The Wilson Dynapwr Max+ pushes the company’s driver lineup to a new model with the highest rating for stability on off-centre hits (moment of inertia) than any driver in company history.
The Hero World Challenge is sometimes chastised as “not a real event”. Don’t tell that to world No.1 Scottie Scheffler, the two-time defending champion who is using the competition as a proving ground for a new TaylorMade driver.
The majority of golfers play a slice off the tee, costing themselves valuable distance. The ball’s significant movement from left-to-right in the air (for right-handers) decreases distance due to the excessive amount of sidespin.
According to TaylorMade tour rep Adrian Rietveld, Scheffler wants “absolutely nothing inside” his driver’s clubhead that might alter performance in any way.
Despite the top two players in the world having to give up their drivers after creeping into nonconforming status ahead of the PGA Championship and the surrounding hubbub from certain quarters suggesting the driver test needed to be rethought, the USGA will not be changing its plans for testing at next week’s US Open.
Rory McIlroy had to switch drivers at the PGA Championship after his ‘gamer’ was deemed non-conforming, according to a report by SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio’s Jason Sobel.