Integra iDrive - latest square clone
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To those of you with a macho approach to golf - all beef and bragging rights - my optimum ambition to keep up with the moderate hitters and keep the ball in play (while giving away a few years) may appear a little tame.
But while golf is about exercise and companionship, it's also about the scores you write down after completing each hole and if you want to retain a reasonable competitive standard you need a driver you can rely on to give you both accuracy and acceptable distance.
In other words a club you can trust. It might not suddenly deliver 10 or 20 extra yards, a ball flight that penetrates a 40 mph headwind or the ability to rip it off a bare fairway lie to reach most par-5s in two.
But if you set up to the ball with confidence, make a smooth swing and hold your balance, it's good to know a driver's there for you, your best pal, a friend in a crisis.
This is how I feel about the Integra i-Drive, despite it being a clone of the latest Callaway FT-i (being tested by Phill Mickelson, Thomas Bjorn and Annika Sorenstam) and released a couple of months before its rival. It's big (460 cc) but not brash (plain black clubhead); it's square (like a burned bread crust) but it's cool (with a shiny, wide clubface). And almost without fail it finds fairways with uncanny regularity.
