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TaylorMade follows up its highly successful Taylormade R11S Driver with the TaylorMade R1 Driver - perhaps the most adjustable driver ever released. Can you make the settings help your game?
The R1 model offers the greatest range of adjustability of any driver in TaylorMade's history, as well as in the industry today. It gives the golfer 12 loft settings and seven face-angle positions, and includes two movable shot-shape weights. These three features allow the driver to be tuned 168 different ways to optimize distance and accuracy – and, importantly, allow a golfer to adjust the loft and face angle independently of each other.
'Offering a wide range of loft settings is imperative, because our research indicates that 80 percent of golfers are playing the wrong loft, which costs them distance,' said TaylorMade Chief Technical Officer Benoit Vincent. 'The Taylormade R1 offers 12 positions to help golfers find the loft that delivers the launch conditions that deliver maximum distance.'
The Taylormade SLDR Driver gets its name from the sliding weight on the sole. Golfers can slide the weight along a rail to easily create the specific draw or fade bias they desire. Recent TaylorMade drivers like the R1 are adjusted by using a wrench to screw weight ports in and out of the head.
Another thing that stands out on first look is that the SLDR also features a black crown. TaylorMade, of course, recently came out with a black-crowned R1 driver after making nothing but white-headed models for the last couple of years. There's no indication yet as to whether a white-crowned SLDR might be in the works as well.
In any case, the initial reaction to the new driver is quite positive. Boo Weekley tweeted that 'it's awesome,' while Lucas Glover described it as '#sillygood.' And TaylorMade's Dave Cordero said the company brought 20 Taylormade SLDR heads to the John Deere Classic on Monday, and they were all spoken for by day's end.
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