Played 18 with my 18* yesterday and I hit 9 tee shots with it. It's so long that I never needed it for a second shot though.
Looks- I love the look of this club. Originally I didn't think I would like the white at all, but it was never even a factor once I got this club. I really just instantly became comfortable with it and now I actually prefer it. While it does help with alignment, I feel it helps the most with showing you how open or closed you have the face. I really like the look of the shaft also. It has some sort of effect by the hosel, but I don't even notice it in my setup or swing. The face of the club is black with white grooves, which I also think is a good look. The sole is black with a touch of silver and yellow, big surprise I also think this looks good. Overall I'd have to say this is already the best looking club in my bag by far.
Feel- Buttery Soft. Hahaha Just kidding around. It does feel amazing though. I'm not really sure how this equates to feel, but the clubface feels really hot. The ball just seems to compress and takeoff. As I've mentioned before I really love the weighting of this club. The clubhead just seems to be the perfect weight for me. I can always feel where it's at throughout the swing. That's a huge plus to me. I much prefer that feeling over a super-light head that I end up whipping around in the backswing and causing it to be to open or closed when it shouldn't be. It really inspires a feeling of confidence over the ball.
Sound- Some hybrids I've hit have a more muted almost iron like sound (forged blades that are very workable of course, haha), while this club gives off a nice little ding when you hit it nicely. I'm going to state something I've always felt, but might not make sense to others and might not to me that much either. Sometimes hybrids are so muted to me it's weird how far the ball goes with a sound like that, but this club lets off a sound that seems to belong with how far the ball goes. Make sense? All in all, this is one of my favorite sounding hybrids I've hit.
Performance (with paint)- Performance is spectacular, almost Vatican assassin like performance. Off the tee this is 230-240. In comparison, my 19* Hibore XLS with a stiff stock shaft was more around 220. 220 with a 15-20 yard draw though, while the Rescue 11 is 230-240 with about a 5 yard draw. I also much prefer this over the Hibore XLS for the around the green usages you can get out of a hybrid. Another thing with this club is that I can take a really short smooth swing and either hood or fan the clubface and it effortlessly goes 190-210. I'm talking about a swing that I could repeat almost 10 for 10 I'm sure, because it's so easy. While that's not a shot I'm going to use much it's always nice to have a shot your that confident in always in the bag.
Trajectory- Seems very easy to control trajectory. When I was into the wind it was easy to keep down and when downwind or hitting approaches it was easy to get high. This is an area I will learn more about in some future range sessions. So far it seems to have a trajectory I really like though.
Random Items- The grip is a Tour Velvet grip which I have on all my clubs, so I love that. The headcover is snazzy looking. Still haven't messed around with the FCT yet, that will be in the next range session though.
My overall opinion so far is that this club is great. Every aspect I've encountered has been positive. I can honestly say that I have never had one negative critique on this club pop into my head since I've had it. I don't want anyone to think I'm just praising it for the sake of praising it, it really has performed exceedingly well in every situation I've used it in so far.
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