TaylorMade M Drivers on a day out at Singapore’s 1st Par 6 hole at Marina Bay Golf Course.
On a hot sunny and fairly windy day, the crew from TaylorMade Singapore hoofed a tour bag filled with several of their very adjustable M1 and their more forgiving M2 drivers out to Marina Bay Golf Course. Their mission? Over a 3-hour period, together with Marina Bay Golf Course (“MBGC”), TaylorMade gave more than 50 golfers that came through Singapore’s very first par 6 hole at MBGC an opportunity to try out their M driver product line. GolfAsia was there to see how their mission panned out and to get golfers’ impressions of MBGC’s new par 6.
Tech behind the M driver line
But first, a bit on the technology behind TaylorMade’s M driver line. Speaking to Joey Chuasiriporn, Senior Product Manager, TaylorMade Asia Region, we posed the following questions.
GolfAsia: Other than the obvious added adjustable features in the M1 (the sliding weights) to fine tune spin rate, ball flight height, lateral ball flight movement, what are the other differences in construction between the M1 and M2, if any?
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