Titleist GTS2 Review

Titleist arrives late to every driver cycle and usually arrives right, and the GTS2 keeps that record intact. The head is longer front to back than the GT2 it replaces, which pushes the center of gravity rearward and lifts stability on off center strikes, and the difference is easy to feel on a heel miss where the old head would twist and this one mostly holds. The face is new, built to protect ball speed high on the face where amateurs actually strike drivers rather than where tour players do, and the profile is cleaner through the downswing.

There are front and rear weight ports where the GT2 had rear only, so a fitter can move the center of gravity fore and aft to tune launch and spin without changing heads. Shifting the bias left or right is still a job for the bigger heads in the line. What it is not is a revolution, and Titleist has not pretended otherwise. Speed gains over the previous generation are small, and a golfer with a well fitted GT2 has no reason to move.

Sound and feel are the usual restrained Titleist crack, firmer and quieter than a TaylorMade, which most better players prefer and a few find muted. Price is the sore point. At just under seven hundred dollars before you touch the premium shaft list, this is tied for the most expensive mainstream driver on the market and fifty dollars clear of the tier below it, well above where drivers sat two years ago, and the performance gain does not scale with the bill. It is the best driver Titleist makes and it is priced like it.