Dec 6th, 2016 Article
TaylorMade M1 2017 Driver
The TaylorMade M1 driver has been a massive hit on tour. The 2017 model is even better apparently.
The TaylorMade M1 driver has been a massive hit on tour. The 2017 model is even better apparently.
In the middle of deepest darkest Connecticut – The Forest Moon of Endor, at the Foxwoods Resort – (Stop making me look up Star Wars references, grandad! – Ed), we’ve been privy to TaylorMade’s exclusive new driver launch. The M1 is coming, and we’ve got the scoop.
So we've all seen the TaylorMade M1 Driver now. We've hit it, it looks great, and Jason Day crushed it in winning the BMW Championship. But how does it work? We got under the bonnet of the new M1 driver when we caught up with Benoit Vincent, head of TaylorMade's R&D department.
So we’ve hit the M1 driver, raved about the fairway wood, and now we get to the hybrid. TaylorMade invented the Rescue/Hybrid category but the last few years have seen Callaway, Ping, and Titleist hybrids become much more popular, while TaylorMade’s sister company Adams has dominated in tour use.
Is this the next TaylorMade M1 driver? PLUS: Pics of the fairway and hybrid!
So we’ve hit it. The new TaylorMade M1 Driver. A monochrome bomber. TaylorMade are sure this will be the number one driver on tour at the BMW Championship in its first week out there. After hitting it we know why they're so confident. We got to hit the 430, and the 460 heads, and they are both belters.
We flew around the world to try the new TaylorMade M1 driver. And the carbon and titanium big stick is one of the best feeling longest and definitely most adjustable drivers we have hit in a long time. Yet it was the three wood we were most impressed with.
The main drawback for many golfers when buying forgiving irons is that they immediately think the club head is going to look like a balloon on the end of a baseball bat. The TaylorMade M1 irons are both forgiving and sexy...
Adidas has reported a recovery in its TaylorMade business, so it’s not all doom and gloom out there, despite Nike’s withdrawal from the equipment business.
TaylorMade have taken no time in releasing their first ad featuring Tiger Woods teeing it up their new M1 driver.
The driver might be the TaylorMade M2 that get’s the attention, but after hitting it, the M2 Fairway wood is the main event. This wood rocks.
Week in, week out, the TaylorMade Tour Truck follows the PGA Tour around the USA, building clubs for the best players in the world. Looking like something from Mad Max on the outside, these rolling workshops have everything on board to build perfect golf clubs for the likes of Jason Day, Justin Rose, Dustin Johnson, and Sergio Garcia. TaylorMade's Senior Tour Technician, Wade Liles, shows us how quickly he can make a driver from start to finish.