When I hit a golf ball at full power, my drive distance is 230-250 yards. That’s how far I’ve hit it for years with the Callaway sitting in my golf bag, and that is the way it was the TaylorMade R9 I demoed during three trips to the range this weekend. My one gripe with these two clubs is that I have natural left to right slice, making it a crap shoot as to whether or not the ball will land on the fairway, and neither of them do much (if anything) to help me straighten out my shot. Then I tried the Nike SQ DYMO STR8-FIT…

Upon hitting the Nike SQ DYMO STR8-FIT driver for the first time, I noticed how smooth the ball comes off the club. After hitting about half the bucket of balls on day one I decided to get experimental and cut my swing power down to about 80% – and this is where hitting the new Nike club got very interesting.

Usually when I “take a little off” my swing, the ball hooks to either the right or left – or goes straight, but travels a measly 180 yards.

Taking a little off my swing with the Nike driver allowed the juiced-up, larger than life head on the club and the stiff shaft to naturally correct the flaws in my swing and made the ball travel my standard 230-250 years, but straight nearly 100-percent of the time. (more…)