PGA golfer Phil Michelson may have just made a lot of money for Calloway Golf and other club manufacturers. Golf equipment is a huge business and most avid golfers are obsessive about keeping up with the latest gear. In the old days we played with a handful of clubs, sometimes mismatched and we played with them for years. But today’s high tech golf clubs are forgiving and increase distance. Golfer’s want to know “What’s in the bag?” The Bell Atlantic Classic is not a big name tournament. It’s a warm up to the Master’s where last year Tiger made lots of money for Nike by boomeranging a chip shot into the 16th hole for a birdie and spinning the ball so that the Nike logo presented itself for a close-up just before dropping in the cup. Actor Robert Wuhl said the other night that “the difference between baseball and golf is that in golf the players are straight but the equipment is juiced.” Technology has improved performance. The right driver can add twenty to thirty yards to a tee shot and everyone wants to hit the long ball. Three hundred yard drives used to be a rarity on the PGA tour. Now lots of lady pros can knock it three hundred. A while back the tour players started carrying three or more wedges to refine their shots from 100 yards in. But with distance overpowering courses and embarrassing architects when the tour comes to town and plays their layout in fifteen under par, golf superintendents are narrowing fairways and growing rough higher. This puts a premium on accuracy as well as length. Everyone wants a driver they can hit long and straight. Most golfers including the pros have a predominant movement to their tee shot. For a right hander it either “fades” (moves right of center) or “draws” (moves left of center). Pros also have a predominant shot but they also have the ability to change their swing slightly to change the direction of the ball flight to the left or right depending on the shape of a fairway. They can normally pull this off, but often they miss. Golf swing adjustments are in grams and fractions. So what did Michelson do in this week’s tournament? He carried two drivers. Very unusual. And to do so he had to take one wedge out of his bag as their is a limit in golf as to the number of clubs you can carry. One driver was designed to fade the ball; the other to draw the ball. No swing adjustment necessary. Phil Michelson shot twenty-eight under par and won by thirteen shots. Look for golf equipment companies to market the two driver concept soon. (It's sort of started already).