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FT5 Driver - About
FT5 Driver - About: Introducing the evolution of a revolution, the new FT-5 and FT-5 Tour Drivers from Callaway Golf. Fusion technology featuring a revolutionary carbon-composite material combined with a new, more robust, titanium cup face allows for an unprecedented 50 grams of discretionary weight to be precisely positioned in the 460cc club head. This allows for distance with accuracy like never before. The CT-VFT titanium cup face maximizes performance under the USGA new characteristic time test. The face is longer and wider, resulting in a larger, hotter face for exceptional ball speed. And it delivers a powerful, crisp, metallic sound at impact. The FT-5 Tour Model offers half-degree lofts and a slightly open face. This provides better players with a more pleasing look and increased workability. The optifit system allows for customization to promote a draw or fade, or neutral waiting for maximum workability. Plus, the FT-5 and FT-5 Tour Driver's components are part of Callaway Golf's patented Optifit Driver System, providing the ultimate fitting experience for players of all abilities. Stock FT-5 and FT-5 Tour Drivers feature advanced shaft designs by Fujikura, for outstanding feel and performance. The next level of distance with accuracy is here. The new FT-5 and FT-5 Tour Drivers. Callaway Golf, a better game by design.
FT5 Driver - Alan Hocknell
FT5 Driver - Alan Hocknell: This is the FT-5 driver, it's the best embodiment of our fusion technology to date in a head that has a more traditional shape. It embodies the titanium cup-face, which is extremely hot for high ball speeds all over the face and a light-weight carbon-fiber body, which allows about a quarter of the total weight of the head to be positioned wherever we want as designers inside of the head. Some of that weight, in fact, is here in this rear skid-plate and the rest we positioned, in order to produce draw, neutral or fade characteristics for the ball-flight, depending upon your swing type. When elite players use this club, which they do a lot an the PGA Tour, we can use that weight to produce ball flight characteristics that are very much tuned to their exacting requirements. We found that has been very successful in the hands of people like Phil Mickelson and we hope that will continue in the hands of all sorts of golfers in 2008.
FT5 Driver - Morgan Pressel
FT5 Driver - Morgan Pressel: Well, when I was out in Carlsbad, before I think they were even on the conforming list, they wouldn't let me take them with me, which I wanted to do, but I had a chance to hit both of their new drivers, so their going to come out there, the FT-5 and FT-I and they're two almost entirely different drivers. This one, we'll start with the basic one, is the FT-5, which is just an improvement upon the FT-3. It's a little louder because I think that they got feedback that a lot of people didn't like the sound of the FT-3. It's got a larger hitting face to keep ball-speed up with even off-center hits. This is the FT-I, which some people, upon first glance may think looks extremely weird. I actually like it, I think it looks, for alignment purposes I think it looks great. It's designed so that there are two weights as far away from the center of the club-face, the sweet spot, to reduce the twisting motion through the hitting area and increase ball speed and club speed throughout the moment of inertia which is the impact zone. So it's designed to be extremely straight. It's also, I believe, three-quarters of an inch longer, because it's so straight. They can add length to the shaft so that you don't lose control over the club and that it goes further.
