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It's part of a three-year deal between the golf company (headquartered just up the road in Carlsbad) and the Padres. Terms of the deal weren't announced.
The club, TaylorMade's cheap R11 driver, was erected over a three-day period, with the final touches added Wednesday before the start of Thursday night's homestand against the Phillies. The club head is illustrated as a decal on the wall, with the 950-pound hollow shaft and grip rising high above the right-field fence, attached to the foul pole. If a ball hits the shaft above the fence, it'll be a home run.
Bob Maggiore, TaylorMade's vice president of global marketing, calls it a "cool idea" he can't wait for people to see. "Nobody has seen it and said 'Oh, come on,'" he says. "Everybody has gotten so excited about it, whether they worked here or not."
As part of the launch, TaylorMade LPGA Tour golfer Natalie Gulbis will throw out the first pitch before the game, and hit a "first drive" from the home plate area in the afternoon. The Padres say Major League Baseball has signed off on the club, whose height matches the length of the Coca-Cola bottle at San Francisco's AT&T Park.
The idea sprang from discussions between Padres vice chairman and CEO Jeffrey Moorad and TaylorMade president and CEO Mark King more than a year ago. They put their creative teams together, and when the Padres one day showed off their idea of the giant cheap golf clubs, "Everybody in the room knew instantly that that was a cool idea," says Maggiore.
Anyway, I tried this Taylormade RBZ driver at the range and hit the f#king sh!t out of it. I'm fairly certain that I'm 20 yards longer and past Drake on his best drives. Drake beat me 2 & 1 last year at the club championship and when we sat down for drinks he asked me if I need a booster seat. I told him his wife never needed me to sit in one. He threw his beer at me and missed and I said "nice toss, champ".
It got me an extra 15 to 20 yards but I had no idea where it was going. I then tried the tour version and I still got extra yards and accuracy was much improved. I have no idea why this is. Basically a very competent driver and whilst longer than my previous driver it is not massively more forgiving. In fact I am beginning to wonder why I replace my cheap Ping G15 driver with the R11 in the first place. Source from: http://www.australiacheapgolf.com/article-360-Taylormade-Unveiles-80-foot-ball-Driver%3A-R11--RBZ-Driver.html
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