However, as I am currently playing in temperatures reaching over 100 degrees, I’ve been keeping an ice cold wet towel in the cart to cool myself down and I got tired of having to take off my glove every time I wanted to use it and as such I started playing sans glove. It is Nike’s version of a Tour Velvet, however it has much less grip than you’d typically find on a real Tour Velvet or Lamkin Crossline grip. I’ll admit that at first, I absolutely hated this grip. There are a number of things to talk about with regards to the performance and playability of the VR_S driver.įirst, let’s quickly talk about the stock grip. It also seems like the stock head cover does little to protect the shaft from damage, especially compared to a sock style one.
NIKE VR DRIVER DRIVER
The part that fits over the driver fits snuggly, which is nice, but it can be a little tough to get on, and I’ve noticed more than a few times the irons in my bag knocking the magnetic closure loose. Instead of the more traditional sock style head covers (which Nike employees on the fairway woods and hybrids of the VR_S line), they opted for a magnetic closure for the driver. I find the head cover that comes with the driver to be both good looking and a poor performer. The shaft has the typical snowflake design found on Fubuki shafts. The driver has a black/gray paint scheme with touches of red on the sole and the stock shaft (a Mitsubishi Fubuki K series) matches it quite well, with it’s black and silver color. The face is relatively deep and gave me the feeling that I had a lot of room to make contact with the ball. In fact, if you didn’t know already that it was adjustable, I don’t think you’d be able to tell by looking at it at address.īeyond the subtle graphics on the crown and lack of an alignment aid, the VR_S sports the typical silver face with the NexCOR logo in the center and a few grooves on either side of it.
NIKE VR DRIVER DRIVERS
Adjustable drivers from Nike in the past always looked a bit unbalanced to me because of the larger hosel and this is no longer the case. The new hosel uses a screw on the sole of the club like most adjustable drivers and because of this it is now much closer in size to a normal, non-adjustable hosel.
However, absent from the top is any sort of alignment aid, which, I personally liked as I ground rather than hover my driver and have the ball set up on the toe.Īnother nice change to the looks of the driver from previous offerings from Nike is the updated Str8fit hosel. The crown is a dark gray and if you look closely, you’ll see that it sports subtle graphics along the edges. It still maintains some of the modern, techy look of past Nike drivers like the SasQuatch and Machspeed but has also brought in more of the classical look (if you can call it that) found in the VR line. By varying the thickness of the face, Nike is able to create a more forgiving club that allows shots hit somewhere other than dead center have decent results.Įsthetically, the VR_S is one of the better looking drivers that Nike’s released. Nike also has a variable face thickness technology which it calls NexCOR. To further enhance the golfers ability to swing this club fast, the stock shaft (the Fubuki K) is both light (57 grams for my stiff shaft) and slightly longer at 45.75 inches. While the club is as big as it can get, Nike has worked hard to make the club as aerodynamic as possible to brings swing speeds up. To start, there is the new and improved Str8-Fit hosel that allows the golfer to fine tune their face angle and ball flight.īeyond the adjustability of the club is the redesigned head which takes the club to the 460cc limit.
NIKE VR DRIVER FULL
Nike has packed the VR_S driver full of technology. The model that I tested out had 10.5°, with the stock shaft (Mitsubishi Rayon Fubuki K) in stiff. The claim by Nike is that there are “none faster” and the company even held “speed trials” at golf shops around the country letting golfers around the country compare their current driver to the VR_S. The VR_S is Nike’s newest entry into this category of driver. The idea is is that the lighter they are the faster they can be swung and therefore the further the ball will go. Lately, all of the rage has been making the drivers as light as possible. They were among the first manufacturers to introduce square drivers with their SasQuatch line and jumped into the adjustability game early on with the original version of the Str8-Fit hosel. Since Nike burst onto the golf equipment scene roughly a decade ago, they have been one of the more forward-thinking, technologically advanced companies around.
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