Most popular Driver at your home course

[Dasenergi]

TM M4/5/6 for the most part. With the F9 catching up quickly over the past few months.

[proguy]

I work (sponsorship) a hole for tournaments several times a month. M5/6 is the hottest by far if you include m2 m3 series its 80+ percent Taylormade to all others. Many of those others are old Taylormade.

[skygod987]

G400 without question.

[MattGolfs]

I see mostly taylormade M series drivers. I think this is mostly due to their marketing. A fair amount of the titleist TS series as well. I play a g400 max tho, I strangely don’t see many of those around my home course

[mvhoffman]

Up here in the Poconos area of PA, usually TM or Callaway. Whichever one states that they are the longest. I'm usually the only person in a 4some with a Cobra driver

 

[North Butte]

For those who play at private clubs, what portion of the membership is playing a driver they purchased through the club's pro shop?

 

At my club, that's virtually none of the guys I play regularly with but I think there are a few of the other members (maybe one out of ten?) who bought their current driver from the pro shop.

[handyquacks17]

> @"North Butte" said:

> For those who play at private clubs, what portion of the membership is playing a driver they purchased through the club's pro shop?

>

> At my club, that's virtually none of the guys I play regularly with but I think there are a few of the other members (maybe one out of ten?) who bought their current driver from the pro shop.

 

from what i see its mostly the older guys purchasing through pro shop. Most of the younger/middle aged people are buying at a local shop or off internet.

[Sixcat]

Based on what I see in the locker room, it's pretty evenly split between Ping G400/G410, TaylorMade M5/M6 and Callaway Epic Flash. Most of the members I know purchase from the on-course pro shop. Those purchases can be placed on your club account and paid over time......interest free. Benefit of a stock-owned/member-owned facility! In most cases, the cost is very comparable to big-box retailers. Really no benefit to buying something elsewhere. Golf balls being the exception. Lots of guys are starting to give the direct-to-consumer golf ball market a try. I don't know all of our 350 members but this is the case for the ones I do know.

[ani5009]

Probably not one specific model but definitely Ping drivers by a pretty decent margin. A few 410s, but mostly the 400 series from what I have seen

[phatchrisrules]

Not to be snarky but at my home course it's very blue collar, so the "new equipment" to a lot of these guys is something like SLDR/M1, XR16, and Ping G25/G30. Even the most prolific Club Champion who has won a ton of them in the past 20 years or so still plays an R9 TP and hasn't looked at a driver since. It really goes to show you that most of the time it's the archer not the arrow (says the guy with a full 2019 bag and I'm already planning the 2020 equipment changes.)

[Birdyjuice]

A lot of TS and Callaway Epics because Titleist and Callaway do a good job of coming out multiple times a year to do demos and fittings. Quite a few people demo/get fitted then have the shop put in an order for them. Super easy, fitter sends specs to assistant pro, you ask him to submit the order and he calls when it arrives.

[North Butte]

> @phatchrisrules said:

> Not to be snarky but at my home course it's very blue collar, so the "new equipment" to a lot of these guys is something like SLDR/M1, XR16, and Ping G25/G30. Even the most prolific Club Champion who has won a ton of them in the past 20 years or so still plays an R9 TP and hasn't looked at a driver since. It really goes to show you that most of the time it's the archer not the arrow (says the guy with a full 2019 bag and I'm already planning the 2020 equipment changes.)

 

Also no insult to anyone intended but a couple rounds a year I play at my local municipal course and notice the same thing. My own country club isn't exactly a rich-guy enclave but there's always plenty of guys whose bags have zero clubs more than 4-5 years old. At the muni almost every person I play with has a bag of clubs you could probably duplicate off eBay for four hundred bucks.

 

That sort of thing is a good reminder that changing clubs or keeping up with the latest equipment is a fine thing in its own right but it has nothing at all to do with being able to play golf twice a week and enjoy the heck out of it!

 

In the back of my mind I try to always be prepared for a scenario where I don't have nearly as much disposable income as I have in recent years. Maybe I decided to retire early or maybe something unexpected happens to cause a hit to my family finances. When I play at the muni it is obvious that (once I got used to it) I could get an annual pass for 500 bucks, keep playing the same golf clubs for years at a stretch and maybe buy golf balls at Costco or something and spend about 10% of the money I spend on golf now while getting 90% of the enjoyment and 100% of the exercise.

 

So as the saying goes, I've always got that going for me...

[NoTalentLefty]

Don’t have a home course but in my geezer retiree group it looks like anything but new. But at Dicks’s and Scheel’s stores it’s the Epic Flash by far that sells the most. By the staff say. Got the Flash Epic. My friends are drooling.

[BetterAtBingo]

The members at my course are split pretty evenly into two camps: any recent model of Taylormade or Callaway.

[swing33]

Most of my golf is played on 3 courses. Really haven't seen much of this years stuff TBH. I see a few Rogue (including mine), and several OG epic models but no flash. A few PING G400, but mostly still see the G30 drivers - no G410 yet.

[AutomaticTwoDown]

> @Mrgreen36 said:

> I don't pay attention to other people's clubs, I really don't care what others are playing

 

I feel exactly the same way. But I was intrigued by the thread title so I stopped in and posted in it, even though I don’t care what clubs other people play.

[phil6380]

See a fair amount of TM, but I've only seen 1 guy with anything newer than M2/M3/M4. Lots of older Pings. I play a G400 max and my son has a new F9. Those are 2 of the newest clubs in the bags of anyone we regularly play with most of our friends gaming clubs 3 or 4 generations older. I haven't seen a single rogue or Titleist T series.

[bogeypro]

Most of the better players around here have Titleist TS or taylormade woods. The older guys and mid to high handicaps have callaway.

[swing33]

> @bogeypro said:

> Most of the better players around here have Titleist TS or taylormade woods. The older guys and mid to high handicaps have callaway.

 

You might be on to something there as far as the age factor and handicap...I am now in my 50's and so is most of my group. Lot's of 2 and 3 generation old Callaway and PING. Most of us are not old enough to retire and play and practice more so a fair amount of forgiveness is important - and these 2 brands seem to be at the top of the list for that.

[jol]

> @"North Butte" said:

“> For those who play at private clubs, what portion of the membership is playing a driver they purchased through the club's pro shop? “

>

 

> An interesting question. Some think it is important to support the club’s pro shop even if they know they can get the equipment for less somewhere else. At my club in the NE, the Head Pro essentially runs his own shop and favors 2 bands. At that club those brands are well represented by the membership. At my club in the SE, the shop is owned by the club members and all the major brands (even some not so common) are sold. There you will see a more diverse mix of driver brands. Personally, my purchase will go to the vendor that provides the best service. If that is equal then price wins.

 

 

[tungstenplug]

Ping...because thats what our head pro pushes people to buy so he can improve his status with them

[jol]

> @kevinscott22 said:

> Ping...because thats what our head pro pushes people to buy so he can improve his status with them

 

Same here.

[golfinguru11]

So much Ping 410. I play the flash sub zero and think it’s better