WILSON DYNAPWR DRIVERS – Are they the dark horse drivers of 2025? Core CArbon and LS tested

Wilson claims to have more Major wins than any other club manufacturer (62) making in the dominant force in clubs from the 1920s to the 1970s hosting staff players such as Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Ben Crenshaw, Nick Faldo and Padraig Harrington.

It fair to say that the brand has dropped back a bit since the 1980s but the launch of the 2025 DYNAPWR Driver range is being seen by many as a return to form for Wilson cub making. Scott, James and Aaron run the new Core (Titanium), Carbon and LS DYNAPWR drivers through their paces.

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Hello and welcome back to SGT. Today James and myself, we’re going to talk about the dark horse of the year. It’s the Wilson. James Wilson Dinapower. Talk to us. So Wilson Dinapower Max. So we’ve got three heads this year. So we’ve got a Max, we’ve got a Carbon, and we’ve got an LS. Um it’s the most complete Wilson driver line that we’ve had for really, really quite a long time. Um, and they’ve been going pretty good guns in in sessions. Um, so we’ve got our very own hitter today, Aaron. Drafted in. You and I were going to do it, but they were looking for a bit of speed, so we went with Aaron. Better profile of golfer. James, what we got first? So, first one, h Wilson Diper Max. Um, so got a 10 and a half head lofted down just a we bit. Aaron’s own flavor, the Ventus. Ventus Black 5X. Okay, let’s give this a blast to start off with. Just a we light guy. Just a we light guy. Get some base numbers in. You play that in your driver just now, Aaron? Yeah, I’ve got this in my own one. Like it? Yeah. Yeah, I do. You drove it the other week when we played. I was impressed. I drove it. I drove it quite well. Shame about the putter, but the driver driver’s always been a strength. I know where that went. So, we know that before we try this, right, let’s be honest, right? This isn’t going to be the head for you. So, what we’re looking at is I think when we’re going to pass judgment on this head, it’s how does it look? Yeah. Does it look quite nice behind the ball and how does it feel? I think numbers are going to be probably too high launch, too high spin for what we’re looking for it to do. So, let’s give an opinion on what we think it it’s going to do for others. Okay. Initially behind the ball, talk to me. It’s confidence inspiring. You look down at that and you think, um, it’s it’s it’s actually quite a nice shape for for what it is. Um, it’s I quite like the contrast between the face and the crown. Okay. So, it’s quite easy to frame that ball as well. So, if you’re struggling with alignment or anything like that, I think someone’s going to find it quite easy just to put it down and go, “Right, that’s where I can make that work.” Yeah. Okay. How’s it feel off the face? Uh, hard. Okay. Hard. Not in a bad way. Just kind of It’s quite loud. It’s quite sharp. Um, quite firm. Okay. And again, but again, I mean, there’s there’s plenty of club there behind it. Yeah. Um, it’s not as high spinning as some of the other drivers that you tried in this kind of category. Yeah. Only spinning at three and 33. That last one there. It’s actually quite sensible. When you’ve tried other Maxis, we’ve been in the fours. Yeah. What’s the loft sleeve like, James? So, we can go up and down by one degree either way in half in half degree increments. Okay. So there’s really quite a lot of adjustability with it. Nice. Certainly straight enough. What about things you’ve had in this year, James? How’s it going? Have you managed a few guys liking it? A fair few. Yeah. Um certainly the Max if a golfer needs a little bit more help get that ball up in the air a little bit faster. Uh I feel it’s like quite a high launching driver, but it’s really quite forgiving at the same time. um that sort of ties in really quite nicely into the fairway woods and into the rescues as well. What would you compare that to in other brands? Different heads. Um that’s going to be pretty similar to like a kind of Cobra Max K, I would say. Um so it’s a it’s a forgiving thing. The weight is a little bit different with this one. So the Wilson drivers, the heads are a little bit lighter compared to some other things. It’s got that face though. They’ve all got this face this year. This is this seems to be the the style or design that might be a cobra or a tight list. They all similar frame the ball very similarly. Yeah, got that sort of laser engraving in the face. Does actually look a bit like the the tightless face. Yeah. Right. What’s the next head, James? What we on? And next head’s going to be the carbon. Okay, let’s pinch that one back, Aaron. So, movable weight. Is that right? Yep. So, we’ve got two got two weights. One at the front, one at the back. Okay. So, there’s a 3 g weight and there’s a 9 g weight. Okay. Um, what I’ve certainly found in fittings with this guy so far is the the carbon head and the LS head, they’re definitely on the lower spin side of things. Okay. Um, so for that kind of faster player, we can potentially cheat into a slightly higher loft but still have a we bit less spin. Okay. Never