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For reasons passing understanding, the one piece of equipment that seems to have a truly hypnotic effect on me as the start of the season draws tantalizingly near is the golf ball.
At this time of year, nothing gets those golf endorphins flowing like the feel in your fingers of a brand new ball _ the [...]
TaylorMade R9
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Price: $499
What they say:
TaylorMade Flight Control Technology
What sets the R9TM driver apart from all other drivers is that it incorporates our new TaylorMade Flight Control Technology, or FCT for short. With a simple twist of a wrench, FCT allows you to change the R9’s face angle, loft and lie angle. [...]
The R9 saga rolls on . . . and up and down, and left, and right.
Flummoxed, apparently, by the latest flight-control features built into TaylorMade’s brand new R9 driver, the Gear Head is getting a free drop courtesy of Cameron Jacobs from TM’s fitting centre in Toronto.
Regular readers will recall a recent post in [...]
If you were paying attention to last week’s post about TaylorMade’s newest driver offering, the R9, you might have noticed something odd about the company’s description of the club’s adjustable playing characteristics.
Specifically, I’m talking about the remarks of Dr. Benoit Vincent, the company’s chief technical officer, who was quoted in the company’s release talking about [...]
Back in the day, you could flip to the back of Golf Digest or Golf magazine, to that pseudo-classifieds section filled with mischievous products like exploding balls, muscle pills and telescoping putters, for proof positive that the notion of adjustable golf clubs has been around for some time indeed.
Someone, no doubt a curmudgeonly inventor fed [...]
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