INFOGRAPHIC – Drivers Released Since 2010
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INFOGRAPHIC – Drivers Released Since 2010

INFOGRAPHIC – Drivers Released Since 2010

How Many Drivers Has Each Golf Company Actually Released?

We hear the noise every time a new driver is released.

Great…another new driver from _____________. Wait 6 weeks and they’ll be another (and this one will be $100 cheaper).

It’s true. Some companies release a lot of drivers. Other companies release a lot less.

Who actually releases how many? Now that’s an interesting question.

One of our readers who works in golf retail took it upon himself to count up all of the releases from the major manufacturers since 2010. We’ve added to the list as we’ve found omissions, but we’ve arrived at numbers that we believe are solid.

Of course, what should or should not count as a distinct driver offering is open for debate. We certainly didn’t count absolutely everything, so our numbers may not line-up with yours.

In the interest of full transparency, here’s how we arrived at our count.

  • Drivers available in multiple colors were considered to be the same model, unless a new color option was added after the original release. In real world terms; under our accounting Cobra’s Amp Cell lineup is one club, TaylorMade’s R1 and R1 Black are two.
  • If only the shaft is different, we don’t count it separately. TaylorMade’s SLDR and SLDR TP are counted as 1 club.
  • True Limited Edition releases (numbered) weren’t counted either. Cobra gets the biggest break here as we didn’t count things like the Limited Edition Orange AMP, or the Master’s Edition BiO Cell. It also means we left Long Tom and the Ferrari driver off the list.
  • Non-US Releases (Callaway Legacy, for example) weren’t counted.
  • Direct to consumer custom programs (Callaway U-Design, Cobra Design Lab) weren’t counted.
  • Bonded hosel releases (RBZ, RBZ 2) of otherwise adjustable clubs were counted.
  • I-Mix versions of Callaway’s FT-IZ and RAZR Hawk weren’t counted as they were not widely available.
  • Pro/Tour versions where the head itself differs between the two were counted separately.

If we had counted ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING, totals for Cobra, TaylorMade, and Callaway would be significantly higher, PING would be +1, and Nike and Titleist would be exactly what they are.

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      Misunderstood

      9 years ago

      Was the MP600 in there too or added earlier. I bought one with a V2 67gram shaft this summer and it looks like it’s going to be my new driver for the next couple of years. It was in very good condition and it cost me $85 dollars on Ebay. In the last 10 years I’ve bought probably 80-100 drivers with different shafts on Ebay. I usually sell them back so I’m not actually spending that much money. It turns out the V2 67 gram shaft is the difference maker for me. Have you hit any of the 800 serious?

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      Mikko

      9 years ago

      I was able to count seven Mizuno drivers since 2010:

      – MP-630
      – MP-630 FastTrack
      – MP-650
      – JPX 800
      – JPX 825
      – JPX EZ
      – JPX 850

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      Robert S Meybohm

      10 years ago

      I guess since this article is about how many different clubs have been released in the past few years, the focus of the conversation would naturally follow in that direction. However, this discussion seems to be misdirected in that no-one should really be paying that much attention to this driver or that driver if they really cared about improving their game and driving their score lower. You hit your driver 14 times a round…if that many times. The driver simply does not come out of the bad that often to be worth as much discussion as it gets. I guess it is like the sexy blonde……hard to ignore…but is it really worth all the discussion? The clubs that will be the game improvement clubs are the wedges……

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      James

      10 years ago

      James with all due respect, the game needs to more forward and made more enjoyable for people to play, there is no fun in having to hit a 2 or 3 iron and don’t have the skill to do it. My wife as a good golfer who plays competitive golf for the past 20 yrs. If it was not for the things I have listed she would have given up on the game long time ago. We can also not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Hybrids change the game for many people. Lighter shafts in my irons allowed me to continue to play competitive after proper custom fitting. If Tour players can benefit from 95 gram iron shaft why not use the technology? The list of 6 points is based on my experience, if your view is that you don’t need any advancement in real technology, good for you. Your view on wedges is the same, using a lob wedge the correct way under the right conditions is a magic tool. My home course is a Gary Player designed course with lots of deep bunkers, elevated greens with lots of run off areas, sorry a 53 degree wedge is not going to cut it. My point on the modern golf ball is that most of the distance gain has come from the ball and not the clubs, the fact that irons have much stronger lofts is also a marketing drive selling the distance dream. Technology advancement has made the game more enjoyable to a lot of people, the fact that they don’t score better is because very little is done to improve their ability to score. but that is an individual goal.

