Equipment: Game-Improvement Hybrid Irons from Adams

Adams Golf has always been known for super-game-improvement clubs and sets. Its latest in this category is the Adams Idea Tech OS Hybrid Irons set (pictured), a set of eight clubs - four hybrids and four irons - that incorporates adjustable weight ports, titanium, composite crowns and tungsten weighting in the neverending chase for higher MOI and lower center of gravity.

Here's how the set breaks down:

• 3 and 4 Hybrid iWoods: Adams' Hybrid iWoods come with a composite crown, saving weight up top that is repositioned to more advantageous areas of the clubhead to help produce a higher launch angle. These hybrids have a titanium face, plus a heel-biased adjustable weight port in the sole to help with swingweight and clubfitting options.

• Mid-Iron Hybrids: The 5 and 6 clubs are hybrids designed to help transition between the long iWoods and short irons, maintaining consistent yardage gaps in the set. They have a hollow head with composite back and a titanium face. Like the 3 and 4 iWoods, these hybrids have the adjustable weight port in the sole near the heel.

• TriTech Short Irons: A 431 stainless steel chassis is fitted with a titanium face in the set's short irons, which also come with a tungsten weight plug in the sole for game-improvement enhancements. The cavity back is filled with an insert designed to dampen vibrations at impact.

Right- and left-handed sets are available, and the Adams Idea Tech OS Hybrid Irons come with different stock shafts and grips chosen for the men's, seniors' and women's versions of the set. The MSRP for the men's version is $899 with steel shafts and $999 with graphite shafts.

Check the Adams Golf Web site for more info. Or compare prices in our Pro Shop.

Keep reading for info on a new fairway wood and hybrids from Callaway, and new balls from Srixon.

Callaway X Hot Fairway Wood, X Hybrids
These new clubs both build on the X series of drivers and fairway woods from Callaway. Here's a snapshot of each:

• X Hot Fairway Wood: The X Hot fairway woods are a stainless steel design with a face made of Carpenter 455 Steel, a lighter but stronger steel than traditional stainless for a hotter reaction off the face. The X Hot has a larger clubhead volume and shallower face, compared to the original X Series fairway woods, which translates into greater MOI and lower center of gravity for extra forgiveness. Also incorporated into the design is the "X-Sole," designed to elminated rocking of the clubhead at address.

  The X Hot Fairway Wood comes in a 15-degree 3-wood model, left and right, with Fujikura Banzai (slightly longer than traditional 3-wood shafts) the standard shaft. The Callaway X Hot Fairway Woods will be available at retail on Nov. 15 with an MSRP of $290.

• X Hybrids: The Callaway X Hybrids are stainless steel performance hybrids and incorporate many of the same technological approaches in the company's other X Series clubs, including the X-Sole. Models available are the 2H (18 degrees), 3H (21 degrees), 4H (24 degrees) and 5H (27 degrees). The standard shaft is the Callaway Golf X Hybrid graphite, but steel is also available. MSRP is $200 each with graphite shaft, or $175 with steel shaft.

You can learn more about these clubs by visiting the Callaway Web site.

Srixon Z-URC Ball
Featuring what Srixon says is the softest urethane-elastomer cover it has yet produced, the Z-URC ball extends Srixon's Z-UR family of golf balls. That ultrathin cover is designed for better spin control on approaches into and chips from around the green. The dimple pattern of the Z-URC is designed to encourage a high but penetrating trajectory. Jim Furyk and Karrie Webb are among Srixon's touring professionals using the Z-URC. The Srixon Z-URC golf balls carry an MSRP of $55 per dozen. Srixon Web site