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If you play a driver with a name like RocketBallz, there's no secret about your goal on the tee. You're all about distance and want to smack the ball farther than every other guy in your foursome. With the release of the new Taylormade RocketBallz Stage 2 driver, TaylorMade thinks it has a club that will let you achieve that goal more often.
For years, club designers have been trying to shift the center of gravity (CG) lower and farther back in drivers, but according to Tom Olsavsky, TaylorMade's senior director of product creation, it’s possible to go too far back. If the CG is too far back, he says, the center of the clubface can actually be above it. That causes lower drives that spin more and compromise distance and ball speed.
In this season's RocketBallz Stage 2 driver, the non-adjustable weight plug that was positioned in the back of the original RocketBallz has been moved forward. That helped designers shift the CG forward as well.
"We're finding a big difference with Stage 2," Olsavsky says. "We're getting higher launch, less spin, and more speed. That translates to more distance."
He says the Stage 2 launches the ball about 1° higher and produces about 300-400 rpm less spin. Olsavsky says that, and the improved CG positioning, helps make the RocketBallz Stage 2 anywhere from 7 to 10 yards longer than the original.
While there were two versions of the original RocketBallz driver—a standard and a Tour model—TaylorMade decided to produce only one version of the Stage 2.But RocketBallz is no joke, and clubs bearing RBZ on their sole will start arriving in pro shops near you in early February. (According to TaylorMade, the engineers who developed the line said the 3-wood "hit the ball like a rocket." Having a little fun, they etched "RocketBallz" into their prototypes, and the name stuck.)
TaylorMade's goal for the RocketBallz drivers—there are two, a Tour version and a Speed version—is to deliver some of the R11's adjustability at a lower price. Source from: http://www.cheapgolfaus.com/article-311-TaylorMade-RocketBallz-Stage-2-Driver--RocketBallz-Driver.html
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