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Taylor Made R540
Description: 350cc standard face design for players who want medium-trajectory drives with added spin for longer carry. Conforms ... more  Taylor Made R540 ... with USGA Specifications on C.O.R.Newest Review: ... (It was always legal in the UK and Ireland though.) Let me explain. Where the R540 (and the rest of the 500 series) driver ... more ... ran foul of the golfing authorities was with something called the “COR Statute”. This rule dictates the maximum trampoline effect that a driver can have when it makes contact with the golf ball, or in simple terms, the “bounce” factor that dictates the maximum speed of the golf ball. Don’t ask me to explain exactly how the golfing authorities measure this, but they came up with a (meaningless to me) figure of 0.83, (in the USA only) whereas the R540 had a COR factor of 0.86.
What this meant was that the golf ball left t...more |
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New Left Handed Taylor Made R540 XD Driver 9.5 S YS6
Crazy Price L/H Driver with Top Quality 80 Shaft ! |
£ 44,99 |
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£ 10.00 Availability: refer to shop website |
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Taylor Made R540: So Long It's Practically Indecent! (1466 words)
by kenjohn - written on 03.08.06 (Very useful, 1057 readings)
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~ ~ Golf’s a funny old game, so it is. The margins between success and failure are very tight, and the result of a competition can often hinge on a putt of no more than 2 or 3 feet. But there’s one thing of which you can be certain; if you can’t consistently put the ball onto the fairway (short grass) with your driver off the tee then there’s simply no way that you’re going to score well on a regular basis. A good short game (pitching and putting around the green) can go some way to compensating for a wayward driver, but if you put your drive into the rough grass more than onto the fairway, then you’ll record bad scores more often than you’ll record good ...
