The '100% pure Ti' label might have been the most fashionable label of recent years but tomorrow's space-age drivers will comprise ever more unusual concoctions from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Make that today's drivers. Yonex' star player, Phil Mickleson, is already testing the innovative Rekin Super II driver from the company who first pioneered exotic head materials in the mid-Eighties with graphite.

Their latest flagship boasts a '15-5-3 forged face', with the figures reflecting the percentage of molybdenum, zirconium and aluminium which join titanium here to create a 50% greater hardness than basic cast Ti.

And that apparently means another 15 yards (for you as well as Phil). And, with it's a full, 300cc head (and a price tag to match) who says the days of the mega-sized, mega-priced driver are over?

Price: £399
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