Nike SQ Dymo 2

Reviewed by: The Hacker ,  Shoots in the 90s

Model Reviewed:
Nike Dymo2 Driver

Summary:
I'm a high handicapper who has played with sub par equipment for years, and have recently decided to invest in some better sticks. I got this driver on ebay ($96) and I must say I am very pleased with the Nike Dymo2.


You can believe what you've heard - this is a very straight club. I had a noticeable slice with my previous 460cc driver. Without changing anything on my swing, I immediately noticed that the Nike was much straighter. Yes, some balls still moved left to right, but not nearly as much. I even noticed that I could line my feet up almost right at the target line and hit a nice straight ball with only a bit of left to right movement (unlike my previous driver where I would compensate for my slice by aiming left and having it come around - sometimes WAY around)


Must have hit 50 balls at the range just with this club, and the majority would have been in the fairway on most courses. Of the mis hits, most would have been in play but off the fairway, and yes, I hung a few out to the left that would have been trouble. But all in all, one of the best driving range sessions I can remember.

Ball is hot off the face. I can't say I picked up much distance from other drivers, but that's ok with me - I'm happy getting similar distance with much less dispersion.

Some reviewers have commented that the ball balloons on them with this club - I did not have that experience using a 10.5 loft, but I've always been a low ball hitter so take that for what its worth.

Overall, I am looking forward to many second shots from the fairway thanks to the Dymo2. Since they can now be had for under $100 used on eBay, they are defintely worth a look.

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Reviewed by: fleetus ,  Shoots in the 90s

Model Reviewed:
Nike Dymo2 str8-fit

Summary:
Normally I fade my drives with the occasional straight ones and draws. With the Dymo2 I feel like I can keep my drives straight more consistently. With the str8-fit, I know that I can adjust the setting to fit my game without having to go buy another driver.

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Reviewed by: sgniwder99 ,  Shoots in the 80s

Model Reviewed:
Nike SQ Dymo 2

Summary:
Just got this club. I heard about Tiger saying it’s too straight. I don't believe it. This sounds like marketing hype to me ("Play the driver that Tiger says is TOO straight for his game!"). But after using it, I think I see what he meant if he did say it.

I swing inside-out pretty consistently. When I hit the ball well, I tend to play a slight draw. And every once in a while I hit one of those funny big toe draws that feel awful on contact (because—duh--you hit it off the toe), but you look up and it starts off way out to the right and comes back around to the center of the fairway and rolls forever and looks beautiful and everyone on the tee box but you thinks you must be some sort of highly skilled driver of the golf ball and you’re the only one who know that you basically got lucky because you hit it like crap but the clubhead twisted back, snapped through and corrected your mistake.

Why am I telling you this? Because so far this is the only way I can play a draw with this club. And instead of a big draw like I describe above, it’s a tiny little draw that moves about one mower-stripe on the fairway. That’s fine, but it does tell you something about this driver.

And I haven’t told you this to brag about my ball-striking. Like most 10-15 handicappers, I hit lots of bad drives. That’s why I bought the squared version of this driver. My most common problem is not firing my hands at the right time--meaning my mistakes tend to be either big hooks or hangers out to the right because I left the face open. So far my experience with this driver is that it mostly corrects those hooks (turning them into slight-but-playable pulls)—and does nothing to those hangers. In fact, the fact that this driver seems to be a good 15-20 yards longer than my old Callaway Biggest Big Bertha means that I hang them WAAAAY out to the right.

But this is a problem I can live with. It allows me to play my drives focusing on one thing: fire the hands. If I do that, the ball goes pretty straight. But like I said, so far I just cannot draw the ball with this club. Good drives are either straight or a very slight fade. (I read a professional review online in which the reviewer said the same thing, so apparently this isn’t just me.)

So in general, I think I’d recommend this club, with a caveat: get the Str8 Fit version. I didn’t because I didn’t want to spend that much, but I already wish I had, because I would set it up to help me draw the ball a bit, since I’m obviously not capable of doing it myself with this thing. I’ve generally kind of looked at “draw” drivers as low-level cheating in the past, but in this case it actually seems to be the game-improvement aspect of the club that I need a bit of help to get around.

So that’s the main thing. But here are a couple of other minor points:
1. The driver is BIG. If you’ve got a driver made in the last few years it probably won’t look that big to you, but it looks absolutely ridiculously huge to me after playing my old driver. I’m still getting used to that.
2. The driver is LOUD. Some have said obnoxiously so. And I’ll admit that when I hit an entire small buck of balls with this club on the range to get a feel for it, I would not have wanted to be the guy next to me. But on the course, where you’re gonna hit the thing 10-12 times a round, who cares? Nobody ever got a penalty stroke for their driver being too loud, and it’s not significantly different from any other newer drivers I’ve heard (from 4 holes away (while I was putting (for birdie))).
3. The Nike shaft is a bit weak for a stiff-flex shaft. I’m no gorilla. Traditionally good drives for me go about 250-260 yards. I could probably count the number of 300-yard drives I’ve hit in my life on one hand while wearing mittens. But this shaft is definitely weaker than the stiff flex Aldila shaft that was on my BBB. I can’t imagine very many people needing the regular shaft. And I may get a different shaft for mine.

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