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      Mike

      10 years ago

      Actually the opposite is true! The game needs to be difficult and not dumb ed down to the masses who come and go. We’ve made too many courses in this country and now that the masses that came with Tiger are abating a bit, everyone is panicking about the decline and fall of golfing. I prefer to look at it as the leveling out of the playing field and the weeding out of those who do it with the same intensity as choosing which to have, Cheetos or Fritos! The only thing a golfer needs is 14 or less clubs that go a predetermined distance with acceptable distance between each. I have no doubt that I could score the same score today with my old Ping Zing wooden driver and my old Hogan blades as I do with my Callaway FT Tour driver and my cavity back irons.

      The difference in scoring isn’t about distance. It’s about the distance between your clubs and directional accuracy. Yes I know at some point distance does matter but that’s when you move to the up tees. It’s not nuclear science people.

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      Mike

      10 years ago

      James all well said but;

      None of this matters when you look at the average golfers score which is .50 (1/2 a stroke) better than it was 30 years ago. This is not an attack on you but instead, my thoughts on your 6 points.

      1. We don’t need cavity back people need a better swing.

      2. Drivers don’t need to be longer they need to be stable like you stated. (Why not steel? AGAIN)

      3. We don’t need hybrids we’ve already had them for years (They’re called 7 & 9 woods.) I’ve tried hybrids (probably 6-8 of them) and they don’t work as well. If we need to hit our 2 & 3 irons, bend them back to where they belong. The average good player can’t hit them at 18 & 22 degrees. I personally had clones made of the Taylormade Tours, and had them made to 50 degrees for my PW. Guess what? I’m much more accurate with my irons.

      4. Lighter shafts? We need heavier shafts. Driver shafts should be between 65-80 grams and irons 90-110 grams. This would lead to much more accuracy by the average player since none of them get fitted anyway.

      5. Wedges? Get rid of anything over 54 degrees. It’s a waste of shots and a game wrecker for everyone but low handicappers (8 or less). I am was a 5 handicap last year and I’ve owned 2 lob wedges. I gave one away and threw the other one away into tall grass. I can put my 53 degree anywhere you can put a 60 (bottom line).

      6. Longer balls? Why? This game isn’t about hitting the ball longer than what was possible before. It’s about getting the skill to improve you game through ability.

      We need to stop letting this industry hold us back from getting better and scoring lower. Their only mission these days is to take as much money from us as possible by pretending to put out a product that will circumvent practice and swing knowledge, and replace it with technology. Hasn’t worked and won’t work, UNLESS their mission is to wreck the game.

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      James

      10 years ago

      Been playing serious golf for 36 yrs (am am 53 now) and play of 3 hcap. I have seen and used clubs through these years and at most change irons every 5 or 6 yrs. Played with Founders Club CB Tours for 8 yrs. Now have Adams CB with Steelfiber shafts (also about 4 yrs old) and a Titleist 910 Driver with Custom fit Accra shaft. In my view the technology that has changed most and made the biggest impact on golf over this time is the following. Ping Cavity Back Irons started the Cavity Back concept, The Big Bertha original Driver, started the big headed driver. TM Metal “woods” . Adams development of the Hybrid trend. Cleveland Wedges. The modern Golf ball. Ping Anser Putter a design copied by many and still used today by many.

      My issue with TM and Callaway is that they redesign old ideas and sell it as new Technology. The slider technologie as example was first introduced my Mizuno in the MP 600 driver 6 years back. If I have to list the changes that helped me it would be the following.
      1. CB irons especially in the longer irons.
      2. Driver Shafts for some distance improvement resulting from a more stable shaft and right flex.
      3. Hybrid Club to replace my 2 and 3 irons
      4. Lighter shafts for irons.
      5. wedge designs, to have a 52, 56 and 60 degree wedges
      6. Modern Golf ball is 30% + longer than the old balls.

      The biggest killer in Golf is the fact that people try and buy a better game and the club makers sell that game very well with no effective results. Golf like any other sport is only played better through skills development and having the correct equipment fitted to your game and skill level.