a bad thing. But like having having ability to kind of flip that weight forward and back um just means that we can dial in a little bit more. They’re lower anyway, but we can go lower again if needed. Okay. Like the profile change of this head. Um it’s a little bit more rounded from front to back. Um the max is maybe like a little bit more elongated. Big word. From crocod after all. And where have we got the weights set up? H heavy weight at the back, lightweight at the front. So we’ll have a few with this and then we’ll flip the weights around and see how much of an impact that actually has initially. How does she look? Looks better. So, what I kind of like looking at that looks a lot more closer to the what I’m used to. Okay. Yeah. Again, still nice and easy to frame that ball. I like the kind of two-tone again. Okay. This is more up your street, Aaron. Same sort of head shape. This one’s a bit more like GT3esque. Yeah. Little bit shorter front to back. A little bit more rounded. GT2 or three? Three. Really? Yeah. Um I think it’s somewhere in between the two. Yeah. 2.5. 2.5 if you want. Yeah. Okay. Bit necky that one. That might spin up. Yeah. Find a fairway for a bad one. Plenty of speed on it as well. Yeah. 165 ball for a neck. It’s pretty good though actually. Same again. And how does it feel? Feels a bit um a bit more muted. Let’s flip these weights around. Let’s try and get some weight further forward. Let’s see. Can we kill that spin a little bit? I think that that kind of muted noise and slightly muted feel that’s kind of coming from the carbon in the driver. Just a slightly different sound. Right, Aaron? Wait further forward. It’s a little bit more what we’d expect for you now. Yeah. Let’s have a whack. Wow. I have no right going straight. Wow. Wow. You can definitely feel that move a little bit more. It was considerably in the toe, but you can definitely feel that move a little bit more. Let’s just call Spade of Spades. That one was not your finest effort, but it did really well. It’s about average for me on the face that to be fair. Worth trying. Good. Lovely shot. That was nice. You had the clubs out this year yet, James? Not yet. Uh we’ll be going to the par three quite shortly. Is it going to happen? Is it? It’s going to happen. It’s like Oasis 2.0. It’s a lovely fight, isn’t it? That’s beautiful. Shows the difference actually moving those weights round about has had. Yeah. That the spin previous was almost close to where you were with the max whereas you’ve killed it all together. You look at the difference between the two heads. You look at that from like a t kind of table format. Even if you just took an average over the shots. Club head speed similar. Launch angle similar at 15°. Ball speed exactly the same at 162, but spin rates went from 3,000 to 2,000. Carry numbers up 12 yards. Total numbers up 20 yards just in flipping those weights around. I think a little bit of it is going to be that they were better strikes, but there’s no way that’s having a thousand. So the weight has to be doing most of the heavy lifting a lot for you. It’s good. Really good. I think like a lot of core models this year that if you get them set up properly, yeah, there’s maybe not the same need to go into an LS model that you previously would have. You’re just taking forgiveness away for Yeah. I think all all these kind of core models, the majority have really got a kind of lower spin setting now as well. Uh like being able to like flip weights from the back to the front. Yeah. Should we swap over? Should we get the LS out? So again, two settings, James? Two settings. Um, so we have a 12 gram weight and a six gram weight. Sorry. Yes. 12 12 gram weight and a six gram weight. What does this look like? What do you compare this to over the years? It’s a we bit smaller. Um, looks amazing. Yeah, it’s really really really clean looking thing. I think we need to go back back a good few years to to have that same sort of shape. Super deep. Ah, that was a that was a shout that one. Remember that. That’s a call back. Remember it. BBLB. Bad boy. Leroy Brown. Bad Leroy Brown. That was a rocket launcher. That one. I love that. Yeah. Face is face is definitely a whole lot deeper. A little bit smaller from front to back. Does it look like a tightless GT4? Yeah, there’s bits of that. Right. So, when we’re on this, where’s the weights? Let’s try it both ways again. Heavier weight in the back. Right. Heavy weight. These weights are are heavier as well, aren’t they? Different options. Okay. Initially, Aaron, uh, it’s very short heel to toe. Okay. But deep face, it’s it looks it looks amazing, actually. Not sure be able to hit it, but it looks it looks good. Okay, it’s positive. I lost that. Wasn’t the finest strike. I know it was a bad strike, but the drop off instantly was massive. Like you hit one of them out the toe with the carbon standard head and it still went 300 yards. That one there carry back down at 263 and high and floaty. Yeah, I think it’s fair to say there’s there’s something does look a bit GT4esque. Okay. Um, yeah, that sounded solid. Yeah, it’s interesting. Even with the weight at the back, it’s almost like the other head, it still wants to