 assumptions on a the performance might persuade me otherwise but right now I have a major issue with the TM Sync drivers and I just struggle to get my head round it so you're wondering what my issue is that's the bit you all want to know it's the everyone loves a bit of negativity right now my issue is the smoke that's blown from the fire over there it looks like someone off top of the pops from the 70s for those of you who remember head cover fantastic by the way it looks really nice really impressed I address this club looks superb. I love the crown. I love this matte finish that you've put to it. You've got these kind of turquoise accents, I think, is the way it's described. So what's wrong, and? Well, I'll tell you what's wrong. It's this thing. This thing is the material that's used in the soul of this driver. And I'm not really keen on it. I'm not keen on it visually, and it looks to me just a little bit plastic. But it is, in fact, made from carbon, and there's a real good reason as to why it's made from carbon. Right now, before we go any further, and I'll give you my opinion of these TaylorMade drivers, what's yours? You've no doubt been bombarded with these videos today as it's release day. But first of all, I want your opinion in terms of the looks. Here's some images for you now. Is that one jumping off the shelf for you? Is it going to be on the wish list? Are you going to give that one a go this year? Comments down below. The ultimate question is, forget your shallow mindset hand. How does this thing perform? Is that a middle of the fairway? Maybe we can go with these looks. So my feedback from off the course before we get into sort of dry ball data, and we're getting into four golf to have a look at that. The two drivers, not a lot to split them in terms of what I've, it's ball side by side in terms of when I've got a good knockout of both of them. No split in terms of yard is they get there a bit differently. There's definitely a lower ball flight in the regular product and that's in max launch is quite a bit higher. So again, some notable differences there other than that, couldn't tell a great deal to split them. So it's over to four golf and there's some dry ball data. Right, one last thing before we do leave the course. I forgot to mention the sound and feel or whichever one you decide it is, but it felt superb. It's a softer, perhaps a more muted sound, but one that I really, really liked and that was a major positive for me out on the course, which is where the acoustics are better than commenting from inside a four golf. So yeah, tick the box there, massive one. Right, so first of all, we've got three models. We've got the standard sim, we've got the sim max and we've got the sim max D, which is the draw bias product. The story behind the removal of that weight in terms of this carbon crown and now carbon sole unit is to redeploy that weight into areas of the construction that make the driver perform better in simple terms, mostly being in this area here. And that weight is 16 gram in the standard 24 gram in the max and 22 gram in the max D. So we effectively now have four components that make up this driver. We've got the face, we've got the carbon crown and the carbon sole and then we've got this new forged aluminium ring which effectively joins the whole thing together. The two screws that were visible in the face of last year's model, the original sim, you used to see them in the face and I know people didn't particularly like that. Well that has now been moved and that's into the toe area of this head shape. The overall size of face is actually larger than the original sim models and that's across the board on every model and twist face is still as prevalent as ever. That's all I'm going to tell you in terms of the tech spec. Right, we will get to data very soon but just a further mention on that carbon sole which I have an issue with, if you compare it to last year's model, for me again looked far better. It's got some sort of shiny chrome and steel elements in there even so much as how sturdy the product looks if you like seem to me far better in last year's iteration. Now the other noticeable difference from the original sim range is the sliding bar, the weight bar that's been prevalent inverts the every iteration of tailor made driver for many, many years. It was a big selling point so don't forget that shiftable weight from the draw to the fade bias and it doesn't make an appearance in any of this sim to range so I find that really interesting and a struggle to understand quite how I'll explain that because like I said it was a big selling point all along for many years for most of the manufacturers and it's been dropped out. But the point is how did this thing perform in terms of drivable data we'll start off with the standard sim product and what you'll see there is really really good numbers 2369, 237 carry, 13 launch, 146 ball speed, 83 peak height. I want to say really good I just want to make a point at this stage we're reviewing obviously a lot of product in recent days and weeks. They're really good numbers but they're not numbers that are outperforming anything that we've tried realistically since comparing last year's models and that's not just to be said about this tailor made product but also the performance of everything we've tried so far. There has been no major leap forward in terms of ball speeds but as there has been a difference made in terms of forgiveness and I think that's where the real deal is to be found in these products from 2021 and that can be seen in this max product. Once again for me I've informed the standard product in my hands considerably and no more so in the dry ball data 2816 spin 245 carry, 14.7 launch and 147 ball speed and a peak height of 108. Now the numbers there that again the telltale sounds in terms of how did tech help me in terms of this max product well it launched higher it got greater ball speed and the spin number didn't jump through the roof so for me that's a great great combination and I think that again if you compare the two out there on the fairways again for me on a personal note I certainly found the max far more I suppose forgiving is the right word it didn't do as much wrong as what I did with the standard sim but once again I think for me it goes back to that data the max data is really really good it's impressive very very good but what are we going to do to see any improvements I think that's where the difficulty lies did they make the new version of the sim product better than last years in terms of forgiveness maybe they did it's a real hard thing to measure I can only say that ball speed in relation to club head speed was really really good and optimising those numbers in terms of that launch and spin number again was very very good performance indeed but what's on about fairly minute details so again the other one thing I'll mention is the price on this is the RRP is 449 so that suggests it's going to sell at I don't know 419 maybe even 400 which will give it a bit of a head start in terms of it's major competitor if you like from the Callaway epic which looks as if it's going to be considerably more expensive so that's one thing that they've definitely got in their favour perhaps this year on the price but we'll have to see that what happens in retail when they finally get released that's it I've got no more to say like I said for me the big deal is I have a major issue with that carbon sole which I'm sure they could have produced the carbon sole with a far better look and finish to it that's what I ask of Taylor made to make this driver more appealing for me on a personal level other than that that's me done another one is another driver of 2021 so you've now seen three we've also got one more to come in a few days so keep your eyes peeled if you like what you've seen don't forget this is testing on behalf of average golfers with what was it 97 mile an hour clubhead speed with driver plenty of miss it it might be a little bit like how you play the game so consider subscribing and I'll like one and hopefully we'll see you again very very soon