The Ping G430 Max 10K, the latest in a long lineage of forgiving drivers from the company, arrives as the company’s driver with highest measured moment of inertia.
The TaylorMade Qi10 family of drivers, the third generation to feature a face made of carbon composite, further unlock the lightweight material’s potential.
The Cleveland Launcher XL 2 drivers, including standard and draw models, push the boundaries of the rules that limit size to create more forgiveness through extreme perimeter weighting.
The Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke family of drivers feature four distinct faces designed through big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence, all fuelled on the details of some 250,000 swings of golfers of all types.
McIlroy, who is competing in the DP World Tour’s season finale in Dubai this week, was seen using TaylorMade’s Qi10 LS driver at Jumeirah Golf Estates on Tuesday.
Golf Digest has studied the importance of launch angle for the better part of the past two decades, and every time we find that average golfers could benefit greatly from increasing their launch angle.
To get where they needed to get to, Callaway’s team used the Paradym driver’s adjustable hosel to give Rahm a degree more loft, taking his 10.5-degree head effectively to 11.5 degrees.
The XXIO Prime drivers, fairway woods and hybrids continue XXIO Prime’s heritage for lightweight, speed-enhancing designs for moderate swing speed players, but this year the collection adds an element that’s often been a casualty of ultra-light clubheads: forgiveness.
TaylorMade Stealth 2 drivers take another bold step in moving to fully carbon composite constructions, this time with special attention to making mis-hits more like centre hits.
The new Callaway Paradym driver family uses a fully carbon composite midsection that comprises much of the entire body of the clubhead and is 44 percent lighter than if it were made of titanium.
The three Cobra LTDx drivers – LTDx, LTDx LS, LTDx Max – continue the company’s push to mix varying degrees of front-loaded weight to lower the centre of gravity with varying degrees and locations of perimeter weighting to add forgiveness as needed for three distinct classes of players.
The new TaylorMade 300 Mini Driver offers not merely an homage to that earlier ground-breaking club, it provides a stark lesson in how far the metalwood design game has come.