Ozzy Moto square-headed driver

The golf club folk get itchy feet if more than a few months goes by without some new design grabbing the headlines. Now that large clubheads, composite crowns and hybrid clubs are so 2006, it seems square-headed drivers might be the newest thing to entice you to open your wallets.

On the clone golf club front, it’s the Ozzy Moto (formerly called the XQ Muto) that features this technology. The shape of the 460cc of clubhead takes the more boxier approach you might be familiar with from Nike’s SasQuatch Sumo or Callaway’s FT-i drivers.

The theory behind the shape has to do with the idea of MOI or Moment of Inertia. This is simply the idea of a club’s resistance to twisting. The higher the MOI in a club, the higher its stability and thus the less likely it is to twist when you hit the ball. Or put in practical terms…the higher the MOI, the straighter your shot.

The concept is very key in putter design where you really do need the ball to go where you intended. MOI and thus stability is improved when you have weight placed out and away from the clubface and center. That’s why you see those rings and bars on modern putter designs like the Xeon M5.

Drivers traditionally go for a teardrop shape. However, the new squarer design in the Moto gives the engineers space to put more weight into those corners, thus improving MOI.

That means the Moto encourages straighter, more accurate shots. This is great if you’re looking to reign in those wild drives. But highly-skilled golfers might find it helps too much and prevents them exercising a little shotmaking flexibility. Not a problem for most of us though.

So the Ozzy Moto certainly makes a lot of sense for those looking to send the ball further and straighter. But less sense for those already getting a lot of distance from a fast swing. The other advantage of the Moto is the price. As a clone club, it retails for around $99 (see GigaGolf for pricing and technical specs,) compared to three to four times that for one of the main brands.