Wilson Triton Driver Review

hi guys it's Rick shields down here at Qwest Golf Academy here at Prairie sports village got quite an exciting dry review Wilson frightened driver from the hit TV show driver versus driver and the often a favorite about driver it's actually coming from a TV show Wilson they run a competition or a prize basically to design his liver and if they found that it was the best drive out of all the applications they were going to make it and the winner would win half a million dollars and that club would be made and this is what's come out of it this is the driver versus driver winner the Wilson Triton and I think was designed by a there was an architect or an engineer called Eric sillies and he's now half a million pound and Wilson have a new driver and head covers traditional what we say now traditional boxing-glove head cover and just along the back here actually as the Wilson drivers vs. driver slogan that they had on the TV show as well TV show was mainly only really aired in the u.s. I've never really seen that much of it I don't know a lot about what's got into this I just know what the end product looks like and the technology behind that big triton on the top and then just the wilson club at the bottom Wilson logo at the bottom this that's the first-ever Wilson cup I've reviewed on my channel and I've got loads more to come I've got another driver d300 and I've also then got loads lines last for coming soon stay tuned and loads of interesting points to this driver and I'll briefly go through it and I'll hit some shot and we'll talk a bit more in depth it's got adjustable weights it's got a sole plate which can switch from a titanium 22 gram sole to a carbon 9 gram sole and that's at and that plate caused a lot of controversy because I think when this club as the first came out it wasn't actually conforming so I have to make changes to make it conforming and where it says DVD on the bottom there that's not a DVD as in a disc that you play movie on that is actually drive the versity driver and all the clubs only the plates that have DVD on are conforming the other ones are not then on the top of the club it's got this very simple alignment not very often donned right on drivers a very simple silver runway strip for the black crown which helps with alignment and I like that a lot and that gives a real clearance from the families whether the middle of the face is the face is groove with not horizontal no vertical grooves groove with and I've said most drivers really are the grooves are just kind of imprinted on as almost an after effect this has no grooves on it at all not even an after effect so an adjustable neck you can go up and down one degree I've got two 9 degree head but I've cranked up to 10 just an initial test nails finding the best launch of that and then also how the draw setting as well Thunder done draw I've just got it expanded one degree more loft it's got three weights in the bottom I've got this in weight back and the two weights at the side just being neutral let's hit it and then we'll talk a bit more about it I've got this in my standard I'll dealer rogue shaft the Tour X version it's a 60 gram so a little bit lighter shaft passing that I'm looking forward to hitting this rascal so whenever used to fill up behind the ball it definitely has a tendency to aim left when I'm setting that down that looks to me like it's got a closed presentation when I actually sit up behind I thought it's Eric was a bit of a flash of the golf ball but this driver definite has a little bit of a the toeing look to it which doesn't fill me with loads of confidence it might do if you're a player that hits the ball with a slice right let's give it a hit that's come out lovely a little fade good numbers Justin up to 70 maybe carry distance and it was loud but probably not as loud as reports were finding this driver I've done a little bit research before actually testing this and a lot of people said it's super loud I didn't feel too ridiculous right location was good ball speed was up there spins number there was mm Lawrence was 11 maybe a little bit more launched and that would even perform slightly better on that that was a ridiculously loud I was expecting a bit of a an empty tin can but it doesn't actually sound like that sound actually pretty good another good Drive yeah Justin up to 70 carry again just shy of 300 total distance I think really the only thing that's putting that down on distance probably not quite getting the height that I would normally like to see the shot go a little bit low at the moment launch angles not quite getting over 13 degrees I can't really crack that higher than 10 so and I will just see if I can get that launching a smidgen higher so this is one with the titanium sole first so it's a 22 grams sole on me which should be high launch low spin I'll be honest that's the kind of shot I'm scared of with this driver okay I'm surprised the first two didn't do that and just go straight left on this just with the face how kind of told it it is it's not an appealing looking face to me and that was a straight out pull very low launch low spin to be fair but just a straight pull straight location all of them have just been a smidgen out the heel and one like really clear face you can actually see the strike location unbelievably clear the dots that you'll see on the face patches for my G c2 and HMT to record it I can just the strike mark even in relation that silver strip on top they're all just a little bit heel side of Center and see if we can just go one more with this titanium base yeah I don't kind of really fear that shot might come in and that's just a straight pull I just a straight out and out - that's not a draw that is just a straight tool where