 We will start this all off with a Happy New Year to everybody and thank you for joining the average golfer for what is going to be a full on week of tailor made testing. And we are going to start with the M5 driver. We will stick a shaft on it don't worry but there's been lots of hype already around this club all we've managed to see so far is a little brief snippet of that club face and these two red screws. We are going to find out exactly what they are supposed to do in helping this perform well in the hands of people like you and I. So it is all about speed, it is all about ball speed across the whole of that club face maximising that and getting it as close to as they possibly can to the legal limits in terms of COR. So what they have done is this, these two holes are filled with a resin, individually filled with a resin, every club head is tested across a number of parts on this club face to make sure we are maximising ball speeds across that club face and that resin is injected to assist that process. We are then looking at this underneath the club you will see the T bar track system that has been introduced so there is plenty of adjustability. Two 10g weights allow you like I said plenty of movement within this club and optimise the ability to custom fit for you as an individual. Now once again we see twist face technology is going to continue into the M5 and M6 drivers and into quite a few more products of tailor made as well. So they certainly believe that this has been performing well, this concept they introduced last year about reducing spin in areas of the club face so low heel, high toe and again plenty of videos out there from last year explaining exactly what twist face technology does. But it basically allows us in theory to get better dispersion with off centre hits. We are then looking at this introduction of the resin into the face, this speed injection as they are calling it and surely we are going to produce a pretty impressive driver. In terms of looks it is some images thrown up on screen now. I want to stay out of the looks opinion to be quite honest with you. I think that is very much down to the individual so I will leave that one to you. Maybe we will talk about this a little bit more when I sit it behind the ball very very shortly which is what we are going to do right now. We are going to take this first of all out into four golf chester, we are going to do some testing and we will give you some immediate feedback, we will get some dry ball data and then we will get out on the course. But first of all let us get over to four golf chester and start hitting some golf balls with this M5 driver. Right so you have heard what Taylor made, I have got to say you have seen all the glossy pictures, you know what this thing looks like now, it is into four golf chester. For some dry ball data that I will collect later but for now I am going to talk about how this club sits behind a golf ball, hit some golf balls and I will give you some immediate feedback for getting dry ball data, not having the knowledge of the dry ball data. Let us talk about what I am seeing immediately from the performance of this golf club. Let us talk about address first of all, I love this carbon crown, I love it in this matte muted finish as well. They have also gone back to thinning this top line, you had a white and silver band in the M1 through to M4 series of drivers which is sort of three quarters of an inch thick. I like that to be fair, they have a problem with it, however they have said that, they have thinned it down considerably, it is a silver band that is still there and it looks good. I really like the finish on this, it has definitely got this sort of motorsport formula one theme running through this whole look of this. One thing I really do like is in the grooves here they have put a circular colouring, white colouring, a little cut away in each of the grooves which highlights exactly where the centre of this club face is and it is really handy at address. I really like that touch that they have added, this is set up at nine degrees, I have got the weight pushed quite a bit far back in this and we will look at this T bar in closer. A closer look at it in a later video but for the time being that is how it is set up and I am using this Tensai Red Shaft in stiff or Orange Shaft I think it is actually. Let's hit some golf balls and give you some feedback, that has absolutely flown. That is not the feedback I was looking for I was going to be a little bit more subdued but that is a bit of a ball to start proceedings off. First impressions, let's hit a few more balls before we draw any conclusions because that one is absolutely rocketed. Now that is a ball that comes right out of the toe. It will be interesting to see if I would love to know if there is a way of measuring the impact of twist face technology because if there is ever a shot that requires some assistance from twist face it was that because We have not got this club marked up, taped up as such to see where that came out of but I can tell you from feel, it has come high toe and it did okay to be fair. What would it have done without twist face? All you cynics out there, I know your answer. That is a golf ball, absolutely flown. Right, let's stop it there. Two balls in, one ball like I said, high toe. Would have made it like rough I think but it certainly wouldn't have found the fair way, the other two balls, first balls, an absolute bullet. First things to note are, difference in sound and feel in this M5 driver from previous models that Taylor made. It is a more muted sound, I think it's a softer