1998 saw the much-publicised controversy over the so-called 'spring-like effect' which, the USGA claims, can lead to a few extra yards when certain flexible clubfaces makes contact with a yielding golf ball. But while the top companies continue to argue about the very existence of this 'trampoline-style' propulsion, Liquidmetal Golf has taken the opposite tack. Their method of concentrating the atomic structure of their high-tech alloy (which blends titanium, zirconium, nickel and beryllium), results, they claim, in twice

the normal energy transfer between their ultra-rigid (and ultra-priced) clubfaces and your unsuspecting golf ball. Even if you can't afford the driver - or the £2,000 set of irons, or even the £335 putter - why not turn up to watch the convincing Pure Energy Transfer Test at selected outlets? For nothing.

Price: £485 (driver)
Contact 01959 545704.

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