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TaylorMade SLDR driver with classic looking head shapes by jessica delia
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The SLDR family, featuring driver, fairways and hybrids, has been designed with the tinkerers in mind. Here I will talk about the TaylorMade SLDR driver.
The SLDR, more for the mid to low capper, features a weight mechanism that can sort out just about any flaw in the swing and it's also quicker and easier to adjust unlike the Taylormade R1 driver before it. I personally believe you can be much more precise with your tuning this time around as the SLDR generates more than double the influence on a driver's CG than the R1's moveable weights.
Turning clubheads over, SLDR owns a 20g sliding weight towards the front of clubhead to move the club's centre CG low and forward. JetSpeed is the first TaylorMade driver to take up the Speed Pocket and this promotes less spin, as well as greater ball speeds on shots struck below the centre of the clubface. The sweetspot is 25% larger than the discount RBZ Stage 2 Driver so this is perfect for the mid to high capper who struggles to make clean contact with their drives.
"We are always engineering our center face ball speed to the maximum, but the new insert allows for a more consistent deflection across the whole face which gives us more ball speed and more distance across a larger area of the face," Stone said. "The face insert is not a symmetric geometry, it's a complex structure and it required us to really think outside the box. We had to invent a new process just to produce it."
Launch angle was higher with the SLDR and there was generally a much more penetrating ball flight. SLDR was the much straighter of the two drivers for me. There is no question once you've found the correct position to place your 20g sliding weight, or if you decide to get yourself custom fit with TaylorMade, you will be finding fairways with regularity.
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