square faced Driver

[sleepy]

the most forgiving square faced driver?

What do you guys think from your experiences? I first started to play with a square faced driver but my last few 450+cc drivers had a closed faced and but I tend to hook/pull my drives so that didn't help me there. I was thinking maybe Callaway FT-3/X460 tour or the Sasquatch Tour? and what's with the SQ Max? Can't seem to find any on any website or eBay?

[shook23]

Launcher Ti460. This sits more open then my 905S, and it awesome as far as forgiveness goes.

[sleepy]

It seems I get too much spin with the Cleveland Comp but haven't considered the ti460... and I've never really looked into Nike SQ drivers but I guess the MAX version is just the normal retail version? I was getting confused with WITB lists with the SQ MAX and thought it was a special version.

[ubergoober]

The MX-500 has a square face, even in the highest lofted heads and is extremely forgiving. It also has a relatively flat lie angle, as does the FT-3 Tour. The lie angles and face angles of these two heads work to mitigate tendencies for left side misses. The SQ Maxes have square face angles and put little sidespin on the ball and could work if you need or prefer more upright lie angles.

[kgk]

J33R 460. Every one I have ever seen, including the 10.5*, is square, and most are open to some degree.

[Yellow Jacket]

All Titleist drivers are square faced.

[dannypharvey]

another vote for the Cleveland Ti460. i was happy with my 983k until i hit the Cleveland. and yes, it does sit square. more so than my Titleist driver which i was shocked by to be honest.

[Bennettgolf]

the hi bore drivers sit square to open

[Twiggy]

TaylorMade R5 TP. Very nice driver.

[axeman310]

I second the Bridgestone J33R 460. I have the 10.5* and it sits dead square. Also very forgiving.

[tmagfan2010]

taylormade 425 8.5 is very forgiving its the only one that is square though

[sandy]

What do you guys think from your experiences? I first started to play with a square faced driver but my last few 450+cc drivers had a closed faced and but I tend to hook/pull my drives so that didn't help me there. I was thinking maybe Callaway FT-3/X460 tour or the Sasquatch Tour? and what's with the SQ Max? Can't seem to find any on any website or eBay?

 

square to open doesn't equal forgiveness. That is why people like cobra hook their big drivers by several degrees so people can square the face at impact. If the club is open at impact and you don't have the speed you aren't going to square a square to open club.

 

By the way I was told by a couple of the Pinnacle long drive guys they actually prefer a slightly closed face. So if it is good enough for a 159 mph swing maybe some 80-110 mphs should also consider it despite it's funny look at address. This was their response to a teenage LDA wannabee who prefered an open face to help get an effectively lower lofted club through the ball. They offered to let him try a couple of their 4.5s or 6.5s with a very slightly closed face. He declined and crept away.

 

I also had to laugh at the specs that the various manufacturers publish. The face angles are just as much a "fib" as the lofts. Callaway lists their FT-3 Tour series as .05 degrees open. Not .5 degree open but .05--pleeeezse. I bet if you purchased 100 FT-3s you wouldn't find 1 that measured .05 degrees open. That is if you could find an instrument that could measure them. So if you buy an FT-3 Tour you get a .05 more open face than if you buy an X-460 Tour listed as square. Too much time around heated epoxy :)

Time to pull the other leg.

[Hop&Stop]

The easiest and cheapest thing you could actually do is go to your local clubmaker and have him adjust the face angle so that the clubhead sits square.

 

Otherwise, I would go with something Titleist since they all sit square.

[Duffer96734]

Sleepy,

 

What loft are you playing with?

What type of spin rate you have?

 

There is one Cobra driver that may fit you well.

 

COMP 454 7.5

 

The face sits square.I liked this driver but the shaft produced too much spin for me. This would only be a good fit if you have a pretty high launch.

 

Stock shaft is a SL-45 (45 grams, low-kick) or a YS-5.5 (55 grams, mid-kick).

 

ALOHA,

Duffer96734 :)

[sleepy]

My last driver was the non-tp 9.5* R5 with the Speeder 757 stiff and everything was ok except the very closed looking face at address. I'm not looking for a perfectly square or open face but one that looks pretty square at address. Most of my miss hits are to the left so I was thinking that maybe even the slightly closed retail FT-3 tour would be ok to try.

[hungrymarine]

I would recommend trying the X460 Tour is you're looking for something that looks dead square at address. The constant alignment sole helps in this regard.

[Ultimate]

The HiBore is, by a very wide margin, the clearest and best recommendation that I can think of in this area.

 

Titleist drivers are not all square. The 905 R is at least generally better than most of the S's and T's that I have seen, but Titleists, in any event, are not all square. Taylor Mades are even worse. The squarest retail R5 TP that I could find still needed to be bent more open. The good thing about TM's is that at least you can bend them. Some low-lofted Callaways are square, and some low-lofted Pings are square.

 

The HiBores are as square as anything out there right now.

[857 Pro-Ti]

R5 TP is stupid easy to hit.

 

For all those who stated that all Titleist drivers sit square I would tend to disagree :)

[sandy]

For all those who stated that all Titleist drivers sit square I would tend to disagree :)

 

You got that right.

[davy9]

For all those who stated that all Titleist drivers sit square I would tend to disagree :)

 

You got that right.

 

 

I third that statement. 905T = Hook Machine

 

Although it could have been just mine; wrong end of the manufacturing tolerance.