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      Regis

      10 years ago

      Only replying because I’m 63 and been playing 50 years and I agree that Ping for example revolutionized the game with the Answer putter and the Ping Eye 2 (though some could argue that the Spalding Executive was the first popular cavity back iron). But in the “Let’s give credit where credit is due department” Taylor Made was responsible for introducing in reverse order:
      1. The adjustable shaft
      2. The hybrid (they call it the rescue) and
      3. The Metal wood (This occurred in 1979 so maybe you missed it)
      The last one is without any reasonable argument the biggest innovation in the history of golf equipment and for those of us who grew up playing Persimmon or other “woods” with steel shafts lets not forget that we purists riduculed those guys that first showed up gaming “Pittsburgh Persimmons” and it was an uphill battle for Taylor Made, initially, to convert the golfing public to their “gimmick”
      So let’s all stop with the BS about TMAG copying the Mizuno technology for its SLDR (in part because its not true) because unless your playing woods, and I mean real woods then you’re playing a club from a manufacturer that copied and has profited from Taylor Made’s ground breaking game changing innovation and that has been true for a long time.

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      TopPakRat

      10 years ago

      Unfortunately for 500+ PGA professionals you can still buy the majority of these Drivers at Dick’s Sporting Goods1 Thank you Taylor Made & Callaway.!!!!

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      Bigtmatdaddy

      10 years ago

      I’m really amazed there are so many on this forum that buys so little new equipment. I love new equipment, love trying new things, and tinkering with clubs. I might buy 2 or 3 new clubs a year, some hang around a while and some don’t make 30 days. I have buddies that even swap out bags a couple times a year. We play a lot of tournaments and some of the purchases might be with some Pro Shop gift certificate winnings but it’s still money. You have to enjoy life, and if golf is what you love, go for it. How many of you guys buy a new car every couple years. How many fishermen buy new rod and new reels every year. How many of you have kids that play sports. New baseball and softball bats come out every year, some might be better, some might be just new paint. Maybe you can’t afford new equipment, maybe your wives won’t let you buy new equipment, that’s not the equipment’s fault. How many of your wives buy new purses and shoes every couple month’s to keep up with the latest trends. Try telling them that it don’t make any sense. If they want to make new equipment, and I like the way it looks and performs, I’ll try it. If I try it and like it then I’ll probably buy it. There’s always somebody there, drooling, waiting for a bargain.

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      Misunderstood

      9 years ago

      You must own a retail golf store!

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      Justin

      10 years ago

      Read Barney Adams’ article at GolfWRX. I do agree the OEMs oversaturated the market, but there are way too many people believe a “static” commodity will somehow magically make them a Tour-level driver of the ball.

      I don’t get where the TMaG bashing idea in this article comes from. It’s just showing numbers, and if MGS used all examples the placement of each company wouldn’t really change that much…

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      Misunderstood

      9 years ago

      You couldn’t be more wrong! Please don’t post again until you are either smarter or better schooled. There are no people in the world that couldn’t take a multitude of lessons and go and shoot a sub par round eventually with wood woods and non cavity back irons. Oh; and also a blade putter instead of a belly putter or over-sized head putter. So what I’m saying is that a static commodity can yield a excellent golfer from a duffer, if you take lessons and attempt to understand the swing plain and the mechanics of golf.

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      proside

      10 years ago

      I would like to see another pictorial adjacent to this one of the present clubs in the line up/in production.
      Ping and callaway would top the charts for sure and at the bottom Nike and Titleist with two apiece, at least at GolfTown, my local retailer.
      I prefer to focus on brands that stand by their products prowess. Ping and Titleist are very solid, not rewrapping and discarding their well thought out products.
      Nike is right there with them or will be. They are newer to the party and as such are honing in the right clubs. The covert pro 1.0 as it’s being referred to lately was a miss. A good driver but not any better than the standard model, so not a good idea in retrospect. This years offering with the 2.0 series was more on point with both clubs performing very well and the difference being the pro model having attributes geared more toward what players can take advantage of or appreciate without being on the bubble of hittable as with the 430 TM and biocell plus.
      Titleist is the standard bearer in the driver market for performance IMO. No gimmicks and re thinking the wheel. Well thought out designs and top notch QC give more serious players what they need even if they don’t know it.
      I would love to own Titleist woods but considering everyone else’s gear except them and Ping will be offered at half price within 6 month’s of release I am forced to be practical.
      I play a covert 1.0 now and adore it but having tried the G30 and waiting for the 915 I will have to give them serious consideration for my next purchase. One reason is I’m sure those models will still exist next year and probably perform as well as anything else for the next handful to come and I thank them for their commercial integrity. Companies that treat my hard earnings with frivolity can go F#$% themselves.