sound, I again prefer the feel. Feel doesn't mean say you're going to get better performance but it certainly might persuade you into why you might buy one driver to another. And for me, the sound that's coming off that which resonates in feel is a good one. Looking at the first, the two out those three drives, it's gone, it's flown. We're expecting it to but ultimately drive ball data will tell us exactly how it is doing in performance and I will do that a bit later on. But for now, that's my opinions in here. We need to get out there on the fairways and try this, hit a few balls off the tee. So that's exactly where we're going now. So finishing up some feedback straight off the course from the M5 driver. Once again, it's really nice behind the ball, plenty of confidence to address, I love the way it frames the ball. For me, I could probably tweak it a little bit in terms of a lot of the shots that I'm hitting are slightly down the right hand side. Which is perhaps a good thing for me because I'm struggling to move that ball to the left at all. But like I said, that's a pretty much positive based on the way I swing the club. But yeah, maybe that adjustability, I can just make a little change in the weight down there. But overall, the ball seems to be coming off fast. I'm hitting it pretty much out the middle so I'm not exactly testing twist face right now. Which is unfortunate. But reporting on what I've seen out there on the course. This ball travels, great feel, great sound. Once again, very difficult to be critical with this club out on the golf course. Any errors? Well, they're down to the swing, I'm afraid. Right, OK, so that's pretty much all we can do as far as the testing this far in anyway. And I'm going to say this far in is because I'm going to spend a lot more time with this driver and others in the weeks ahead. To spend more time looking at data in particular, trying to analyse the impacts of twist face if we can ever do that. But it is a very small amount of data that I've collected so far with this club. But I took it out on the course, we've had it down at Fogolfchester and here is my evaluation of it. I'll give my opinion on the looks. I love it from the top side, I love the crown, I love that matte finish. Great looks. From the underneath, a very, very personal thing. I'm not a fan of adjustable drivers in the sense of all the nuts and bolts that are on the bottom. They don't ever look right on a driver to me. It's far too mechanical looking. So that's something that's very, these are never going to appeal to me adjustable drivers. And once again, I think it's pretty, pretty ugly from the bottom end to be fair. And not something from sitting on the shelf I would be gravitated towards. That is again, nature of the beast. If you want that adjustability then you've got out these nuts and bolts and these elements of screws to be able to move this weighting system around. That'd be an interesting point for me is how much difference could be made by moving these weights around. There are so many different permutations and in the timescale that I've had, I've probably not been able to optimise this club in terms of settings for me. And I think that's down to the limitations like I said in time we've had since I've had the club and the embargo date. I will be looking to make further videos on this, trying to have a closer look at adjustability and what impacts it has on this club. Because if you look at the dry ball data I obtained, it's a small sample shot of data, carry distance 243 on average, launching very, very high for the amount of loft that I had on this club. Up at what is it 16, 16.7, average in terms of pretty constant, very high ball flight. Incredibly low spinning considering the high launch. Combination not far off being good if you get probably, I would have thought, when I'll lower that launch down a little bit, bit higher spin and I think in the adjustability elements of this club you'd probably be able to do that. It's off the feeling, definitely there's no doubt about it. It's a different sound, a sound that I prefer. In terms of performance, how do we measure it? Well, that's a difficult one for me. How do you gauge on the small sample testing that I've been able to do? And don't forget this on the course and dry ball data. How do you gauge things like twist face? How do you look and see if the resin that's been impacted on this face has it produced faster ball speeds across the face? I think we need a lot more testing in the weeks ahead to try and find out if we can identify how TaylorMade managed to achieve that. I can't back up that from the small testing that I've done. All I can say, it's a very, very good driver. The M3 and M4 in last year's top five for me were well up there. I think I had them at number two and three. They were very, very good drivers. So for me, it's still a very, very good driver. How much has it come on from M3 and M4 for me at this stage? Hard to tell. The only thing I can say is in terms of sound and feel there is a difference in terms of overall performance. I can't really see a great deal of difference at this stage, but I will promise you I'll do some more testing on this and we'll try and establish more of those facts. I think by spending more time hitting a larger quantity of shots. I'll get these out to the rest of the taggers team as well and we'll get a few different handicaps hitting this club in the weeks ahead. So for now, that is my first look at least at the Taylor M5 driver. I've got plenty of these to come, so stay tuned. Thanks for watching this one. Comments down below and I'll speak to you soon.