As I mentioned towards the end of my last article I finally managed to make it out to the driving range and work out which of the two drivers I have I would rather play with. Up until this point, I have not hit a driver in over four years, and have not hit the drivers I was trying out. Since I was a bit shorter (a foot actually) the last time I hit a driver, I was finally going to whack appropriate adult clubs. The two I am using in this article are my dads. He doesn't play much anymore, and luckily after the day was over the one I liked better was the one my dad preferred NOT to use, so he got his driver back for whenever he does play.
The two drivers were decent clubs. The first one was a Mizuno Forged Titanium T-Zoid Blue Rage 350 driver with 9 degrees of loft. This is my dad's preferred driver, and in fact he admits that it's the only driver he was ever able to hit well consistently. The other club was the Callaway C4 Big Bertha Composite Head driver with 10 degrees of loft and a larger club face.
The differences I've noticed between the two clubs, aside form the obvious loft differences and the fact one is titanium and the other is composite are rather subtle. The Mizuno has a stiffer shaft than the Callaway, however you can pick and choose what stiffness you want for the Callaway. The C4 I am using is the "Regular" shaft stiffness which is the middle of the 5 tension choices, so you could get it with a stiffer shaft. Also, something I liked about the Mizuno was that the titanium head made that nice "PiiiNG!" sound when you hit the ball. The composite C4 made more of a knock-whallop noise, but that's just because of the differences in materials used.
In the end, the Callaway Composite head was easier for me to hit consistently. By the time I was done with my bucket of balls (I got the biggest one they have which holds about 110 balls) I was hitting them straight down the middle and they were either hitting the back fence or going over it. I was pleased with the result.
--Tom K.
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