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The most adjustable driver you can buy is the new Taylormade R1 Driver. The combinations are endless: The R1 has adjustable weights, sole plate and loft; add to that the ability to switch out shafts, and it is mind-numbing how many tweaks can be made to this driver in order to get the best numbers.
Now with the R1, TaylorMade has a driver that adjusts 12 different ways for loft, seven ways for face angle, and also boasts trajectory tuning. With the Taylormade R11 driver, some purists cried "foul" when TM introduced a pure white crown, but many performance-minded golfers couldn't get enough. Golfers were able to tinker with the loft, face angle at address, and trajectory.
With all the loft, lie angle and face angle options in the TaylorMade R1 driver, there is a fit for nearly every golfer. The rub, of course, is whether the golfer can make consistent contact between clubface and ball - and whether each golfer who buys one understands the effects on ball flight well enough to properly tune the driver.
Compared to TaylorMade's previous adjustable drivers, the R1 has less spin, achieved in part by moving the center of gravity forward. The tradeoff for a low-spin driver head is that loft needs to be set a little higher than in the past, but with uber-adjustability, that's easily done.
The TaylorMade R1 driver for sale performs as advertised, which is to say: better than the R11S driver. Higher ball speed off the face means more carry yards. Not many more, but more. About 1-3 more carry yards in our testing, but notably with much lower spin, which means golfers see more roll-out for more overall distance.
The sound of the driver is solid - more of a thwack, and less "tink" than TaylorMade R11S driver. The stock shaft offering of Aldila RIP Phenom 55 is fine, but I'd personally prefer a return to the Matrix line of stock shafts. The Aldila feels a little whippy, perhaps even too light at 55 grams. That's OK for many of us, who can use a little bit more clubhead speed, but might be too light for the higher-swing-speed players.
The look of the clubhead is not at all classic. TaylorMade has adorned the cluhead with a graphic alignment device, which like most anything, can grow on you. The sole view reveals all the moving parts and looks cumbersome, including a compass-looking face angle adjustment dial that would have Lewis and Clark doing cartwheels. Source from: http://www.economygolfsale.com/article-305-Do-You-Currently-Use-TaylorMade-R1-driver-.html
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