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      Kevin

      10 years ago

      I still hit the Bridgestone j33r 460 driver and will put that up against any driver out there today.

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      Misunderstood

      9 years ago

      The reason you will put it up against all comers is because it was one of the best drivers period. Certainly the best Bridgestone in my opinion. I believe they had a 400cc model to which was an excellent driver. I currently use the Mizuno MP600 and it is the straights driver I’ve ever hit. The main reason is because it’s my first V2 67 gram shaft I’ve ever hit. It’s not super long, but I’d rather hit a 6 iron from the fairway than a 7 iron from the trees.

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      flaglfr

      10 years ago

      78 Drivers in 4 years…. and these were the ones they counted!!!!!
      Holy market glut Batman. You would think they would realize market saturation occurred a long time ago. Obviously that is not the case. The situation they are in is absolutely self inflicted. Will they learn from it? Probably not. Will they try to get more blood from (us) the stone? Probably.

      I must say, we are a HUGE part of the problem. If we had not gone down the path with them it most probably wouldn’t have progressed as far as it did. We all search for the magic ______ (fill in your choice; ball, club, etc.) to give us that elusive edge over our playing companions.

      If I may suggest a novel idea; sign up for $400 worth of lessons over your 6 month old driver. You will most probably get a hell of a lot more benefit out of your money.

      Just a thought.

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      golfer4life

      10 years ago

      Not sure if I over looked it or not? Are you going to include the models from each company so people can add or subtract models that they felt should or shouldn’t have been included? Not for any purpose other than it would be interesting to see what models each company had.
      Interesting information. well done…
      G4L

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      Dave Sanguinetti

      10 years ago

      Consumers confused and skeptical, retailers over inventoried with de-valued product, and there is question as to why the golf industry is in decline. I’m just shocked!!! haha

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      Chris C

      10 years ago

      Mizuno? Bridgestone? Exotic? You could add all of their offerings and still be less than TM or Callaway.

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      RON

      10 years ago

      Of all those companies drivers Taylormade seems to be the cheapest in feel and sound now maybe its their cheap shaft they add to it or its just not a solid sounding product , but their previous r7 tp was a nice sounding and feeling driver but since then its been titanium trash year after year thats why most of their drivers today are hotmelted by the pros on tour.

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      Andy W

      10 years ago

      Listed are 78 drivers and I own none of them, yet tried like heck to buy them. I have three drivers with only one purchased this decade. That be this year, a Krank which I had built to my other drivers’ specs. And predicatably, I love it… But here’s the rest of the story.

      Each year at Xmas the wife gives me a $500 gift card to the PGA Superstore. I walk in with my cleats and my fav driver, swing about two hours testing all the new drivers in the Simulator, and every time over the last seven years, the driver I brought into the store had the best distance, flight, spin, etc.. Salesman say, “Sometimes it just happens that way….”

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      Salmon

      10 years ago

      One thing I have learnt recently is that you can ‘learn’ how to hit your current driver so you get optimum performance out of it and that swing might not work as effectively for other drivers. Not trying to bash, just something I’m going through myself as I look for a new one

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      Dwayne

      10 years ago

      Andy, your wife is awesome, what a great Xmas gift. Have her call my wife please.

      As a proud owner of a Krank Formula 5, I can say that the Krank driver head is the most solid head I have ever hit. Cleveland Launcher great one too.

      Never owned anything on that list. Usually have built my own.

      Max

      10 years ago

      Too many people are under the impression that companies only release new product lines based off “technological innovations”. In fact companies like Taylormade or Callaway have different lines to hit different markets. While this 4-5 club releases per year is having a negative effect on the golf industry, it should be noted that there is a reason for it, and companies with as large of a following as Taylormade/Callaway have definitely done their research in producing different options for different markets.

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      Largechris

      10 years ago

      I agree, from an engineering point of view they absolutely do target different markets.

      But from a marketing point of view, even Cally and Taylormade are beyond useless at explaining to the regular consumer which of their current models suit particular types / speeds / standards of golfer.

      I guess the problem is that in their marketing meetings they are hesitant to push a particular model on a certain sort of amateur in case they loose the sale, the result is utter confusion and negativity about short life cycles from the consumer even though the Xhot2 is not a replacement of the RazrFit Xtreme for example.

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      Max

      10 years ago

      Couldn’t have said it better myself. I look back with rose colored glasses at the days of the Cobra Speed models and offset drivers where consumers knew which clubs were meant for them. Now everyone enters a proshop with blinders on and big name golf ads ringing in their ears.

