When Titleist releases a new driver family, people sit up and take note. Following on from impressive lines such as TSi and TSR, we are now being introduced to the GT family. Looking to sit amongst the best drivers in the game, in this review, I take the GT3 model for a thorough test…
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Sometimes new driver releases can be somewhat anti-climactic with only minute technical changes, I am happy to report that isn’t the case with the GT range. Titleist’s main goal was to make the GT range faster than the previous TSR family and felt that the only way to do it was by shifting away from all-titanium construction. This led Titleist to the development of a material completely new to golf club design that Titleist refers to as a Proprietary Matrix Polymer to be used in the crown section.
The sole of the GT3 model
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Stephanie Luttrell, Director of Metalwood Product Development explains: “The density of this crown is approximately three times lighter than where we were in an all-titanium construction. By wrapping the crown down to the sole, we optimize the mass distribution throughout the head, allowing us significant advantages in designing to our center of gravity and inertia goals.”
The new crown section of the GT family
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I have handled a cutout section of this new crown material, and it is quite frankly baffling. When you pick it up, it is extremely lightweight and feels like you are holding a credit card both in terms of weight and flexibility, but when you tap it on a hard surface the sound is not at all what you would expect. Rather than a dull tap, you get something more metallic akin to tapping a knife on a saucepan, it is really quite peculiar, but in a good way. This material is the main contributor to a very different feel and acoustic which we will touch upon later.
The adjustable weight track has been moved much further forward
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The GT3 is the most adjustable of the new family, with a new weight track that sits much closer to the face than on its predecessor the TSR3. This allows fitters and players to match CG location to their predominant strike pattern and the benefits of doing so are amplified by the new further forward positioning.
With regard to the looks, Titleist loyalists will be thrilled to see that despite what is now very much a multi-material crown, there are no joins or banner strips down in the playing…
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