX diablo tour sells for $26 a dozen, while the hX diablo is $20 a dozen.

�in the Pink … again paula creamer was up to her old tricks, using a pink-colored golf ball sunday at the lpga’s founders cup event. unlike in the past, however, creamer isn’t using a precept-brand ball, instead changing to a bridge-stone b330-rX—a ball designed specifically for swing speeds less than 105 miles per hour. creamer finished t- 2 at the founders, shooting 66 sunday. unfortunately, for everyday golfers, the pink-colored b330-rX is not available at retail.

�heavy lifting although most tour pros have been gravitating toward lighter driver shafts ( including some using shafts weighing less than 50 grams), sergio garcia bucks that trend. the spaniard got his 2011 pga tour season off to a promising start with a t- 15 at the transitions championship using mitsubishi diamana shafts in his taylormade r11 driver and taylormade burner superfast 2.0 fairway woods weighing a beefy 103 grams—the heaviest in the field.

�on the radar although clubs from large equipment companies make up the majority of what is in play on the pga tour, once in a while a lesser-known company makes inroads. that’s the case with fourteen golf. at the transitions, rocco mediate had a pair of the company’s sf-206 fairway woods in the bag, and fourteen recently signed arjun atwal and chad collins to its staff. matt kuchar also uses a fourteen hybrid and

62-degree wedge.

�club quirk one of the issues some european players deal with when they play in the united states is the conversion of distance from meters to yards. alex cejka, who finished t-57 at innisbrook’s copperhead course, is one such player, but he came up with a unique solution: he had the yardage he hits each of his callaway X-forged wedges stamped on the back of the clubs. To see Cejka explain this and other aspects of his bag, click here for the video.

equiPment// e. michael johnson
callaway’s new balls, sergio’s shafts, cejka’s math
transitions championship// winner’s bag

�in the bag
(Gary Woodland’s lineup)
ball: Titleist Pro V1
DRIVER: Titleist 910D3 (Aldila RIP
90), 7. 5 degrees
3-WOOD: Titleist 909F3, 15 degrees
2-IROn: Titleist 503i, 18 degrees
IROns ( 3-9): Titleist MB; (PW):
Titleist Vokey Spin Milled C-C
WEDgEs: Titleist Vokey Spin Milled
C-C (54, 60 degrees)
PuttER: Scotty Cameron by Titleist
GSS prototype