MIZUNO JPX EZ
Key technologies: ShockWave head flex, waffle crown, Quick Switch hosel Lofts: 15°, 18°, 21° Adjustability: +/- 2° Price: £219
PING G
Key technologies: Thin Carpenter steel face, thinner crown Lofts: 14.5°; 17.5°; 20.5° Adjustability: +/- 1° Price: £220
TAYLORMADE M2
Key technologies: Speed pocket, carbon composite crown Lofts: 15°, 16.5°, 18°, 21°, 24° Adjustability: None Price: £199
Given the ‘power is good’ diet we’ve been fed for the last 20 years, we can’t really be blamed for lapping up the yardage gains made by the last few generations of fairway woods. But perhaps distance, in fact, isn’t always as great as it’s often made out to be.
With driver parameters maxed to the legal limits, R&D has focused increasingly on building distance technology into fairway woods. Bigger,…