Category: TaylorMade Golf
TaylorMade Golf was founded in 1979 by Gary Adams, a golf entrepreneur who also started Founders Club and McHenry Metals. While working as a salesman for Witteck Golf, Adams noticed that the new two piece balls performed better on irons than on true woods. This led him to develop the Taylor-Made metal wood. The Taylor-Made driver quickly caught on and Taylor-Made has been a leader in hollow metal woods ever since.
Adams received the PGA of America's highest honor, the Ernie Sabayrac Award, in 1995for lifetime contributions to the industry. He died of cancer in 2000.
The company he founded, however, lives on as TaylorMade-Adidas golf. Today, with its movable weight technology, TaylorMade's drivers, hybrids and fairway woods are used by more professionals than any other brand.
TaylorMade Tourismo Putter
TaylorMade Rossa Tourismo Putter
The Taylormade Rossa Tourismo Putter’s unique shape is designed to offer exceptional stability and forgiveness for straighter, more accurate putts. The ASGI insert on the putter’s face has fourteen groves which TaylorMade says helps to get the ball rolling more quickly and accurately toward the hole. Finally, the TaylorMade trademark Movable Weight Technology allows the players to change the putter’s feel.
I can attest to the ASGI’s effectiveness. The Rossa Corzina that I use is exceedingly accurate. The ball starts out on line and stays there. Unlike some other plain face putters I use, there’s no sense of initial deflection.
New TaylorMade TP Burner Balls
TaylorMade TP Burner Balls
The spring equipment lines are coming out, and TaylorMade is introducing new versions of all its balls. Like all of the equipment under its Burner nameplate, the TP Burners are designed for distance. They’ve got a HPF SpeedMantle core that’s supposed to boost the ball speed, and— through some miracle of materials science— limit spin off the driver while increasing it on irons. A new Low Drag Performance dimple pattern is supposed to improve distance on off center hits. Another miracle is performed with the cover that’s supposed to be soft, yet resist shearing, scruffing and scarring.
I really want to try these out. You can get them at GolfSmith:
TaylorMade R7 CGB Max Irons
TAYLORMADE r7 CGB Max Irons 3-PW w/Steel Shaft
New from TaylorMade are the R7 CGB Max irons. With the largest clubface of any TaylorMade Iron, these are designed to be both easy to hit and long.
The club is constructed in several pieces. The face is a thin sheet of 17-4 steel, incorporating TaylorMade’s Inverted Cone Technology, which is designed to expand the sweet spot. The frame features a hollow topline, which allows extra weight to be moved down and back. The Center of Gravity Back (thus, the CGB of the name), makes it easy to launch the ball high and long.
Tungsten weights are used to increase coefficient of restitution—the resistance of the club to twisting. And to increase distance, clubhead speed is increased by using a lightweight grip and shaft.
In all, the R7 CGB Max irons look like a remarkable collection of technologies.
Party Like A Tour Pro
TaylorMade is offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to a few lucky (and wealthy) golfers.
In conjunction with the opening of their east coast professional clubfitting and testing facility, the company will offer what amounts to a three-day fantasy golf camp. For three days, participants will go through club fitting and custom fitting with the same high tech equipment that Taylor Made uses with its Tour staff. You’ll stay at a five star hotel, play on the facility’s courses, get lessons from the pros, and have lunch and dinner with a tour pro.
All for only $9,000.
I never really regret my decision to become a teacher, except when I realize that I’m never going to have the money to be able to do something like this. It really sounds like a lot of fun.
TaylorMade Burner XD Irons
TaylorMade’s new Burner XD Irons follow on the heels of their successful Burner Drivers and Fairway Woods.
The Burner Irons feature a titanium face welded to a hollow, stainless steel body. The titanium face is supposed to offer several benefits. First, because it’s so thin, it offers a high coefficient of restitution (rebound effect) to deliver a higher ball speed. Second, the light face allows the redistribution of weight to encourage clubhead stability and a higher ball flight. And finally, the face is designed with TaylorMade’s Inverted Cone Technology, to increase forgiveness.
The clubs will be available both in steel and RE*AX Superfast graphite shafts. The lighter graphite shafts should promote a faster swing for more distance.
“The phenomenal distance and overall performance of the Burner family of metalwoods, especially the Burner driver, has had golfers clamoring for a Burner iron,” said Sean Toulon, TaylorMade executive vice president. “That’s because Burner metalwoods are so compelling, from both a performance and personality standpoint. We believed that if we applied that same Burner formula to an iron, we can deliver incredible performance. Great news. The wait is over. The new Burner XD iron is here.”
They’ll be available Sept. 30.
I’d love to get my hands on a set of these.
