Hit the fairway more than with any other driver I have used,one round every fairway that I used the driver on, this is on a tight course where people say that if you can play this course well ,you can play any course well.
Way too expensive as compared to other high quality drivers… Read Full Review. With this driver you don't have to do all the work it helps you, it has a nice club face that let's you connect with the ball. Overall it's appearance isn't the best but it warms on you. It's hard to see the black and red combination when it's flying through the air at mph. Some people think it's ugly, open your eyes to a new style!
A great golf club for all players… Read Full Review. I absolutley loved it from the second i hit the club. Once I got comfortable with a weight setting - Draw Bias - and put a ProForce V2 high launch shaft on it I couldn't be hitting the ball further or straighter. I'm a rhythm player, don't crush the long ball but this has taken me from to and that's a huge difference at most municipals you'll play.
Thank you Taylor Made and thank you to all who've written honest reviews, they helped… Read Full Review. I truly like the superquad and you can purchase more weights for an infinate adjustment… Read Full Review. I was a guy who was frightened of hitting a driver, they could go anywhere and I would tee off with a 3 wood. Then after watching a friend tee off with his superquad, he hit it so far and accurate I had to buy one.
I set the weights in the draw position to help my slice and it worked great. I now have every confidence from the tee and the balls usually go straight down the middle of the fairway. Great product… Read Full Review. Nice club and it looks great too. Long hitting, straight hitting and smart sized head with a sleek design… Read Full Review. Remove the four weights on the bottom of the driver.
There are two yellow 2-gram weights and two red gram weights that can be installed in multiple combinations. To get more fade, install the gram weights on the two outside positions closest to the toe of the club. It was a no brainer. Budget is a huge factor in what goes into a weekend hackers bag.
Just finding what works for you and you are comfortable with is more important than dropping huge coin on all the newest equipment in the market. Would prefer to see this kind of test done with a Robot rather than players. Only care about what the club is capable of, so eliminate the player variable. Robot can be set to swing at different speeds Right? Shafts can be swapped out Right? It feels perfect, weight wise and is sweet and forgiving at impact.
S, I saw a recent Australian golf show segment where a 10 handicapper golfer hit 10 shots with an R7 and then 10 shots with an M1, with trackman and computer analysis and the only difference in the results was the spin rate of the R7 was about higher than the M1.
Yardages were almost identical, within 2 or 3 metres when I saw that, I knew I was hanging on to my R7. COR keeps distances in check for many reasons and one is for the enjoyment of the game. Distance does not equal improved scores. If you can get that, focus on the club you can do that with the most accuracy.
Bomb and Gouge works for tour pros because their wedges and putters are money. Here is a question that I would consider related to this topic and one I have yet to get a definitive answer to. The question I have is do the heads on drivers lose anything as they age? I mean a club that is used season after season as a primary driver. How about shafts? Is there any loss of distance using the same parameters? It seems to me after a couple of seasons of full-time use, something is lost.
I suspect this is due to perception rather than reality. The testing done here could help answer my question since I am guessing the 10 year old drivers were all used clubs.
How about the shafts. New or used? Finally, how many people buy a driver just so they can show up on the first tee of a new golf season sporting something shiny and new in their hands? I for one no longer see any justification in buying new drivers. The odd yard increase from one model to the next is just not worth it. Something to note from this. None of these drivers were custom fit. So one could argue you could gain even more than 14 yards of distance with the m1 over the Superquad it may be argued there other way around too but from a starting point it would need to first make up the 14 yards before you can think about beating it.
On the topic of dispersion. Yes the Superquad wins that hands down. BUT the M1 is designed for fine tuning so dispersion should be easily dialed in. People just simply stating that 14 yards is not much of a difference are forgetting that that over one whole club longer and is a big difference when is comes to a 6 iron or a 7 iron and if properly fitted maybe even an 8 iron!
For 2 HC players like myself that is a big difference front hitting to the middle of the green to actually going after the flag. Hi Joe. I understand the argument that 14 yards is an important improvement and means an iron shorter for the second shot.
But do you realise that the 14 yard improvement is over a 10 year period. How many models has TM sold during that term? I realise I am a Doubting Thomas but such a small improvement over such a long period of time makes me wonder why anyone would believe the marketing campaigns. But I guess a lot of you do. Each year the average increase in distance is only just over a yard.
I wonder what the total increase the TM marketing claimed over that 10 year period. Mygolfspy must have that info to hand. I know the average yearly yardage increase was just over the yard, but what I was looking for was the total yardage increase claimed by TM during that 10 year period.
All I am trying to do is sort fact from fiction — fiction being another name for marketing! Where they do improve or try to is making the face more forgiving and producing lower spin in more of the face while working within the parameters of that smash factor. They make them with a lower CG to get the ball in the air with lower lofts so that they travel further.
These irons are exclusively for the higher HC player in mind to give them as much help as they can. Yet it seems most lower HC players bash them at every opportunity out of jealousy that a hight HC player can go out and play a decent round for their skill level.
For me I love the fact that such irons are out there as my wife would have never taking up the game of golf otherwise. We can take out clubs with us when we go for a weekend away and play a round of golf together.
Almost 20 years ago when we first met I done my best to get her to play golf but she hated it because she felt she was useless at it and slowing everyone down when she could only hit a 7 iron about an 80 yards slice.
Roll on 20 years and she loves that game thanks to the great help she gets from GI irons. It would be interesting to add all the incremental yardages TM claimed for all of the drivers between the R7 Superquad and the M1. I have the feeling it is more then 14 yards,. I play a Cleveland HiBore xl. Tried replacing it 5 times in the last 3 years and always went back to it.
