I will always love TaylorMade SLDR Fairway Wood

Following the success of the TaylorMade SLDR Driver, TaylorMade have announced the launch of the new SLDR fairway wood. Featuring all the same low/forward centre of gravity benefits of the driver, the fairway wood doesn't feature the sliding weight technology but does promise more distance.  

With the new cut-through speed pocket, the SLDR Fairway Wood flexes with more efficiency and promotes substantially increased ball speeds and lower spin characteristics. A shallow face combined with the new speed pocket technology also provides golfers with easier launch and playability with superior sustained speed off the face of the SLDR Fairway Wood. TaylorMade's loft-sleeve technology and adjustable hosel with twelve loft settings is also featured in the SLDR Fairway Wood that allows plus/minus 1.5 degrees of loft change to more easily dial in the launch angle of the SLDR and maximize your distance.

To be frank,I've tried just about every fairway wood on the market over the last two seasons,like TaylorMade R11S Fairway Wood and Mizuno JPX 825 Fairway Wood. it is by far the best fairway wood I have ever swung. It's compact head feels more traditional than most of the oversized fairway woods on the market, and it made it much easier to hit off the deck and out of the rough.

Justin Rose and D.A. Points became the first players to put TaylorMade's SLDR fairway wood in play at the TOUR Championship, and a total of eight went in play recently at the 2013 Frys.com Open. Brian Harman, Brian Gay and Rory Sabbatini are also several other notables to use the fairway wood which speaks volumes for the new SLDR Fairway Wood's performance and why, if you're looking for the best playing fairway wood on the market, the new TaylorMade SLDR Fairway Wood is a solid contender sure to add distance to your game.

The TaylorMade SLDR Fairway Wooddoes not have the sliding weight track found on the SLDR Driver but instead has a newly designed slot similar to that of TaylorMade's new SpeedBlade irons with a curved design that looks to cut all the way through the club's sole. TaylorMade's engineers designed the speed pocket on the new SLDR Fairway Wood smaller, allowing them to save weight and move the CG lower and more forward for a win-win in performance and playability according to their product creation Senior Director Tom Olsavsky.

The head shape is shallower and more compact than before, creating a look at address that is preferred by the game's better players. The classic shape is aided by a matte silver face that is contrasted by a shiny dark grey crown colour. The chrome button-back at the rear of the crown is designed to look good at address and help improve alignment.

All in all,it was easy to work either way and still be accurate, or just bomb it dead center, which gives me a lot of confidence. And best of all, this club is a beast.I have an average swing speed at best after multiple shoulder injuries, averaging about 230-250 yards with my old fairway woods. This club has added at least 25 yards to that and it's so easy to hit I'm not trying to kill the ball anymore, resulting in fewer bad swings.