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Please recommend an old school driver that can still keep up today!


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I still use my 07 Burner TP. I think it is as long as the newer clubs, for my 100mph ss, and I know which way the ball is going to curve everytime.

Driver: Ping G25

4w & 7w: Ping G25

23° Hybrid: Ping G25

5i - pw: Mizuno MP64

54° & 58°: Cleveland RTX 4 raw

Putter: The Wilson 8802 (vintage model)

Ball:  Titleist Pro V1x
Bag: Original Jones Golf Bag (green)

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Took my old 983K with a NV 75X in it out once last year. Center strikes it was still long, but like others have mentioned, not very forgiving. Misshits were punished much more noticeably than modern heads.

Ping G430 MAX 10K 9*, Ventus Black 6X
Ping G430 MAX 3W 15*, Ventus TR Red 7X
Ping G430 Hybrid 19*, Ventus Blue HB 9X

Ping Blueprint S, 4-PW DG 120 S300

Titleist Vokey SM9 50F, 54S, 58M

Odyssey Ai-One Jailbird Mini CH /or/ Tri Hot 5K Seven CH

 


 

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Took my old 983K with a NV 75X in it out once last year. Center strikes it was still long, but like others have mentioned, not very forgiving. Misshits were punished much more noticeably than modern heads.

This is where it's at - I believe there are many old school heads that can keep up if perfectly fit, right AOA, and centered with a ball strike. But when all the stars don't align that's where the advances in technology start to show up.
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Maybe ir has been mentioned but did not catch it. The Callaway Razr X Black driver was a cannon for me. Get ya an 8.5 degree head. Sits 1 degree open and a 57 degree lie angle. I have only passed the 300 yard mark a handful of times in my career and two of them were with this head. Forgiving too. Good looking carbon crown. Real cheap now if you can find one in good shape.

 

I also have an R7 in the basement and on average I could hit the Razr Black longer. But it most likely was not a fair comparison. The Cally had a decent Grafalloy Red Axis shaft in it — always hit that shaft well — and the TM has one of their more lame stock shafts in it. I never messed around with changing shafts when I gamed clubs in those days, but I did like ithe shape of the R7 because I seem to center that driver easier than others. Might be fun to throw a new affordable shaft in it and take it out for fun. Wonder how it would perform in terms of spin with a Diamana White or Blue or a Grafalloy?

Callaway Paradym Triple Diamond 10.5 w/Diamana TB 60S

PXG GEN6 5 wood w/Diamana S-plus 70 stiff

Yamaha RMX VD 7 wood w/Diamana S-plus 70 stiff

Callaway Mavrik Pro hybrid (22) w/Aldila Tour Blue 85 stiff hybrid

Wilson Staff Model CB 5-G w/DG s300 shafts

Edel T grind 54 w/Nippon 125 wedge shaft

Fourteen RM-12 58 w/Dynamic Golds400

Axis1 Rose putter, 34 inches

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Maybe ir has been mentioned but did not catch it. The Callaway Razr X Black driver was a cannon for me. Get ya an 8.5 degree head. Sits 1 degree open and a 57 degree lie angle. I have only passed the 300 yard mark a handful of times in my career and two of them were with this head. Forgiving too. Good looking carbon crown. Real cheap now if you can find one in good shape.

 

I also have an R7 in the basement and on average I could hit the Razr Black longer. But it most likely was not a fair comparison. The Cally had a decent Grafalloy Red Axis shaft in it — always hit that shaft well — and the TM has one of their more lame stock shafts in it. I never messed around with changing shafts when I gamed clubs in those days, but I did like ithe shape of the R7 because I seem to center that driver easier than others. Might be fun to throw a new affordable shaft in it and take it out for fun. Wonder how it would perform in terms of spin with a Diamana White or Blue or a Grafalloy?

 

I have a r7 425 8.5 shafted with a diamana black prototype (early proto wb) and a few 282 r7 superquads shafted with ahina 60x's. Ballspeed on the 282 is as good as anything current (166-168 at 112-113) and spin rate is lower mid 2000s. R7425tp is a few miles an hour behind on ballspeed but still decent with spin rates in the mid 2000s. I could play either today and not be giving up much. Both heads have great feel and shape. Same kind of numbers with the 905r.

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