Thanks Tony for another thought provoking article. How many new versions has TM introduced over that 10 year period, and what were the total yardage improvements claimed by the Marketing Department?? Had a fitting a couple of days ago through Titleist.
If anything, the R felt more solid with a better more piercing ball flight. Saved some coin. There still around I bought one in the wrapper 6months ago. They show up on ebay once and a while. Still one of the Kings of ballspeed. I still use the R7 stiff and wouldnt change if for the world, so what i may be 14 yards behind the M1 but sometime you can be too long!
Short game far more important! Yes there is a change! More than tech its the golfer in me i aged for a 9 years since r 7 superquad to m1.
I understand now its not the equipment but the golfer behind the equipment! U can live without the extra 20 yards but you will seldom win without it! At the time, my I was struggling mightily with my swing, and that was a 20 handicap swing when it was working. I could not hit any club close to pure. I was window shopping and decided to try SQ because I loved the all black look?.
I was crushing it. However, I think I if we really want to see how far technology has taken us, testing each club in the ideal set up for each swinger is very valuable information. A great deal of the technological advancement is the adjustability. I can optimize the spin rate, launch angle, etc. Well…It looks like my wife will be gaming her pink SuperQuad for awhile and the spend the bucks on more fricken shoes. OK, time to chime in. With that disclaimer out of the way, let me just say from personal experience, the M1 and M2 give much more distance.
The technology is vastly different than the days of the Cleveland Launcher which was awesome in its day. This is due to lower spin off the club face and increased roll. To me, the first RBZ driver was easiest to control. SLDR was more accurate than the M1. But the new M2 is the best so far. SLDR had a major problem.
But I found it easier to hit than the M1 Until I changed to a fujukura x-shaft. But, do yourself a favor and try the new M2 demo. I got 20 more yards from it. Same shaft. Robert, the really interesting part of your post is that you play shorter shafts. You are a Pro and probably can square the club face better than most. If you get better performance with a shorter shaft as a pro, one would think that the average golfer would benefit even more.
The average Pro plays a 44 or It is quite problematic for the average guy to simply lop of a few inches from the shaft. That screws up the swing weight and the effective stiffness of the shaft. In a perfect world with a perfect swing it goes further. Wonder if they will wake up? That combined with my r7 superquad makes a powerful consistent driver.
We did not state it was earth shattering. We simply test product and the data and results are what they are. We are just here to learn and provide valuable info to consumers. Understood, but would you guys consider a test against a two or three year old driver against the current Most Wanted? I really think you need to get the same shafts in each head.
Of something that has changed more over the years than the head COR limited by USGA , shafts materials, profiles and consistently have changed significantly. Dispersion has to be the most important element unless your not playing a tight course! Personal preference perhaps? I keep an r7 quad in the bag, and would probably be broken for life if something happened to it.
As with others, I think the shaft issue here is telling. I get that they are both stock, but it is a point worth making. Dispersion differences through shaft length can be minimized by flex.
Removing an inch from the tip of a graphite driver shaft will not make it slightly more stiff, it will make it considerably more stiff. That would give us a XX stiff driver or, a stiff 5-wood the 5-wood head weighs about 15 to 17 grams more than the Driver head. As a general guideline, each half inch of tip removal makes the shaft play one flex stiffer. Hope this helps. I own 3 heads 8.
Best taylormade offering to date still demand a premium dollar but the feel is much better than m1. Amazing club. Made me laugh when I read about the Cleveland Launcher comment! Lol, in the back of my mind still today!
And of course, I still own it, never giving that thing up! Launcer with the fujikura gold shaft was awesome so was taylormade xd so was k just wonder why do they keep changing what works and make it worse but not better!
Then suddenly after years they launch something that works. Finding a good teacher , mentor in golf is the toughest thing thats what i have learnt and then nothing is free and nothing is to be given free golf teaches you that too!
Cracked the face and was never able to find something that kept up to this day. I also hit the SQ- with the stock shaft. I live on a course, so get to hit driver frequently. My issue is that the ball seems to go too high, and I lose roll out.. I have a speeder stiff shaft in a quad I get better roll with the quad and speeder, but a LOT less forgiving. Would I see better results in reshafting the SQ with the speeder, or buying a used M1???? Been shooting since 8th grade, be 68 next wk.
Had to be around Steel shafts, persimmon heads, down the middle of the fairway yrds. Now I know there was only one Arnie. So I asked my son who is an avid golfer, single digit handicap, has his Ph. Crunched all numbers and stuff that I had no idea what the hell he was talking about. Tony, Adam, you got to talk to my kid.
All new head technology, carbon fiber shafts, etc. But would anybody take me seriously? I believe not. Tour Issue LH 9. Really hard to find this one but I snagged it this year.
They were my first set of irons so I sent them off to get this refinish in Japan. Putter is a Scotty Cameron Select Newport 2 with custom gold finish and black face with my name stamped in the back.
Just need to figure out what the best 3 wood of all time is and I think the set will be near complete. October 19, Nice setup, and I like the suggestion of a V-steel fairway wood or two. You should of course shaft them up and play them.
October 18, TaylorMade V Steel surely! That and a two iron and you're in business All in a Ping L8 stand bag. Great set-up, as a fellow lefty I really think you should play them or give them to som. October 15, Cameron 1. Great setup. I had similar r7 years ago. Should have I kept it???? It may still be tucked into my basbement!
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