kind of pop up a little bit. Even in the low spin head, you’re still generating quite a lot of spin. Go flip them around for us, James. We’re needing some for my drill for this. I’ve got my new wrench. My new wrench that we made. This was an Instagram hack. So, taking taking a wrench, gluing a fereral on the top. It’s brilliant fun. Right, Aaron? LS head weight forward. Okay, let’s see what this guy does. If I was a head that wasn’t going to generate any spin, this is this is the beast mode of beast modes. Bit high on the face I think. I think what you find when a head becomes so unforgiving like this that the spin rate will fluctuate massively. So the one you don’t quite catch it pops up. So the fact it’s in a low spin head, it’ll be low spin on the good shot. But when you have a bad shot, that’s not the case. The spin then pops up and kicks and does everything you don’t want it to do. Yeah. I’m looking at that with a bit of anxiety going, if I don’t hit this out the middle, it’s I’m going to be punished for it. You know all about it. I feel like I’m trying I’m just trying to hit up on that to try and keep it in the air cuz I know it’s not going to spin. Yeah. I’ll try and behave myself and just hit a normal one. I think that’s that’s really where the carbon has has kind of come on leaps and bounds that because we’ve got that weight, we can move it further forward. It’s just a bit more fittable. It’s it’s going to play into more golfer hands. Whereas like the LS, just like you said, because it is on that sort of lower spin level, you kind of have to get all of it and not miss. Yeah. That was nice. And it plays, but yeah, I’m not sure you gain anything. I feel like that’s just hard work. Yeah. And I think you don’t have to. I think Driver Technologies came on enough now that you don’t have to go into something like that. You actually find on an average the carbon spins less at just under 2,000 versus that 24 despite the fact that being the LS head purely because you can just control the spin rate that little bit better across a piece give or take 200 RPMs on the carbon whereas your give or take up got pushing 500 um with the LS. Yeah. So I think how have they all looked? How have they felt? What’s your thoughts? Um feel good. Feel nice and solid. The Max was obviously a little bit louder but as James alluded to it’s it’s the carbon fiber just allowing that. It’s kind of got that hot melt effect where it just drags some of the sound away. Okay. Feels a bit It’s It’s still a solid feel, but it just sounds a bit dull. Sounds harsh. But what I mean by that is I actually quite like that. Yeah. Um in terms of Go on, could you play it? I could play the carbon. Yeah. Yeah, I could play the carbon for sure. Yeah. Good. Brilliant. Right, Aaron. So, to summarize, three heads. Yeah. Which one? Who’s going to play what? Let’s Who’s Max? Who’s playing a max one? So the the max one is kind of someone who wants a little bit more speed, needs a little bit of forgiveness. Um someone who maybe needs a bit of help launching the ball and trying to keep that ball in the air a little bit longer. Nice nice big head, kind of confidence inspiring. You can just swing at it and and get it going. Um carbon one I think is going to be probably the one they do most of. Okay. Um someone who’s still got a bit of speed and it’s it looks the nicest. I think that like that looks really nice, but visually quite intimidating. Okay. I think the LS is going to be good for someone who who maybe has always had a smaller driver in the past and they’ve not been fitted for a while, but they don’t want to go into something bigger. Yeah. Obviously, they need the speed and they need to be able to strike it well. Yeah. But you get the odd guy who comes in and they actually hit the smaller ones better. Yeah. That’s who the LS is going to suit. And the Carbon, I think, is going to be their the kind of big seller. And James with these drivers in relation to Wilson in the past, it seems a massive step forward. Massive massive step forward. Yeah. So Wilson drivers certainly certainly previously they’ve all they’ve all been slow. They’ve all had like loads of spin. They just haven’t just haven’t looked all all that great. They’ve definitely gone back to the drawing board. They’ve hit the kind of full reset button. A few brand a few brands have had this like over kind of time. It’s not just the next version of this is very much a new thing from Wilson. Um and it’s really really good to see. It’ll be interesting to see how that develops over the next few years as well. Oh, definitely. Just as the as the kind of base technology that they have right now because it’s really really leveled up like what could what could the future look like? Exciting. Brilliant. Well, thanks for hitting Aaron. Appreciate that. Pleasure, James. Thanks for your time. No problem at all. And thanks to everybody for watching. Um to book your own fitting, head over to the website at sgt.co.uk and it would be great to get you in the studios and look at whatever part of your game we’re looking to strengthen. And for more YouTube content, please like and subscribe to our channel. And we’ll see you again in the future. Thanks.