TAYLORMADE DRIVER BURNER YOUTH DRIVER
The first step is to individually test every single driver face to see how far over the limit it is.
TAYLORMADE DRIVER BURNER YOUTH DRIVERS
That seemingly critical detail aside…Rather than getting all Fast and Furious, and trying to tune the driver to the limit, the new M5 & M6 drivers start too fast and are then throttled back from the limit. Actually, what TaylorMade is claiming is that its drivers ship over the COR (Coefficient of Restitution) limit, which is an odd distinction given that CT (characteristic time) is the actual USGA standard. TaylorMade’s latest driver face is by design, built to be over the legal CT limit.
Slow injected is the more accurate description. Previously referred to here as #ScrewFace, where do we start with this one…įirst, Speed Injected is a bit of a misnomer. The Solution: Speed Injected Twist Faceįrom the company that brought you Speed Pockets, Inverted Cone Technology, and Twist Face TaylorMade is excited to bring you Speed Injected Twist Face. With the new M5 and M6 TaylorMade looks to put an end to all of that while promising that golfers who buy its new drivers will end up with a head hotter than what PGA Tour pros had in the bag last year. Tour Issue heads have long been touted as being hotter than off the rack heads, and the market for them is lucrative for the select few who deal in the bits and pieces that somehow find their way off the tour vans. What you can’t order is a head that’s been tested to ensure its at the CT limit. You can order a digitally lofted driver from PING to ensure you get the loft you want or a hand-picked head from Tom Wishon. Manufacturing tolerances, while improving, still mean individual parts can miss the target lofts by upwards of a degree. We all know by now that if we buy a driver, the likelihood is that the actual loft isn’t what is stamped on the head. Tolerances for loft are something golfers have long been aware of. Outside of getting your driver face shaved (not exactly a conforming solution), there’s not much a consumer can do about it. Those manufacturing realities are fine as far the rules are concerned, but it also means that the driver you buy is probably well short of the limit. So, if they set the target CT safely below the USGA limit, any faces over the target CT would likely still be under the USGA limit. If companies produced drivers that aimed to deliver absolute max CT limit, they’d inevitably produce a certain percentage that exceeds the USGA threshold. Despite nearly everyone claiming otherwise, manufacturing tolerances mean they can’t be.
Driver faces aren’t actually at the limit of performance – not all of them anyway. At the very least, you haven’t been told the whole truth.Ĭobra touched on it last year with its CNC milled driver faces. It’s been said that we’ve been at the limits of COR, CT, ball speed, firepower, or however else you’d like to describe it for a long time. The company has identified a problem and offered up a unique solution.Ģ019 may well be remembered by equipment geeks as The Great War for Ball Speed. Are M5 and M6 the drivers that help TaylorMade get back on top? TaylorMade believes so. TaylorMade had a good year too, despite experiencing some growing pains following their sale by adidas. That’s in addition to new offerings from Titleist, Wilson, Srixon, Tour Edge, PXG, and seemingly countless others.Ĭallaway and Ping had fantastic 2018’s at retail. There’s a convergence, like a golfing solar eclipse, where for the first time in years Callaway, Ping, and TaylorMade are all launching their flagship drivers at roughly the same time.
We’ve already said we think 2019 will be the best year for drivers ever.
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