Taylor Made R540 Driver

Advantages: Hits the ball a VERY long way. Keeps the ball straight.
Disadvantages: Not a solitary thing.

~ ~ Golf’s a funny old game, so it is. The margins between success and failure are very tight, and the result of a competition can often hinge on a putt of no more than 2 or 3 feet. But there’s one thing of which you can be certain; if you can’t consistently put the ball onto the fairway (short grass) with your driver off the tee then there’s simply no way that you’re going to score well on a regular basis. A good short game (pitching and putting ...
...a wayward driver, but if you put your drive into the rough grass more than onto the fairway, then you’ll record bad scores more often than you’ll record good ones. ~ ~ Alas, this has been the story of the mad cabbie’s golf game for about the last 4 years or so. Despite excellent iron play, superb pitching, and a (occasionally) hot putter, I haven’t been able to really get to grips with a very destructive hook (right to left shot) off the tee. So ... Read review

Advantages: Tiger Wood eat your heart out
Disadvantages: Will not be popular with your bank manager

In the recent past, every golf ball manufacturer has boasted that theirs was the longest ball. Golf balls that travelled prodigious distance were created to meet this challenge, such that some golf courses were almost being rendered obsolete. Advances in materials for golf clubs and golf balls, application of technology and research on the golf swing has led to the innovations in amazing golf products. By the turn of the century, the two golf’s ...
...Golf Association, found it necessary to give restrictions on golf equipment. The length of golf clubs is now restricted to 47 inches, while club heads for woods are restricted to 470cc. In the same vein, the coefficient of restitution, the so-called spring like effect on the driver’s clubface, has been limited to 0.83. The distance that a golf ball can travel when hit at a certain test speed has also been capped. Amazingly, manufacturers have pushed ... Read review

Advantages: Hits the golf ball a long way.
Disadvantages: You're never sure what direction it will hit the ball

...'s all gobbledygook and golf speak, and actually means very little.) The new laws meant that many drivers that were already in use would become illegal when they were used in competition. The new regulations came into force almost immediately for professional golfers, but the amateurs and hackers were given a dispensation until the 1st January 2008. What this meant for me was that the driver I had been using very successfully for the past three years or so, the TaylorMade R540, was to become illegal as and from the start of 2008! So from about March 2007 I embarked on a frantic search to find another driver that would give me the same distance off the tee and the same consistency of hit as my old tired and tested TaylorMade. This was to prove a very expensive and ultimately fruitless search. (Good quality golf clubs don't come cheap... Read review

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