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Hello,

I am farily new to golf and I am buying new fairway woods tommorrow. I was hoping that someone can tell me the difference between Stainless Steel and Titanium club heads on fairway woods?
I just bought a Adams 430q driver and want to buy the Adams Redlline RPM fairway woods (#3, #5) and was just curious if some can tell if there is any cons or pros between these 2 heads. and which one to pick and why?
here is the link for the fairway woods I want to get http://www.adamsgolf.com/fw_rlrpm.htm

Thanks

I read here that the titanium is bad on fairway woods, too lazy to look for the post. Just wanna say that i just bought the titanium #5 after owning the #3 for a year. Haven't swung the #5 yet, but the Fujikara shaft feels great. I have only been playing a year now, but very surpised to almost have smacked some dude on the green from 260 on my second shot on a par 5.

Is it true that titanium heads are harder to hit and due to the fact that the ball hits off the face faster than stainless steel, which in turns makes it harder to get the ball off the ground?

This has been discussed before. In a nutshell: the advantages of titanium fairway woods (most notably, weight) are far outweighed by their cost.

The bounce of the face is COR, and good fairway woods, be they titanium or stainless steel, will have the USGA legal maximum of 0.83.

Besides the titanium costing more, the only real difference is that titanium being a much lighter material than steel, allows the clubhead to be larger than the same weight in steel and they can shift the weight around internally. That can make it a bit easier to hit with a larger sweet spot and a bit more forgiving. That's the only real advantage in titanium drivers too, a larger, more forgiving club head than the same weight in steel. There's nothing "magic" about titanium. Cleveland offers some fine fairway metals in both steel and titanium. The only physical difference is that the titanium ones are a bit larger. If you hit both on the sweet spot, they feel the same. The titanium ones have a bit larger sweet spot.