2007 Square Driver Vs 2023 Driver Test! More Accurate?

Our new Retro Review video series is where we’ll go back through time and look at some iconic pieces of equipment to see if they still stack up against their modern day equivalents. First up is the Callaway Fusion FT-i driver, which caused quite a stir back in 2006 when it launched. When you take the headcover off, it soon becomes apparent why… It’s square! We test it up against last year’s Callaway Paradym driver to see how it compares and if there’s still some merit to the concept today.

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Okay welcome back to golf monthly and a new series that we’re doing called retro review where we’re going to be taking some gamechanging equipment from its time some iconic stuff and comparing it to its modern counterparts we’ve partnered up with golf club for cash one of the leading retailers of pre-loved

Equipment and they supplied us with some absolute gems to test so if you want to check those guys out look in the description below without further Ado let’s get straight into it okay so first up we’ve got an absolute classic and it is the Callaway F Fusion f F TI driver

Now this was released in 2006 and it had a retail price back then of £400 we’ve picked it up for the bargain price of $63.99 now first off the elephant in the room you might have noticed it’s Square now that might put a few people off I

Actually quite like the visual I like the straight lines they do a lot for me in terms of alignment and I actually really enjoy that and this was in the bag of players like Phil mikkelson Ernie L’s at the time so he’s actually a really popular driver on tour now the

Text story behind in this is a super high Moi so they put a lot of weight back to create a really stable driver on M hits so really really forgiving but as a high-speed player generally higher Moi drivers I can spin a bit more so I’m I

Can get a little bit excessive spin so it’ be interesting to see how that pans out in the testing to explain thei a little bit I always like the analogy if if I tried to push you over and you were just stood like this it’s going to be

Fairly easy for me if all of a sudden you put a foot back and you’ve got more weight and stability back you’re going to be more stable and more difficult to push over so that’s the principle behind the FTI I’m going to head to the range

Get a few away and get some initial Impressions Okay so we’ve come down to the range now at the oxf Fisher golf club and it’s probably a good time to introduce what we’re comparing the FTI to so we’ve got the standard Callaway Paradigm when you put them down beside one another the the contrasting looks is

Pretty Stark obviously the FTI is square um so there’s a huge difference straightway but also the face is quite onset from the huzzle the huzzle goes in quite a long way behind the face which is quite an interesting look so yeah two very very different looking drivers I’m

Going to hit a couple away now to start to to get an idea of the feel and the sound from the FTI so first of all acoustically pretty pretty audible there it’s um it’s a very loud noise that comes off the face I hope that was picked up on screen cuz that is a very very loud sound and it did feel quite almost like a hollow quality to it quite

Yeah it’s quite unique so let’s have another go yeah I really hope you can pick that up on the audio cuz it is pretty offensive we’ve got a few people on the Range here I hope I’m not hope I’m not disturbing in their practice with that noise so yeah let’s compare and contrast

The Paradigm so it should be a very different feel yeah that’s just a completely different gravy in terms of feel much more muted a much deeper sensation off the face it’s really really very different so I think it feels a lot more sophisticated than its older counterpart

But uh be interesting to see how the performance goes so probably at this point it’s a good good time to pop up some data on the screen and have a little chat about what we saw when testing the two so as you’ll probably see here FDI had a significant amount

More spin which is probably to do with the Moi The increased Moi on the club head weight back increasing that spin increasing the stability and reducing curvature which also alludes to why it’s probably a little bit tighter in dispersion as you can see from the Paradigm bull speed up spin down so I

Was getting a lot more Carri and total distance out of it but yeah some interesting numbers to compare there let’s see how it goes on the course okay so I’m going to start with the FTI and the 10th hle is a little dog leg right longish Par Four so I’m just going to

Hit a couple away take some data and see where we are little fade started left side cutting back just going to make the Fairway quite floaty um now these balls are marked with an F so I can check where they end up down the Fairway well hopefully the

Fairway very similar to the first one could be on top of it in fact again seeing a fair bit of spin let’s go again Just a Touch further left than the other two it’s probably going to stay in the left semi but really similar flight window okay so let’s hit a couple away

Now with the Paradigm and see how that compares it’s worth noting that there is a slightly stiffer shaft in this this is extra stiff as opposed to the stiff in the FTI and we’re very similar in L this is N9 and that’s 9.5 but worth noting those differences so let’s see how it

Goes little out the heel just started straight cutting onto the right edge of the Fairway that one a little bit more fade than the FTI let’s go again okay that’s pretty comparable line wise to the ones I hit with FTI again just down the left half of the Fairway there certainly lower in

Spin it was a bit bit more of a penetrating ball flight let’s try the last one and similar to the first one there little bit of an over fade started straight just going to the right edge of the Fairway so it be interesting to see where those are distance-wise Okay so

We’ve come down the hole to actually see where those shots have ended up now and I’ve already taken a look at the data and there were some interesting points probably most notably we had ball speed Spin and carry distance and I’ll get on to that in just a moment but firstly if

You can see here I’ve got quite a nice tight grouping with the FTI I’ve got two on the bank and one just probably five or six yards further right up the Fairway a really nice tight grouping but what I did notice is with the additional spin that the FTI was creating curvature

Was minimal so that’s great if you are trying to hit a straight shot I was setting up for a cut here so if you are thinking of going to a higher Moi driver or Square driver like FTI you might want to start sort of reconsidering some

Start lines and where to set the ball out because they started great exactly where I was aiming but didn’t deviate as much as I would hope when you go over to the Paradigm moving up the hole here I’ve got two in the Fairway over there on the far corner so they actually cut

With the shape of the hole like I wanted to it had a little bit less Back Spin which helps you facilitate a little bit more curvature it stops it sort of allows the spin axis to be altered more and when you’ve got a lot of spin with

FTI that spin axis is more difficult to manipulate and more difficult to shape the ball so that’s worth thinking about got a further Paradigm that’s just a bit over that hill so there was more bull speed on Paradigm we’re talking up to yeah like I said 5 mil hour was some of

The shots which is translated to about a 10 yard difference in in overall distance so something worth noting there but yeah if you are looking for a straight hitting machine FTI seems to be doing a really good job for me okay so the Callaway Fusion FTI what did we find

Well if you looking for distance there is more available from a more modern equivalent in the Paradigm that we tested for example but if you’re playing a shorter tighter golf course and you’re on a budget we’ve got a real Fairway finding machine here loads of spin loads

Ofi and plenty of safety to keep it in play so in that sense it really does stack up against its modern day counterpart for $63.99 it’s a real bargain in the right circumstances so check out the description below go and have a look at golf clubs for cash for some other Best

Pre-loved Equipment and that’s it for me from the oicial golf club see you next Time