      Largechris

      10 years ago

      Those examples (Greg Norman demonstrating the offset driver to a senior) and the Cobra speed were exactly the campaigns I was thinking about, and as far as I know they sold a boatload, they might even have been number one in sales at the time of the King Cobra.

      To be fair, most manufacturers do an excellent job marketing their different iron models to specific handicap ranges, which makes it even harder to understand why they fail so much on drivers.

      GlobalGolf

      10 years ago

      Genius infographic! 19 drivers in 4 years, an average of 4-5 a year. Can there be THAT much technology change YoY

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      HackerDav31

      10 years ago

      The guys who say Ping and Titleist are just better because they release less crack me up. It’s amazing how very little they know about business. Their businesses are so completely different than Cally, TMaG, or Nike’s! Ping is privately owned and doesn’t aim for YOY growth like others do and have actually gone backwards year over year in some cases. Titleist’s success is based very heavily on its golf ball sales. They don’t release as quickly not because they’re more innovative or of a higher quality! It’s simply because they don’t have the need or means to do so!

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      Mike

      10 years ago

      “Titleist doesn’t have the means to”? Of course they do. These companies aren’t doing anything high tech at this point. all they’re doing is moving weights and making metals thinner. It isn’t that big of deal. Titleist doesn’t do it because they know we haven’t gone anywhere since 2003. The only thing that’s changed now is the shafts are longer and the balls go further. The other companies have actually hindered the game by confusing us with all kinds of gimmicks like longer shafts, bigger heads, lighter shafts, etc, etc. All these things allow the average golfer to hit it farther into the woods. That is why the average golfer’s handicap hasn’t really went down more than 1 stroke in 30 years. It’s because we need to hit drivers with a 400 head and playing lengths of 43-44″. What the industry has done to the average players golf game is a tragedy.

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      C.Evans

      10 years ago

      The only limited release of the Long Tom was the raw one. The black Long Tom was a full release at every retailer. It should be counted. As should the other limited releases of different color iterations. Otherwise, you’re just bashing TM and Callaway, again. TM limited the number of Black R1’s and White SLDR’s as well. Not as low numbers as the Cobra clubs, but they did limit them. You can’t have qualifiers for one company (which you wrote a love fest piece for last year) and not apply them across the board.

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      Zedsded

      10 years ago

      @Brandon
      You are why TM and Callaway continue their tomfoolery. They are on the leading edge of sales, not innovation. How many times have they come out with something “revolutionary” and the next year it’s gone.

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      Brandon

      10 years ago

      Those who are more innovative sure came out with more technologies and updates, Titleist and Ping just out of creativity and innovation….

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      Gordon

      10 years ago

      Any chance a list of the clubs counted for each company could also be posted? I think that would be cool.

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      Lou

      10 years ago

      So, in other words, the R1 and the R1 black are not the same club because they released the Black one after? So if Cobra had release the Bio cell in one color and 2 months later all the other colors would have appeared than that would be ???? So the SLDR is technically 2 clubs since the white one came after even though nothing other that paint changed? Seems like more Tmag bashing.

      I don’t like defending companies – they are all guilty by definition – of trying to make money. This one here though does seem a little unfair. Maybe we as consumers and golfers should focus more on getting the game back and less about which company is doing this and doing that.

      I don’t agree with what Tmag or Callaway do business – that is their thing – but for me (and I’ve tried all of the top 6 companies drivers and irons) Tmag’s equipment was without question the best for me (Ping was a very close second). I still game the burner 2.0 irons even though the speedblades were better all around for me in distance and control…. I just can’t afford anything new.

      The game, in terms of money, is getting away from guys like me. I understand the argument that equipment hasn’t gone up in 10-15 years – but my salary has basically been the same sine 2005 (and yes I’ve switched jobs 4 different times in that time span – nothing pays here). But you will be hard pressed to find another guy in my corner of the world who loves golf more than I do. I’ve been playing seriously for 7 years now and am a self-taught golfer who has shot a legit, no mulligans, no preferred lies 74 on a par 72. I’ve gotten my handicap down to 8.3 by myself because I love to practice, I love to play. Any day out on the course is a good day for me :)

      Some people have complained about places like rockbottom golf, 2nd swing and ebay but I thank God for places like them because without those companies, I simply could not play golf with brand name equipment.

