<p>TaylorMade M Drivers on a day out at Singapore&rsquo;s 1st Par 6 hole at Marina Bay Golf Course.</p>

- Ken Lye

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?

Joey Chuasiriporn: The M2 driver utilizes the same proprietary multi-material construction as the M1 driver, including the seven-layer carbon composite crown found in the M1, but the key product goals are unique for each product line. In order to deliver the full potential of the M1 and M2 drivers, we had to engineer them differently. The weight savings that we were able to achieve enabled us to create the T-Track system in the M1 driver for the ultimate in personalization. In

Diese Geschichte stammt aus der September 2016-Ausgabe von Golf Asia.

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