I've been playing a Diamond Tour ERC II knockoff & liked the feel alot. Very low center of gravity, right size head. Somehow I got the real deal @ Edwin Watts used for $40 shipped. The REAL thing outdrives the knockoff (which I liked alot) by 20-30 yrds. I've tried LOT's of drivers. This is the longest/equel to my Cobra 310 which was longer than anything previously used. I hit it a few times in the back yard yesterday & played 18 today. Found it very forgiving, even my mis hits were slight slices or worm burners that carried 200. My long drives 240-260. These people who claim to hit 300+ yds are full of IT! If you like samller profile (330cc) this is your ticket to get a $600 club for 1/10th of original cost!

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I have to admit that I'm not that great in golf, but I got this driver for a long time already. Yes I have to say that it's the pain at first to drive the ball straight. The driver's sweet spot is so tiny and the face is so curvy! of course it's very hard to hit it straight. But then with some adjustment of my stance and the way my downswing is, the ball just explode!!! and the best feeling is the "sling shot" feeling on a driver's face and the sound. The ball just seem so unstoppable. I think this driver is the real challenge. The lower body gotta be REAL still and not much force on the right hand swing easy and then you'll be looking at 300+ yrd or so. I'm still trying to master this challenge even tho a mis-hit suffers!

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None cuz this is the worse and the best i've ever tried.

While I generally hit this club well, I have snapped the shaft twice on clean hits. The first time, the shaft snapped between my hands. The second time, it snapped in the middle.

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Callaway just re-shafted my club, even though I am way out of warranty.

I got this driver used for about $200. What a waste of money. It's true the odd drive will go 300+ yards but slight mis hits suffer. For me a typical mis hit shot resembles a baseball curveball that rolls about 200yds. I can also buck slice it directly into the bush. My swing can produce better results with almost every other driver I've tried. If you don't find the sweetspot on every swin this is not the club for you.

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none were this bad The Cobra 427 is forgiving

It's the C-4 all over agin only this time it clicks when you hit it. What a piece of crapola. It did not have a good feel to it, it felt to me as though I was hitting the C-4 all over. It's way over priced and does not deliver what it promises. It's all about the hipe.

I carefully read every review and decided I would give the club a shot since the face was meant to be explosive.....who wouldn't be willing to take a little risk on the periodic negative reviews for the chance to hit a club or two less into greens? What a disappointment! Everyone who wrote in and said the club will periodically hit duck hooks is absolutely right. Yeah, I know, work on my swing - right? Well you know what, I never hit duck hooks in my life and every other club in my bag generally goes straight (or left or right if I hit it bad). This thing, I'll swear I put a good stroke on it and it dives down to the left - 200 yards with a roll - but real ugly. Besides, I'm a mid-80's player - not a scratch golfer. Most of the shots I lose to par are around the green. I never used to lose them off the tee with a driver. This club is supposed to help someone like me! Sure, every so often one will go over 300 yards for seemingly no reason - no joke. It's that occassional drive that kept me with it for 7 months! LISTEN TO ME - I'm like everyone else who tried to warn you off off of this club. We're not hackers - we're low teen handicappers trying to 'technology' our way toward single digits. This club not only does not help, it sets you back. After 'working' 7 months on smoothing my swing just so I could hit this thing without embarrassing myself, I gave up and got a GBB II 9.5* pro series. I had previously had a GBB 8* which I hit reasonably well, so I thought a return to the GBB series might work. Guess what? I've played 8 rounds with it and not a single duck hook. What a change from hitting several per round. Every shot flies 275 yds off the face down the fairway. If I put a bad swing on it, it goes left or right -just what I deserve. Maybe in the end it's simply the shaft in the ERC II. I really don't care. It was a waste of money and not designed for my skill level. Get yourself a GBB II. The stock shaft is just fine and it will leave you in the fairway or the first cut with a nice shape to the shot. I'm going to work on my pitching and chipping and get down to single digits now! As for the ERC II, I have no regrets. It forced me to work on my stroke, which is now smoother (although it did no good with that club)!...and I've given it to my 13 year old who has a 12 handicap....after a few months of frustration, I'm sure he'll bin it as well, but it will teach him a little humility in the meantime!?!

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I read how great the service is. Muust be in the US because in certainly sucks in the UK. I called their main office in Chessington to explain the problems I was having with the club. After acknowledging that it was not uncommon (!!?!?), they started quoting me all kinds of exorbitant prices to get the shaft upgraded. Well that's helpful?

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PLEASE DISREGARD MY REVIEW FOR I REVIEWED THE WRONG CLUB IN THIS SECTION. DO NOT LET MY REVIEW BELOW EFFECT YOUR CLUB SLECTION!!!!!!!!

