Drivers
Driver launches, reviews and honest advice on what actually adds distance — and what's just marketing.
17 of the 24 LPGA drivers we track are lofted 9.25 degrees or less, matching the PGA Tour at 19 mph less speed
The women's tour swings at roughly the speed of an average male club golfer, and its median driver loft is the same 9 degrees as the men's. The reason is how the club meets the ball, and it is the part amateurs rarely copy.
By Jordan Hale
Krank Formula Fire Pro review: Bryson's driver is a 105mph head, and Krank sells slower swingers a different face
A handmade long-drive driver from a brand with long-drive titles to its name and a US Open in its marketing. The interesting part is what Krank's own fitting chart says: this head is for 250-yard hitters, and nearly everyone else gets steered to a thinner face.
By Ben Marsden
Titleist GTS2 review: the forgiving head that tour bags play at 9 degrees
Titleist sells this as the stability model, and the four bags on our roster that carry one are all set at ten degrees or under. That gap between how it is marketed and how it is actually used is the most useful thing about it.
By Ben Marsden
TaylorMade will not launch a driver in 2027, the first blank year since 2001, and a two-year cycle is the right call
The company that invented the annual driver refresh has walked away from it. Rory McIlroy says the players pushed for it. The case for and against, and what it does to prices and trade-in values.
By Ben Marsden
239 microseconds: the CT test that makes a driver legal, and what it means when you buy one used
A steel ball on a pendulum, a number measured in millionths of a second, and a rule that quietly decides which drivers exist. Here is what it measures, why a face can stop passing it, and what that changes on the second-hand market.
By Jordan Hale
Takomo Ignis D2 review: three weight ports became one, and the driver got better
The R&A took the original Ignis off the conforming list over one arrangement of its sole weights. Takomo's answer was to delete the arrangement — a single rear port instead of three — and the mass that freed up went to the perimeter, where it does more good anyway.
By Ben Marsden
TaylorMade Qi4D vs Callaway Quantum Triple Diamond Max: only one is built to be bought off the rack
Both landed in January, both are nine months into a twelve-month cycle, and both start getting marked down about now. The thing that decides it in September is what happens to each head when there is no fitting bay attached to the purchase.
By Jordan Hale
Ping G440 K vs Titleist GTS2: only one of these is actually sold in a slower-swing build
Both get handed to the same golfer across the same counter, and they solve opposite problems. The tell is not the head, it is the shaft weight on the order form.
By Jordan Hale
Eight hosel settings, a sliding weight and a torque wrench: what adjustability is worth on a driver
Eight hosel positions, a sliding weight, a torque wrench in a little pouch. Sold as personalisation, bought as insurance, and left on the factory setting by almost everyone who owns one.
By Ben Marsden
Titleist GT3 driver review: the adjustable one, for players who actually adjust
The compact, lower-spin half of the GT pair, and the most adjustable driver Titleist had made. Worth it only if you will use the track — here's how to tell.
By Jordan Hale
One of these drivers expects you to book a fitting. The other assumes you never will.
Two 2026 flagships built on opposite theories of where a driver gets dialled in — in a fitting bay, or in the factory. Which one suits you depends far more on that than on head shape or launch numbers.
By Jordan Hale
Titleist GT2 vs Ping G440 Max: speed against the miss you actually hit
Two of the most-fitted drivers in golf, and the choice between them comes down to a question most golfers answer dishonestly.
By Jordan Hale
Every driver on tour has a named shaft in it. Yours probably came in the box
We checked the shaft in all 49 tour drivers we track. Every single one lists a premium branded shaft, and not one lists a generic stock option. That gap is where most amateur driver money goes wrong.
By Ben Marsden
Titleist GTS2 vs Callaway Quantum Triple Diamond: two 2026 flagships betting on opposite golfers
One is built around maximum stability, the other around a compact 450cc low-spin head that asks you to find the middle. Golfers cross-shop them on brand loyalty every week, and roughly half of them walk out with the wrong one.
By Jordan Hale
Most golfers pick the wrong PING G440: stop buying the low-spin head
Three heads, three completely different owners. The tell is your spin rate and your start line, not your handicap — and the head most golfers buy aspirationally is the one that suits them least.
By Dan Mercer
TaylorMade R7 Quad Mini vs Callaway Ai Smoke Ti 340: which club are you actually replacing?
Mini drivers have gone from curiosity to a permanent slot in the range. These are the two most credible ways in, and they solve two completely different problems.
By Jordan Hale
Tour Bags Are Now a Year Ahead of the Shop, and That Is the Point
Ryan Fox won the Open with a driver you cannot buy, at any price, on any date. Days later Srixon put more unreleased gear into play. The gap between the tour truck and the pro shop has stopped being an accident.
