I like the way the trends are going with this driver. It should have more loft, shorter length and higher head weight. Distance is overrated at the amateur level, so keep the ball in play and you will lower your scores.

In general, I wish the component industry would stop giving us “game improvement” clubs. In my humble opinion, they are not. Those clubs encourage golfers to hit the ball with a less than correct swing. I’ve been saying this for years…nobody pays attention. No one paid attention 15 years ago when I was talking about Launch Angle…suddenly it became “chic”. I’ll go out on a limb and predict that one day the manufacturers will wake up and realize that “game improvement” technology is a dead end. But I digress…

This particular driver when combined with a light shaft, gives me more distance, and at 47 inches I’m able to keep up with a lot of the younger guys (I’m 62)…I like the Pear-shape, I like the feel of the face, but…

I wish it had weight ports and a square face. I cannot set up with my hands behind the ball at address, and it’s very hard for me to take the ball on the upswing and not slice it. It requires that I manipulate the club with my hands (incorrect). I know that the 9.5 degree version has a square face, but the 10.5 gives me optimum launch angle…so I’m stuck.

Weight ports would typically allow me to reduce the the headweight to around 190-192 grams instead of 200 and allow me to build a club with a lighter overall weight and get a bit more clubhead speed. Or, you could start out with a lighter weight and let us add the weight we choose.

I was playing the Q-System deep-face with a Graffaloy Prolaunch 55. I hit that pretty far, but got no roll after the ball landed. This combination with the XK and a shaft with a higher kick point seems to be about right and the stiffer tip adds enough roll that I can play a few courses from the back tees again.

As far as the “game improvement” movement…it has mandated 15 clubs instead of 14 (the notorius “gap” wedge – accurate lofts leave no gap), and fostered the concept that you don’t need to have a good (correct) swing to play good golf. I understand that there are specific people and specific circumstances where more offset, a closed face, less loft, etc. may be desireable…but they should not become the norm. Good clubfitting does not always require selling the customer new clubs…sometimes it requires a recommendation that the golfer take some lessons.

The USGA has a “plain in shape” rule in Appendix II of the Rules of Golf that would prohibit driver shapes like putters. If you have a copy of the Rules of Golf in your golf bag or know someone who does, thumb through the 10 plus pages of rules designers must abide by.

Tiger is using a 10° driver, his SS is 125mph, so most off the golfers out there should use a driver loftet like a 7 wood because of the lower SS.
Of corse this is impossible to sell, because even with intelligent people receptif to scientific arguments to much is to much.
Please hide the loft and make it as much as possible.
I am a 7 hcp and I use a 12° xmoi in summer and a 13° acer in winter.SS 106mph.
Thanks

I am 40, 25 handicap, and with my 12 shafted stiff I hit it 250 to 270 fairly consistently…and it is a 43″ shaft as well. I say go with the 13 degree and offer a stiff shaft for those who can hit over 100mph speeds. Not only that, but offer to balance it so you can have a 43″ shaft instead of a 44″… Tiger’s shaft is 43″ for control, and he is the best golfer in the world. What does that mean for the rest of us hacks? High loft, short shaft, more consistant shots…distance is fairly irrelevant if you are over a 10 handicap anyway!