 Lle! Welcome back to DiabloTV, thank you for joining the average Golf. I'm here at 4golf Chester and I'm here for a long day. A long day of driver testing and at the end of the day I'm going to come up with my top 5 drivers from 2018. This all comes on the back of the recent release from Tightlist, TSNS2 and a TSNS3 models. Loads are high around those clubs. I'm going to pitch them all up against one another today and at the end of this week I'll come up with my top five drivers for 2018. Okay, so let's get this whole thing underway with the TS3 versus the M3. Now then both of these heads are 9.5 loft and they're both going to have the exact same shaft in them, and that's a 10 side blue 55 gram, and it's a stiff shaft. So there's going to be nothing to separate these two in terms of their setup, and it really is going to be a true head-to-head. Now the difference between my TS3 numbers today and those of last week if there are any differences, we're going to be looking at the GC2 from Foresight Sports. The first time that I've started to use this in the driver testing, so it'll be interesting to see what numbers there are, and if there are any variables at all from the testing that I've done over the last 12 months, which has been used in Trackman, but they will both be on GC2, they will both have the same shaft, like I said, nothing to separate them. Stop waffling and let's get in some golf balls. I'm going to talk very briefly about how they look in terms of their head-to-head, and I think these are two quite different looking golf clubs and very different on the eye, and I think it's very much down to the individual. Taylor Maid have stuck to this look by where they've got this sort of carbon crown, this carbon imprint, which I love the look of. We've got some of the blue and white and red prints around the back, which again is very slick looking golf club, and they've got this thick band of silver this time round on the M3 and M4 models that's right across the club face, when I say club face on the top of the club that is sorry. The TS3 is very much your classic looking teardrop in shape, high gloss finish, lot more simplistic. They've both pleasing to the eye in different ways. I think for me I'm still always drawn towards the classic look of the stripped back plain crown from the TS3, to be perfectly honest with you, but that's very much an individual thing. The only other thing I'm going to mention in terms of this head-to-head is the difference in sound between the two. I've obtained the data on the TS3 earlier today. I'm no going to do it with the M3 and we'll see what the differences are. This is going to be a really interesting one. Let's put that down and let's talk about, before I switch off the camera and obtain a good sample of shots, I'm just going to talk about the sound of the M3. It sits really nice behind a ball, I think I have no problems in gaming this club. Now I smile because of the sound because for me, with driver when you talk about feel, the only thing you can really talk about is sound and I'll hit one more ball, but there's quite a different sound on this M3. Right, sound. Really loud. If I said slightly hollow, I'd not a lover of the sound on it, if I'm perfectly honest with you. It's a little bit hard on the face for me and I say hard on the face and that's what I'm resonating in terms of feel from sound. But yeah, it's not the best sound in golf club and therefore not the best feeling golf club for me, but we're not here to talk about feel, we're not here to talk about looks, we're here to talk about performance. So I'll carry on it in some golf balls, we'll sit back down and we'll talk head-to-head the numbers between the TS3 and the M3 from TaylorMade. Right, okay, so I don't think you need to see it, sit and watch me hit golf balls down the range, so I've cut it very short and let's get straight stuck into numbers this week. One thing to mention at this point is that I mentioned that I've moved to GC2 in terms of the data and I've done that for two reasons. One being it's the same data that you see from the majority of the testers that are out there and the second reason being is because a lot of you've missed and I have as well the visual, the graphic as far as being able to see the ball going out in terms of ball flight out into a driving range which is something that I wasn't able to sort out for today but it will be coming shortly in future videos, we'll get that content back in. Anyway, let's get stuck into these numbers because this is a real interesting one for me, it is, don't forget it's the same loft in terms of the club heads, it's exactly the same shaft, so we're going to be looking at for me, this is a real head-to-head in terms of what are the differences, how does performance differ between the two, if at all? I had a lot of shots over, effectively this went over to two days in the end, six drivers tested, a lot of breaks in between to re-energise, let's throw the numbers, I'm going to put, I've got them on paper in front of me here to read from but let's throw the numbers first of all starting with the tailor-made M3 and we'll go into the dry ball data. So 145 ball speed, 14.5 launch, these are the averages I'm reading from, 2578 spin, peaking at 35 on average and a 243 carry, burning mine on a carry, let's say there's a 234 or 236 and a 238 in there. However, those three drives are very much, and those distances from to back are very much dependent on strike and are very much dependent on much more like what an average golfer would do and what I do every week when I go out which is some good, some bad. I think again a point to mention is that for me my optimum has been over the last 12 months has been anything between 240 and 250 carry is about as good as it gets from me in terms of