Interestingly, the buzz surrounding the SLDR Driver has come with plenty of heckles from the peanut gallery. So, when it came time to review the new Taylormade SLDR driver, suffice it to say, I was pretty jacked to see what she could do. Soon after I also added a few of their longer clubs to my bag, including their Rocketballz woods. This is as close to a grip it and rip it 3-wood as you will find.My switch to TaylorMade clubs happened a few years ago after I attended a demo day and became completely infatuated with the Burner 2.0 irons. I didn’t always hit dead center, but the slot on the bottom did its job. The face isn’t huge, but surprisingly forgiving. This is a great feature for soft landing into greens. It was no problem with the 3 wood, just like the RBZ Stage 2 hybrid it elevates very quickly and just carries. There were a couple holes that I wanted to cut the corner of a dogleg with towering 3-wood shots. This combination offered confidence and simplicity on every shot. I attribute that to the forgiveness, the alignment and the lift.
While I could miss it and still hit a big cut, I had a higher percentage of straight shots with this 3-wood than any other I’ve hit. I was rarely offline with this club, indoors or outdoors. I would give up a few yards to be online, because there is nothing worse than ripping a drive down the middle and going for the green in 2 shots to only find yourself in deep trouble because of a wayward 3-wood, or stepping up to the tee box on a tight hole to hit your safe club into the trees. Hitting the Rocketballz Stage 2 3-wood long-ier is great, but actually I liked how straight-ier it was. That put me right around 20-25 yards longer than my previous 3 woods. My next 4 rounds things had finally dried out and I found I was getting a good 10 to 15 yards of roll. That is a good 15 yards longer on the fly compared to my other 3-woods. I didn’t get a yard of roll, but I was flying it around 240.
A few holes later I was again around that 250 yards out and this time hit the fringe and it stuck. It was a 240yard second shot, which was about the same yardage as my driver off the tee. It cut right through the light rough and crushed the ball to the front edge of the green where it just plugged. After a decent drive that just trickled off the fairway I pulled out the RocketBallz 3 wood Stage 2 and gave it a rip. The first hole is a straight forward par 5. They probably shouldn’t have even been open between the standing water and snow, but the greens were clear so in MN that means they open. My first round outside offered about the worst conditions you could have in the spring, it was cold, damp and down right sloppy on the course. Hitting a 3-wood off a tee or carpet indoors under perfect conditions is one thing, but what about off real grass outdoors.
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