Nickent 4dx d-spec driver

There is nothing to suggest in any of the specs that the SE comes in a draw-bias model, but for some reason this tester felt a little left-leaning. As with all of Nickents recent driver offerings, the clean lines and traditional shape help to disguise the massive cc head, although with nine degrees of loft, a lot of the face is visible at address.

That takes a little getting used to. Underneath, the jet-pack weight ports so unique to the 4DX line are right where they ought to be, together sporting 16 grams of tungsten weight thats used to move weight to the heel and toe, increasing the MOI and making the whole affair more forgiving and stable at the moment of truth. It would be interesting to try out the SE with a Proforce V2, which is another standard option for Nickent gear and the sort of choice a weekend player is most likely to be satisfied with.

Heres the thing with the 4DX: in terms of feel, its difficult to tell the difference between a mis-hit and flush contact. Thats great if you mis-hit it more often than you flush it.

But before you fall in love with this driver, ask yourself whether youre willing to sacrifice the feel of occasional solid contact for the opportunity not to feel contact near the heel or the toe.

The 4DX can compete with the big boys in terms of distance, to be sure, but I never felt as though it was generating anything exceptional. You wont lose yards with the 4DX, but dont expect to be blown away. Personally, I found myself getting frustrated with the 4DX before too long, mainly because I genuinely couldnt tell when Id made solid contact.

The tradeoff, of course, was that the mis-hits generally found the fairway and lost little in terms of distance. But heres the thing about drivers such as this: if you cant distinguish between the good shots and the bad shots, how are you supposed to ever get any better?

Once again, the lack of feedback makes the SE a club thats difficult to work in either direction. Bottom line: if you struggle to find the centre of the clubface off the tee, the 4DX is going to help mitigate the damage, but at the expense of feel. If youre a strong driver of the golf ball, or if you like to move the ball either left or right, you may want to look for something that allows you to know where on the face youre making contact, and adjust accordingly.

When James McCarten isn't at the Ottawa offices of The Canadian Press, where he works as parliamentary news editor, he's either on the golf course or putting off his latest freelance golf-writing gig to spend time with wife Lisa and school-age kids Claire and Lucas. With 20 years of experience in Canadian journalism, James also suffers from a financially crippling addiction to all things Scotty Cameron.

I found this driver to be outstanding. Now I will say the standard shaft is much too tip soft for me, but after replacing the factory shaft with a 85 gram x stiff V2. This driver is as long and straight as anything out there. Another thing I would say is the square set-up and address makes it very easy to aim and hit down a sidewalk.

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