I Gave an Average Golfer a $329 Takomo Driver…

This is my nephew, Ethan. He's a decent little player, but he absolutely hates his driver. Tacoma sent me their new Ignis D2 to test, but I asked for a left-handed one specifically for Ethan. So instead of me telling you whether this $329 DTC driver is solid and forgiving and all the things Tacoma says it is, we're going to find out if it can actually help the golfer it was designed for as I try to fit Ethan into this driver. So what driver do you have? The Maverick. Do you know what it's set to? I, no, not at all. So you don't know what it's set to what don't you like about it? I'm scared to hit it. It feels dead. What's the miss? Either right or yeah Do you reach for driver first or do you always think I need to hit less than driver on almost every hole? I look at the hole and I open maybe but like depends on how I hit on the range On a scale of 1 to 10. How much do you like that driver that you have in your golf bag? so to start things off I'm gonna have Ethan hit his Maverick driver we're gonna see just what it does the good the bad and the ugly so eight drives let's see what you got man all right let's see it and I don't want you to pay attention to the numbers or anything like that because these are range balls ball speed is going to be a wee bit lower the spin maybe is a little bit higher I know that and it's a fair comparison when we compare this to the Tacoma how was that was that decent one oh healing okay it's okay well you don't really know your numbers so it's all this is all new to you ethan's been playing for three years roughly three and a half maybe since you're like what 13 14 and we would play like Father's Day, Thanksgiving, Ethan was a great baseball player but just naturally took to golf and has gotten quite good pretty quickly shooting I mean you can break 80 you're shooting in the 70s not every time but yeah but you're definitely breaking 80 only playing golf for three years how far do you think you hit driver like in the air not after it runs or anything on the course okay that's pretty accurate so basically our average carry was 250. clubhead speed it didn't read all of them but kind of run right around 113 114. ball speed we saw some sneak to 160 but kind of an average of 157. the spin's high but that's whatever it's a range ball but then if we look at this this is what hopefully the Tacoma driver can rectify is tighten this dispersion so i'm going to give it to you now at stock is that like well you want it you want yeah the smaller the better so if i can give it to you here at stock we're going to see what Ignis D2 does for Ethan before Ethan hits it i had to hit this thing so that i could get familiar with what this driver can or can't do it looks really good the data is fine it's definitely got some draw bias to it it feels like it's designed for people that lose the golf ball right it just has my hand set so low but the data's okay on good shots the ball speed certainly isn't there but we know that we know this isn't built to be a super fast ball speed driver this is meant to be a fairway finding forgiving well-launching driver and I dialed it in with that that strange fitting sleeve where I had to look online with what what meant I would love a flat setting but there is no flat settings which is a bit of a hang-up so it's all loft adjustments with going upright or simply loft adjustments when I got this thing down to just I believe one degree eight degrees pretty solid i was finally seeing high 160 ball speed with it so i was familiar with what this driver can do before giving it to Ethan so Ethan has actually never seen this driver i tried it so this is like true first impression you have 101s in the bag so this is the Takomo Ignis D2 oh that's sick i like it i like the all black yeah a little bit of a maverick look like looking down oh i'm so used to like the maverick how it like glosses okay so the matte finish not different different look different it's a Ventus Blue 6S just the Takomo offering no Velocore i like the um yeah there's a compass on here so that's the adjustment sleeve that has been kind of criticized never gonna it's very confusing you have to like pull up online what it means i shoot northwest yeah exactly so we're gonna hit this same stiff 6S um we're gonna hit it oh hyped it yeah that was dead straight sounds like a cat x it's a cat x baseball baseball that sounds okay oh nice 260 off yeah don't look at the numbers don't look at the numbers don't look at the numbers nice yeah that and that wasn't hit very well no a little scruffy no but that thing piped. Yeah, that was dead straight now. That one was like up here. It's unbelievable how straight this thing is for you It's not slicing. No, it's flying dead straight and that's kind of what they built it for I think a lot of people want Tacoma Woods to be like their blade irons, but this is built for forgiveness Where'd you hit that one? Yeah, I got the terrible swing, but it went straight. I don't know. I hit that very heely I like where the ball is going like I want to put me on course. Oh, I fell back Yeah, got a little kind of comfortable. Yeah, bad swings happen. So that was a little mishit. That was a mishit, but when I mishit with that though, it's like, I don't know if y'all know, like baseball, like when you catch a wood bat in the hands, that thing hurts. Same thing with kind of like the irons. You can definitely feel it's a good hit and a mishit, but... So you can, like the feedback's there for you on a club face? Yeah, I definitely feel it. It seems like you're hitting them all a bit heely. Yeah. I mean, those misses are fairways. I mean, I just swung hard and went left. That's going to have to do with the drivers. Is that okay? Yeah, that was pumped. Okay, so we've hit eight. Now let's just straight up compare them. So first and foremost, we'll look at the dispersion of the two. Obviously tighter north-south with the Callaway because you hit the Tacoma a little bit further on some of them that you really synced it up. But in terms of left-right, it's a little bit tighter. We just have two