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Forum Thread of the Day: “Most iconic/best cult following driver of all time?”
Today’s Forum Thread of the Day comes from Pert1862 who asks fellow members for their view on which driver is the most iconic and has the best cult following of all time. Our members delve into the driver’s they feel deserve the top spot in this category, with the Cobra L4V proving a popular choice.
Here are a few posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.
- jrshields3: “Adams 9015D was THE cult following driver when I first joined this group. I had 3 with different shaft combos, still have one that I occasionally take out to the range.”
- pert1862: ” Cobra L4V driver. A legend that can be had for 50 bucks on eBay! My kinda club. I bet she still holds her own with the modern drivers.”
- Big A HG: “Has to be the Cobra L4V by GolfWRX standards. I rarely saw them in the wild, but I actually gamed two L4V’s because of the thread and finally got kicked out of the bag last year for me.”
- Krosch3: ” Superquad for me. It still is in my bag to this day. Have tried others, the Ping g400 LST was most recent. My accuracy with the R7 is unmatched and distance wise I can’t see myself getting much longer than I already get out of it.”
Entire Thread: “Most iconic/best cult following driver of all time?”
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Coolest thing for sale in the GolfWRX Classifieds (4/18/24): TaylorMade BRNR mini driver head
At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals that all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.
It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.
Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, there is a listing for a TaylorMade BRNR mini driver head
From the seller: (@lasallen): “For sale is a BRNR mini 11.5 deg head only in brand new condition. $325 shipped.”
To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link: TaylorMade BRNR mini driver head
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Coolest thing for sale in the GolfWRX Classifieds (4/18/24): Ping PLD Limited Anser – 1988 Open Championship – #2 of only 88 Made
At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals that all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.
It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.
Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, there is a listing for a Ping PLD Limited Anser – 1988 Open Championship – #2 of only 88 Made.
From the seller: (@DLong72): “Ping PLD Limited Anser – 1988 Open Championship – #2 of only 88 Made. ?: $1150. ?? 100% milled collectors item from the limited releases commemorating when Ping putters won every major in 1988 (88 putters made). This was the model Seve Ballesteros used to win the 1988 Open Championship. Condition is brand new, never gamed, everything is in the original packaging as it came. Putter features the iconic sound slot.
Specs/ Additional Details
-100% Milled, Aluminum/Bronze Alloy (310g)
-Original Anser Design
-PING PP58 Grip
-Putter is built to standard specs.”
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As you probably know by now, Collin Morikawa switched putters after the first round of The Masters, and he ultimately went on to finish T3.
The putter was far from the only change he made last week, however, and his bag is continuing to change this week at the 2024 RBC Heritage.
On the range of The Masters, Morikawa worked closely with Adrian Reitveld, TaylorMade’s Senior Manager of Tour at TaylorMade, to find the perfect driver and 3-wood setups.
Morikawa started off 2024 by switching into TaylorMade’s Qi10 Max driver, but since went back to his faithful TaylorMade SIM – yes, the original SIM from 2020. Somehow, some way, it seems Morikawa always ends up back in that driver, which he used to win the 2020 PGA Championship, and the 2021 Open Championship.
At The Masters, however, Rietveld said the duo found the driver head that allowed “zero compromise” on Morikawa’s preferred fade flight and spin. To match his preferences, they landed on a TaylorMade Qi10 LS 9-degree head, and the lie angle is a touch flatter than his former SIM.
“It’s faster than his gamer, and I think what we found is it fits his desired shot shape, with zero compromise” Rietveld told GolfWRX.com on Wednesday at the RBC Heritage.
Then, to replace his former SIM rocket 3-wood, Morikawa decided to switch into the TaylorMade Qi10 core model 13.5-degree rocket head, with an adjustable hosel.
“He likes the spin characteristics of that head,” Rietveld said. “Now he’s interesting because with Collin, you can turn up at a tournament, and you look at his 3-wood, and he’s changed the setting. One day there’s more loft on it, one day there’s less loft on it. He’s that type of guy. He’s not scared to use the adjustability of the club.
“And I think he felt our titanium head didn’t spin as low as his original SIM. So we did some work with the other head, just because he liked the feel of it. It was a little high launching, so we fit him into something with less loft. It’s a naughty little piece of equipment.”
In addition to the driver and fairway wood changes, Morikawa also debuted his new “MySymbol” jersey No. 5 TP5x golf ball at The Masters. Morikawa’s choice of symbols is likely tied to his love of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.
Not enough changes for you? There’s one more.
On Wednesday at the 2024 RBC Heritage, Morikawa was spotted with a new TaylorMade “Proto” 4-iron in the bag. If you recall, it’s the same model that Rory McIlroy debuted at the 2024 Valero Texas Open.
According to Morikawa, the new Proto 4-iron will replace his old P-770 hollow-bodied 4-iron.
“I used to hit my P-770 on a string, but sometimes the distance would be a little unpredictable,” Morikawa told GolfWRX.com. “This one launches a touch higher, and I feel I can predict the distance better. I know Rory replaced his P-760 with it. I’m liking it so far.”
