SLDR Driver ?

alxmorgan · 07-05-2014 02:15PM #1

Hey,

Just wondering if anyone has tried/splashed out on one of these and what ye think of it ?
Lot of buzz about it and wondering if the low CG and subsequent loft up idea has any merit ?

thanks

DuckSlice · 07-05-2014 03:23PM

alxmorgan wrote: »

Hey,

Just wondering if anyone has tried/splashed out on one of these and what ye think of it ?
Lot of buzz about it and wondering if the low CG and subsequent loft up idea has any merit ?

thanks

Tried one at my club fitting at Xmas. Couldn't really hit it to be honest. But then my mate tried it and he got an extra 40 yards I can't remember though what loft he was using. Mark cross field has lofted up. But rick shields(another YouTube guy) tried it and it didn't work for him!

alxmorgan · 07-05-2014 03:25PM

etxp wrote: »

Tried one at my club fitting at Xmas. Couldn't really hit it to be honest. But then my mate tried it and he got an extra 40 yards I can't remember though what loft he was using. Mark cross field has lofted up. But rick shields(another YouTube guy) tried it and it didn't work for him!

What loft did you try ?

Redriddick · 07-05-2014 03:36PM

I have one 10.5 lofted up to higher and set to draw.I like it and am glad i changed from my r11s to this.I know they reckon its harder to hit but my drives are less eratic.I used to have a severe fade but am hitting more straight with this.
I know its the driver and not the driver but i just feel more comfortable with it.
Best bet is try it out somewhere.

FixdePitchmark · 07-05-2014 03:37PM

Look - I'm one to talk.

But does it not come to point where you go.

Ok 100 euro is expensive. I'll go for it.
Then you go ok - 200 euro for a driver - will say nothing to herself.
250 - well at least it was fitted and shaft is perfect for me according to a dodgy pro.
Then at 300 you go - ok this has got out of control.

At 360 - you have to go - there will be a bag of them in the 2nd hand bag in 12 months. And TM will have another 2 clubs out by then.

Anyway - I don't need any extra distance for more trouble.

alxmorgan · 07-05-2014 03:49PM

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Look - I'm one to talk.

But does it not come to point where you go.

Ok 100 euro is expensive. I'll go for it.
Then you go ok - 200 euro for a driver - will say nothing to herself.
250 - well at least it was fitted and shaft is perfect for me according to a dodgy pro.
Then at 300 you go - ok this has got out of control.

At 360 - you have to go - there will be a bag of them in the 2nd hand bag in 12 months. And TM will have another 2 clubs out by then.

Anyway - I don't need any extra distance for more trouble.

Completely. I haven't the money to invest anyway but just interested to see if this idea is working for people

FixdePitchmark · 07-05-2014 03:52PM

Like at this stage - time to just laugh, look at above.

alxmorgan · 07-05-2014 03:57PM

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Like at this stage - time to just laugh, look at above.

Jetspeed died a death so SLDR S is in to replace that.

FixdePitchmark · 07-05-2014 04:08PM

After seeing mini me above this is who is running Taylor Made.:D

FixdePitchmark · 07-05-2014 04:18PM

But all joking aside - does it work ?

I'll be looking in 2nd hand bin - or will try one at range .

bustercherry · 07-05-2014 04:27PM

Didn't work for me, I lost distance and that was with a wide variety of shafts/lofts. The pro I work with was the same, maybe he is teaching me the same dodgy swing as his

alxmorgan · 07-05-2014 04:29PM

bustercherry wrote: »

Didn't work for me, I lost distance and that was with a wide variety of shafts/lofts. The pro I work with was the same, maybe he is teaching me the same dodgy swing as his

Out of interest what is your normal setup in terms of club, loft, shaft, speed, carry etc ?

peepee · 07-05-2014 04:29PM

Friend of mine paid a lot of money for one
Is he hitting further ? No
Is he more consistent? No

FixdePitchmark · 07-05-2014 04:33PM

In fairness lads - it about time the golf community called their bluff.

If you call bluff in poker too many times - your game is up.

Redriddick · 07-05-2014 04:37PM

I have to agree with all of the above.
Taylormade are taking the piss.
I have rocketbladze tour irons and now the sldr driver but as fixed said come end of year loads to be had.
I do change my gear fairly often but if i was to buy everytime something new came out i would be broke,homeless and divorced!!

alxmorgan · 07-05-2014 04:37PM

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

In fairness lads - it about time the golf community called their bluff.

If you call bluff in poker too many times - your game is up.

The thing is it seems to be working for lots of people - although not everyone. And I'd trust Mark Crossfield for example and he uses it now based on the numbers

Boskowski · 07-05-2014 04:43PM

I'm still hitting my i15 and will continue for a few years I reckon. I will improve more by improving my swing rather than by equipment and I reckon that's true for most golfers. It's hard to come up with a new fad every year so they go black then white then black again. Or big then small then big again or whatever else.
Don't get me wrong I love spending money on golf stuff but mostly it's just marketing schmonz.

Redriddick · 07-05-2014 04:44PM

I think it is all relative i.e
when i started playing i had a second hand set and one of them square headed drivers from aldi.
I always and i mean always out drove my playing partners with it to the point i was asked what make of driver it was and where i got it.
After i gradually got better i changed equipment based on swing and results i was seeing.
SO it does not matter what you use as long as you are comfortable with it.
And by the way i have gone back to a regular shaft in the sldr.