outliers of the eight. but then if we look at straight up like the data ball speed's the same spin is less so again range balls less spins on the golf course better carries more with the Ignis and but the offline like if you look your average is closer to center with the Sakomo driver so even though the ball speed is a bit of a wash because this is definitely not one of the fastest drivers in the market but it is very forgiving and very consistent and we saw that at neutral so now i'm gonna dial it and see if we can improve these numbers but we've got this down one degree because the launch was pretty good the spin was pretty good the strike location a wee bit on the heel side i don't think there's much we can do with that like an optim so we're just going to try this down eight degrees and see if we have the same level of consistency but maybe slightly less spin slightly less launch which would bend but i'm also paying attention what the ball speed is because that kind of tells me how you're striking it because realistically neutral was pretty damn solid oh no it's okay turn it on that i like because the spin came down the launch came down a hair the carry went up the height was a little bit lower where'd you hit that like kind of like high high heel or high center high center okay good that's okay but like the way i swing it i feel like i just gotta like turn it so much It maybe sits a little more open to your eye at address. That's like, yeah, because I think I'm turning it. No, don't. Don't think you need to change anything. Where did you hit that? Heel. Heel. So that was a heel that didn't fade, which is kind of good. The ball speed came down because it was a mishit, but the spin came down, which is good. Launch was low. Just based on your memory to the previous setting, what felt better? The first time I gave you that or this time? First time. Okay. I like it. Interesting. You're drawing it in this setting. i don't know a lot more you're turning it over a lot more which is interesting but that could be because you think you have to because the face that one felt like a normal phone but nothing's changed but the ball's drawing right just the way we change the driver like i don't like that that's that's not in the fairway that's not sure it went further but it was low and i think it's gonna run sure but it's gonna run straight into the tree a little more off that but so now like if we just straight up compare yellow is our most recent one and well it's lower but look how big that circle is our ball speed didn't go up yes it's five drives to eight drives our spin came down marginally it's not better and trying to launch a little bit better trying to spin it a little bit better the trade-off was not there so we're gonna go back to neutral get a couple for your own feel and uh i'll ask you a question after that or north it's not neutral it's more there you go see it looks a lot better in my eyes feels more comfortable like it just sits better just like it sits like a golf club i feel like the other setting even though like the face being a hair open yeah it just felt like okay cool cool cold swing yeah okay that was me not the club at all like at the fairway yeah this is where my feet was basically lined up but that was the shot you hit six of the eight times yeah and i feel like if you if you chose to use it of course i'm happy yeah but you would get more comfortable with the driver that you maybe you're gonna kind of step into it a little bit more try to hit this one hard i just want to see like not like foolishly hard but just try to hit it hard in balance and rhythm but hit it hard that's gonna be your miss when you get excited but ball speed was pretty good i mean it's obviously in the trees right like we're not saying that was good but what i wanted to see was when you when you got excited does it do what can happen versus oh my gosh yeah that was a pull yeah like a maverick that ball would be low and that was low and left into those trees yes yeah okay one more so squared up just you're just the base is open but the ball speed is up like the launch is good i'm i'm happy with it in this setting it's not perfect but i think that is maybe a little bit of a limitation with some dtc stuff you might not get perfect with what you're what's available to you but if you get 90% is the 90% better than what you already had it's like this one plays like a fairway finder aiming at that shed sure what i'm doing but the whole objective is would you want to put that in your bag over that not just because it's a fairway finder but because you feel confident that you can yeah hit it solid not hook it hit fairway like it because like i'm not a pro golfer i don't have a lot of miss hits yeah that hurts when i miss it yeah one your misses with that are from there to there where's the misses with the and now like i feel something with this like that that one just feels like a the way i put on a baseball player this is like a good like that's like wreck ball bat it's like a better like cool okay one more better like material last one here last one best one hell yeah dude that's one of it that was 270 in the air that's fairway finder swing but that was 270 in the air 2500 spin with a range ball 158 ball speed i felt smooth that was the best one of the day dead straight so i think this is like six years old the ball speed is the same the spin is a wee bit better the launch is about the same same in the air ever so slightly you're gonna play tomorrow there's no school tomorrow which driver okay there you go like what main reasons okay deal like deal consistency and and as a just like a look like really like a look a look matters but as a 17 year old does the does the name brand Tacoma have anything to do with it okay cool that's good to know but Ignis D2 has replaced your Maverick because that's yours that's yours to keep thanks thanks to Tacoma uh we're hooking you up and yeah have you hit this yet let me know in those comments and uh let's spam them with Ethan finding more fairways thanks brother go see you next video peace i should be in next video see how i start playing