Mulligan9111
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The Escort is coming back???
New SLDR "C" Series Driver, Fairway Woods, and Rescue Hybrids
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The Escort is coming back???
Evok
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I still just don't see how these will sell. Even at $169 or whatever low price, you can find jetspeed and og sldr stuff for crazy cheap. Just seems hard to justify why anyone would buy these haha unless I'm missing something and these are drastically different....
As Hawk mentioned, to the uninformed father's day gift shopper, this is a "new" driver and at a better price than other new drivers.
For giggles; I'm a wife. I'm shopping for my husband. I see several clubs for $169. One is really interesting with all the little adjustments to make, and the colors are really snazzy. Guess what. I just bought a Cobra BioCell+. Price point is ridiculous on this. Should be like $119.
Did you just use "snazzy"? Have you gotten into the Fireball again?
Evok
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Makes sense. Guess that's their target market especially if it's a "made for" kinda thing like you guys mentioned. Oh TM lol
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The point I was trying to make was that while the cutting of the PGA pros was a big deal was it something we'd be surprised a corporate retailer would do to its employees? Corporate executives that don't necessarily know anything about the industry of the products they sell or the minds of the customers who buy products they resell make decisions like that all the time. To me Taylormade deciding to to release a watered down year old model of a club into a target area where they already have another club option (the JetSpeed which is currently at a cheaper price) is a more unexpected occurrence.
If it is indeed a house brand club then I'd simply write off the release, but I'm not entirely convinced. In the case of the other club you mentioned being at other retailers I never did any extensive research into when that model was released, but it seems to me those other retailers were either Dicks associated companies (Golf Galaxy), people reselling what they bought (Ebay and Amazon), or places selling used clubs that someone traded into them. The SLDR C which was released relatively recently seems to be available from more sources than made for models seem to usually be. If indeed it remains limited to a small amount of retailers then its less significant than if it starts popping up at a large number of established and diverse retailers that are major competitors to GolfSmith (ex: Roger Duun, Dicks, TGW, etc) then its more significant and more of a foolish release.
He's just taken aback by us kids and our newfangled contraptions.
I just pictured T0AD as a woman...
sorry.
erock9174
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This is exactly what I was referring to in my page 1 post but yet I was lumped in with all the TM Haters and the sensativity police got me as well.
What a surprise. :deadhorse:
I'm still trying to figure out why the SLDR is so hated on THP yet I still see them all over the course. Just yesterday I played in a five some and 4 of the other guys all had SLDR's and loved them.
I'm no expert but I don't see how you can say this is leftover and repackaged. Looks more like a combination of the two to me.
I'm still trying to figure out why the SLDR is so hated on THP yet I still see them all over the course. Just yesterday I played in a five some and 4 of the other guys all had SLDR's and loved them.
I'm no expert but I don't see how you can say this is leftover and repackaged. Looks more like a combination of the two to me.
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TM haters.... All I can do is shake my head at that one. I loved TaylorMade, like a majority did until last year. Hell, even this year with R15 and Aero faith is restored for some, but they are going to have to work a heck of a lot harder to innovate for the masses rather than just the tour.
Because it's not a 'driver for everyone' in a world where creativity and adjustability lead to better options for golfers who are higher handicaps that NEED help elevating and spinning the ball. I see them everywhere as well, and I also see a lot of guys hit the VERY poorly. They purchased because they were cheap, and because they 'loved their R11/11s/1' so much.
I'd bet decent money that at least one of if not two or three of the guys in your fivesome could find a better fit, but that is wildly opinionated and lobbed with zero context on your part about skill level or swing type... All I know is that you played in a fivesome and I hope the course was empty.
....and again, I hit and enjoyed SLDR - I'm just not under the strange impression that it's ideal for more than 2% of the golfing population.
Not one driver made is for everyone so I don't buy that argument and adjustabilty for most high handicappers is a sales tool IMO. Some like to have the latest and greatest gizmos even if it doesn't benefit their game. I loved my R11s(still do) and didn't buy the SLDR-S cause it was cheap. I was fitted in to it as my R11s had given me some good rounds but it was time for a new driver.
Just like several post in this thread it is "widely opinionated". That's not meant to be an attack on you just its getting old reading all the quick to attack TM comments when ever someone starts a TM thread. As for the fivesome. Actually each one was a single digit handicap with the lowest I believe at a 3. They seemed to have no problems hitting fairways that I saw.
Never questioned weather you liked it or not.
I'll give two answers.
You could either hit this driver, or you couldn't. I couldn't. Not one bit. And many others felt the same way. Similarly, it seems everyone on this board could hit the Cleveland Altitudes. I couldn't get them off the damn ground. Having been around a bunch of THPers shortly after the SLDR was released, I heard a lot of similar stories about being unforgiving, etc. Not everyone like your 3 handicap can hit it on the button every swing.
Second, TM homers. They exist for every OEM. I've seen even my friends play stuff they shouldn't. I KNOW they would hit other offerings better, but they're going to buy every damn TM driver that hits the shelves.
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I said people bought SLDR because they loved their old TM drivers... and you quoted... said you didn't buy it, and then said the exact same thing? I am confused.
For what it's worth, I went out on a limb assuming you weren't playing with lower caps based on the 12.6 cap you play to. However, welcome to the point that most are making about SLDR. Solid to great for center face contact makers... relatively terribly for the other 95% of the golf population who do not spin the golf ball and can't elevate. People aren't attacking TM comments, they are attacking bad products in their eyes. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, just like there isn't anything wrong with you claiming positive feedback for their drivers.
It is raining here.
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I enjoy when examples are made, yet said examples only cover what.... 7% of the golfing population? And suddenly it's a blanket statement of quality?
JRod
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I see nothing has changed in the past 12 hours.
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hahahaha I thought that as well.
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I mean forget about the club. Let's get down to the things that matter. You know they still have a warehouse filled with 10,000 headcovers.
So that makes it ok to bash the club before you have even had it in your hands? I've heard the same stories but how does that make it ok to bash a club or company? The Big Bertha was quite forgiving for me but I didn't see the distance I was getting with the SLDR. Now that Callaway has come out with a new BB based on the logic of this thread I can say they are crap, rebranded, re badge even though I haven't hit it.
Don't disagree.
I went back just 4 pages and below are the quotes that were posted and yet the argument is we're unbiased, only give true feedback, only real word testing yet not one of these individuals has touched this club. Had this happened in a another thread(Callaway)I'm sure it would have been much different.
Couldn't agree with you more.
Wonton
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I'm just catching up on this thread... entertaining to read.
I didn't see any comments on here directly attacking TM. This C Series yes, but not as a whole company.
I love golf too much use the word "Hate" on any clubs or any brands.
I still like TM stuff (as you can see on my signature) but in MY opinion, The C Series is pointless. But I'm sure someone will like it. To each his own.
I didn't see any comments on here directly attacking TM. This C Series yes, but not as a whole company.
I love golf too much use the word "Hate" on any clubs or any brands.
I still like TM stuff (as you can see on my signature) but in MY opinion, The C Series is pointless. But I'm sure someone will like it. To each his own.
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