Myrtle Beach Golf Buzz: An Expert’s Opinion on the Game’s Two Hottest Drivers

Everyone likes to get a new driver in search of a couple more yards off the tee, and in this installment of Myrtle Beach Golf Buzz, host Blair O’Neal introduces you to two of 2012’s most popular new drivers. Come to PGA Tour Superstore with Blair and get the inside scoop on two of the game’s hottest drivers – TaylorMade’s R11s and Cobra’s AMP driver. Blair and her guests provide a detailed look at what each driver offers and how they can benefit your game. Enjoy the Myrtle Beach Golf Buzz!

Blair: Hi, my name is Blair O'Neil, host of the Myrtle Beach Golf Buzz, presented by Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday and today I'm here at the PGA Tour Super Store with Ken Francis, TaylorMade fitting specialist. Ken, can you walk us through some of the new hot drivers that are out?

Ken: I'd be happy to, Blair. So this is our new R11S and this driver, unlike last year, has some new features. We've actually changed every part of this driver. We've taken the sole plate and made five moveable points as opposed to three. We've taken the weights this year and put them a little more forward in the golf club. It helps the off center hit as well as dropping spin rate. We've made the back a little more sleek, a little faster. The club head itself is a 460cc versus last year's 440. And this year's shaft is an upgrade, it's a rip vino. So we're really happy about this product. It's quite fast. It's easy to adjust. It's easy to modify for every class of player. And we're thrilled and very excited and cool thinking about this year's drivers is TaylorMade stands behind this driver with a 100 percent guarantee this year. If you don't love your driver we'll give you your money back.

Blair: Sounds like a good club. So the big question is, do you hit it further?

Ken: I do, I hit mine further about nine yards. Pretty excited about that. I need as much yardage as I can get.

Blair: Good. Well everyone loves to hit the long ball. I might have to pick up the TaylorMade. Thanks so much, Ken, for showing us the new clubs.

Ken: Thank you, Blaire.

Blair: We're going to head over to one of our personal favorites, the Cobra Gold Equipment. Hi, I'm here in the Cobra Club section. I'm here with Chris Osborne. He's going to talk to us a little about one of the new drivers that's out, it's the Cobra Amp. This is in my golf bag right now. I'm hitting it great. I'm actually really in love with this driver so I'm excited to share it with you guys and to learn about it. Can you tell us a few dynamics of this club?

Chris: Absolutely, yes, thank you Blair. Cobra as introduced the new Amp line of driver. There are actually going to be two different versions of the driver. One is going to incorporate AFT, or adjustable flight technology. The other is going to be the OS version, which is an off set version of virtually the same driver. Both are going to incorporate the AMP technology, which is advanced material placement technology. In addition to on the face what's being referred to as dual role or E9 face technology.

Blair: Right.

Chris: Essentially, what it's going to do is give the average player, in addition to the advanced player, the ability to get the ball air born a little bit easier as well as controlling the ball flight or trajectory with greater accuracy and greater ease. So on the offset you're going to have a static posil or feral component. And in the AMP driver with the AFT technology, you'll be able to adjust for three various positions of either neutral, closed, or open on the face position.

Blair: As I said, right now I play with the AFT. I like having the flexibility of playing around with the club and if you're an average golfer, it's nice to be able to, you know, change it from neutral to open to closed from day to day. So it's nice to have the options there, right?

Chris: Whenever necessary, it's going to be there available for you, yes.

Blair: All right, great. Thank you so much, Chris.

Chris: My pleasure. Thank you.

Blair: Talking us through this and teaching us about the Cobra AMP.

Chris: Thank you.

Blair: I'm Blaire O'Neil with Myrtle Beach Gold Buzz.