Understood. My comments were further up in the thread referring to the SLDR not being a match for me. My R1 comment was just saying it was a better match for that shaft for me.
I don't think size or "footprint" has anything to do with any perceived lack of forgiveness in the SLDR series. Any loss of forgiveness,(MOI), would be due to weight having been moved low and forward in the SLDR design. OEM's for years have placed more weight rearward in the head to increase MOI, (forgiveness), but that also tends to increase dynamic loft and produce added spin.
The Tour Players using SLDR Drivers actually have their Tour-issued heads "tweaked" for less weight in the forward area which then allows some extra weight (hot melt), to be added in the rear of the head to increase MOI, (forgiveness).
The "toe screw" which is found on the Tour-issue heads only, allows the weight located beneath the little "metallic cover" to be easily replaced with a lighter weight. The "slider weight" which is 20 grams, (including the 4 gram blue cap), for the Retail models is usually modified to contain less weight on Tour-issued heads.
Despite what TM might want the consumer to believe, there are these suble differences between the Tour-issued SLDR's and the SLDR's we can buy from our local Retailers.
It also reminds us that well before the SLDR Tour came along, Tour Players, (thanks to the Tour Vans, were able to have weight moved around inside their clubheads to achieve very precise spin rates and launch angles, (.e the perfect fitting for them).
Unfortunately even with a decent fitting, it is still somewhat of a hit or miss proposition for us. We obviously don't have access to the Tour Van's highly precise tweaking options. That said, our swings are not as consistent as a Tour Players either, so one could argue that such precise tweaking might be a bit of an "overkill" for most of us anyway.
