Part of our expanding efforts to take deeper looks at all the clubs on the Hot List in 2024 involved asking our player testers to rate clubs on various scales for things like sound or trajectory or feel. But one area golfers instantly gravitate toward and increasingly demand, regardless of whether they’re scratch players or regular schlubs trying to break 90, is forgiveness. That’s particularly the case with today’s drivers, which by any measurement are pursuing the idea of forgiveness more intently than any other aspect of performance. As Brian Bazzel, vice president of product creation at TaylorMade, recently explained, “Even Rory McIlroy is using a much more forgiving driver today than he ever has before.”
We ask our players at the Hot List testing summit to assess forgiveness on a sliding scale, where a “1” might be something like a muscleback blade iron (where it is much more “workable” rather than “forgiving”) and a “5” might be more like as easy-to-hit a club as they’ve ever used. It isn’t simply a measurement of some collection of mass properties in the head; rather it’s how easy it is to make the ball go where it's supposed to go, in a playable direction and distance, even despite our occasional mis-hits. As we instruct our players, we’re looking for a rating that reflects “how little and how rarely mishits are penalized.”
Of course, the driver is the club where we generally are seeking the most forgiveness. Of course, there are a lot of elements in driver design that might prompt a player to suggest this new driver is more forgiving. Certainly, where the ball is going is paramount, but it’s also how easy it is to control the club, how often it might make good swings happen, how consistently pleasing impact feels, and perhaps most directly, how likely it is that they will still be in the hole after a swing that isn’t so good.
With that in mind, here are the drivers our players found to be the most magnanimous with their mis-hits. Each list is based on the choices of our three handicap groups: low, mid and high.
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