it feels to me like the face is almost Amy now I could change those weights I could put more weight towards the toe side offense tonight I'm more fade biased and I don't really this is more just testing in neutral it's how that face is and this isn't standard this is not enclosed on what they would classify as being a draw setting I'd hate to think how that face was looking draw setting and let's now switch it over to the carbon sole now this isn't as easy as I was hoping it would be but on the same side I'm actually quite happy it's not easy I'm not happening to use it not easy because now I'm on video trying to do it but I'm also happy that it's not just so interchangeable the players will just be switching all the time it takes us a minute or so so the three weights that are in the golf club here I've got fixed gram weight and then two two gram weights in the side I have to take all of those out to switch the sole this is the carbon sole compared to the titanium so I'm going to do up now and we're going to hit some shots with the carbon sole and let's see this should be low speed low launch which is at the moment I need a little bit more Lords we'll see what numbers look like with the carbon sole as well on this driver you want to take the plate off you can completely see inside the driver you can see the whole the whole guts of it completely you can see the framework the infrastructure you can see behind the face you can see all the welding you can see absolutely everything it is fully exposed quite interesting to see but once you've done it once you don't really need to do it again and then you can place the other soleplate up and this is where I think the non-conforming version really struggled I think the waiting on these sole plates was making a driver too hot from what I understand that's certainly what's Wilson was saying about it in a lot of ways in the same way though right at the back to the heaviest weight to six runway at the back and then the to two gram weights on the side and then we'll hit it back on GC - and let's see if there's any difference in results okay so carbon crown in the bottom now not the titanium which is that there's coming quite a cool little pouch this as well which I was a it just keeps everything in part the wrench and the weight as well and the extra you get extra weight and an extra six gram weights you could even put two six gram weights and aside the most forgiveness as you move that center of gravity kind of further away from the middle and further back to increase the moment of inertia which gives you a little bit more forgiveness so carbon crown give it a hit with this I can't imagine there's going to be a lot of difference might be a difference in sound this is nine gram the sole of the toes 222 so we're not talking huge figures but it's half the weight of the sole before and I know what the question will be imagine what it hits it without the soleplate on but I don't think I'll be conforming you can't have a hole in the head looking into the driver and actually as a conforming golf it has to be covered right give this it feels lighter there's a lot lighter you just want to wiggle in it that feels unbelievably lighter that feels so much lighter to swing that plate is the law than I expect it to when it feels the driver the interesting that the blind tack these shots are your straight pulls straight pulls left because for me that face just looks like it's going to go left I'm hitting the heel slightly but just can't seem to present that face as soon as i hit the club face down the toe swings in i can't fit it open or square it's a definite holding driver which for a lot of golfers who lose shots to the right brilliant never been a huge concern of mine moving losing shots to the right let me just see if I can I don't want to manipulate it you see I don't affect it look more open book so I can need to get straight shots I've just set up a little bit more open our address still struggling just to get up moving back towards the right how I like to see at the moment it's a straight tool that face is definitely producing more the left out complete and this isn't a draw rehook this is a straight left shot really and feels good off the face definitely nowhere near as loud as I expect it to be from what I've kind of seen before actually doing this case I thought it was going to be unbelievably loud a bit like the old M and the old square drivers that used to come out I think Callaway I do on a Nike ad log and the square drivers will horrendous really noisy drivers I expected a bit from that myth it really isn't I'm just seeing a driver that has loads of great technology and I can understand why I don't know much of the competition's this driver had again you're the Wilson drivers in the TV show come not seeing it and but for me I feel like the technology in this is very very good I just think Eric the guy who designed it most of it a flash of the golf ball must've been so I can't get this not to go to the left straight left and even when I set it down it just doesn't look like it's going to do anything else but go straight left go cooking ball that's as straight as I think I can hit that shot I'm definitely seeing a lower launch with this lighted box them lower launch lower ball flight still pretty low spin I think the spin numbers on this test so far been excellent with this driver I think they've been excellent they've hardly got over two and a half thousand at all how many shots going to hit with each snare is that four with each I can test it nobody will do one more with the carbon soul so one more with the carbon and then we'll pull the numbers up and actually see overall what this drivers doing what the Triton is doing by the way Triton is a had is the reason