TaylorMade: “The more a driver is tuned to you, the farther you'll hit it. With R11's 3D Tuning, you can independently tune loft, face angle and flight path to your swing to maximize your distance. Only R11 is this adjustable. Only R11 gives you this much control over your distance.”
Before the R11 driver, all hosel based adjustable drivers had a fairly significant limitation - you couldn’t adjust the loft without also adjusting the face angle. So TaylorMade added the new Adjustable Sole Plate to the R11 driver to add a third "dimension of distance". So golfers can now adjust loft, face angle and flight path separately.
I took the taylormade r11 driver to the driving range at Deerfield to test the "3 Dimensions of Distance" (as TaylorMade calls it) to see if I could find the right R11 for me. To start, I hit it without adjusting any of the settings. The first thing I noticed was how easy it was to hit. My first five drives on the range went right down the imaginary gut and the trajectory and ball flight matched my typical shot shape (isn't it funny how the first few shots with any new club are always awesome?). I hit a few more drives and then decided it was time to experiment with the first dimension of distance - loft.
The third and final dimension of distance is flight path, and it's controlled by the Movable Weight Technology (anyone else notice how TaylorMade brands everything?). MWT consists of two weights, a 1-gram weight and a 10-gram weight, that tunes the center of gravity. With the 1-gram weight in the heel and the 10-gram weight in the toe, the center of gravity moves toward the toe and promotes a neutral ball flight. If you switch the weights around, you'll see a right to left ball flight.
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