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Several golf equipment companies make adjustable drivers, but none of them have gone to quite the lengths of TaylorMade – especially in the new TaylorMade R11S driver.
According to TaylorMade, the R11S driver is bigger, more adjustable (“tunable,” in the company’s lingo), faster and longer than its predecessor. It retains the matte-white crown finish and black face, but bumps the size of the head up to 460cc (from 440cc) and adds a new, pentagonal Adjustable Sole Plate (“ASP”), different moveable weights and a new, 1.5-degree adjustable Flight Control Technology (“FCT”) hosel sleeve system. Its “three-dimensional” adjustability lets golfers alter the loft, face angle and trajectory independently.
I can’t say it’s dramatically different than the original Taylormade R11 Driver, but it does make some changes. The “Thick-Thin Crown” of the large titanium head lowers the club’s center of gravity and improves launch conditions, while the Inverted Cone Technology promotes more ball speed and additional distance on off-center shots by expanding the club’s Coefficient of Restitution zone. The matte-white crown reduces glare, and the black face frames the ball nicely and makes the club easier to align properly.
TaylorMade also believes this particular color combo inspires player confidence by making the club head look larger than its actual size. Of course, the adjustability of the TaylorMade R11S driver isn’t its only design feature. It just seems to me that there are an awful lot of things to fiddle with on the TaylorMade R11S driver – you can adjust the hosel sleeve, the moveable weight cartridges, and the sole plate. How in the world does anyone get all those different adjustments “right?” I’d probably turn into a head case trying.
I hit the R11s with the non-tp shaft. The Aldila Rip Phenom 60 as well as I hit anything else. The Ping G20 and the Taylormade RBZ driver were both as long as the R11s, but neither of those drivers were as consistent or had such a pleasing feel and sound to them. Once I tried the Aldila Phenom 60, I was hitting the ball straighter than I ever have. I attribute the straightness not only to the club, but to the combo of the head and shaft.
The club was set up with the 10 gram weight in the heel. Which is supposed to help you turn the ball right to left. When I swapped the weights, I started hitting consistent fades that carried a couple of yards farther but rolled a few yards less. I might leave the 10 gram in the heel through the summer, but swap them out when it gets wet in the winter and I need more carry.
I mentioned above that this club feels right to me. With the 60 gram shaft it still feels like there is still power in the head. The feel on center hits is really pleasing to me while you can tell when you hit it off center. It doesn't feel awful, but you can identify where you hit it on the face by the feel. Source from: http://www.cheapgolfclubsau.com/article-296-R11S-driver-Is-set-up-with-the-10-gram-weight-.html
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