the Greek god he's a Greek god of sea the water so I really hope this doesn't find more water for anybody certainly some Ethan's water on the last get we finding it more often than some other drivers go one more now it just feels like the shot I'm going to hit with it just can't I can't seem to get it turning back to the right like I have been doing more often recently just that face feels like it's more or less but we hear up some good numbers anyway even though it's a little bit left of target it's not atrocious it's not horrendous let's pull up some number so we can see all those so we've got frightened titanium sold when I put that thing there we go try titanium sole of the top four shot that was giving me a carry distance of 277 yards and 298 total distance probably for me about five or six yards short of carry distance from what I like to see and I can mainly only put that down to launch angle launch angle was coming out at ten degrees even though spin rate was excellent at two thousand ninety I almost needed to put more lost in this driver I needed to loft up this thing I need to go to eleven degrees so I've written a nine degree head I normally throw in nine and a half I put it in ten so I thought was going to be enough I think I need even more even more to really get that ball carried over to 80 for me and then told distance nearer to 300 and over 300 and you can see there apart from the one shot everything went left we ever shot and then we just straight left straight laughs good hits not draws not hooks you've seen in my recent reviews I don't turn the ball as much in the air to the left and leave my past numbers I throw my past them rid of it was more to the left anyway it's just at the face was definitely aiming more left with the path a look then when the carbon soul was put in which is this red soul the nine gram weight on this carbon soul we see carry distance drop to me five yards and that's all down to the fact that the launch angle was even lower even though the spin was still lower so it was a carbon sole that's designed to be low launch low spin the titanium is helping the ball go up in the air the carbon sole isn't I think with a carbon sole it's great for golfers who hit that big high slice to the right but for golfers who do launch it and they want adult or struggle to launch it or need a little bit more launch like Carmen Sol will not be the right one for that titanium at best but then extra loft way more like a ball speed was consistent above across both of them which I expected under than 61 and we can see there with the a seven of the eight shots going left that face was definitely more Lac than me when I hit it I show you some club de to that across the two drivers when I've got the titanium being the red number and the carbon being the blue corner speeds about the same smash structures about the same and dynamic loft for the carbon was just half a degree more or less than that more loft it was presented and pass were going pretty neutral but that facia speed didn't seem to open look open enough for me it needs to be slightly more open strong occasion ever so slightly in heel and I'll show a close-up of that everything was just slightly in the heel of this contact point and that's not like me I'm more normally hi toe a little a little bit in the heel alignment on top might just brought my center of the strike close to the middle but on forward to this time it caught the heel a little bit more the Greek gods the Greek god of C I think is a wonderful story and Eric is laughing half a million in the bank I think it's got a great technology tool it's just a little bit saucy the two different plates and it's not as loud as I thought it looks excellent I think it looks fantastic and bringing the right hands and definitely custom fittings it will be a producing golf but it could produce for a lot of players from a lap down just didn't quite hit the right criteria in the launch for me and I couldn't stop going left if you hit it high right this we want to try guys thanks for watching hopefully you enjoyed the video loads more wilson driver and i reviews coming soon about the b300 coming up next which has got the little hedgehog spike so stay tuned for that guys thanks for watching if you enjoyed the video hit thumbs up comment below what you think of the Triton driver driver vs. driver I think it's a cool idea to be interesting since that carries on to a new episode and what can come out next gotta understand there's always regulations around these drivers which restricts it but I like the the inventiveness of this driver got lots of good points to it guys like watches we'll see you next time

hello Joel Toberman technical editor of Gulf monthly here at West Hill Golf Club where today I've been testing the Wilson staff Triton DVD driver now this is I was really excited to get in my hands and test for a number of reasons the first is that it's got a very cool backstory for those of you that don't know this was part of a driver versus drive a competition that aired on the Golf Channel in the states where by kind of aspiring equipment designers competed with various designs to win a prize obviously a cash prize but also they got their driver developed by Wilson then sold through the public and the winner of that profit competition is the Triton deed DVD driver was designed by a guy called Eric sillies the panel that judged that competition included Kevin Streelman who was a Wilson PGA Tour player but also Frank Thomas who was the foremost US JD art director who developed a number of the testing procedures for golf clubs there's a hell of a lot of equipment making know-how and golf club design knowledge gone into making this driver in fact I'd definitely say it's Wilson's most