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DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVER. This driver works well for about two rounds of golf, but after that it dies out and takes 10-20 yards off of the drive. Pros:The ball doesnt take off when the club is miss hit Cons: When hit staright, it only goes a maximum of 210 yards. After a few hits the paint on the top of the club starts to chip away. THIS IS A VERY INCONSISTENT CLUB

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This is a review about ERC Fusion.. What a Major disappointment!! After reading countless ad, from Annika to Charles Howell III, I initally thought the ERC Fusion is worth the purchase. Thus, I try the ERC Fusion on a demo day. It's bad. Callaway claimed that adding titanium to the C4 material will result with the customer prefer sound, yet it is not true at all; it's a very deep thud, almost sounds like hitting very solid iron shot. The so call Rainbow trajetory is also nonsense, because it takes skills to hit them, and I see maybe 1 out of my 10 shots to hit like that. Besides, the Titliest 983 K Driver that I demo hit 4 out of 10 Rainbow, or what the Pro calls Cannon trajetory, which means, little spin, long drive, lots of row after the ball lands. In short, ERC Fusion is not that long. One more thing about ERC Fusion, the stock shaft is not up to the standard in nowaday market place. Because the Inferior shaft that was provided by Callaway, I can't find a club that gives me balance, in fact, even the Callaway Sales Rep was speechless, after seeing me hit 3 Titliest 983K Driver 280 yards straight, two with Canon Trajetory, yet only able to produce 3 rather weak 250 yards fade with ERC Fusion. If you read my review to this point, you probably get the idea, the club is not that long, the sound is too dull, the shaft is horrible, and I used to be a big fan of Callaway, but now switch to other brands, because the other brands simply perform much better in every aspect. The only thing that I like is the look, but if I really go for the look, I'll go with Honma, which is now similar price as ERC Fusion - quite expensive. I also demo ERC Fusion +, the one that suppose to have hotter clubface, with COR over the U.S. limit, but again, it's disappointment, I can't see yardage difference, consider I have about average club head speed(112mph). Try it, and see if you agree with me.

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I read a lot of reviews about this club on this site, and some were pretty good (1 or two), but most were either one way or the other, but really not on the spot. I graduated from a Taylormade Firesole R80 shaft. I have a natural low 100's driver club head speed. The R80 shaft of the firesole was good in that it forced me to stay quiet through the swing, but was too tempermental when I overswung. I don't mean gorilla, just a little too hot, and since my natural swing is fast, I really needed to get out of the regular flex. The Callaway ERC II is an extremely well made club. Grip is nice, but I do find it unatural to leave the club face open on approach. My natural feel from the grip is to want to close the face. That's really my only beef with the club. So how long is this thing? That's what you really want to know, right? Well, don't listen to all these blow-hards who are saying they got immediate 30 yard gains off of their Taylormade, Ping etc clubs. Oh, this club is long, but the first 30 times I hit this thing I couldn't really get any signifcant gain in carry from my Firsole that I needed to swing really easy with. The overall distance was longer, but that was from roll-on. NOT EXACTLY WHAT I EXPECTED!!! After a bucket and half of balls I started to realize that this club is all about accuracy. YOU HAVE TO PUT THE SWEET SPOT ON THE BALL or this club is NO DIFFERENT than any other top club. Others have said that, but they really didn't stress the point like it should have been. It's obvious you have to hit the sweet spot right? Hey, I've been playing golf for 34 years, and I'm a 12-13 capper, and I've never played a club that was so sensitive to a particular spot. If you can repeat your swing with a HIGH LEVEL of accuracy this club will make a difference. If you cannot, this club will not advance your distance anymore than 5 year old technology (I.E. Firesole). Fact is the club head is huge compared to my Firesole, but actually has a smaller sweetspot (i.e. extra distance). The good news is that if you don't hit the sweetspot it still provides a nice drive. But that's NOT GOOD ENOUGH. This club is harder to hit than a club like a Firesole, so if you can't consistantly hit the sweetspot dead-on, than what's the point? In other words. I would never recommend this club to anyone with a cap over 10 without them going out and hitting a couple of buckets with their current club, and this club side-by-side. I love the club. But hey, I'm a macho pinhead who relishes a challange, and I love the fact that 1/4 drives will just jump off my club. But for people who aren't so testastarone driven, and just want to bang good drives out as consistantly and easily as possible this club should CERTAINLY not be added to your bag. Hope this helps you.

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Callaway Preowned Golf is highly recomended. Buy from them off of Ebay though.

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