Cleveland HiBore XL Tour driver - Performance that`s hard to quantify
Released on = May 1, 2007, 12:25 pm
Press Release Author = GolfPublisher Syndications
Industry = Media
Press Release Summary = The high-tech Cleveland HiBore XL Tour driver is impressive, but less than perfect. Gear reviews at GolfInstruction.com
Press Release Body = By Kiel Christianson, Senior Writer, Golf Publisher Syndications
The Cleveland Golf HiBore XL Tour driver looks funny to some, lovely to others. Likewise, this golf club\'s performance seems to rack up impressive stats while leaving some testers less than overwhelmed.
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (Apil 30, 2007) - Cleveland Golf started out in 1979 producing replicas of classic golf clubs, but made its name with wedges - excellent, PGA Tour-preferred wedges. Since the turn of the century, Cleveland has expanded its offering to include some of the most innovative designs in golf, including the groundbreaking HiBore line of drivers and fairway woods.
These clubs are immediately identifiable by the \"scooped out\" crowns of their club heads. The theory behind the swooping, flowing design is one of weight redistribution from the crown to the sole, resulting in a lower center of gravity and a higher ball-flight with less backspin but more carry.
The newest incarnation of the HiBore, the HiBore XL, is engineered to alleviate one of the reported weaknesses of the original model: club head stability. The HiBore XL features a larger, wider, deeper sole plate, shifting weight farther back and distributing the mass of the club head a bit, for more torque-resistant MOI.
The result is a solidly performing driver that can run with all the other big dogs on the market.
How does the Cleveland HiBore XL play? We tested the HiBore XL Tour model ($349), which has somewhat different specs from the standard HiBore XL ($299). The Tour model features a 440cc club head (rather than the 460cc size of the standard model), a 3-degree open face, a 1-degree flatter lie angle and neutral internal weighting, whereas the standard model offers slicers a slightly closed face and a draw bias
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April 30, 2007 Any opinions expressed above are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of the management.
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