Callaway drivers with the X-factor

Callaway X460 driver

We've had variable face thickness, interchangeable weighting, welding of two different metals in the clubhead - everything imaginable for a driver to hit the ball, longer, higher, straighter, closer.

Whatever will they think of next?

A Consistent Alignment Sole - that's what. It's the latest 'revolutionary, innovative and unique' X-factor in medallion golfer-man's quest for dominance off the tee.

And Callaway claims it has got it exclusively.

The company reveals today its latest X460 driver to be available in the UK and Europe on March 1, featuring a 'distinctly-designed' patented sole plate which rests on the turf for ease in aiming the clubface and stabilising the clubhead.

And as the X460's more than 10 per-cent larger than its predecessor, the Big Bertha Titanium 454, it has allowed engineers to move even more weight in the head to resist twisting to deliver 'more consistent trajectory and more accuracy off the tee.' The result: More distance, more often, they say.

Alignment sole shown at address

Other features, including an updated variable face thickness (VFT), take to club to 'the edge of legal limits'.

The X460 will be available in nine 10, 11-degree models, as well as an HT (high trajectory) version with a standard Fujikura 64-gram graphite shaft in light, regular and stiff flexes. An X460 Tour version (with square face) 'for better players and with a preferred trajectory' comes in 8.5, 9.5 and 10.5 lofts with a Fujikura Tour Platform 26.3 shaft in regular, stiff and extra stiff flexes. Left-handed versions of the X460 driver are available in the nine and 10-degree lofts. The left-handed X460 Tour comes in 8.5 and 9.5-degree lofts only.

Suggested cost is likely to be £239.

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