the drives that I've tested with a spin around 22 and this launch angle of 14 to 15 degrees that would be my numbers. I'm going to throw next to dispersion chart on the M3 where did all those balls finish and for me I'd be reasonably comfortable with that, I don't bang the ball down the middle one after the other, that's on different channels I'm afraid, I spray it about a bit because that's what I do, like I said that's what most average golfers do most weekends and with driver I'm certainly not the best driver in the world by a long way but that group in there I'm reasonably happy with. If you left, if you right maybe finding the first cut if I'm lucky and a few down the middle but overall with the M3 numbers I'm reasonably happy with what I achieve for the for the data for the purpose of this head to head, struck the ball reasonably well, swinging the ball, swinging the club quite decent for me and like I said right up there in terms of ball speed distances of where I would expect it to be. So I moved on to the TS3, now I tested the TS3 a few weeks ago, spent a lot of time getting the shaft right and that's the important thing but in the video itself that I did with the guy from Tiger's spent a lot of the video getting to the right shaft and by the time we got to it and I was comfortable with it when we started hitting balls and collecting some data I was okay with it it performed very very well again it was over that sort of 240 odd carry distance which like I said is my sort of my optimal but I wasn't blown away by it let's say but I've come back to it I hit it again a week or so ago and I had to say it looked I wasn't collecting data it looked very very good in what I was achieving so getting it back in today was good straight into the same setup same shaft that I'd used I was very comfortable from the get go and I was starting to give these a little bit of a wall now I'm going to throw the drive all day drunk now so I'll read off the averages as I did 146 ball speed 14.8 launch what have we got 18 spin 32 peak height and 256 in terms of overall distance in terms of the average and I think average is a key point because if you look through that list of average carries you don't think I've ever achieved anything like that in terms of a video on YouTube with driver in hand since I started two years ago phenomenal in terms of the distance and balls 262 261 259 this is that's not seriously I mean that's not numbers that I am used to achieving well mention one thing the numbers are neither about 12 yards on average long with all those achieving last week in the test with when I first got to swinging a club with tightness with this shaft I think you've put a couple of logics behind that is one I was I was straight into this shaft we hadn't been playing for an hour or so before I'm messing around straight into this shaft from the get go comfortable with it maybe not Fraser and the other guy from tightness sort of standing around you a little bit freer to to give this thing a bit of a wallop the other potential thing to consider is I was recorded the data on track man this was on GC2 are there any variables between the two I don't know as yet I've not put them headsets so they're things to bear in mind between this review and the initial review of the TS3 however it's also important to remember that today's test and the only thing that really matters is both drivers were tested on exactly the same setup and machine this is the bit that slightly concerns you with the TS3 the whatever is six seven balls to right of target more than happy with apart from the one that leaked off way right but there's a group in there that is very very good indeed for me all in around the same area it's what is it six balls very very closely packed very good indeed it's a small group of data maybe we need you know you need 50 shots really to analyse that dispersion a little bit better but it would be slight concern I think dispersion on the balls that I hit was better from the M3 distance was a lot longer on the TS3 and it's a real tough on this I think it's for me if I was choosing between these two clubs money wasn't an object I was like I said I wouldn't swap from an M3 to the TS3 if I purchased the M3 I'd be more than happy with those numbers but I always view these things on purely of if I'm if two clubs are available and I've got the choice to pick from one or the other then I would select TS3 I think this setup is really really interesting I'm going to do more testing with it and see if I can get a little bit more consistency out of it personally because the way it performed there was very very good indeed and those numbers are really really impressive what I used to do is simple go through that data there's a lot of people who get involved in the comments that very educated within um golf club technology and have a look at those numbers and just explain to me what the difference is why have we got such a big difference there from the um TS3 to the M3 similar ball speed if you look at those averages similar ball speed similar launch angles difference in spin difference in peak heights but huge difference in overall carry distance that is don't forget so interesting one for you at all have a look at and contemplate hope you enjoyed the video I'm trying to make it a little bit short and sweet in terms of what you see out there and just get straight stuck into these numbers for the head to head I've got loads of these coming this week um probably if I can get them done in time there'll be one every day from now on in um and I'm going to have a look at all the major drivers like I said I've been tested and we'll see which one comes out on top but for now it's TS3 that leads the way and like comments dislike do whatever it is you feel like and I'll see you soon