November 8, 2013 – In the latest campaign launched by TaylorMade Golf, the brand says that to get the most out of your new SLDR driver and hit the ball farther than ever, you need to get more loft. This is what we have been shown by professionals like Dustin Johnson and David Lynn, recent winners on the Tour, and others who have already switched to SLDR such as Justin Rose, Martin Kaymer and even Sergio Garcia – as soon as they play with it they achieve better results by lofted up.

How come? Most drivers on the market have a low centre of gravity which is placed towards the back of the head, aiming at a high launch for the ball -the perpendicular from the centre of gravity to the face-, with a fairly high sweet spot.

However in the SLDR the centre of gravity is much further forward and closer to the face and, as we have seen recently in our test by Carlos Vivas at the Club de Golf Sant Cugat, this change in philosophy encourages hotter shots with a lower spin and faster ball.

In other words, with the sliding blue weight piece you can adjust your hits neutral, to draw or to fade, and as the centre of gravity is also low but further forward, consequently the sweet spot is lower on the face, and with the weight closer to the face, it is necessary to open the loft angle to adjust for the desired trajectory, even with greater power, the ideal height and with less spin.

With Dustin Johnson’s victory last weekend at the WGC-HSBC this argument has gained huge credibility, as it has changed from a TaylorMade R1 of 9º to a TaylorMade SLDR of 10.5° loft, and we have seen him hit drives of 305,8 yards quite naturally, with a clubhead speed of 122 mph and a ball speed of 180,32 mph. In the table below we can also see the dramatic change to higher lofts of many Tour professionals playing with drivers of 10.5 °, something unthinkable till now in golf.

 

Por REDACCIÓN