words, this club is designed to be a hottie, too,
and it also makes use of lower CG to increase
ball speed, boost launch angle and reduce
spin, all at the same time.
Both XTD products are offered with
Mitsubishi Fubuki shafts stock, with the one for
the fairways weighing in at 65 grams and the
one for the hybrid tipping the scales at 70. The
fairway is available March 1st in 3-plus wood
( 13 degrees), 3-wood ( 14. 5 degrees) and 5-wood
( 18 degrees), right- and left-handed,
while the hybrids, which are
out in mid-February,
come in 17, 19 and
21 degrees. l
Adams Super XTD
fairway (right) and hybrid
The Adams Super XTD fairway and hybrid
employ the Velocity Slot Technology.
Adams Fairways
Shoot For Performance
BY JOHN STEINBREDER
The Adams Golf booth at Demo Day during
last month’s PGA Merchandise Show was fairly
buzzing, and much of that excitement cen-
tered on a pair of new clubs – the Speedline
Super XTD fairway metal and the Idea Super
XTD hybrid – both of which company CEO Chip
Brewer describes as “wow better.”
“Performance-wise, these are as good as it
gets,” he says.
The Super XTD fairway features a titanium
body fused with an ultra-thin titanium crown
that works with the company’s pioneering
design of speed slots on both the top and bottom of the clubhead. Adams engineers say the
combination creates a metal that is 36 percent
hotter than a traditional fairway – and nearly
as scalding as a titanium driver. In other words,
it is designed to be long, and that distance is
enhanced by the placement of tungsten weights
in the heel and toe to lower Center of Gravity.
Adams has done much the same thing with
its Super XTD hybrid, which utilizes a brazed
construction process to combine a one-piece
titanium crown and face with a stainless steel
sole. It also employs the so-called Velocity
Slot Technology on both the sole and crown to
help deliver driver-like CT, which stands for
Characteristic Time and effectively measures
the spring-face effect of clubheads. In other