advanced a driver they've ever made them that's because of the host of adjustable features that we see on this club we've got adjustable loft here in the hosel so up and down by one degree with some draw settings but the key feature the main piece of technology is this adjustable soleplate now it comes in two versions I've got the carbon fiber version here which is distinguished by the pattern that you see on the bottom this weighs nine grams there's also a titanium soleplate which weighs 22 grams so switching between the two should change the launch and spin presumably the titanium soleplate which is heavier should lower the spin and launch a little bit by moving the CG further down in the club head now whichever soleplate you choose they're held on by three adjustable weights we've got one in the here one of the toe one in the back of the club head the black ones are 2 grams and the red one is 6 grams you can change these around depending on the preference of shots shape that you want to achieve with your driver the driver also comes with this adjustable pack which is quite cool you can put your soleplate in there it's got a wrench it's also got an additional six ground weight so you can change the 2 gram for a 6 gram if you want a more pronounced shot shape if you want a little bit more draw on your driver you can put the 6 grand weight here in the heel instead of the 2 gram and that's going to give you more a draw bias on your shop shape one other things talked about before we talk about the performance of this driver let's talk about the looks that you get addressed because you've got this swing active technology here this one one design whereby it's designed to help you align the clubface but also improve your swing play a little bit so designed to help you take the club away on a nice neutral path I wouldn't say it did that for me but it definitely helped align the clubface you can see you've got a black leading edge in a black face so without that it would be very difficult to align the face to your intended target so we talked about the technology let's have a look at the performance of this driver I've been testing on my DC to launch one to using premium golf balls let's have a look at the data to see exactly how it perform and the differences in performance I got between the two sold plates okay so we've got the launch monitor data here from the GC to tested the choice and driver with the tall extra stiff which isn't the shaft I would actually use Wilson I think sent me the wrong one but managed to make it work with that shaft I've got the testing with two different sold plates at 10 degrees of LOF of both performance numbers are really interesting you think with the different weight sole plates you'd get a difference in launch and spin or maybe even trajectory as well but you'll notice the performance across the board was pretty much exactly the same average carry was exactly the same at 270 yards which is a very good carry by the way it's definitely in the top half or top top kind of five of drivers I've tested this year in terms of carry distance exactly the same ball speed at 155 miles an hour exactly the same launch angle fourteen point seven degrees that's unheard of and pretty much exactly the same spin rate between a two 2279 2313 so there really was absolutely nothing in it exactly the same peak height as well at 39 yards so don't really know what to tell you really between the two sold plates it was pretty much exactly saying what I would say is that with both the sole plates the poor overall performance was very good a nice healthy high launch angle at fourteen point seven degrees combine that with the kind of mid to low spin it at two to seven a very healthy carry at 270 with a nice mid to high ball flight you can't argue with the performance overall the performance was excellent same that I didn't get a great set operation in spin a launch angle between the two soleplate obviously if you want to change the bullfight you can do using the six gram weights instead of a two gram weight but I didn't feel the need to do that you look at the dispersion average was less than five yards offline for both so it really was hard to fathom how identical the performance was between the two soleplate so that's not to detract from the overall package this club offers it's a very unique looking driver at address but there's still lots to admire about the way it looks you've got lots of alignment assistance there on top you can see here it's not something that's kind of it's very different on the market but definitely helps you align the clubface includes a nice visual aid for you to help you align in the swing the club a little bit more of a neutral path the feel was excellent it feels really powerful really hot off the face definitely one of the best feeling wilson drivers i've tested ever to be fair I've tested a lot of Wilson drivers recently this one tops a lot so if you're looking for a driver that's going to give you excellent all-round performance there's no doubt that the Tritons going to deliver that and for under 350 pounds there's definitely an element of value there who knows when you go and get custom fitted for this driver you may you may experience a vast separation in spin and launch and different performances from the different soul plays just because it was something that I didn't experience doesn't mean that you're not going to experience it either obviously strike plays an important part of this as well so that's another elements of facts are in but all in all you know the Triton driver definitely one of Wilson's best performing driver's they've ever made it's going to appear I think to a wide spectrum of players with the adjustable options that you've got it really is an excellent all-round package and like I've mentioned before that value that you get from a bright driver that's got all this adjustability all these different features for under 350 pounds it's certainly worth considering in 2017 [Music]

