The Cobra OPTM family of drivers looks to take a new step toward enhancing stability and forgiveness through special shaping and balanced internal weighting for more consistent distance and dispersion.
The new TaylorMade Qi4D family of drivers (Qi4D, Qi4D Max, Qi4D Max Lite, Qi4D LS) aim to manage the complicated challenges of faster ball speed mixed with forgiveness and aerodynamic speed.
The new Mizuno JPX One drivers find a way to generate more ball speed by combining a thinner titanium face with a polymer “nanoalloy” coating that increases the strength and bending properties of the titanium at high-speed impacts to create better resilience than typical titanium face inserts for better energy transfer.
If you’re serious about finding the right driver for your game, one metric deserves more attention than it usually gets: consistent spin rates across the face.
One of the benefits of independent robotic testing is its ability to validate insights that might initially seem implausible. For example, the most forgiving driver in this year’s crop (at 95 mph/152km/h) was actually a low-spin model — Ping’s G440 LST.
Australian Golf Digest
