2008 Hot List: Golf Digest Magazine

Your search for the game's hottest new equipment starts here. Take a look at the categories below to see the judges' choices. Golf Digest's annual equipment review — a year's worth of work, some two thousand clubs and balls hit over and over again — reveals the 130 most significant products in the game right now.
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With the USGA limits on drivers, who knows what we'll see during the next decade. Why should you wait? The future is now.

No two clubs are more prone to changes in shape and size than the fairway wood and the hybrid.
• Hybrids | Woods

We've broken irons into three categories geared to your game: Super Game Improvement | Players | Game Improvement

There isn't a club causing more consternation than the sharp-grooved wedge. The latest models offer something for everyone.

Mallet or blade, tricks we haven't seen since the days of Merlin make the classics and the new play better than ever before.

Two piece? Three piece? A standard ball? For now, we continue towards the path of optimization for the individual golfer.

After testing hundreds of products, here's our ratings of the best new golf equipment in 2007:
• Drivers
• Fairway woods
• Hybrids
• Irons
• Wedges
• Putters
• Balls