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I'm going to be reviewing the new taylormade rbz stage 2 driver now i'm going to do a review today.
That i've not done before in the past i'm going to talk about the different um technology. And advances in what taylormade say about this golf club i'm going to tell you what i think about the golf club i'm going to get the flight scope telling us what results it's getting with real golf balls i'm going to be hitting real golf balls such as this one uh titleist callaways i've got a couple of top flights. And so far but real golf balls so we are going to be hitting those off a real tpeg now the taylormade rbz stage 2 driver this is a new advance from the old driver the old rbz obviously the all the rbz was green the new one has got a new fancy feature on the back. So you can see here on the head it's got this new all singing all dancing top cover apparently this is to be making it much easier to line the golf club up now with this sort of cone shape with the yellow. And the gray and the black it makes it align much much easier a couple of new features also to this driver is that you now can take out of the shaft. And put it in at any different angle from one and a half degrees difference to whatever the loft says on the head so we've got a nine and a half degree loft here so i can set this down anywhere to eight degrees all the way up to 11 degrees just by taking the shaft out. And putting into a different position the shaft i'm going to be using in the driver today.
This is the rocket fuel this is the fujikora shaft it's 50 grams. And it's in stiff flex so pretty standard really and this there is there are other options with the shaft i'm just looking on the website at the moment there are different ones the different custom options. And my my bit of advice for you would be just to test a few shafts see how they work for you see what good results you get either on flight scope trap man and get custom fit for it really it has got the 460cc head they've stuck with the white design on the top of the head um for the main reason obviously taylormade is staying with the white color we've seen ping go to the full black. And we've seen nike now go to the red head so i'm guessing they're sticking with their uh traditional white well not traditional their new white looking head another few little advantage on it apparently it's more streamlined and slick so apparently the aerodynamics on it come through the golf ball up better and it doesn't drag as much when you're coming to hit the shot that's an interesting idea looks wise compared to the old one it looks a little bit better if i'm honest it looks a little bit more like they've taken a bit of pride in caring the appearance of it the arby's ended in the green headed club did look very nice. But now we seem to have this new yellow and white and black and it does look very very sharp the other driver that i'm offer at the moment is the r1 the taylormade r1 i've done a review on that in the past now i'm going to do a new one as well. So keep an eye out for that now what i'm going to do is i'm going to hit 10 real golf ball shots i'm going to get it on flight scope. And after the video i'm going to compare the figures. And look at them and maybe even compare them to the r1 and see what's good what's bad which one are going the longest which ones are giving you the best ball flight the best consistency i'm going to give it a really in-depth review today.
And hopefully then.
You're going to make some decisions whether you feel like this is the golf club. For you whether the golf club that you've got in the past is is. For you or whether you're looking for a new one either they are one. Or a different manufacturer so like i say we are now going to be hitting some shots i'm going to hit about 10 shots. For you i'm not going to bore you letting you just sit there watching each shot. So i'm going to speed this process up a little bit. But i'm going to hit 10 shots. For you and then.
We'll look at the flight scope figures we are in manchester it's a little bit windy it's a little bit breezy slightly favoring us. So i'll be honest slightly downwind only a touch so maybe half a club to three quarters of a club longer than what we'd normally look for so if the figures are a bit uh generous today.