Redriddick · 07-05-2014 04:47PM

One other thing (i know im being a pain) i have my foregolf spec sheet here and it has me down for my own rbz(which i had at the time of fitting) with an aldila protopype 70 stiff shaft which i never got!!!

FixdePitchmark · 07-05-2014 04:49PM

alxmorgan wrote: »

The thing is it seems to be working for lots of people - although not everyone. And I'd trust Mark Crossfield for example and he uses it now based on the numbers

Ahh there has to be something behind it - and their marketing is genius.
But the relentlessness is a bit tiresome - if this technology is so ground breaking - why did they say every other club was ground breaking before it. They were releasing clubs as technologically ground breaking - when they were changing their design principles in the background.

Is the loft increasing height off ground too - that wont suit my golf - grand in America on a still day. But I play in wind 80 % of the time.

Would just balloon out of bounds.

Anyway - just one club a year will do.

alxmorgan · 07-05-2014 05:07PM

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Ahh there has to be something behind it - and their marketing is genius.
But the relentlessness is a bit tiresome - if this technology is so ground breaking - why did they say every other club was ground breaking before it. They were releasing clubs as technologically ground breaking - when they were changing their design principles in the background.

Is the loft increasing height off ground too - that wont suit my golf - grand in America on a still day. But I play in wind 80 % of the time.

Would just balloon out of bounds.

Anyway - just one club a year will do.

I agree re marketing, re too many clubs etc etc

On the height off ground they reckon launch angle will be higher but peak height won't which is what Mark found.

Ballooning is mostly caused by excess spin from what I can tell.

alxmorgan · 07-05-2014 05:07PM

Redriddick wrote: »

One other thing (i know im being a pain) i have my foregolf spec sheet here and it has me down for my own rbz(which i had at the time of fitting) with an aldila protopype 70 stiff shaft which i never got!!!

So Foregolf stiffed you or you never put in what they suggested ?

Redriddick · 07-05-2014 06:29PM

alxmorgan wrote: »

So Foregolf stiffed you or you never put in what they suggested ?

I think herself would have stiffed me and not in a good way if I paid the €155 for the shaft!!!!!

spacecoyote · 07-05-2014 06:55PM

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

Ahh there has to be something behind it - and their marketing is genius.
But the relentlessness is a bit tiresome - if this technology is so ground breaking - why did they say every other club was ground breaking before it. They were releasing clubs as technologically ground breaking - when they were changing their design principles in the background.

Is the loft increasing height off ground too - that wont suit my golf - grand in America on a still day. But I play in wind 80 % of the time.

Would just balloon out of bounds.

Anyway - just one club a year will do.

pretty sure the idea behind it is that it's a very low spinning driver compared to others so you need the extra loft to compensate for that.

Watched a different crossfield vid recently where he compared the performance to the i25 & although he loved i25 said he'd stick with sldr cos the numbers were so good. Sldr was higher loft but peak height was basically the same as the lower loft i25 (think his spin rate was around 1900 vs 2300 in the ping)

He did try out the jetspeed & didn't get close to the sldr numbers as far as I know.

I've heard that it is more suited to a golfer with a quicker swing due to the low spin?

FixdePitchmark · 07-05-2014 06:58PM

SLDR in bag if villa win tonight then.

spacecoyote · 07-05-2014 07:01PM

FixdePitchmark wrote: »

SLDR in bag if villa win tonight then.

Also TM are running a 30 day money back guarantee deal if you buy the sldr or jetspeed & are not happy with the performance

DuckSlice · 07-05-2014 07:20PM

alxmorgan wrote: »

What loft did you try ?

I think it was 9.5. Or 8.5. Driver I have now is 8.5 so It will have been somewhere near thar

dan_ep82 · 07-05-2014 08:26PM

Tried it at the driving range, 1 degree higher than my normal.

Disliked the sound and found on a bad hit the shot ended up worse compared to my current Xhot Pro.

Much preferred the flight of my Xhot aswell. Not a bad club and I'm sure I could score just as well with it but prefer my own.

ForeRight · 07-05-2014 08:38PM

Such a load of rubbish.

The day I swing my driver the exact same way every time is the day I'll start looking at spin rates and numbers.

That's the day I'm on the pga tour as a top of the food chain pro....

ie I'll never buy into them.

DuckSlice · 07-05-2014 08:39PM

ForeRight wrote: »

Such a load of rubbish.

The day I swing my driver the exact same way every time is the day I'll start looking at spin rates and numbers.

That's the day I'm on the pga tour as a top of the good chain pro....

ie I'll never buy into them.

What driver do you have now?

ForeRight · 07-05-2014 08:43PM

etxp wrote: »

What driver do you have now?

Some Callaway one I liked the look and feel off in the shop one day last year. Before that I had a nike thing for 3 years I got for €50 in the bargain bucket.

They both seem like they are the same when I hit the ball well. Haven't noticed a difference anyway.

Edit: just checked it. Callaway xhot 9.5 on the bottom of it

I've played with men that have burned it up with what looks like drivers 50 years old.

SLDR Driver ?

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