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With the release of the TaylorMade SLDR driver for sale, TaylorMade has taken ball flight to a new level. The weight to move is now only a single weight and is set in a slider at the bottom of the clubhead. Here are a few of my thoughts. The SLDR driver has plenty of technology in addition to the slider weight that is the main focal point of the clubhead. TaylorMade says with the SLDR driver many golfers are increasing the loft rather than decreasing it. The idea with the SLDR is to optimize the golfer launch conditions by moving the COG forward which promotes more ball speed and less spin. Now golfers can increase the loft on the driver and not pay a penalty of a loss in distance. The TaylorMade SLDR driver succeeds the TaylorMade R1 driver for sale and there are a lot of significant changes. The first change is moving the center of gravity of the clubhead lower and more forward in the club. This means that to hit the ball farther traditionally the golfer would try to achieve this by lowering the loft of the clubhead. Now with the SLDR driver, the moveable weights in the heel and toe and the dial on the sole have been replaced with a single sliding weight in the 460cc titanium head. This reduces the weight of the SLDR driver and makes it lighter so that in theory you get more clubhead speed from the same amount of effort. They have also moved the centre of gravity (CG) closer to the face which also increases ball speed, although this can also increase dispersion and reduce accuracy. TaylorMade continued to utilize the loft sleeve technology that they introduced with the cheap Taylormade RocketBallz Stage 2 driver which allows plus or minus 1.5 degrees of loft in either direction along with upright settings as well. The nice feature here is that shafts that may have been originally built for either the R1 or the RocketBallz Stage 2 can now be utilized with the SLDR driver as well. For me this was a great feature because I used the R1 shaft that I already had. Plus the adjustability that is provided gives the golfer the ability to tune the loft of the club to their swing. Now with the release of the SLDR they have gone back to an even more traditional looking club design strategy. I can freely admit that I started out hating the white drivers, but after a while I have started to like the confident feeling you get from the white driver. Now bear in mind that changing the loft will also affect the lie of the club slightly and there is nothing to adjust the lie on this club, unlike other cheap golf clubs in the market. However this is where the sliding 20 gram weight comes in. If the shape of the shot needs tweaking to compensate for the lie change or because you just have a fade or a draw then the blue weight can be unscrewed and moved along a track of 21 possible positions across the 7 marks shown on the weight track. Overall TaylorMade have created a driver that has a fast, low spinning face. The moveable weight of the SLDR is a useful feature, although if you get the right shaft and loft then the need for it may not be that great unless you create some real bananas off the tee. Source from: http://www.golfsetau.com/article-394-Newest-SLDR-driver-with-moveable-weight-technology.html
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