The TaylorMade Burner driver is engineered to promote greater distance through faster speed. The TaylorMade Burner

employs what is called "SuperFast Technology" to make the club lighter and faster. That includes an extra-light, 42

-gram grip that's eight grams lighter than normal; and a long and light TaylorMade SuperFast RE*AX shaft that weighs

just 50 grams, and which stretches the length of the club to 46 inches. The club's total weight tops out at 299

grams, which is approximately 20 grams less than a typical driver measuring 45 inches and equipped with a 60- to 65

-gram shaft. Meanwhile the longer length expands the swing arc. Combine the lighter weight with the wider arc and

you get a significant boost in distance. Testing indicates that SuperFast Technology promotes a distance increase of

six yards. Not only is the TaylorMade Burner extraordinarily fast and long, it's also incredibly forgiving on miss-

hits. Its size, shape and strategic weighting create an extremely high moment of inertia (MOI) that makes the club

head extremely stable and resistant to twisting when impact is made toward the toe, toward the heel, or high or low

on the face. That reduces ball-speed loss, which reduces distance loss.

Ball-speed loss is also dramatically reduced by TaylorMade's Inverted Cone Technology (ICT), a revolutionary method

of clubface construction that changes the way the clubface behaves at impact, thereby enlarging the portion of the

clubface that delivers fast ball speed. With a constant-thickness clubface, ball speed plummets when you miss the

centre of the clubface, but with ICT you can miss the centre of the face without suffering a dramatic drop in ball

speed. Thanks to ICT, Burner delivers an incredibly high degree of what TaylorMade calls "effective MOI," which

allows this driver to deliver extremely high ball speed—and distance—even when you don't hit the ball flush in the

middle of the clubface. TaylorMade defines effective MOI as the positive influence on ball speed on off-centre hits

that's exerted by the combined effects of a driver's MOI and clubface technology (versus constant-thickness

clubfaces). eMOI in TaylorMade drivers is dramatically higher, and more valuable in terms of its affect on ball

speed, than MOI alone, owing to the benefits of TaylorMade's patented Inverted Cone Technology." How much

forgiveness does Burner's extreme eMOI provide? The combined positive effects of its high MOI and ICT allow it to

deliver the type of high ball speed and distance on miss-hits that's equivalent to a driver that measures higher

than 5800 MOI with a constant-thickness clubface, if not even better. Adding to Burner's distance advantage is the

fact that it's also engineered to naturally promote a high and penetrating draw thanks to the combination of its 1°

closed clubface and the flex, flex-point and torque of its .350-tip shaft. Additionally, a permanent weight

cartridge located in the middle-back of the sole pulls the CG deep and low into the head, making Burner easy to

launch high and long.

The TaylorMade Burner 460cc driver is very easy to hit and get airborne. The sound and feel from the head at impact

is pretty good and the weighting in the head will send the ball on a slightly higher trajectory than most of the

other regular TaylorMade drivers. The shaft is slightly longer than the standard shafts on the R7 models, which

should give you more distance. The closed in face did make it easy to hit it straighter and this feature will appeal

to mid to higher handicappers as it will give them more time to square the face at impact. Overall a good club, but

there a better value for money drivers out there in our view.

» SuperFast Technology reduces total club weight to 299 grams from average of 320 and promotes faster swing speed

for added drive-crushing distance

» Advanced bullet-shaped clubhead incorporates far-back CG location to launch the ball high and super-deep

» Massive 460 cc clubhead combined with TaylorMade's Inverted Cone Technology produces an extremely-high eMOI* that

exceeds 5800 (USGA conforming)

» SuperFast RE*AX 50g shaft by Fujikura is exceptionally lightweight and stable to promote greater distance and

accuracy