Exactly 10 feet in front of me sat a bag of promise the new R9 line of woods, irons, and driver.
The finish is a mix of chrome and satin which I believe makes the top line look thinner. While a thicker top line doesn’t really bother me, the thinner look is nice and should make these irons more appealing to a larger audience. The performance of the R9s defied logic. They are oversized, game-improvement clubs. Forged clubs are still softer than the R9s. However, the taylormade r9 irons are softer than pretty much any other game improvement club I have tried. Like the r7, the clubface of the discount golf equipmentuses the astern cone technology on the close ancillary of the clubface for constant brawl acceleration on askance hits. Since the antecedent announcement, the appointment has been active with golfers absorbed in whether the R9s can absolutely alive up to those expectations. The forgiveness in particular that the oversized heads on the R9 irons give you is excellent, through out the set, many shots seem to be hardly affected by miss-hitting the ball at all. Just like they did with the Burner irons, they designed the R9 long and middle irons separately from the short irons, which makes a lot of sense.
The shaft on the taylormade r9 driver allows you to customize your set up position. It is not meant to be an interchangeable system like the ones that Callaway and some other manufactures (yes, you too Taylormade) have tried to pitch us. According to TaylorMade, with all the various clubhead characteristics settings and weight configurations, you have up to "75 yards of side-to-side trajectory change" - 35 of which comes from MWT and 40 from FCT. On to performance and generally the R9 460cc Driver was a pretty reliable club, without ever really giving an overly great amount of distance in comparison to some of the other TaylorMade Drivers. There is a level of adjustability here that should help any golfer find a set-up that works. The initial testing period did show that this driver had a much lower launch and much lower spin than was expected probably due to combination of the deep face and the center of gravity placement. This is offset a little by the shorter (or should I say more correct) length shaft which makes it easier to flush the ball. The R9 driver has a new clubhead shape that combines the shape of the r7 SuperQuad with the r7 Limited, which is a more triangular shape with "beautifully contoured corners."
The R9 fairways come standard with Fujikura Motore shafts that have been developed with H.I.T. (High Inertia Tip) technology. This is definately a return to the classic look for TaylorMade as the crowns on their 2008 Burner line had more graphics and lines on them than a set of high rise blueprints. At most retailers the taylormade r9 fairway wood comes fitted with the 70g Fujikura Motore Graphite shaft in regular, stiff and extra stiff flex, in both left and right hand. There was no Trackman on the range at the time. The wrench included allows you to change the shaft and move weights but there is not a way to adjust the driver without loosening the screw. With some tweaking this technology should allow all golfers to take a huge step in the right direction with respect to their game and scores even when swings are less than perfect. This wood is actually pretty easy to work the ball with the head on a neutral set up. Good enough to keep slight misses from being effected too much yet finicky enough to give good feedback. You can check the golfchannel for more details.
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