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Their claim is that the new material is hotter and lighter meaning 8 yards of added length to the driver. So is it true? Did the new material add 8 yards to my drives? The Diablo Octane is offered in a couple of different styles, the regular Diablo Octane comes in even degree lofts and the Tour Octane comes in.
The regulars tend to be a degree or two closed while the tours are about a degree open. The head shapes are also different; the regular being wider in all directions while the tour is more compact and deeper faced. The tour also offers a full-length hosel, while the regular driver is the traditional Callaway short hosel. I received the Tour Diablo Octane 8. I had a little time on a launch monitor before I took it to the course, this might not have been a good thing.
I learned that the combination of head and shaft kept me from getting a high launch angle. Diable Octane Tour Loft: 9. Because of its strength and lightness, engineers could better manipulate the internal weighting for a higher MOI as well as lengthen the shaft to 46 inches—also like the RAZR Hawk drivers. But unlike the RAZR Hawk, the Diablo Octane driver has a bulkier, bigger-looking cc clubhead that's strategically designed for pure distance and forgiveness.
With the standard model, the Diablo Octane had a larger toe region a common spot where amateurs mis-hit and a large alignment aid on the crown that shows the Forged Composite material. The Diablo Octane Tour is all black, again with no alignment aid. But its shape is considerably different than the standard model, with its more rounded, stout, deep-faced configuration that's 10cc smaller than the standard model.
Regarding feel, both drivers felt light and easy to swing. Upon impact, both produced the clack, not clunk, sound we have grown to love with titanium drivers. In fact, the feel is so good that we could barely feel any difference between solid shots and the rare mis-hit shots. Performance: Looks and feel are important, but if you're a distance-glutton, you likely care a lot more about how it performs. Luckily, with these drivers, there's no letdown.
With the standard model, the ball launches high in a hurry to maximize carry—even if you don't have Phil Mickelson-like swing speed. The Hyperbolic face felt hot virtually everywhere, with mis-hits losing only a small amount of distance. In fact, we found the standard model to produce more backspin on off-center hits, which helped keep the ball in the air longer and fly straighter. Again, as with the RAZR Hawk drivers, the 46 inches took some getting used to, but no doubt, once we did, the ball flew a long way, and we didn't notice an increase in mis-hits.
With the Diablo Octane Tour, however, we noticed a huge difference between it and the standard model. For starters, it shares a lot of the same technologies of the standard model, but does it in a very different set of parameters.
The deep-face design and smaller overall size is more suited for the faster swinger who wants to hit bigger, more towering drives but doesn't want the added backspin and ballooning that sometimes comes with cc drivers.
With the Diablo Octane Tour, the ball flew in a high but much more boring trajectory than the standard model—making it ideal for big hitters with faster-than-average swing speeds. It too was uncannily forgiving for a "Tour" driver, considering we found it difficult to discern what was a solid hit vs. Both drivers came equipped with Project X graphite shafts for better stability and overall distance.
Bottom Line: The Diablo Octane drivers are made for golfers who want the most distance and forgiveness they can get out of a driver.
The standard model performs very well for moderate swing speeds—faster swingers may find the ball to fly too high and with too much spin—although a properly fitted shaft might mitigate that.
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