Taylor Made Driver Reviews – Cutting Edge Golf Driver Innovation
TaylorMade has been on the cutting edge of golf driver innovation since it introduced one of the first metal woods at the 1979 PGA show. Today, Taylor Made golf drivers offer the latest advances to enhance your golf game. Taylor Made is headquartered in Carlsbad, California and is a subsidiary of the German based Adidas group.
The Technology Behind Taylor Made Drivers
TaylorMade offers six major unique technological innovations for its golf drivers. The first, Flight Control Technology (FTC) allows players to manually adjust the driver’s loft, lie, and face angle. You are able to do this through a metallic sleeve positioned over the tip of the shaft. Simply loosen the bolt that secures the sleeve and shaft into the club head and rotate the sleeve to the desired position. Rotation options range from Left, which can cause the ball to go 30 yards further to left, to Neutral Upright, which creates a slight draw (ball goes left for right handed players), to Neutral, for the straight shooters, to Open, which lets you hit the ball about 10 yards further to the right, or a slight fade.
The great thing about this feature is that you don’t have to make major adjustments to your swing; you simply customize the driver to your game. So if you really have a tendency to slice the ball way to the right on your drives set the TaylorMade driver to the Left position and straighten your drives out. Drivers with FTC come with a wrench to loosen the bolt. Personally, I think it’s a lot of fun to be able to take your driver apart and readjust it as needed. You can see FTC at work in the TaylorMade R9 Driver.
Another cool innovation from Taylor Made that lets you customize your driver is its Movable Weight Technology. Like the FTC you get to tinker with your golf driver again. Simply use the wrench provided to move weighted cartridges and optimize the center of gravity for the club. The concept here again is to correct a draw or fade. Positioning more weight in the heel of the club and less in the toe, speeds the club head rotation during the forward swing, which creates a draw and/or reduces a slice. The TaylorMade r7 Limited Driverfeatures Movable Weight Technology.
Technology developed specifically for the TaylorMade Burner Driveris called SuperFast Technology. The basic goal is to increase your swing speed and hence your driving distance through a combination of factors. By using lighter and longer shafts, larger, more forgiving club heads, higher launch angles and lower spin rates for balls coming off the face, and higher COR, Taylor Made is able to create additional distance on its golf drivers that use SuperFast technology. TaylorMade says you can get an additional +13 yards (11.89 meters) by using clubs featuring SuperFast. They break out the distance gain as follows: +3 yards because of MOI innovation, +3 yards due to lower the center of gravity (CG) in the club head, +5 because of a longer shaft, and +2 due to a lighter shaft and grip weight.
Also featured in all recent Taylor Made drivers are Inverted Cone Technology (ICT) and Ultra-Thin Wall Technology. ICT uses a unique milling process to optimize the way the club face behaves at impact to expand the COR zone, making the club head more forgiving on miss-hits. Ultra-thin tech is a casting process that makes the club head lighter with walls that are only .55mm thick, thereby allowing you to generate greater swing speeds.
As Taylor Made continues its quest for the perfect golf driver, we’ll keep you posted on its exciting new technological innovations.
To learn more, visit TaylorMade’s official website at www.taylormadegolf.com.
Taylor Made Driver Reviews
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