Broke my Burner 3 Wood...

[Saks]

Have used my Burner 3 wood for about 10 rounds. It has been an amazingly nice club. Untill today. Pulled it out on the 9th tee, and had it resting on the ground while I was waiting for others to tee off, had the tiniest amouont of pressure on it and it snapped into two! Must have been cracked and hanging on by a thread!

I had used it twice during the round, off the first tee with no problems and then on the 4th hole, off the fairway. The ball was sitting down a little and I caught it very thin and close to the heel as well. I guess this is what did the damage... I can't believe that this was enough to break it though... I have seen clubs take way more punishment than this. Must have been unlucky and got a club with a dodgy shaft. Anyone else had issues with these burner shafts?

Time to test out Rockbottom golf's after sales customer service!

Is now a good time to look at upgrading the shaft? I hit this club quite high but really straight so don't really want to upset things much. Any suggestions here?

[slice_oftheday]

I'm not sure about Burner 3 Woods or Taylormade in general, but when my Cleveland Launcher 3 wood cracked at the hosel on a hit, Cleveland informed me that I go to a certified dealer which will then send the club in for a an evaluation at the Cleveland repair center. They replaced the club's stock shaft with another Fujikura shaft at no cost to me. The club should be arriving tomorrow or the next day.

Taylormade may have a similiar policy.

[Fraser]

I saw a kid of about 15yrs old break two TaylorMade woods in successive shots at the driving range a few weeks back! Don't know if they were Burners or not...

He said he'd had the things about a year or so. I told him he should buy a lottery ticket ;)

[ks8829]

Check out the Taylor Made Website regarding warranties;

http://www.taylormadegolf.com/warranty.asp

try to contact them regarding repairing the club for you under warranty.

[Saks]

Check out the Taylor Made Website regarding warranties;

Only problem is I got it from Rockbottom golf and they are not an authorised retailer...

[traviswise]

I just bought one of these, hope it doesn't happen to me.

[obsessedgolfer]

Only problem is I got it from Rockbottom golf and they are not an authorised retailer...

It doesnt matter where you got as long as it a authentic tm club they will take care of you.

[oneil003]

I had a TM burner 3 wood and was hitting it at the range and started hitting it weird. I looked at the face and there was a crack in the face. I sent it into TM and they were good about it, they just gave me a brand new one.

Send it in to TM and they will either fix it or give you a new one.

Good luck.

[obsessedgolfer]

If taylormade clubs are so faulty ill be screwed just look at my signature only 2 clubs in my bag arent taylormade.

[LoCo]

That must suck thats a lot of money down the drain but atleast it was only the shaft

[ks8829]

Only problem is I got it from Rockbottom golf and they are not an authorised retailer...

I would give it a try and see what the good folks at Taylor Made say and let us all know.

[Saks]

Well, after a couple of emails and some sending of pictures, my replacement 3 wood has arrived, less than a week after it broke.

Well done to RockBottom Golf and Taylormade. You both have a customer for life...

I couldn't be happier with the service and with buying clubs online (not sure about ebay though, unless you buy from a known retailer...)