DO THIS Before EVER Switching Drivers!

I've got a new driver to test out and in today's video I'm gonna go over the five crucial things I pay attention to when potentially putting a new driver in the bag and hopefully these five things can help you make the best decision about your new driver oh yeah and we're also going to see uh just how freaking good the stealth 2 is [Music] first thing I pay attention to before anything else is the look I mean if this is something you want to play with you're looking down at it you know 14 times around do you like how it looks if I'm honest I prefer the look The matte look of the first step on that to be incredibly appealing and just pleasing to my eyes I've used tailor-made drivers since 2012. so I just straight up like the look I'm so used to the look of TaylorMade drivers oh looking down at it I like how much face I see I like how it sits at a dress it passes The Look test and that's the first most crucial thing you got to pay attention to because if you don't like looking at it you aren't gonna like hitting it thank you [Music] foreign [Music] so the next thing I'll pay attention to is the sound test what does it sound like do I like how it sounds with stealth last year Taylor Made we went to a carbon face so that sound is much more like a dead sound but it also kind of meets that kind of debtor punch feel which is what I'll talk about next is the feel I've gotten used to the sound of carbon I tested a driver out a month and a bit ago it was a titanium face and that sound was so tinny drivers used to sound like two years ago but a full year of using a carbon face carbon head I've grown quite fond of that sound so stealth 2 it definitely passes the sound test because again if you get a driver that you do not like the sound of it you are certainly gonna not like hitting it and the sound of carbon is very solid which translates to the field the feel you can kind of look at that in a few different ways the feel can be of the club head the shaft but that's going to be more contingent on the shaft you have how that feels the weight of it the feel of impact that's something that I've always really really paid attention to what it feels like at impact and tailor-made drivers yes I've used them for over a decade I really like how they feel at impact in the last few years The Sims maybe the M5 had this and now the stealth they have this kind of solid Punchy feel I love that feel I don't like the kind of tinny Hollow Feel Never Have I kind of used it made it work for a while but I've never liked that feel but the solid Punchy feel it's kind of what I grew up with Titleist 975d kind of started that a steel shafted driver solid Punchy feel it's fast feeling but it just feels like you like kind of old school and I'm a little I'm definitely a little more old school and what I like a driver to feel like foreign so this thing it passes the look it passes the sound it passes the feel okay so this driver I've actually played one full round of golf with it and we filmed it it was the most recent episode of Route 66 and you got to see what this driver did when I hit it perfectly or I hit it well but you also got to see what it did when I didn't hit it well and those are the next two things I want to pay attention to and yes it's one thing to do that on the driving range and test it out on a launch monitor but you need real Golf Course scenarios so we're in the golf course and we're gonna see these two parts of my my five part testing protocol oh that thing was hit so far off the heel obviously the carry was quite down the ball speed down we still got away with it but if we look my launch my spin these are the the numbers I want clubhead speeds a little low ball speed I mean these are early morning warm-up driver swings doing exactly what I want it to do when I hit it well by this measure it passes the test you've seen one that I didn't hit well it passed that test kind of a pull okay so we'll go up and see where those ended up one of them was pretty solid the first one was pretty weak the second one was like a good solid pull but obviously a Miss hit and that kind of plays into I know I said I'm gonna come out here and see what it does when I hit it perfect but you don't hit it perfect a lot of the time you you mishit it a lot of times so what does it do when you mishit it that's a huge criteria to pay attention to when you're testing out a new driver because yes when the numbers are dialed when the swing is perfect we want that dream scenario but we don't get that dream scenario so what does it do when we miss hit it that's the that's that's the rub that's the thing and that's what I pay attention to because in the Route 66 video there was two Miss hits I had that were my usual Miss hit kind of a high heel spinner on the fifth hole and on the tenth hole on the fifth hole that drive literally a week prior with my old driver left me an eight iron into the green I had a pitching wedge into the green with the same Miss hit and on 10 that Miss hit would have gone in the bunker but in this video it went over the bunker I had 98 yards big big difference those were Miss hits that didn't hurt me and that's something you need to look for when you you're testing a new driver do the Miss hits hinder the game or do they help the game or do they perform better than the Miss hits with your current driver so there we go there's the first there's the second there's the third so all three of those two one bad one good one not so good but better results look at that I'm in the Fairway with all of them that's that's huge that's a big win that's a big thing that I'm taking away from uh from testing this driver all right I know I said there was five things but here's the six the added bonus feature if you're still watching the video question you ask yourself is it better than your current camera because yes you can test a new driver it can it can meet all the criteria but if it's not if it's the same or just marginally better than what you're using the you don't necessarily need to get a new driver so that's the the added six special bonus question is it better than what you're currently using when I ask myself that question I'm going based on the solid hit and the Miss hit that's all I'm paying attention to the solid hit from playing one round with it comparing it to a solid hit the light of it just seems a bit stronger seems a bit faster could be the shaft going to the Ventus blue TR from three years with Ventus why the head I prefer stealth two the Miss hit like I just said back there it wins that category too because I hit my Miss hit twice in a round of golf where I've hit that Miss hit before and I and I was considerably better positioned with stealth too so that's why stealth 2 is going in my bank easy peasy I can't wait to play with this driver all year because like I said in another driver video if we use it I think that speaks volumes but let's go final test Head to Head driver versus driver stealth one stealth two let's just see which uh which one one swing is better the major Showdown stealth versus stealth two one swing which driver is better I'm gonna try to make the best possible swing I can with each of these here we go stealth one that was just super high off the toe look at that launch angle got away with it not sure how accurate that carry number is but try to get the exact same shot let's see if I can do that how good am I to just replicate a high tow mishit no I just roasted it wow that's good just feels better to me it's just overall a better driver see in the next video psych let's hit stealth again let's try to hit another good one with the first stealth so we can get a good good comparison good head-to-head comparison not a high toe Crapper okay or pull I mean the sea level setting is probably why yeah it just it launches a lot higher I just like the ball flight and the consistency of stealth 2 and that shaft it's a freaking winner see you in the next video