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Played this driver today with a couple of awesome THPers. To say I am a bit rusty would be an understatement. I have played very little golf over the last few months and was excited to put this new driver in play. Have tested it on the range, but that has been the extent of it. Mine is 12* with a Matrix Red Tie playing at 45" and set to standard with the Slider at standard as well. Actually, it is 1 tick up from 12* in loft, as that is where it came to me at. I was fit for this driver and shaft combination.
On the range I was comparing my Classic XL Custom with this and distance seemed similar. I will say without a shadow of a doubt that when I miss the sweet spot with this driver the Classic is much longer. However that being said, when hit on the button, the SLDR performed incredibly well today. Driving as much as 15 yards past our normal area of carry and with damp fairways getting virtually no roll out.
I played it from hole 7 on and my score says I played worse since I had two birdies in the 1st 7 holes and none the rest of the round, but none of that had anything to do with the driver. I pulled it 6 times and 4 of the 6 were very long and straight. One I just missed (and I mean just missed) the sweet spot towards the toe and the ball traveled a bit off line and there was a noticeable loss in distance. This surprised me considering how I barely missed this ball. The other one I missed a bit low on the club face and the distance loss was pretty large.
Overall I was incredibly impressed with the forward CG in terms of distance when well struck. I am going to keep it in play for a bit and continue to monitor results.
On the range I was comparing my Classic XL Custom with this and distance seemed similar. I will say without a shadow of a doubt that when I miss the sweet spot with this driver the Classic is much longer. However that being said, when hit on the button, the SLDR performed incredibly well today. Driving as much as 15 yards past our normal area of carry and with damp fairways getting virtually no roll out.
I played it from hole 7 on and my score says I played worse since I had two birdies in the 1st 7 holes and none the rest of the round, but none of that had anything to do with the driver. I pulled it 6 times and 4 of the 6 were very long and straight. One I just missed (and I mean just missed) the sweet spot towards the toe and the ball traveled a bit off line and there was a noticeable loss in distance. This surprised me considering how I barely missed this ball. The other one I missed a bit low on the club face and the distance loss was pretty large.
Overall I was incredibly impressed with the forward CG in terms of distance when well struck. I am going to keep it in play for a bit and continue to monitor results.