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Originally Posted by Dartgod
I'm looking for a new driver and was out shopping today. I hit the TaylorMade Burner Draw driver, 9.5 loft with the regular shaft. I was hitting long, but kept pushing everything right. So I tried a regular Burner driver with a stiff shaft and was hitting long and pretty straight with just a little, but very manageable fade.
The problem is, the regular Burner driver is $299, a little out of my price range. The Draw driver is $199, but they didn't have one with the stiff shaft for me to demo.
Has anyone had any experience with these clubs? Since I was only hitting a slight fade with the regular club, is the draw driver with the proper shaft going to cause problems? Or is there a comparable club to the TaylorMade that you would recommend?
See the links below for the two clubs I am referencing.
Taylormade Burner:
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/pr...ductId=2614370
TaylorMade Burner Draw:
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/pr...ductId=2862798 |
I ended up getting the club I tested at Golf Discount. They were having a sale, $100 off the TaylorMade Burner. I got the one with the UST stiff shaft, rather than the Fuji-somethingorother RE-AX shaft. Excellent deal.
I played 18 yesterday and not too bad. I was struggling a bit off the tee. Not too bad, but not booming my drives like I did at the range. I did hit one nice one on a 499 yard par 5. I hit it to the 150 marker. Now, I don't believe for a second that the yardage was correct and that I hit a 350 yard drive. But I do believe I hit it every bit of 300 yards. Of course, it took me 5 more strokes to go that last 150 yards and I bogied the hole.
I ended up with a 102 (with 3 or 4 penalty strokes for lost balls), which is pretty good for me considering this was only my second time out this year and the third time in the last two years.