let's do a club review first one from a golf welcome back to the mid golf shop and we are going to do the first ever driver review or even equipment review the Triton from Wilson golf it was on driver vs. driver if you like what you see you want to learn more about club making or see some more of the reviews in this style or format please subscribe to the channel that way you'll get the notification and if you like this go ahead and like it so driver vs. driver a reality show first one of its kind on the Golf Channel brings in a handful and Levin to be exact of different people from different backgrounds on their idea of what the next big driver will be and they sit in front of a board the head of Wilson golf then you have a Frank Thomas xusg a technical director and Brian Urlacher of the Chicago Bears and there's a couple of professionals that come in there throughout this to ask questions and they all sell they're designed to these guys and they keep whittling it down whittling it down well it down got two three they were actually testing and from the three of the actual testing they whittled it down to two and then from those two our boy from Cincinnati ended up winning the triton boasts a the most adjustable club out there and it probably is it also comes with the Aldila rogue let's see if you can see some of that I don't know if you can anyway the old of the rogue is the is a great shot okay it's a great shaft and it is the real one so when you compare the real shaft to the price of this driver it's a bargain it also comes with some upgrade shafts and the upgrade shafts are from matrix and from True Temper slash project X in the hazardous both of them very very good shafts as well what I would suggest in every single case no matter what is go get fit if you're going to spend this kind of money and you want your golf to be better go get fit okay that will maximize everything that this club offers or any club for that matter but go get fit so the Triton uh offers two soul plates all right this one is the titanium soleplate the black one and then in this you get a really cool case that holds none other then another soul plate which is of carbon fiber and that's what this one looks like and there's about 10 to 12 grams difference between these two so if you wanted to hit it lower this is the one you want to hit you want to hit it higher this is the one that you want to hit it also comes with the wrench like everybody else comes with and then it comes with two more weights and they're a two gram and a six grand now what's already in here alright there's a 2 gram a 12 gram and a 6 gram already in there so with the moving of these weights in the application of this soleplate there is a truckload of opportunity out there to get just tweaked into exactly where it is you need to be and then finally they have the Triton from Wilson golf and on the other side driver versus driver some more Wilson staff okay so uh plus we forgot to mention that is that this thing is adjustable alright one up and one down and it says standard - one standard plus one standard draw and draw so you got a couple other options enter in there some other reviews I've already seen that we're out there said low spinning low hitting driver and that's what caused me to take it outside and it is it is a low hitting low spinning driver now that's with the red core on there you put this titanium core on there and you switch these weights around and it becomes something totally different not only did I test it but I had some friends of mine test it and we're all about the same mid-80s type golfers were not awesome by any shape of the imagination every last one of us has a swing flaw and I didn't want to take video like you would see in other reviews and a guy looking down on it going oh this is a really great driver not what I'm about I'm about the club and then what it can do for you because you know we're not all PGA Professionals like to be but it's just not the cards so what are some of the what are some of the things that I saw at this well number one it has a different sound it's a little I will say ting E is that it has a different sound and they really can't do a lot because when you go to pull this this plate off and I think I'll show you that we go to pull this plate off it exposes quite a bit underneath so there wasn't can't do a whole lot of sound dampening in here so you get what you get number two it does it's it's very closed at address and I'm going to show you this here we're going to take this off here I'll show you this is the how it does all the adjustability sits very low closed at address now I thought I don't mind a closed Club so much but I do mind if it's extraordinarily closed and this is just kind of in between now in its natural setting which is what this was I took it out with my gamer and I hit it and alls I could do was hit a high fade now that's because I didn't put any very good swings on it hadn't hit a ball in about three months so to tell you that's really not fair to the golf club however it went back the next and with it and I was hitting some seriously great drawers because of the way that it was sitting I finally got my rhythm back so here's what it looks like we've taken out all three all three of the weights right there and this thing pops off and if I get the come on oh here we go there we go and you see that's what it looks like underneath and that's the reason why they can't do a lot of sound dampening if you hear this okay that's kind of the sound that you're looking