      So let’s stop with the bashing and pointing fingers and come up with some REAL ideas about saving the sport we love so much!!

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      Salmon

      10 years ago

      The point was not to bash any one company but just take a snap shot of what the industry has done over the last few years.

      And to have a look at the cobra and taylormade examples you mentioned, cobra released the driver with all the colours available for you to choose from from the start, taylormade however at least in my own opinion has a tendancy to release a club, then re-release it in another colour the following year and markets it as a brand new club. Taylormade isnt the only company guilty of it by any means its just to point out the difference.

      Congrats on getting to 8.3 by the way and I hope you get a chance to splash out on some new sticks some time in the future :)

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      Lou

      10 years ago

      I just think that if you have only changed aesthetics and nothing else (shaft, head etc…), it’s still the same club, limited or not – 1 color or several. How can anyone justify the fact that Cobra releases 1 driver in several colors at the same time while another company releases 1 color right away and another down the road not being the same is beyond me. I don’t consider myself a Tmag fanboy because I would play anything that makes my game better. The name on the club means nothing to me. It’s why I have 5 different companies in my bag. Tmag, Callaway, Adams, Cleveland and YES!

      Thanks for the compliment. I’m working hard and practicing as much as my life will let me. My Dad was able to win a record 9 club championships at our local club without ever taking a lesson so I’m hoping some of his talent is also in me ;)

      Regis

      10 years ago

      +1

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      Joe

      10 years ago

      I’ve had 3 drivers in the last 16 years.I’ve played golf. Only the Ping G25 comes from the companies listed.

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      scott king

      10 years ago

      two for 10+ years. neither on the list

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      Jim

      10 years ago

      Just shows you that Ping and Titleist design and build quality products that can last for a while. TM and Callaway are releasing clubs every couple of days it seems reducing the value of all their products and flooding the market. Seems they’ve caused their own problems (why buy it now when I can wait a few months and get it for half off?)? Nice comparison.

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      Brandon

      10 years ago

      Everyone is using the same quality materials… Taylormade and Callaway are trying to push out the competition. I have yet to swing a Ping or Titleist that out performs, Cobra, Callaway or Taylormade. That being said it the indian not the arrow.

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      HackerDav31

      10 years ago

      It actually doesn’t show you that at all. What it shows you are completely different approaches to driving revenue. Titleist relies on the ball business, and Ping doesn’t chase the market because they’re privately owned and are fine with not running a growth business. Ping doesn’t grow year over year because they don’t have shareholders to answer to. It has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the products any of the other brands create…

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      Regis

      10 years ago

      What it show is that if you are brand loyal you’ll say it proves your brand builds quality products (Ping Titleist) Whereas if your brand “floods the market” (TMAG) you’ll say the company is innovative and pushing technology while the others are stale. Tmag introduces the adjustable hosel in 2009 and it takes Ping and Titleist 4 years to catch up because of market demands. Just depends on whose ox is being gored.

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      Joe Golfer

      10 years ago

      @Regis. One of the best comments on this page.
      It’s not the quality of the drivers. Pretty much all the companies are putting out a decent driver (or more than one). Just pick the one that floats your boat.

      Craig

      10 years ago

      To Regis,
      It was not TMAG that first introduced the adjustable hosel driver.
      The first adjustable hosel driver was in fact introduced back in 1995.
      It was a Tom Wishon design he did for Golfsmith.

      Regis

      10 years ago

      Craig- Yeah AHT system but that was really aimed at Clubfitters/clubmakers and had to be epoxied in. Not really user adjustable. The adjustable sleeve (IMHO) is one of the major advancements in clubs because (regardless of what Mr. Wishon thinks as to their effectiveness) it allows the end user to experiment with and use additional shafts without having to pull them and re-install them and we are just starting to see the impact of that advancement. By the way I do believe in the effectiveness of the adaptors especially in fairway woods.

      Regis

      Greg

      10 years ago

      Adams?

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      Dylan

      10 years ago

      Adams isn’t really a major brand. It’s also a subsidy of TM, though I doubt it was taken into account.

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      Thom Bendtsen

      10 years ago

      I think I’ve owned 6 of them! Each one a little better than the last…

      Reply

      Mike

      10 years ago

      I’ve owned probably 20-30 of them and none were as good as my FT-3 or my Titleist 905S. The only thing that counts is your swing and your understanding of it. Everything else since 2013 is irrelevant.

      Reply

      Mike

      10 years ago

      Excuse my 2003.

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