New Bobby Jones Hybrids

[GolfSpy Barbajo]

Showed up in my "IN' box this morning -- the latest from Bobby and Jesse...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dooboo]

they should've gone with black on metal look. This white thing has going on too long.

[RoverRick]

I am almost ready to come out of the closet and admit that I want a Taylormade R11s or a RBZ driver with a white head. However, I absolutely do not want anything with a white head that is not a TMag product. It reeks of cheap knockoff when this is anything but cheap. The "me too" white head makes it a cheap immitation. This may out perform all TMag products however, I will never have one.

[RookieBlue7]

Rick, just do like I do, find a club you like and change the color to the color you want. LOL. The white trend is going nowhere. In fact, it's inspired lots of ideas. Callaway now offers a select a color, Puma is offering an orange driver, Ping a pink one, Adams a silver one. Other companies are going bolder and bolder with color choices, but TMag started it and others are following and it's here to stay. One manufacturer I don't see doing a different color for a long while is Titleist.

[RoverRick]

Rick, just do like I do, find a club you like and change the color to the color you want. LOL. The white trend is going nowhere. In fact, it's inspired lots of ideas. Callaway now offers a select a color, Puma is offering an orange driver, Ping a pink one, Adams a silver one. Other companies are going bolder and bolder with color choices, but TMag started it and others are following and it's here to stay. One manufacturer I don't see doing a different color for a long while is Titleist.

 

There is nothing wrong with the TMag White. I also like the other colors that are showing up, I do not especially want to see these at address. One thing I like about Callaway is they do not even use alignment aids on their drivers. It is simply that TMag has white sowed up. Unless everyone does is, anyone doing it now is simply a me too.

 

I really like the stealth black that Titleist does and Ping I20. I wish I had not read T's review of the I20 hybrid. One of my friends got new I20 Driver, irons, hybrid and fairway woods, and now everytime he pulls out the hybrid, the Darth Vader music plays in my head. He just got the driver last weekend and everyone was really lusting after it. I thought it looked great but he has regular shafts so I have not hit any balls with them.

[revkev]

I can't stand the white. I've hit several Taylor Made's with the white heads and it hasn't bothered me once I was over the ball though - wasn't in love with the clubs and they performed middle of the pack when I was testing them but the look didn't disturb me - Bottom line, if I hit it well I'd live with the look because a club tends to look better and better to me eye the more good shots that I hit with hit - I take my old Ping Eye 2 6 iron out now and again because it always looks so good.

 

Who cares as long as the club works is the bottom line for me.

 

I have hybrids that have worked for over 5 years so I'm not even remotely interested but if I were in the market I'd give them a try without a doubt.

[GolfSpy Barbajo]

I dunno - maybe I'm crazy but white doesn't bother me all that much (at least this week). Whether it's TM, Powerbilt or anyone else with a white headed club -- it doesn't make much difference to me. So they're imitating, so what?

 

I owned an R-11 3 wood last year -- couldn't hit it well no matter what color it was. Have taken a whack with my boss's RBZ 3-wood -- smoked a few but still prefer my own Titleist (maybe 'cause it's paid for?).

 

Love the line about the Darth Vader music, RR! I don't hear music when someone pulls out a white headed club, but for some reason I usually expect them to hit it a ways. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, but for some reason I'm predisposed to thinking "looonnggg."

 

I guess marketing does work its way into your subconscious.

 

That said - I've always liked Bobby Jones/Jesse Ortiz clubs --

[RoverRick]

Yes, it is performance rather than looks that makes the difference. This is ultimately the reason I do not own a TMag driver. Bottom line is that they do not out perform, for me anyway, what I currently have. It is just that so many people are playing the TMag white drivers and we have talked about them so much I am sort of wanting one. Or at least was until yesterday. I took the Callaway back out and hit it perfectly every time. Apparently, after leaving it in the house for a few weeks and playing the Titleist, the Callaway has decided to behave better. I know the problem was not me overswinging it.

[GolfSpy Barbajo]

Yes, it is performance rather than looks that makes the difference. This is ultimately the reason I do not own a TMag driver. Bottom line is that they do not out perform, for me anyway, what I currently have. It is just that so many people are playing the TMag white drivers and we have talked about them so much I am sort of wanting one. Or at least was until yesterday. I took the Callaway back out and hit it perfectly every time. Apparently, after leaving it in the house for a few weeks and playing the Titleist, the Callaway has decided to behave better. I know the problem was not me overswinging it.

 

Have the same thing with my backup wedges...the gamers are having a "time out" right now. Will probably put them back in the bag for an upcoming trip to Denver.

 

I guess the "follow-the-leader" guys don't bother me much -- if it's a good club for me, it's a good club for me. An old boss used to tell me, "you can always tell the pioneers. They're the ones with arrows in their back." And this guy was a trailblazer!

[Shambles]

The pictures make it look like a lofted fairway wood rather than what I envision a Hybrid should look like. Without the label I would have assumed this was a trouble wood.

 

 

Shambles