TaylorMade has launched the TaylorMade SLDR S Driver, a non-adjustable, cheaper version of the number one driver on tour, the SLDR. It no longer features the adjustable hosel, it still includes the intuitive sliding weight track that promotes up to 30 yards of shot shape adjustment. Talking about the new SLDR S, Benoit Vincent, vice president research and development at TaylorMade, told GM: “It’s no secret that high launch and low spin maximise driver distance, but some players think that only tour pros can benefit from lofting up. This is simply not true. By lofting up, you can generate serious distance gains regardless of swing speed with SLDR S, which has low and forward CG properties, along with a sliding weight that assists shot shape.” The button-back is a great move from TaylorMade in my book. It will make it clear to the television viewer that the Tour player, TaylorMade sponsored or not, is using the TaylorMade SLDR Driver. Turning clubhead over into palm of glove and there's a simple sliding 20g weight on display, positioned towards the front of the driver. I was informed this allows you to move the club's centre of gravity low and forward to promote that desired high launch, faster ball speed and lower spin, which yes you guessed it, creates what TaylorMade claims to be its longest-driver-to-date. After an hour custom-fitting session for the SLDR at TaylorMade's superb Wentworth Fitting Centre alongside TaylorMade Performance Lab Manager Tom Godwin, I quickly understood why TaylorMade was so keen to get the SLDR out on the shelves so soon after the TaylorMade R1 Driver. The golfer is able to increase or reduce loft of the SLDR up to 1.5-degree increments with a 12-position loft-sleeve for optimal trajectory. Tom decided to loft me up half a degree on my current spec to 10.5-degree after seeing me strike what I thought were three solid drives out to 230 yards carry and 255 yards distance using the SLDR's standard Fujikura Speeder 57 shaft.
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