New R1 pix

Seves Three Iron

God awful looking thing. Doesn't seem to be much improvement on previous version either. Mind you, that won't stop it being a big hit I'm sure.

http://www.golfwrx.com/57945/2013-taylormade-r1-driver/

saintastic

The usual hype has started. Dustin Johnson retweeted a tweet showing that he hit it onto the front of the 14th in Kapalua which is 310 yards up hill, into the wind with his R1.

opinionated3

Any idea on an official release date lads?

Almaviva

From the photos alone I'd say it adds about 20 yards to your drive, possibly more but would have to wait to hit it to be sure. The compass looks handy as well.

dvemail

saintastic wrote: »

The usual hype has started. Dustin Johnson retweeted a tweet showing that he hit it onto the front of the 14th in Kapalua which is 310 yards up hill, into the wind with his R1.

That's what i hate, pro's saying that only after 3 shots with my new Taylormade, i've already gained 10 yards on my old driver. If that was the case and with the amount of times Taylormade release new clubs every staff player would average about 340 off the tee.

saintastic

opinionated3 wrote: »

Any idea on an official release date lads?

Feb 1 in the States so not sure if it's the same here? Probably will be close enough I imagine.

http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-equipment/blogs/hotlist365/2013/01/taylormade-debuts-its-one-head.html.

opinionated3

Available to preorder now on tmag

Nedser101

I was thinking that they wouldn't have a new R13 driver ,with13 being unlucky for some .but why didn't they go the motor trade route .they could of called it the R131 nice ring to it I think!

blue note

Nedser101 wrote: »

I was thinking that they wouldn't have a new R13 driver ,with13 being unlucky for some .but why didn't they go the motor trade route .they could of called it the R131 nice ring to it I think!

They couldn't use R131. People would get it confused with the road going over the east link toll bridge.

FixdePitchmark

The driver looks like The A Team van

Senna

Surprise Surprise, a Tayormade staff player is singing its praises, he could hardly say its rubbish and still pick up his $1000000 cheques.

The sooner the average player stops buying into this hype and spending a fortune on "the furthest hitting driver we ever made" the sooner they might cop themselves on and stop bring out new clubs ever few months.

Also, very nice of them to change the shaft fitting so if you do have a nice shaft on an older model you cant change it without spending more money:rolleyes:.

TGoodall

Was just watching the golf (or lack of) in Hawaii and they were interviewing Bubba. I had to pause it, walk over to the TV and make sure I was seeing his cap right. It had G25 on it! The G20 only came out a few weeks ago it seems like. Clubs are going out of date faster than laptops.

Seves Three Iron

In fairness to Ping, I believe the engineers and designers of the G series of clubs are all blokes. So naturally it's going to take a process of trial and error before they find the G spot.

Tin_Cup

TGoodall wrote: »

Was just watching the golf (or lack of) in Hawaii and they were interviewing Bubba. I had to pause it, walk over to the TV and make sure I was seeing his cap right. It had G25 on it! The G20 only came out a few weeks ago it seems like. Clubs are going out of date faster than laptops.

Could be wrong but pretty sure the G20's came out around the end of 2011 ?

charlieIRL

TGoodall wrote: »

Was just watching the golf (or lack of) in Hawaii and they were interviewing Bubba. I had to pause it, walk over to the TV and make sure I was seeing his cap right. It had G25 on it! The G20 only came out a few weeks ago it seems like. Clubs are going out of date faster than laptops.

Coming soon!!

TGoodall

Tin_Cup wrote: »

Could be wrong but pretty sure the G20's came out around the end of 2011 ?

Could well be Tin Cup, just seems like such a short time between new clubs. Makes my G10s look old but I'll stick with them until the G45s come out at least.

G25 looks a lot nicer than the R1 anyway, to get back to the OPs point.

mike12

Think the biggest endorsements of drivers are the guys using them that are not contracted. Luke Donald and Paddy both use a TM driver for free, I’m sure I read somewhere on Golfwrx that almost 100% of drivers where guys can put anything in the bag are TM Drivers. Not sure what model they use but they are both white.
Mike

Seves Three Iron

Check out Dustin Johnson's driving stats on the PGA Tour for the last five years. Now for a fella who is trumpeting the extra yardage he's getting with each TM upgrade, his stats are remarkably static! In fact, he went backwards last year from 2011. Just shows what a pile of pi$$ all the TM hoopla is.

DJ's Driving stats

2012 - 310.2 yards (4th)
2011 - 314.2 yards (2nd)
2010 - 308.5 yards (3rd)
2009 - 308.3 yards (3rd)
2008 - 309.7 yards (4th)

Senna

mike12 wrote: »

Think the biggest endorsements of drivers are the guys using them that are not contracted. Luke Donald and Paddy both use a TM driver for free, I’m sure I read somewhere on Golfwrx that almost 100% of drivers where guys can put anything in the bag are TM Drivers. Not sure what model they use but they are both white.
Mike

No one is disputing they make good drivers, just that the difference between them is minimal. If money wasn't a factor we would all have the newest, but in reality the new one isn't much different to the previous one/couple.

Almaviva

Seves Three Iron wrote: »

Check out Dustin Johnson's driving stats on the PGA Tour for the last five years. Now for a fella who is trumpeting the extra yardage he's getting with each TM upgrade, his stats are remarkably static! In fact, he went backwards last year from 2011. Just shows what a pile of pi$$ all the TM hoopla is.

DJ's Driving stats

2012 - 310.2 yards (4th)
2011 - 314.2 yards (2nd)
2010 - 308.5 yards (3rd)
2009 - 308.3 yards (3rd)
2008 - 309.7 yards (4th)

Your point just proves how crucial it is to keep updating to the next TM model every year (or 6 monthly ideally) - if DJ hadnt kept up to date with TM driver improvememnts his driving stats would have deteriorated so badly that he could only average 250 yards and we would be asking "Remember Dustin Johnson. Whatever happened to him ?". Just shows how good their gear really is.

blue note

Almaviva wrote: »

Your point just proves how crucial it is to keep updating to the next TM model every year (or 6 monthly ideally) - if DJ hadnt kept up to date with TM driver improvememnts his driving stats would have deteriorated so badly that he could only average 250 yards and we would be asking "Remember Dustin Johnson. Whatever happened to him ?". Just shows how good their gear really is.

Fair point. By the time he'd be ready for the seniors tour he'd actually be hitting the ball backwards.