Iconic drivers of the last 25 years

Armitage Shanks

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Hi all!
Embarked on something I always wanted to do. Looking to build a collection of the most iconic drivers of the last 25 years (with a few personal favourites added in for good measure).

Need ideas please! I have the below list to start but am I missing anything!?

Ping G5
Ping G10
Ping G400
Cobra F9
Taylor made R7 Superquad
Taylor made R9 Super deep
SMT deep bore
Taylor made SLDR
Taylormade M2
Callaway Epic
Callaway Ft3
Callaway XR16
Titleist 905
Nike Sasquatch
 

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I think just within the last 25 years , but the 'To become Illegal' Callaway ERC 2 Driver was the best I've ever played, but who knows what a 25 year younger me could have done with todays drivers
 

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Is 'Sasquatch' that God-awful square one?? Gotta have one of them. :LOL: (y)

Maybe a Callaway Big Bertha of some description? Or it that too old?
 

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Worst ones are the Pod and the Nike "Brick on a stick".

Other bad drivers - Mick Schumacher, Nikita Mazepin and the woman who parked on double yellow line in the High Street this morning :D
 

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Adams XTD was a very good one, came with a stock Matrix shaft.
G400 👍
Titleist TS👍

Worst ever was the Wilson spine, like hitting a ball with a frying pan 🤯
 

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The Whale!
Think it was a Wilson it was massive.

The Pod
Worst driver I ever saw.😳😂
Although out of date range The Wilson Whale was my first ever carbon shafted driver.
The original was a layered wood head with the middle bored out to give a lot of forgiveness.
Hit some of my longest drives with that one

Payne Stewart was using one when he won the US Open
 

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it is funny what our memories are like
Taylormade Firesole came to mind (1999)
I then found a video comparing it to a TM M6
Chalk and cheese M6 around 15-20% longer and just so much more forgiving
I remember my switch at the time was from the Firesole was to TM 500 series, I had both a R580 and a R540 and saw a big difference even in that switch

To add to the list has to be TM R540/R580 (2002)
 

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Although out of date range The Wilson Whale was my first ever carbon shafted driver.
The original was a layered wood head with the middle bored out to give a lot of forgiveness.
Hit some of my longest drives with that one

Payne Stewart was using one when he won the US Open

Wilson made a massive mistake with the whale.
They could have sold them in the tens of thousands but the development team looked down on then and refused to have them in the Pro range and they were never properly advertised.
 

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Personal favourite of mine was the Mizuno Bluefire (2002?). Very underrated driver at the time.
 

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I am sure we all will have different views as to what is "iconic".

For me the Ping G5, G10, G15 etc were all versions of the same. So pick one only.
But I would pick the Ping Rapture, merely because they gave it a nice name.
For the same reason I would class the Cleveland Launcher 400 (2002) as iconic.

The only 21st century drivers I have owned are the TaylorMade R360 (2001), the 2007 Ping G10 and the 2004 Cobra F Speed. But I wouldn't class these as iconic.
 
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The taylormade R7 was a beauty of a driver. The head and colour scheme on the shaft was brilliant. Movable weights but not sure many actually used the feature.

It did look darn good though. You still see the odd one about.

I had two of them but no idea what I did with them.
 
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