TaylorMade brought adjustability onto the scene as the new holy grail. Now with the R1, TaylorMade has a driver that adjusts 12 different ways for loft, seven ways for face angle, and also boasts trajectory tuning.
With all the loft, lie angle and face angle options in the TaylorMade R1 driver, there is a fit for nearly every golfer. The rub, of course, is whether the golfer can make consistent contact between clubface and ball - and whether each golfer who buys one understands the effects on ball flight well enough to properly tune the driver.
The look of the clubhead is not at all classic. TaylorMade has adorned the cluhead with a graphic alignment device, which like most anything, can grow on you. But if the only exploring you are set on doing is finding the center of the fairway, TaylorMade's R1 driver gives you a very good shot. Once you dial in the specs to optimize your flight - and we might suggest a good clubfitter could help - that should be all you need.
TaylorMade SLDR driver has a 3-degree range of adjustability (1.5 degrees up or down) -- 1 degree less than the R1. But the range of lofts offered by the four different heads (8, 9.5, 10.5 and 12 degrees) extends from 6.5 degrees to 13.5 degrees -- three degrees greater than the R1. The SLDR doesn't have a "face angle adjuster" like previous drivers from TaylorMade, which will force some golfers to manipulate the face angle to their desired position at address. It's also not a "one size fits all" driver, which is good and bad.
Aesthetically, those who liked TaylorMade's matte white crowns or the cool factor of the taylormade r1 driver for sale racing stripe will be stuck with a more traditional, glossy gray crown. The SLDR has a center of gravity that is lower and more forward than any driver TaylorMade has ever produced. That allows golfers to launch the ball higher and with less spin, which is the key to longer drivers. It also gives the it slightly faster ball speeds more forgiveness on shots hit low on the face. Instead of white, the SLDR has a handsome gray metallic crown that reminds us of TaylorMade's popular golf wholesale [http://www.golfbase.us/] drivers from the past.
The testing showed that the TaylorMade SLDR Driver [http://www.golfbase.us/taylormade-sldr-driver.html] is one of the special drivers that comes around every few years that has the potential to win over an enormous amount of golfers. That's OK for many of us, who can use a little bit more clubhead speed, but might be too light for the higher-swing-speed players.
With all the loft, lie angle and face angle options in the TaylorMade R1 driver, there is a fit for nearly every golfer. The rub, of course, is whether the golfer can make consistent contact between clubface and ball - and whether each golfer who buys one understands the effects on ball flight well enough to properly tune the driver.
The look of the clubhead is not at all classic. TaylorMade has adorned the cluhead with a graphic alignment device, which like most anything, can grow on you. But if the only exploring you are set on doing is finding the center of the fairway, TaylorMade's R1 driver gives you a very good shot. Once you dial in the specs to optimize your flight - and we might suggest a good clubfitter could help - that should be all you need.
TaylorMade SLDR driver has a 3-degree range of adjustability (1.5 degrees up or down) -- 1 degree less than the R1. But the range of lofts offered by the four different heads (8, 9.5, 10.5 and 12 degrees) extends from 6.5 degrees to 13.5 degrees -- three degrees greater than the R1. The SLDR doesn't have a "face angle adjuster" like previous drivers from TaylorMade, which will force some golfers to manipulate the face angle to their desired position at address. It's also not a "one size fits all" driver, which is good and bad.
Aesthetically, those who liked TaylorMade's matte white crowns or the cool factor of the taylormade r1 driver for sale racing stripe will be stuck with a more traditional, glossy gray crown. The SLDR has a center of gravity that is lower and more forward than any driver TaylorMade has ever produced. That allows golfers to launch the ball higher and with less spin, which is the key to longer drivers. It also gives the it slightly faster ball speeds more forgiveness on shots hit low on the face. Instead of white, the SLDR has a handsome gray metallic crown that reminds us of TaylorMade's popular golf wholesale [http://www.golfbase.us/] drivers from the past.
The testing showed that the TaylorMade SLDR Driver [http://www.golfbase.us/taylormade-sldr-driver.html] is one of the special drivers that comes around every few years that has the potential to win over an enormous amount of golfers. That's OK for many of us, who can use a little bit more clubhead speed, but might be too light for the higher-swing-speed players.