AC/DC…………….MOVE OVER!

While I am not the biggest AC/DC fan in the world, I am a fan that what I called a fad, years ago, has caught on.

And really caught on!

Years ago I was standing on the floor of National Golf in Spokane Washington when a strange shipment arrived. We had just got a new shipment of Cleveland wedges and I was in a fit of laughter over a new offering in the tried and true 588 series.

As I opened the package, I was met with a black headed wedge.

This blew me away. Why black? Weren’t chrome wedges working? I thought that they were strange looking at first until I realized that not everyone plays in the overcast conditions of the great North West.

I said it would never last.

Today, there are black wedges in my arsenal and you would not believe how the black color has taken over golf club equipment.

I won’t even go into the use of black as a color for driver heads, but is more than just wedges that are getting “blacked out.”

Of course if wedges proved me wrong, irons were close behind. Cleveland has done black headed irons before and this year they come correct with the addition of the “Black Pearl” line of CG7 irons. CG7 and CG7 Tour irons have been converted to the dark side of the force this year.

But that is not all. Adams has joined the dark side as well. Call them the newest addition to the “fad” that I once thought wouldn’t work.

Adams had a set of irons called Pro Gold a few years back and have created a new hybrid line out of that mold called the Pro Black hybrids. These are awesome. Sleek like a tie fighter and twice as fierce looking, these hybrids are beautiful. They are built with the better player in mind so they provide a piercing trajectory with fantastic feel, in the body of a supermodel.

Last but not least are the putters.

While a dark finish on a putter is not new, there are more options than ever to fulfill your fetish for the absence of light.

From Odyssey to Rife, Taylor Made to Yes, the putter market is awash with blackness.

The only actual reason I have ever heard for “why is black a better color than anything else?” is that black tends to make the ball “stand out” more because of the difference in color from black to white on green grass.

If that works for you, so be it. If you just like your world darker, then check out a few black golf clubs. They just might change your mind.

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