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In persimmon days, steel shafts were shorter than today's graphite shafts, so that accounts for the longer drives of today in my opinion. Actually, nothing feels and sounds as sweet or gives the control as well as persimmon. Put a modern persimmon head on a modern graphite shaft, and you have the best of both worlds. Try a Louisville Golf driver sometime. There's nothing magic about titanium...being so light, it allows larger club heads that have obviously larger sweet spots. So I would say the main thing I have gotten out of the modern 460cc titanium drivers is that they are easier to hit, but I think the modern persimmon is more accurate. I play both. I get a lot of chuckles out of the OEMs trying to make last year's driver obsolete with the "new" models they come out with every year. I think there is only so much they can do with the modern 460 titanium head. They can move the weight around, change the shape a bit, ect., but overall, they all have pretty much reached their peak technology, I think. The same goes for modern irons. But they have to convince you to buy the new models to stay in business. You can pick up some fabulous bargains on last year's models, or even models a couple of years old. I can't tell two cents worth of difference in most of them from the latest offerings.