By Dan Mercer
TaylorMade Qi4D vs PING G440 Max: the 2026 driver decision most golfers get backwards
Two of the year's biggest drivers, cross-shopped in every fitting bay — and most players walk in chasing the wrong thing. One wins the robot test outright; the other quietly saves more rounds. Here's which head actually belongs in your bag, and why the answer probably isn't the one you'd guess.
By Jordan Hale
You're playing the wrong driver loft — and it's costing you the easiest distance in golf
Most amateurs play too little loft, chasing tour spin numbers they physically can't produce, and leave yards on the tee for it. The launch data says the opposite of the range-buddy wisdom: the average golfer needs more loft than they think — and firm summer fairways move the target again.
By Jordan Hale
New, last year's, or used: how to buy golf gear smart in 2026
With a flood of new launches this year, here is a money-savvy framework for when full price is worth it and when it absolutely isn't.
By Dan Mercer
Women's golf gear grew up in 2026 — here's what's actually worth it
This year brought a real expansion of women's lineups, but the gear that genuinely helps a smoother swing has less to do with the label than the spec.
By Ross Hamilton
One round, three budgets: a full golf setup for less, for more, and no limits
Three coherent setups at three very different spending levels, and the honest case for stopping at the first one.
By Tom Whitaker
What the 'longest driver of 2026' number won't tell you
Every year a chart crowns one driver the longest, and every year thousands of golfers buy the wrong club because of it.
By Dan Mercer
Five gear trends that defined golf in 2026 (and which deserve your money)
Mini drivers, zero-torque putters, sub-grand launch monitors — the shifts that actually reached your bag this year, ranked by whether they're worth it.
By Jordan Hale
The most overrated gear in golf (and what to buy instead)
Golf is spectacularly good at selling you the wrong thing. Here's where the money quietly leaks out of your bag — and the unglamorous stuff that actually drops shots.
By Dan Mercer
A slower swing isn't a problem — it's a spec sheet most golfers get wrong
If your driver speed is under 90 mph, almost everything golf marketing sells you is built for someone else. Four cheap, counterintuitive changes hand back the yards you thought you'd lost for good.
By Ross Hamilton
Callaway Quantum Triple Diamond review: distance for the faster swing
A low-spin head built for golfers with the speed to use it — not the forgiving all-rounder, and it's not pretending to be.
By Ross Hamilton
What shaft flex do you actually need? Most golfers play too stiff
If your driver swing is under about 95 mph, you almost certainly want regular, not stiff — and playing stiff is quietly costing you distance and height.
By Jordan Hale
A fitting won't add 20 yards — and that's exactly why it's worth it
The marketing sells fittings as free distance. The honest case is better: it's the one golf spend that reliably pays for itself by stopping you buying the wrong club. Here's who gains, and who's wasting their money.
By Jordan Hale
Buy last year's driver — it's the smartest club purchase in golf
The new flagship is a few yards and a big premium away from the one it replaced. Let someone else pay for the newness.
By Dan Mercer
What is a mini driver — and do you actually need one?
Suddenly they're everywhere on tour. Here's what a mini driver really is, who it genuinely helps, and why most amateurs are better served by a club they already understand.
By Ross Hamilton
You don't need a new driver. You need a fitting.
Every January the longest driver ever arrives, again. The gains are tiny, the real yards are in a fitting bay, and the industry itself has started admitting it.
By Ben Marsden
TaylorMade is ditching the annual driver — and that's good news for your wallet
The biggest name in drivers is moving to a two-year release cycle, with no new model in 2027. The end of the yearly upgrade treadmill is overdue.
By Jordan Hale
TaylorMade Qi4D driver review: forgiveness you can feel, speed you have to earn
The driver TaylorMade is keeping in the bag through 2027 — the first time since 2001 they've skipped an annual release. Here's whether it's the one to settle on.
By Jordan Hale
Titleist takes the wraps off its GTS driver range
Three heads — GTS2, GTS3 and GTS4 — span from forgiving and high-launching to a low-spin head built for the fast-swing brigade.
By Jordan Hale
What actually adds driver distance (and what doesn't)
Spin, speed, strike and fit — the four things that move the needle, and the marketing claims that don't. In plain English.
By Tom Whitaker
PING G440 Max review: the forgiveness benchmark, quietly brilliant
If you slice, spray it, or just want to stop losing balls off the tee, this is the 2026 driver to buy — the most forgiving big-stick going, and a genuine buy-once club.
By Jordan Hale
Titleist GT2 driver review: the easy-launching all-rounder most golfers should hit
The forgiving heart of Titleist's GT range — now the previous generation, and roughly 30% cheaper for it. Here's who it's really for.
By Jordan Hale
Adjustable drivers: what all those settings actually do
Loft sleeves, movable weights, lie adjustments — most golfers never touch them, and the few who fiddle often make things worse. The plain guide.
By Jordan Hale