See Morikawa’s full WITB from the 2024 RBC Heritage here.
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Timmy
May 17, 2019 at 9:06 am
R7 Superquad. Wish I still had mine. Been scouring ebay for one in good shape recently.
Aztec
May 11, 2019 at 2:31 pm
Orlimar HIP 420 Ti.
Gino
May 18, 2019 at 9:50 pm
Kuch is a d bag
Mike Brincko
May 5, 2019 at 10:07 pm
Tour Edge Exotics Tour Proto, in another thread I stated my Rogue has been replaced by it. IMHO a much better driver for me at least, still a rocket launcher.
Brando
May 5, 2019 at 5:41 pm
Lot of Good choices in the comments. I am 39 so my first good driver was the original King Corba 9 degree deep face. Thing was a rocket with a unique sweet spot and Greg Norman and Tiger Used it. The Big Bertha war bird was awesome as well. 975d 905r 983e all very good. Yes Taylor Made 510tp First of the 757 Fujikura shafts and 580xd very good. I can’t seem to kick my 430 sldr with a 757 out of the bag . Tried 10 of the newer drivers can’t find one I like better. Maybe this year I will find something.
Scratchscorer
May 13, 2019 at 9:39 pm
I have an SLDR with the TP shaft and I cannot imagine replacing it with anything else. Might even purchase a backup of the same model and shaft combo.
Paul Latina
May 5, 2019 at 5:29 pm
975D. Best driver I ever hit and hit my longest drives ever with it. I had the EI70 x stiff shaft in it as well. Just beautiful and felt so good, maneuverable which ever way you wanted to go.
Jim Rockford
May 5, 2019 at 4:00 pm
Original titanium Great Big Bertha. That driver was the biggest single leap forward I think we will ever see. Maybe the first TM metal wood surpasses but that was just before my time to be able to make comment. Surely the GBB since the early 80’s though. And I hit the GBB with the terrible stock shaft. I can imagine that driver with a modern shaft likely being borderline game-able.
Greg
May 5, 2019 at 8:37 am
Anybody ever tested these against the current group? Particularly curious how the Adams 9015 stacks up on spin,forgiveness ect…
Mike
May 4, 2019 at 9:24 pm
I see more guys still using a TaylorMade Burner 2007 driver than any other.
Christian Larsson
May 4, 2019 at 9:16 pm
R510TP easily
TerryTMAC
May 4, 2019 at 9:25 pm
Of ALL time?
I’m going old school. Callaway Big Bertha – War Bird.
Best driver name too.
XLS CULT
May 4, 2019 at 6:47 pm
I’m going Cleveland Hi Bore XLS as well. Set up perfect, sounded nice, hit it nice distances and was a SERIOUS fairway finder. Why has Cleveland not made an adjustable version. I know people who still bag this driver…. nothing better.
Scratchscorer
May 13, 2019 at 9:41 pm
Agree with everything except the sound. That thing sounded atrocious lmao.
Greg Ellis
May 4, 2019 at 5:28 pm
Come on guy. Us old folks played persimmon. 1969 persimmon adapted with a very early adila graphite shaft and a “gamma fire” glass insert.
Dan Walker
May 4, 2019 at 4:05 pm
Nike Vapor Pro the blue and black version
Max R
May 10, 2019 at 11:46 am
“Supposedly” the best Nike driver ever built was the SQ2.
Timmy
May 17, 2019 at 9:09 am
Never owned one but tried and was very good. I had both red coverts. But the blue was just too fugly for 99% of buyers. RIP Nike golf equip.
Chris G
May 4, 2019 at 3:13 pm
Titleist 905S!
John Agnew
May 4, 2019 at 2:58 pm
Taylormade 580 XD …legal version…too easy to hit high and deep.
Jim
May 4, 2019 at 2:25 pm
2016 Taylormade M2 will go down as the best driver ever made
15th Club
May 4, 2019 at 2:07 pm
There actually is a rather clear answer that none of you are in thinking about.
Toward the end of the persimmon driver era, top players and collectors were madly buying up prime specimens of the MacGregor tour drivers from the late ‘50’s and early ‘60’s. The king was the Tommy Armour 693T, designed by Toney Penna. They sold, if you could find one, for upwards of a thousand dollars. A $1500 driver in 1977 would be more than $6000 in today’s dollars. The market was so frenzied that gold magazines were doing stories about it which only drove prices higher.
15th Club
May 4, 2019 at 2:10 pm
Sorry “golf” magazines not “gold”. But still the greatest bubble market in the history of golf equipment.
Pelling
May 4, 2019 at 9:49 pm
I played Toney Penna persimmon (driver, 3 wood, 4 wood, 5 wood) throughout the 1980’s-1990’s. Have them still, but haven’t hit in about 20 years. Don’t recall paying that much, but Penna’s were the best!!
Jim
May 4, 2019 at 6:21 pm
You’re absolutely correct. Sad thing is that most of today’s golfers are 20-30 something and don’t know any history at all, only current “events”.
