TaylorMade Mini Driver SLDR

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TaylorMade Mini Driver SLDR
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Rick Shiels Senior PGA Golf Coach at Trafford Golf Centre tests the new TaylorMade SLDR Mini Driver on GC2 with real golf balls and revealing all the data to help you decide if this is the golf club for you. This driver can improve your golf game if you struggle with the driver!

42 thoughts on “TaylorMade Mini Driver SLDR

  1. “It’s like a big headed 3 wood”
    So basically it’s like how drivers were about 15 years ago?
    Nowt wrong with that; I still use a Big Bertha Warbird. 

  2. Impressive stuff. When are you reviewing the Ping Rapture 3W, Rick? It’s
    been on the Ping website for ages but there’s hardly any videos of it.

  3. I noticed that I hit my 15* i25 further and just as straight as the 14*
    mini. Not sure why…just one of those things for me. That said, for me at
    least, the 13* Ping Rapture, in addition to being crazy expensive, is also
    crazy long and quite accurate. I much prefer the Rapture to the mini as
    both a driver replacement and a solid strong 3-wood. I have no problem
    hitting it off the fairway and good rough lies, and it is long and straight
    off the tee–noticeably longer than my i25 15*, which it should be.
    Anyways, keep up the great videos!

  4. Why do these guys insist on testing a Mini Driver off the deck? Doesn’t
    it’s name suggest it is intended to be used as a driver for the great
    majority of weekend golfers who struggle with the driver off the tee?

  5. What are you doing when you set up your grip? I keep noticing you do
    something with your right hand to set up your left.

    Do you have a grip video by any chance? 

  6. SLDR S Mini Driver なるものがあるんですね?
    知らなかった!!!
    ヘッドも小さめで260ccらしいです。
    スプーンで十分かなとは思うのですが、こういったコンパクトなドライバーの方が安定してフェアウェイキープが出来そうですね。

    というのも、殆どのゴルフ場が数十年は経過していますし、その当時のゴルフクラブのスペックと現代のゴルフクラブのスペックを考えると、数十年前のゴルフ場には現代的なゴルフクラブのスペックは似合わないかも?なんて思うこともありますからね。飛びすぎたり、狭いと感じたり、ティーショットをフェアウェイウッドで打つこともありますからね。

    色々な想いが頭を駆け巡りますね~

    日本仕様はないのかな?

  7. Hi +RickShielsPGAGolf. Is this SLDR Mini Driver made out of steel or
    titanium? I have tried to find info about that but I have missed out every
    time :-/

  8. Don’t know what happened 2 your 3 wood testing but this would of been
    knocked out in the 1st round,in your test u hit the x2 hot 3deep over 250
    yards twice & averaged 243 yards so why not put this in the bag?

  9. Rick, I have hit a Tour-Made J-Max Bazooka, 15 degree for years and found
    it so much easier to hit than less lofted clubs. But why? I can also draw
    it much better. Any comments. Having said that since watching your video on
    the xHot Callaway, I have that in the bag as well. xHot is so light, and
    colossal, effortless distance. Thanks! 

  10. Great little club but it be alot better with a good shaft in it. You gain
    alot more distance. I changed the standard shaft in my SLDR 3 wood to a
    rombax i gained around 24 yards further. The standard shafts in the SLDR
    range are ok but theres better 

  11. Nice video Rick. I have tried this club, to me it is in between driver and
    3 wood, especially off ground. It could be the new trend, and woudl be
    interesting to see how other companies respond to this ‘new’ club

  12. At first I wasn’t entirely sure about this club, I had a go the other day
    and I must say it’s tempting – just the price tag that’s off putting.

  13. Nice vid Rick! Do you think that you might have been even better with the
    TP version with the slightly heavier Fuji 7.3ts shaft, that may get that
    spin rate down a touch, and in theory cut down on that right to left shot
    off the deck a little. It’d really dial it in. It sounds really great off
    the clubface though.

  14. In the days of persimmon head woods I owned a set of McGregor Tourneys 1 ,2
    3, 4 woods. Found I could not hit the 1 wood consistently; put it away and
    used the 2 wood for my driving hole T shots. The interesting thing was that
    using the 2 wood off the T I consistently hit more fairways and hit it
    further than almost everyone I knew who was using a true Driver (1wood). I
    grew very fond of my 2 wood and I was probably the last guy in my town to
    transition to metal woods. Now it looks as though Taylor Made has come up
    with a late technology configuration that will do for me what my old
    Persimmon 2 wood did 35 years ago. I’ll be buying one of those mini drivers
    soon…thinking I’ll likely go with the 14 deg…

  15. The mini driver is an easy 3 wood but I couldn’t get anymore ballspeed or
    distance than the SLDR fairway and the mini driver had higher spin. I love
    the concept because I play a lot of short very tight driving course on an
    am tour but I have found the Tour Edge Exotics, Xhot 3deep, and Ping
    Rapture to be longer and more versatile and just as easy to hit off the
    tee. Can’t wait to see how taylormade refines the mini driver. 

  16. What do you carry in your wood/hybrids in your bag?? In your nike covert
    vrs 2.0 hybrid review, you were hitting it almost as far as this,
    therefore, I don’t see why you would need it, and if so, would you still
    carry a 3 wood?

  17. I had the same issue off the deck. Not as consistent as my current 3 wood.
    Don’t see the point of this club unless you really fear your driver.

  18. The 12 degree makes sense as a viable driver replacement, especially with
    the 43.5 inch shaft. Personally as a 13 handicapper I would find the
    shallower face of a traditional 3 wood better off the fairway.

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