Driver Cleveland Hibore XL is my chosen driver for season 2025. This, dear reader, is a hill to die.
Until I choose not to do it. This is my right as an adult.
While MygolfSpy Adult Resident (My Making) or Old Fart (the rest of the staff receipt), I get my share of abuse from my precious colleagues. This abuse has been turbocharged since Hibore XL, my beautiful Sunuvabitch with beautiful views, finished where he did this year MygolfSspy driver test.
“Barba, we have to get you a real driver …”
“Boy, you must have been ‘high’ when ‘was born’ that driver …”
Yes? Well, you know, that’s like yours OPINIONman
Usually, this type stands, but this was over the line.
“Barba, leave you to choose the driver who finished dfl !!”
I’m sorry but this aggression will not stay, man. Jokes are jokes, but the facts are facts. Driver Cleveland Hibore XL done NO Complete DFL in this year’s testing. It ended ntdfl or near Dead F*#@last king. For the record, Cleveland Hibore XL Small DFL finished.
I’m a journalist. The facts matter.

I am also, according to my wife, a contracture (I think she’s wrong, but that’s a story for another day). In that spirit, I have written this mission in defense of my beautiful little hunk of joy treated. Our testers may not have fully appreciated it, but all I can say is: Sometimes you find the right driver. Other times the right driver finds you.
Cleveland Hibore XL: From the numbers
I’ve seen the MygolfSpy driver’s test process close to my decade as a staff writer. I can assure you that it is exhaustive, controlled and extremely fair. Each tester hits hundreds of shots over a few weeks. In total, the total number of shooting exceeds 18,000. The test team ensures that drivers rotate properly and that the testers do not get tired. They also do their best to “fit from the shares” by calling on the attic and using a suitable standard shaft.
So imagine my surprise, no, ShocksWhen my favorite driver of 2025 did not even smell the medal stand.
NTDFL.
Isn’t this a stroke in an area just a few degrees south of the middle?

The Cleveland Hibore Driver XL, technically, was connected for NTDFL with an overall score of 8.20 by 10. Put it 8.2 on a scale of 100, is a 82. This is a solid B-solid. In our world, however, that 8.2 placed Hibore XL in a dead heat with the Golf Stix Compete and Cobra DS-Adapt Max D. Hibore XL Lite marked even 8.0 for DFL.
Is it 30 feet too?
What drew Hibore XL down was the distance. It was connected to Honma Two 767 Max for the shortest driver to the test. However, it managed to end in the middle of the package for accuracy and forgiveness.
So I have received THAT going for me.
Which is beautiful.
It was simply not enough to offset the lack of pure testosterone.

The data is the data, the friends. My hibor was the fourth at the bottom with the ball speed, just less than 2.4 mph slower than the fastest driver to the test, LS adapted by Cobra DS. He was the last dead at the distance, 8.78 yards after the leader, the GT2 title, and was another in the last distance, 10 yards after GT2.
Is it 10 yards too? If you are a fan of Buffalo Bills but for the rest, it is only 30 feet rolling.
Driver Cleveland Hibore XL: On the course is what matters
Then why am I writing what a CLM can end? Because I hit Snotin always loved by Hibore where it matters-to the golf course.

If you haven’t already, Dorito-on-A-Stick and I invite you to read my We tried it piece of back. now THIS Some data, my friends.
My golf partner on the weekend in question was a Will Yoder, a sports partnership executive on Instagram/Meta who also happens to be my nephew.
“I can confirm that he (meaning me, his favorite uncle) strikes him (Hibore) very well,” Young William wrote on the social media platform previously known as Twitter last week. “AW is annoying.”

Approval does not come from family alone. Two weeks after my rounds with my nephew, I did it with a group that included the old Golfweek writer David Disek.
“All in our quarters at Cabot Citrus Farms hit some good shots and some less than well shots at a sand -filled course and contains some of the most industry ways you can imagine,” David writes. “No matter how spectacular the scene was, seeing John hit a straight car after another became a boring comic.”
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“John was equally in accordance with his new Cleveland Hibore XL as the original Hibory since the early 2000s was ugly. With his inverted crown, the driver was not winning any beauty payer but worked. In the Karoo course in January, Hibore XL I John, too.”
I love me a good word.

What does that mean?
Look, it is easy to look at our test results and to conclude Hibore is a cute driver. However, this is the wrong way to see it. The biggest ding on the hibory score card is the distance. She ended up in the middle of the package for accuracy and forgiveness. But, remember, the difference between Hibore and the longest club throughout the 37-driver test is 10 yards. This is 30 meters or approximately one -third of the distance between the house plate and the first base.
He was the shortest test driver, who is different from saying he is a short driver. For me, it’s quite long.

Also, it would be very simple (not to mention silly) to say my results invalidate mygolfspy testing or that mygolfsky testing depreciates my results. I hit the Snotin from the Cleveland Hibore XL driver, and that is all that matters to me. Theoretically, could I find a driver who hit him even the most. Maybe but the point of a driver is to take me to a position to hit my second goal. Ten yards is not the difference between the use of a 5-Herkuri or an 8-Herkuri for my access. it FORCE be the difference between drowning in a 7-Herkuri or opening to an 8.
While those ten extra yards are nice (if theoretical, at least for me), they come with a $ 250 premium (Hibore with $ 399, GT2 title with $ 649). It comes to – Controls math – $ 25 per yard.
Perspective, people, is everything.
What do you need to play good golf?
It is a very simple question with a very simple answer.
For me, that mfer Dorito-Lice is good enough.

Right now, anyway. Hey, I’m not different from you guys. I’ll go hit the triple diamond next time I’m in a store. If more Snot flies from it, I will be the first to say I have found the secret of golf and will be well on my way to scratch.
Until I make an OB, ie.
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