Nack Jicklaus
May 19, 2019 at 8:05 am
Enlighten us all on the details of mashies and niblicks then. Tell us about teeing up gutta percha on a mound of sand. What is the best hickory shaft? Everyone knows their own time period best, including you.
chad bilkins
May 4, 2019 at 1:39 pm
Superquad is money. I bought a new head on ebay and stuck an oban kyoshi white shaft in there. Destroyed the rogue on the launch monitor last year
bob carroll
May 4, 2019 at 12:54 pm
PING G2
JC
Jun 7, 2019 at 11:08 pm
Finally, someone else sees the light! I game one currently, can’t find anything that can beat it, most underrated driver of the mid-2000s IMO.
Regis
May 4, 2019 at 12:39 pm
R7 limited. Box set came with 3 shafts. Low Medium and high flight. All good shafts. Took adjustability to the max. Way before it’s time
Walt
May 4, 2019 at 12:25 pm
My favorite was the Taylormade with a bubble shaft. I still have it and although I don’t currently use it I am constantly tempted to bring it back into play
Fred schubert
May 4, 2019 at 12:22 pm
Powerbilt citition
MarioB
May 4, 2019 at 11:50 am
Looks like no one knows the meaning of iconic. Or we would get interesting answers like McGregor super eye o magic, Powerbilt Citation, Woods Bros All American, Taylormade Burner, Callaway Big Bertha, Titleist 975D etc…
Bryan
May 4, 2019 at 9:07 am
The 460 Cleveland Launchers were super popular back in the college days.
Richard Douglas
May 3, 2019 at 4:14 pm
Almost all of the comments are about drivers that are iterations of what changed it all. I suggest going back to these three that, in order and together, changed drivers forever:
1. Taylormade Pittsburgh Persimmon. The club that popularized metal drivers.
2. Callaway Big Bertha. The club that started oversize metal drivers.
3. Callaway Great Big Bertha. The club that popularized titanium.
Everything else comes from the genesis created by these three clubs. Every development since is an incremental change, but those clubs are the foundation.
Harry H Adam
May 4, 2019 at 12:01 pm
Spot on.
Dan mead
May 4, 2019 at 1:53 pm
This is the answer. Probably need to consider ping eye 2 driver which was really the first oversize driver in its time. Big bertha and great big bertha where ahead of their time and the change from getting a new driver was real back then. These days the next model does next to nothing
Chris
May 4, 2019 at 7:52 pm
Nailed it. I remember when the BB, Great BB (and then Biggest BB) came out thinking, “holy crap, how much bigger can they possibly go?” They definitely changed the game.
Of the more “recent” (I.e 460cc era) drivers, I loved the Bridgestone J33r. Such a clean, simple look and solid feel off the club face.
Scott
May 4, 2019 at 8:54 pm
Yes. My thoughts exactly
Richard Chon
May 5, 2019 at 12:50 pm
Shoot. I didn’t even play golf when I was younger, but I remember how exicted my hockey teammates were about the GBB.
jgpl001
May 3, 2019 at 1:18 pm
905R all day long
983K out of the dead middle was a serious driver too
Brian
May 3, 2019 at 9:09 am
I do have a soft spot for the L4V. Back in those days I had just started spending time on the forum and I definitely got caught up in the hype (which was very real, by the way). Threw a Protopype in it and everything. If we’re being honest though, going back a tad further, the Titleist 975D is the standard by which all other “cult classics” are measured.
Dennis Sweeney
May 3, 2019 at 8:00 am
07 Burner TP, still have one and still use it quite often.
Dave S
May 3, 2019 at 12:54 am
905R, see a lot on the board. The R 460 head that went straight. Titleist put enough spin in there to fix what TM and Cally couldn’t.
The dude
May 2, 2019 at 10:13 pm
TM Superfast TP….if we are being honest (for good players)
Brandon
May 2, 2019 at 8:56 pm
Cobra LTD pro, Cleveland Hibore XLS.
JP
May 2, 2019 at 6:50 pm
905R should be at the top of that list.
Of course the Big Bertha should be hailed for its greatness and trailblazing ways, but it didn’t have the following the 905R did.
Nack Jicklaus
May 2, 2019 at 6:38 pm
The only golf club name that I have EVER heard non-golfers know of or talk about is the Big Bertha. I would say that somewhat indicates the reach and status of that club during its time and way after.
S
May 2, 2019 at 3:56 pm
SLDR, of course! The best driver ever made, and what started it all
Scratchscorer
May 13, 2019 at 9:44 pm
Agree
Tim Dennis
May 2, 2019 at 2:38 pm
905R and 910D3, M2 would be there with a little more consistent hit. Just too erratic for the weekend golfer. 905R was long and straight.
Mike Rohmann
May 2, 2019 at 1:54 pm
R7 SuperQuad especially the 282 version. Slightly different hosel I think. I have one that is almost brand new.
Adam
May 2, 2019 at 4:54 pm
back in highschool when I was on the golf team the superquads were badass
Alec
May 2, 2019 at 1:54 pm
Cobra LTD is probably themost recent Cult Driver
Alex
May 2, 2019 at 12:34 pm
905r and R7 superquad hands down. Epic and M2 will be in this thread in 5 years.