Golf Equipment

Companies like Taylormade, Callaway, and Titleist spend millions of dollars every year in designing new and better clubs that will help get the most out of any player's Golf game. However, Golf Digest rated the Titleist 910D2 and D3 as the best drivers this year. They feature an adjustable hosel that allows the clubs' loft and lie angle to be adjusted to 16 different settings. Using thinner crowns lower their centers of gravity, and result in greater distance through a more powerful stroke. The D3 features a narrower clubface to help reduce in-flight spin. Both clubs run about $400.

The highest rated player, game improvement, and super game improvement iron sets are the AP2 710 series by Titleist, the Taylormade Burner 2.0's, and the K15 set from Ping, respectively. Each set offers the best quality and features for their individual markets. The latter set contains all hybrids and features a weight pad inside each head to increase the moment of inertia (MOI), or when the club strikes the ball. This allows the K15's to be very forgiving to nuances in a less-seasoned swing. Using a titanium clubface not only adds distance, but also is lightweight, and the saved twenty-seven grams are moved to the sole and perimeter for a club that will compensate well for an off-center shot. Price: $1100

The Taylormade's custom black finishes set them apart and distinguish them as a sizable step up from a beginners set. For the well-rounded intermediate player, The Burner 2.0's couldn't be touched in precision and improving mid-short game. The low-numbered irons have oversized clubfaces, and the whole series feature lightweight grips and ninety-gram featherweight shafts that push the center of gravity down. This helps achieve more a greater swing momentum and MOI. Coupled with oversized clubfaces, they make for very forgiving irons. Each club's shaft also features different flexion, from stiff in long irons for control, to flexible in short irons for launch. Taylormade's Burner 2.0's also look very distinctive with a carbon-fiber-on-gloss-black mystique that's impossible to ignore. Price: $700

For the most serious of golfers, look no further than the Titleist AP2 710's. They feature an aluminum and elastomer pairing in the cavity to help cope with bad vibrations on impact. The clubs also feature a two-cavity design, which pushes weight towards the outside of the club head. This equates to more power and steadiness throughout the stroke. Price: $1000