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Re: R9 TP 8.5 driver - your thoghts

• seanobrien 296 Posts

  Fri, Feb 4 2011 3:21 PM

  Any info on this from those who have used it. Does it give any consistency of extra distance?

  I have the R9 TP master at the moment and I do not want to shell out that amount if it is not worth it.

  I will not be buying Calloway balls, so I am looking at the once off investment for a few yards more (wasn't that a Clint Eastwood film?)

• mohuyu 891 Posts

  Fri, Feb 4 2011 3:47 PM

  seanobrien:

  Any info on this from those who have used it. Does it give any consistency of extra distance?

  I have the R9 TP master at the moment and I do not want to shell out that amount if it is not worth it.

  I will not be buying Calloway balls, so I am looking at the once off investment for a few yards more (wasn't that a Clint Eastwood film?)

  Great driver I would say its definitely worth it. Distance is pretty consistent and with callaways will go past 280 into a 12mph tailwind... 

• mohuyu 891 Posts

  Fri, Feb 4 2011 3:47 PM

  seanobrien:

  Any info on this from those who have used it. Does it give any consistency of extra distance?

  I have the R9 TP master at the moment and I do not want to shell out that amount if it is not worth it.

  I will not be buying Calloway balls, so I am looking at the once off investment for a few yards more (wasn't that a Clint Eastwood film?)

  Great driver I would say its definitely worth it. Distance is pretty consistent and with callaways will go past 280 into a 10mph tailwind... 

• GoldCard 298 Posts

  Fri, Feb 4 2011 3:48 PM

  Yes I use it!

  Have the old R9 and Tri Master as well.

  It definitely goes further than the other two but not by a significant amount sometimes.

  If you are after just a few extra yards then this would be a good buy, at least until the next driver is introduced?

  Good luck!

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Fri, Feb 4 2011 4:23 PM

  It supposedly has a faster meter but it doesn't seem so. I went from yours to the Tri to this and of all of them this has the smoothest swing. The meter doesn't accelerate like the Tri and it forgives like the earlier R9. I think it matches the G10 swing better.Distance is definitely longer. The other R9 keeps up with it but doesn't out drive it. 

• piztaker 5,743 Posts

  Fri, Feb 4 2011 8:22 PM

  In a word? Awesome. Not too fast a meter and the ball just keeps on running.