All these new drivers at $600 with endless adjustments here and there are they really worth it or is it just to make us buy new clubs? Well I say! They don’t work, not for us mortals anyway; I’ll give you 2 different scenarios to prove it.
First of all, the problem is never the club but the person holding the club, don’t forget that!
I’m a 7 handicap, ever since I got rid of my old faithful Taylor Made R7 425 driver 4-5 years ago I’ve been going through drivers like there’s no tomorrow!!!! I was slicing the ball just a little bit with my old R7 so I told myself it’s time for a change so I traded in my R7 and started going through drivers on a yearly basis….I’ve tried Titleist’s, Nike’s, Cobra’s other Taylor Made’s the R1 Tour was my latest, I would hit them okay for a few games then a wicked slice would show up. Believe me I tried all the possible adjustments imaginable on every clubs without any good result. No way am I going to cough up $600 + taxes for a Taylor made M1 (BTW retailers cost value for this club is $269) or any other high end driver to end up with the same result. So two weeks ago I said F.. it, I got on Ebay and found myself a Taylor Made R7 425, 65G REAX Mid Tip stiff shaft in mint condition just like the one I traded off. After 3 games I’ve never hit the ball so long and strait in the past 5 years and it only cost me $90 shipped I’m a happy golfer again!
My second scenario; last winter my good buddy who likes to play pranks on people asked me to take care of his driveway while he was in Florida for a couple of weeks. One day I went in the garage to get the snow blower and notice that he didn’t bring his clubs with him :) like any good golfing buddy would do I changed all the settings on his Titleist driver, 3 wood and 5 wood. I told him last week when we were all on a golf trip in Tremblant. He’s been playing since April with clubs that weren’t adjusted to his original specs, he noticed a slight difference at the beginning of the season but made minor adjustment to his stance and still manage to shoot low 80 high 70 and beat me a few times on top of that …..So I guess the joke ended up to be on me!
All this to say, save your money these fancy clubs with all those adjustments won’t save your game (really) if you do want to buy one go to site like this, there are hundreds of guys like me who buys new clubs that don’t change their game and re-sales them for half the price………..A Taylor Made R1 Tour will probably be available soon ;)
