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TAYLORMADE SLDR DRIVER IN LOFTS 8° 9.5° 11°

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Rick Shiels Senior PGA Golf Coach at Trafford Golf Centre in Manchester tests the TaylorMade SLDR Driver in different lofts 8° 9.5° 11° using GC2 technology.

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32 thoughts on “TAYLORMADE SLDR DRIVER IN LOFTS 8° 9.5° 11°”

  1. 8 degree drivers are only advised if you swing around the 110 mph range..
    probably not your average golfer, even rick here is probably around the 100
    – 105 range at a guess although it seems like a small change in speed it
    makes a huge difference and it takes a lot of dedication and hard work to
    achieve it I would imagine. 

  3. Got fit today with my brother and he couldn’t get his spin down below
    4000rpm until he switched to 430cc head. After fitting with right shaft,
    spread on misses was tighter. About 10yard gain. Must get fit!!

  4. I am sorry I total disagree with you Rick. I have say these I was hitting a
    9.5 ° driver before I bought my sldr. And I did get in that loft. But I
    have to say I went from 9.5° to 11° loft because I had more control with
    the ball. And I was getting more distance with 11° then 9.5°͵8°. If someone
    going to get fit please do. Because this driver can do some amazing
    distance and forgiveness. I now that when I loft up I getting over 295 yrs
    carry with the 11°. Finishing with 325 total distance.

  9. I’am swinging at about 100 mph, have the 9.5 head, didnt like the high loft
    look, but hit the 11#, better on golf course than range,BUT i move slider
    full draw or fade and see no difference? can you test that on the GC2 to
    see if it works, or is it just for sales.

  10. One of your best vids so far Rick! Just proves that the ‘blanket’ statement
    by TM and some other OEM’s that more launch means more distance is complete
    nonsense for some people, and proves the point that it’s vital, as you say,
    to go try a few options out and go with what works best for the individual,
    not on ‘blanket’ marketing statements from OEM’s. Excellent job Rick!!

  11. Interesting with regards to carry but how many yards would you have lost in
    terms of run-out by using the higher lofted version? Another top shelf
    production Rick!

  12. Great video as always rick! I think people dont realise how much the AOA
    plays a role with this driver. Tour players are lofting up but on average
    they have a negative aoa mening they need the loft to get the club
    launching, however those with a pos angle of attack wont need the added
    loft to get the right launch conditions for such a low spinning club. 

  15. no fully correct, but great review.
    you get a bit more yards with 8.5 than with 11*, but the thing you ignore
    is the roll out, with 11* you got far better decent angle (136avg instead
    of 140ish with 8.5)

    since the avg distance was 276 against 271, i’m gessing that with better
    decent angle most likely you would end up with more total distance with the
    11*

  17. Great review Rick. I like the new format of reviews. Detailed and well
    compared, everything we need to know. BTW thanks for fast forwarding the
    bit where you changed the loft :-P

  18. I’m quite curious regarding one thing. The SLDR is available in different
    standard lofts – 8, 9,5, 10,5 and 12 degrees. Do you, Rick, find it
    preferable to compare different standard lofts when choosing the one best
    suited, or is it just as good tweeking the loft to the one best suited for
    our swings?? 

  19. Hi Rick, something that you may not have considered is how GC2 HMT works,
    Based on the images recorded it uses computer modelling to predict the ball
    flight and trajectory. In the past I have witnessed distances and ball
    flights not born out
    by readings when using similar devices. Suggest the only device that can
    truly validate what happens in this instance is trackman as it is the only
    device I’m aware of that actually tracks the complete ball flight in real
    time. No doubt that is why
    Taylormade, Ping, Titleist, Mizuno etc. use it for fitting their
    professionals and customers at their performance centres.

  21. Great video was thinking about buying one of these SLDRs but think will
    just go try this test with my old faithful taylormade r9 supertri thanks
    very much rick just saved me £300 cheers mate great video

  23. Hey Rick so if I came to try out a few drivers would I be able to use the
    flightscope so I could see which one suits me and see which one gives the
    best distance/accuracy and recommended shaft or would I need to book a
    lesson for that information?.

  24. I think people will be confused by this video. You cannot always take
    taylormades one liners and think it applies to everything. What Taylormade
    is saying is that if you are going from a club with the cog rearward like a
    ping g25 when you will need to loft up when going to a forward cog club. I
    went from a 913 8.5 titleist d2 to a 10.0 R1. I had to loft up because my
    backspin was to low. Going from the r1 to the sldr I probably won’t need to
    increase loft at all but I have noticed slightly less spin with the sldr so
    I may go to 10.5 driver. 

  25. Ive got a taylormade r540xd dont use anymore because got 2011 rocketballz 3
    wood hit 260 yards but not sure need driver winter time
    R540XD was 9.5 stiff should i get sldr driver

  28. Hey Rick, how does altering the loft affect the face angle? Or have TM
    managed to get it square in all lofts. Cheers and look forward to the
    460/430 test of the SLDR

  29. Great stuff, been wanting to see this happen for ages, to see if
    TaylorMade’s own recommendations of a high launch angle and very low spin
    rate well under 2500rpm which is nothing like we’ve all thought the best
    numbers are to actually give the longer distances.
    Interesting stuff on these numbers on GC2. The 11 deg driver was giving you
    the launch angle at 16+degs kind of launch that TaylorMade are actually
    recommending, yet it didn’t fly as far.
    Wonder if the fact that they test on Trackman so track the actual flight in
    real time, against GC2 which is calculating the numbers based on data from
    the first few inches of the balls flight has anything to do with it, would
    have thought not, but?
    Also wonder what TaylorMade would say confronted with this data which is
    giving the opposite answers really to their own recommendations? Really
    interesting thanks.

  30. Interesting review! Can you please review the X2Hot Driver as well as the
    Nike 2.0 tour drivers? Im excited for your long drive contests as well!

  31. Would your club head speed dictate what loft you may need to use. As I see
    you have a (what looks like a fast club head speed) where I have a slow one
    at 87mph.

    Cheers Spen

  32. i would like to see a video on the sliding bar itself. so does this
    sliding bar actually work. i hope you will test this in a future video

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