Two years ago, Titleist launched its GT series of drivers, and the lineup was received extremely well. This year’s GTS drivers take it to another level.
The GT blew up on the PGA Tour, won a bunch of tournaments, and the general feeling was that Titleist was getting serious about having a set of drivers aimed at the real player. No compromises, no spheres, just a great line-up of drivers who, if nothing else, were very, very fast. It seemed like everyone was jumping on the GT family.
That is, except for me.
I never did well with GT. I had a great TPI fit with the Hunter, but with no way to get the weight back on the head in GT3 and not finding the right feel for GT2, I was left on an island. It would be obvious to say that the added rear weight on the new GTS3 is what finally sold me back on a Titleist driver, but after actually testing it I realized there is another hidden feature that may play an even bigger role.
after the face of the GTS driver group it’s a welded ring that Titleist calls their Speed Sync face. This is an evolution of the Speed Ring that was part of the magic behind the success of the GT driver group.
However, what they’ve done with the Speed Sync is opened up the top of the ring to create more of a horseshoe shape. This opening at the top allows the top of the face to continue to flex and promote faster ball speeds on what is usually one of the slower parts of the face. It also gives the drivers great spin consistency, which you’ll see reflected in some of the feedback Titleist Senior Director of Metalwood R&D Stephanie Luttrell and I had in the video above.
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I tend to live higher with my putt, and it’s something I’m used to building my drivers around. Now, when I say “up,” we’re talking a few millimeters, but the point is that as an already low-speed player, moving up the face can sometimes cause a drastic reduction in spin. More than what you will see with the average player.
I’m already on the edge and going up on the face, with the wrong driver, can be devastating. And that was the case with the Titleist GT. The GT series had such a forward CG and a lower MOI measurement compared to the others that anything that made these attributes stand out more, like hitting high on the face or towards the toe, would hurt my performance potential.
With Speed Sync on the Titleist GTS, that whole problem was thrown out the window. He still let out a touch, but it was actually just a touch. We’re talking maybe 150rpm of rev, rather than the 200-300 I was getting with the GT, and the GTS still launched more appropriately at higher speeds. Having that new horseshoe shape and a high open face created a better environment for my stroke and my normal misery.
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I’ve had a lot of success with my GTS3 build this year. Hunter, my fitter at TPI, knew exactly what I needed from the new stick and he was ready to give me a winner as soon as I parked my car.
We had a blast on the build and talking to Steph and the R&D team about everything it took to finally get the GTS over the finish line was very engaging.
It just goes to show that you never know what’s going on behind closed doors at these companies. It’s like Tony Stark’s father realizing a new element and not having the technology to make it happen. It makes you wonder what else could “exist” right now, and we have no idea.
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