>>>"If your driver is more then 8 years old it's really obsolete for modern golf balls, especially if you're hitting Titleist ProV."
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>>>This is what the sales guy told me at Golfsmith when I went there to hit the latest Taylormade driver.
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>>They used to hit leather balls with clubs that had holes in them. On a good day, I can still hit a forged club pretty well using an old range ball. I hope you didn't buy it. At least not from him.
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>I'm actually quite happy with my old Callaway Hawkeye driver. I just wanted to try the latest and the greatest.

I've got the TaylorMade R5 and I think I'm good for at least 5 years or so.