So you do not buy the best deal at Costco? Now seriously, outside of Tiger, what drivers they use. The pros also have a very fast swing to match.
Taylormade Tour Burner vs Cleveland HiBore XLS driver?
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So you do not buy the best deal at Costco? Now seriously, outside of Tiger, what drivers they use. The pros also have a very fast swing to match.
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Get a demo of both clubs and go play with them. I did that last year out at Jester with a Nike Sumo and TM Burner. Played both throughout the round. You have to play with them and see how they feel and work with your game. Nike was OK but sounded like you were hitting the ball with a tin can. The regular Burner ball flight was too high, but felt good. Went with the Tour Burner because of ball flight was not as high.
Get a demo of both clubs and go play with them. I did that last year out at Jester with a Nike Sumo and TM Burner. Played both throughout the round. You have to play with them and see how they feel and work with your game. Nike was OK but sounded like you were hitting the ball with a tin can. The regular Burner ball flight was too high, but felt good. Went with the Tour Burner because of ball flight was not as high.
I will never buy custom clubs again. I bought a set of custom irons and they were the worse I have ever had. I played with them for about a year and get rid of them, they were absolutely horrible. The next year I bought some Taylor Made's and have had them for 3 years now. I don't know if anyone else has had this problem as well.
Custom clubs that you made yourself or clubs you were fit into? If you were fit into them and they didn't work for you then whoever fit you didn't do it right.
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Regular drivers are usually anywhere from square to a degree closed, tour drivers are usually a little smaller in CC's and are usually square to a degree open.
Not all of them. Look at some guys like Ernie Els and Retief Goosen... Those guys have the smoothest swings you will ever see and by all appearances don't come close to generating the club head speed of a guy like Tiger. Then again you always see them in the fairway.
Getting the correct shaft for your swing is the most critical thing. The torque, flex, and kickpoint of the shaft will do far more to determine whether a particular driver is right for you or not. Guys with a slower swing speed that have the proper shaft for their swing speed will hit it just as far as a guy who swings faster then them. Accuracy will also be greatly improved with the proper shaft.
That is why I suggested he go to a Demo Day when the manufacturers will have about 50 different combinations of their drivers with different shafts, lofts, etc... so he can try out 10 drivers of the same model with different specs and find the combination that is perfect for him. There are very minor differences between the brands in all reality but I would definitely avoid Cleveland clubs unless we are talking about wedges. That is their bread and butter.
Burner drivers now available at Rockbottomgolf.com for $139.99. That is an absolute steal of a price.
http://search.rockbottomgolf.com/burner-driver.html
http://search.rockbottomgolf.com/burner-driver.html
Asking people what driver to buy is like asking which woman to date.
See if you can demo them both and find what works for you.
They are both decent clubs, and I've hit both.
And either one of them is better than the driver you currently hit.
See if you can demo them both and find what works for you.
They are both decent clubs, and I've hit both.
And either one of them is better than the driver you currently hit.
I havent hit many of the newer drivers, so take this for what it is worth. The first driver I ever bought was a TaylorMade(from the late 90's, since then I have hit a Ping(cant remember model), Titleist 975J, and Cleveland Launcher and I wish I still had the Taylormade. It would look like a three wood now because it was so small, but it was the most consistent driver I have ever hit. Ive thought about buying a new one, but Im not sure I like the huge club heads. If I do though, it will be a Taylor Made Burner
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The shaft being used gets so little attention in new club buys. You could hit one driver better than other because of the shaft.... either way... if you find a head/shaft (boy am I setting his up) combo that works best for you.... go for it.
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