Still love my Titleist 983E. I've tried a bunch of new drivers and the latest Titleist definitatly has more spring off the face. It's all about maximum compression off the sweet spot no matter what. I'm actually concerned about more distance. Most courses haven't caught up to 300 yd drives on average. 280 is plenty for most courses I play.
All I can say is, focus on the swing geometry and save a few bucks.
I spent some time with Ted and Steve at the swamp a few weeks ago and got the skinny on the Henry Griffits technology. Sounds like heads and shoulders above the conventional stuff.
I find the new drivers are more forgiving on off-center hits, but I don't find any improvement with balls hit squarely.
Ed,
The one big difference I noticed was ALL the new drivers I hit went higher with FLATTER flight. I was outside in a fair quartering ( into and right...10-15 mph) wind. The higher ballflight allowed for and actually was achieved with less spin. I wasn't able to determine if that meant more roll but that isn't that important to me. The less spin did mean the ball held it's line better and the club had more area on which to hit an acceptable shot. On my R7, shots hit low on the club spin alot... on the Cleveland there wasn't a ton of spin increase. While this low spin, flat flight has been marketed and promised for a number of years this was actually the only time I've (with my relatively low ss) been able to actually SEE a difference.
I'm not here to sell anything.... AND IF it were an allocation of resources choice (as bagger suggested) I'd go with lessons from Ted or Yoda anyday. But if anyone was thinking about it, I think one of the new products might pleasantly surprise people.
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