at so whether you want this or you want the other one set it on there snaps right into place and then you put your weights now they're color-coded the black is a two and I want the two in the back here let's make a guy really draw it get my wrench back all right put that in there I don't like tighten it all down until it's done we're going to put the up I put it in the wrong spot we want the two on the toe so put the six in the heel now if you really really have a problem closing the club you might want to put the 12 in here but based on the face closed and the way that it sits I don't think that'll be much of a problem can we put this one in the back okay now that I have them all in there I like to click them down then just give them one here they're in there alright so now we're back to where we need to be alright so I suspect if you see here I got these and I have some more and I expect them all out to check for consistency these are 45 and a half inch drivers and all the lofts as they're prescribed the nines tens and a half's I even have a 12 the 9s dead-on ten and a half's within a half a degree in the 12 was just there these play a tad flatter than what you would normally see normally you would see something the best part about this is we never heard that these were game improvement clubs and typically when you hear about game improvement what happens is the lie angle to this is around 62 to 64 sometimes it's ridiculous alright this every one of these was right around 59 to 60 degrees kind of flat compared to most drivers I set up to it and I noticed it right away but honestly I think it made me swing a little bit better you know the teaching is that you don't want to go too vertical you want to come in from the side so you can pick up some speed I think that's kind of what happened so not a bad setup I think personally it rings out at anywhere between a d4 and a d6 personally I think it's a little bit much for a driver but I also think 45 and a half is a little bit long for a driver so if you end up getting fit get fit for a length you cut it down just a tiny bit the weight comes into play and you're swinging around and I think it will be a it'll be a killer all day long now how did it compare for me I took me and I took my buddies and we all did our gamers and when it came right up to it this guy was virtually identical in total distance to my gamer however it hit lower and it ran longer so instead of landing at and I head around 262 is what it was had some longer had some shorter but on the average 262 but instead of landing at 240 and rolling 20 it was landing at like 220 and rolling 40 or 30 and 40 yards so because you're coming down with less spin it's going to take off like you see on the tournaments so to me what that means is I need to jack up the loft just a tad maybe a degree or switch the rates around now what I was also doing is I was hitting these really cool really far hooks straight out and then it would hook at the very end I all the times I've been fitting it's the first time I've seen it do that typically in it being pull hook or even pull hooks or push hooks but this was straight down the middle and then a turn so I flipped it around I went to a lighter because I like a lighter club I went to the lighter soleplate and I threw the really heavy weight out onto the toe and I started hitting some darts I was because I was they're going to get tired in the second round I did the exact same thing and with the new set up and I was two yards behind my gamer carried a little bit further but not nearly as but didn't roll out nearly as far with my buddies about the same thing so and everybody the first thing they come in it was the stripe that's on the top here and then the sound that it made but in every gate every case when you you know I've seen a lot of stuff on the forums oh it's very loud it sounds different yes it does and I think it should on purpose because it's a new way of getting the club to market however after about the third or fourth hit and you're bombing it out there you don't even hardly recognize the sound it's just something else to get used to I think it sets a little bit closed and I think if I tend to open a little bit that gives me my loft and I think I get the best of both worlds the best part about this is is that it also comes with all those shafts there's a 55 gram osek in there and there is a heavier shaft 275 grams so if your alter aggressive or ultra ultra fast you may like that so all in all like the club if you're a traditionalist with the sound you may not like it but if you give it a try go out there and hit it and see what you think I would have thought that this the that the that the rogue was going to be too much for me and as it turned out I was bringing around pretty decent I think that the way I play do I warrant these types of shafts uh probably not yeah but I do like them and if they're available in the club why not get them I might go for something I'm probably in that category with the rest of you cut it down just a little bit to make it feel a little bit lighter and I can control a little bit more and then I can do what I want with it probably gain a few extra yards and that's what I'm hearing from a lot of people on the on the Internet so I'm going to well while we're posting here hopefully I've thrown up some of my flight scope data so you can see what we were looking at and what we were doing and that's our review if you want to see somebody hitting the golf ball and seeing what's happening right there let me know I think I can arrange that with some you know average golfers so you can see how it impacts you and then that way you get a a real-time review and again thank you for watching and let's see those scores go low [Music] [Music]