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I did myTitleist Thursday fitting yesterday. Here are the details:

Current driver......Ping G 10.5* w/ Alta stiff shaft 55g- 235 carry 250 total. 
Tested driver.......Titleist TS2 10.5* w/ Hzrdus Smoke 6.0 60g- 240-245 carry 270 total. 

 

Spin dropped from 3700 w/ Ping to 2600 w/ Titleist. Carry wasn’t much more, but lower spin really got it rolling on the ground. Best overall was +26 yards. But that was only a few times. Avg gain was 15-20 yards. 
Average swing speed was 95mph. Top was 101, slowest was 91. 
Launch angle was good- 13.7* and I was getting 1.40+ smash factor for most of the "solid" strikes.

Driver:  :titleist: TS2 10.5* 
3-Wood: :titleist: TS2 16.5*
Irons: :titleist: T300
Wedges: :vokey: SM7 58*
Putter:  :scotty_cameron: Phantom X 6 STR


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  On 9/14/2018 at 3:15 PM, beaureed445 said:

I did myTitleist Thursday fitting yesterday. Here are the details:

Current driver......Ping G 10.5* w/ Alta stiff shaft 55g- 235 carry 250 total. 
Tested driver.......Titleist TS2 10.5* w/ Hzrdus Smoke 6.0 60g- 240-245 carry 270 total. 

 

Spin dropped from 3700 w/ Ping to 2600 w/ Titleist. Carry wasn’t much more, but lower spin really got it rolling on the ground. Best overall was +26 yards. But that was only a few times. Avg gain was 15-20 yards. 
Average swing speed was 95mph. Top was 101, slowest was 91. 
Launch angle was good- 13.7* and I was getting 1.40+ smash factor for most of the "solid" strikes.

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reasonable numbers. Titleist does not normally claim "20 more yards", and their improvements are marginal with new offerings often at 2 yr intervals. The new models usually correlate with the calendar ex: 917 (is September 2017), Older models state year first ex: 963  (1996 March). I do like their "fitting vans" with free (?) fittings at golf courses frequently,

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  On 9/14/2018 at 3:49 PM, Hacker James said:

reasonable numbers. Titleist does not normally claim "20 more yards", and their improvements are marginal with new offerings often at 2 yr intervals. The new models usually correlate with the calendar ex: 917 (is September 2017), Older models state year first ex: 963  (1996 March). I do like their "fitting vans" with free (?) fittings at golf courses frequently,

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Yes, I agree- reasonable numbers.  I haven't hit a Titleist driver since the old 975 days.  My last 4 drivers have been:  Taylormade R7, Ping G20, Taylormade R1, and Ping G.  The thing that stuck out to me the most was changing from a the Kuro Kage 50g shaft to the Hzrdus Smoke 60g shaft dropped the spin rate quite a bit.  And the Smoke vs the "stock" Ping shaft was night and day.  Like I mentioned, carry wasn't a huge difference.  But the total yardage improvement was noticeable. 

Driver:  :titleist: TS2 10.5* 
3-Wood: :titleist: TS2 16.5*
Irons: :titleist: T300
Wedges: :vokey: SM7 58*
Putter:  :scotty_cameron: Phantom X 6 STR


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