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welcome back to "golf life." we're standingat bali hai golf course, and colton, what a better way to get off the tee than a brand-newdriver for 2016. >> it's one of the greatest feelings in the world, hitting it straightdown in the fairway. >> it really is. we wanted to take you guys out and show you some ofthe leading product out there right now. colton went around the pga show. we talked to differentfolks. >> yeah, we talked to engineers of

bali golf, those bigger companies, as well as marketingmanagers and c.e.o.s of the smaller companies. and what i found was the innovation and theforgiveness of these drivers is now making driving fun again. >> it really is. let'sgo around the pga show and talk to people about the new drivers for 2016. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ourkey design principle for 2016 was to make

a really forgiving driver that was also fast,and that's kind of the sweet spot for players because they want to hit a lot of fairways,but they are not willing to trade distance to do so. so, one of the things we did iswe reached out to boeing. this is the largest aerodynamics company in the world. they makeairplanes. they make fighter jets. they make drones. they make things that go fast. andwe thought maybe they have some ideas about aerodynamics, and we worked with them on anew feature we have on the xr 16, which is called a trip step, and we're calling it ourspeed step crown, and what that does is, as the air goes over the top of the driver, itactually helps it reattach to the back of the driver, making it very, very fast. andwhat this allowed us to do is unlock the m.o.i.,

so we could stretch out the shape and makeit a very, very high m.o.i. driver because boeing worked with us to make it very, veryfast. so, you combine that with our new r-moto face, and we're really, really excited aboutthis driver launch. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is complimented to m1, really. it kind ofstarted on the same platform. when you set down this m2 driver for the first time, itlooks very much like an m1. it has that multi-material construction, a carbon-composite crown. thisis really proprietary, the carbon that we make here. it saves weight and allows us tomove down to the bottom of the sole. whereas an m1 you have this ability to personalizeit with all the movable weight and such, this one, all that weight savings is isolated intoone spot. it's low and back, and that provides

a lot of forgiveness and ball-speed protectionon the face, so essentially we're making an extremely forgiving version of the m1. youwalk in, you say, "hey, you know what? i hit it all over the face. i don't really wantto mess around with all that adjustability." the m2 is gonna deliver that hot trajectorybut gonna provide that extra forgiveness. we work every day to try to provide more performanceto the golfer through innovative ideas and technologies, and if we stop doing that, we'regonna stop being on the top, so we're gonna continue on that path. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> oneof the things we know about performance of metal woods and irons as well is center ofgravity is one of the most important specs to focus on. so what we've done with the kingltd line is focus a lot on improving the center

of gravity by taking weight out of the topand front of the club and moving it down and further back. so, this design incorporatessomething called a spaceport. we actually had done research with cases on the internationalspace station around spaceport technology, plating technology, and other things to giveus a little inspiration. we also have some key technologies on the inside of the clubto help us save that weight. so, the spaceport can be removed and you can see inside thegolf club. it's actually also a lens, but you can see inside the golf club without takingit off. what we wanted to do there was show off some of the technologies that give usthe best c.g. and inertia properties in golf today. this club has a very high inertia -- about4,700 inertia points -- and a very low c.g.

we call it a zero c.g. driver. so, it's verylow c.g., which gives it a great speed, high launch, low spin, and great forgiveness, somethingthat nothing else offers in the market today. >> the new g driver, i think the first placeto start is this very unique design on the crown of the driver. so, john solheim, ourchairman and c.e.o., sent us a picture of a dragonfly, and we were inspired by that.he said, "let's learn from that," and so we created a very thin exoskeleton design thatallows us to create our thinnest crown thickness ever -- 17 thousandths of an inch. we kindof broke the barriers for how thin you can centrifugally vacuum-cast titanium. so, theend result -- seven grams of weight-savings, 20% thinner crown. we located all that masslow back for a deeper center of gravity to

launch the ball higher in the air.