Golf Equipment Reviewss

Golf Club Tested

Club: TaylorMade SIM 2 Tour X11-5
Shaft: Project X
HZRDUS Smoke RDX
Flex: Stiff
Loft: 9°
Loft setting: Highter

Technology:

The SIM2 Tour is a low spin traditional shaped driver design with TaylorMade stating that it offerers power, speed, and forgiveness. The reconstructed SIM2 offers high MOI with a 16g steel weight positioned on the inertia generator. The TPS front weight is placed behind the face to encourage optimal launch with low spin, helping to deliver low spin and forgiveness.

Driver Reconstruction

The forged ring construction utilises a lightweight, high strength aluminium that’s precision milled, which unites the critical components of the driver head into a singular force. As the defining component, the forged aluminium ring is one of four elements of construction allowing the driver to be forgiving, fast and powerful. The three other elements are the carbon crown, carbon sole and milled back face cup.

Full Carbon Crown and Sole

TaylorMade have developed a new high-strength carbon for the sole which has enhanced durability to protect against damage from turf interaction and high-speed contact. The nine layers of advanced carbon span the entire sole while simultaneously shaping the asymmetric Inertia Generator, which is aerodynamically designed to produce faster club head speeds.

With the extended use of the lightweight carbon TaylorMade are able to use a heavier 16g weight in the inertia generator moving the CG projection to centre face for optimal launch angle and maximise MOI for more forgiveness.

Milled Back Face Cup with an Intelligently Optimised Sweet Spot

The milled back face cup is the only part of the driver head that is crafted from titanium. This strong and resilient material facilitates energy transfer to encourage faster ball speeds. Behind the face, internal CNC milling varies face thickness pinpoints performance where golfers need it most.

The intelligently engineered sweet spot has an oval shape and stretches diagonally from the high toe towards the low heel, which results in a sweet spot that captures more shots where golfers are most likely to make contact with the ball at impact.

Conclusion:

As soon as I go the SIM2 in my hands I was impressed by its looks. TaylorMade always seem to get the design of their drivers right, using the classic driver shaping while implementing new colours to keep it looking fresh.

Not having any moving weights did take me by surprise but in no way did that impact on the performance of the club, while I didn’t notice any increase in distance like I did while testing the first SIM driver. What I did notice was the forgiveness. I normally hit a lot of fairways but when I do carve one off to the right, it does go right! On the 2nd hole of testing I hit one of those shots which would normally end up halfway down the bank but when I got to the ball it was sitting to the right of the bunker but just in the rough and that was with the Tour model so I am sure the Max and D•Max versions which give even more forgiveness would be a great option if you need that help.

One of the other big improvements was the sound at impact, if you listen to the video reviews you will hear that it sounds a lot more deeper and something that made me smile especially when I got it out on the course. You already get great distance with

TaylorMade drivers, but if you are looking for added forgiveness and tighter dispersion from your driver then I would make sure you test one of the TaylorMade SIM2 drivers before you make your final decision.