Quadrant Open Championship 2003

Advantages: Tiger Wood eat your heart out
Disadvantages: Will not be popular with your bank manager

...for proof on the supremacy of this driver, consider that by the middle of August 2004, the r7 driver had registered 12 wins worldwide, including three major championships and seven PGA Tour wins. Vijay Singh used the driver to win the last major of the 2004 season, the PGA Championship, two weeks ago. Other players on tour who have embraced the r7 drivers are 2004 Buick invitation winner Sergio Garcia, 2004 US Open winner Retief Goosen and the Volvo PGA winner Scott Drummond, 2003 Master winner Mike Weir and the longest driver on tour, Hank Kuehne. If the r7’s sticker price turns you off, you may have to stick to lead tape for another year or two before prices come down. The trick is in knowing where to place the lead tape. Applying it to the club toe leads to fades, while tape applied to the heel results in draws. Lead tape applied at the back... Read review

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Advantages: Goes FAR further than the average golf ball
Disadvantages: Can only be used successfully by the top players

...~ ~ It’s appropriate that I should be writing about the new golf ball from Titleist, the Pro V1x, as I sit watching the last nine holes of the 2003 U.S. Master’s Championship at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. As I type, past Master’s champion Vijay Singh has just launched yet another absolutely enormous drive of well over 330 yards down the 10th fairway, leaving him a relatively simple pitch shot to a par 4 that measures all of 490 yards, and which ordinary mortals could only dream of reaching in two shots. (Singh has just birdied the 10th hole, by the way) I mention Singh, as he is one of more than 50% of touring professionals who are now using the Pro V1x in preference to any other type of golf ball. ~ ~ The Titleist Pro V1x is the successor to the Titleist Pro V1, which Titleist launched back in 1996... Read review

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Advantages: Very, very bright; Build quality
Disadvantages: Large; Ugly

...Bike lights have been coming on in leaps and bounds recently, with LEDs starting to be exploited to remarkable effect. The Blackburn have shown the benefits of that evolution to the full with their Quadrant front light. As it suggests the name Quadrant means there are four LEDs mounted in this space-age looking contraption. If I'm looking to be picky I'll list this here and now as the only drawback to the light - it's ugly, really ugly. And it's pretty big as well (it has to be, it's powered by four AA batteries), though it managed to fit in between some gear levers and a bell on the bars it was mounted on). But with that out of the way I have to move on to the extensive positives with this light. I bought it because I'd recently convinced my girlfriend to start commuting to work by bike, but the impending dark nights were shaking her... Read review

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