Titleist’s new GTS300 mini driver, which works on sale on July 23, encompasses a bigger, extra forgiving design that the fashions it replaces, delivering distinctive distance, management and flexibility off each the tee and turf.
The design of the brand new mannequin, which has a 305cc sized clubhead, in comparison with the earlier iterations 280cc, was closely influenced by tour suggestions, particularly from gamers like Justin Thomas and Cameron Younger.
“We’re at all times in search of suggestions from the very best gamers on the planet,” mentioned JJ Van Wezenbeeck, Titleist’s Senior Director of Membership Promotions. “Each these gamers have been actually enthusiastic about GT280 and likewise had some commentary about potential efficiency enhancements. As we labored via some prototypes with not solely JT and Cam, however different tour gamers as effectively, we have been in a position to collect precious suggestions and put that into GTS300.”
The end result was a bigger footprint and deeper centre of gravity in GTS300, each of which labored to extend second of inertia (MOI) for higher stability and forgiveness. A solid L-Cup face design works to enhance efficiency on low-face impacts, whereas the brand new mannequin’s dual-weighting system permits fitters and golfers to superb tune launch circumstances.
“The principle purpose in improvement was to make GTS300 a extra forgiving mini driver,” mentioned Stephanie Luttrell, Titleist’s Senior Director of Metalwood Improvement. “The rise in quantity and shift in centre of gravity gave us roughly 15–20% better inertia. On the similar time, we nonetheless put a premium on versatility and efficiency off the turf with this membership.”
GTS300 TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
MORE FORGIVING DESIGN
The GTS300 encompasses a bigger 305cc head quantity and a deeper centre of gravity to extend inertia for improved efficiency on off-centre strikes.
With GTS300’s composite crown design, which afforded additional discretionary weight financial savings for extra optimum mass allocation, Titleist engineers have been in a position to exactly place CG to hit their efficiency targets and most well-liked launch traits.
Regardless of a rise in GTS300’s quantity in comparison with its predecessor within the GT280 mini driver, the 2 fashions share the identical face top to keep up excessive efficiency off the turf.
“After we initially constructed GT280, lots of it was attempting to be sure that we have been in search of as a lot efficiency off the bottom as we might,” defined Van Wezenbeeck. “Gamers began saying, ‘Hey, I can really hit this off the bottom very well. I’m in search of some extra forgiveness.’ And so, there was a chance for R&D to make the pinnacle barely greater and enhance MOI whereas nonetheless sustaining all of the off the bottom efficiency.”
FORGED L-CUP FACE
Like GTS fairways, GTS300 advantages from a solid L-Cup face design, which encompasses a high-strength ATI 425 titanium insert that wraps across the backside of the clubface. L-Cup works to protect ball velocity and launch circumstances on low-face impacts, a key space of focus for Titleist engineers when focusing on improved efficiency on photographs off the turf. The L-Cup design may also assist keep a extra player-preferred sound and really feel off the clubface on these strikes.
DUAL-WEIGHTING SYSTEM
GTS300 presents a dual-weighting system with forward-aft (again) flat weight adjustability, permitting fitters to superb tune CG place. The heavier, 11-gram weight positioned ahead and the lighter, 3-gram weight within the aft might help decrease spin and launch, whereas flipping the 2 flat weights can enhance spin, launch and stability.
GTS300 SPECS Loft: 13° Head quantity: 305cc Normal shaft lengths: 43.5” (Males’s), 42.5” (Ladies’s), 41.5” (Junior) Normal lie: 56.0 Weight choices: 11g (Aft) / 3g (Ahead), with +6, +4, +2, -2, -4, -6 choices
The Titleist GTS300 Mini Driver has an SRP of £499 (£669 with a premium shaft choice), and can be at retail from July 23.
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