That that could be partly due to the wind. So we're i'm gonna hit i'm gonna hit some golf shots for you now and hopefully i'm gonna give you a really nice insight to what this golf club can do. So this is the rbz stage 2 taylormade's newest driver first off when it sits behind the golf club it looks fantastic it does it looks really good in fact i'm quite shocked of how good it looks um i have already hit a few with this golf club already. So it's not it's not as much a shock when i look down on the golf club anymore when i first picked it up and hit it it looked a bit oh i'm not quite sure about this club i'm not quite sure if it's going to be the right whether it's going to have a a large captive audience more than anything because this may put people off this may put consumers off this design on the head it doesn't really me though shaft length feels a bit longer i'm going gonna compare it to the r1x i've still got the r1 here. So this is the r1 driver as well. And it is just a fraction longer than the r1 driver that might just be the shaft options on it this is uh like. So this is the fujikora rocket fuel okay let's hit a few shots that was nice oh yeah that was really nice um straight away the sound sounds almost exactly the same as the rv said the old one um that real sort of burst that fire that energy off the club head i like that now that was set at standard loft. So the standard loft of that was 9.5. And it had a very nice ball flight to it it seemed to fly it seemed to stay up in the air i mean you can tweak this this is the advantage of this new one that you can take the shaft out you get a little gizmo you get a little toy a little wrench you can take it out slip the shaft out. And it just has a series of different options on the neck there that you can change. And put him back at a different angle technology these days though so i'm gonna hit another one for you now that is that is really nice seriously that is really nice it feels great it feels like a a solid golf club i've always i always wondered when these new drivers would come along. And started to take the shafts out so i've got callaway golf ball this time um when they started to take the the shafts out and put them back in again whether you'd still feel as solid as the manufacturers used to glue them in and fasten them in but as soon as you're fastening give it a click and it's in and you don't feel any difference really i'm gonna give it one more hit i'm gonna hit a few more but one more hit on the camera here anyway that is really nice i wouldn't change that loft. For me that loft setting at nine and a half is what i normally use anyway with my i-15. But nine and a half is a great loft um it just gives you that different alternative. For it really now that felt great i'm just going to hit the rest of these golf balls to make it up to 10. And then.
Look through the flight scope figures to see what's good and what's bad about the cloth club and see how far it's going more than anything right then.
Guys if we look at the data here. For the taylormade rbz stage 2 driver you can see on the screen at the moment here's some fairly decent shots some little draw some little push draws a couple left i think they would tow it. But decent results decent golf shots i'm fairly happy with the consistency of those shots with a driver now if we look at the data here now all together the average distance down at the bottom the average distance it was carrying was 267. Yet it was rolling out to 280 which i'm happy with that's fairly decent club speed was consistently in the sort of 104 105 range. So stiff shaft is suited. For that a couple of long shots shot number two in particular 293 and shot number four two nine four so really good distances there out the driver and just one last thing to notice is the launch angle the launch angle there. And this sort of fourth or fifth column down of six seventh column down is 16.2. So that could be a little bit lower now that's the advantage of this driver i could possibly bring that down the the loft angle down to maybe i don't know eight degrees and bring that launch that vertical launch angle down to something like about 13 and a half would be ideal but fairly happy with the figures there with the consistency and i feel like that golf club is going to be a tough one to beat i must admit i felt like they were pretty decent golf shots. And i hope you've enjoyed seeing the figures here on flight scope as well now what will be really interesting is seeing those figures against the taylormade r1 driver uh that should be up on my channel very soon if it's not already it will be very soon. But keep your eyes peeled for that as well right so we've given it some ratings now distance wise i'm gonna give that a five out of five because that was average longer than my normal driver accuracy of four out of five there's a couple of sprayed shots feel feel felt great five out of five now the recommended retail price. For this is two four nine. So i'm going to rate that five out of five. For cost looks wise i'm going to drop it down a couple of points to three. And a half three out of five only because of this new design on the head adjustability uh four out of five because you can take the neck out change the loft. And everything else so the total score for the taylormade rbz stage 2 driver is 36 out of 40. i would say its aim is to mid to low handicappers right guys. So we've looked through the figures and it's fairly long 280 yards that's a pretty decent hit really pretty decent crack so that's the taylormade arby's at stage two um i'm going to compare it to the r1 the figures are up. And on the screen uh or the the r1 picture should be here somewhere so you can click on that link. Or the descriptions down below for the r1 driver as well that felt great i must admit i felt really really solid better than the old one i would say it is i would say it's better than the old one. But we'll have to see in comparison to other drivers as well so thanks very much for watching guys you can check me check me out on facebook. And twitter uh please do subscribe to the channel as well down below i'd love to hear what you're saying leave comments share the video. And thanks for watching.
