Which are our top 5 fairway woods for 2018?
1. Best Fairway woods 2018: TaylorMade M4
TaylorMade fairway woods have been awesome for as long as I have been testing golf equipment.
It was the Rocketballz 3-wood which first introduced me to how good they were. And it seems they’ve maintained the standard and improved on it ever since.
When we test drivers and hybrids, the numbers from every model we test always seem to be pretty close with, at most, a five yard swing either way.
With the fairway woods we tested this year, all models averaged out at about a 220 yard carry. That’s just from me testing them by the way.
But with the TaylorMade M4 it was more like a 235-240 carry. That’s better than some driver numbers I have had this year.
It was exactly the same with the last two iterations of the M2 fairways.
I think the TaylorMade Speed Pocket technology works really well in fairway woods as we/I can have a tendency to strike them low on the face. And that’s where it really helps.
The M4 3-wood also looks great, is light and very easy to swing.
I have not put this club in my bag this year as it’s doing a job that is too similar to my driver. It goes too far – what a nice problem to have!
SRP: £229
Read and watch our review of the TaylorMade M4 driver here.
More information can be found on the TaylorMade website.
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