 Great club to use, very forgiving, but hits high shots Review created: 03/30/06(updated 04/04/06) 48 of 54 people found this review helpful.
Okay, first off, for those unaware, there were 2 types of clubs in the first Rescue series. The Rescue Mid and The Rescue Fairway
The Rescue Mid is a nice little club, but to be honest, it has a slight tendency to draw the ball, which I found really annoying, and is why Taylormade released the Rescue Dual model. Ask any pro or golf shop dealer what the general consensis was on the Mid range, and they will tell you a slight draw is common. But they are very easy to use, and from the rough, they are 2nd to none, producing long easy shots, as the shafts are a lot shorter than their cousin, the Rescue Fairway. The lofts come in the following:
2h - 16 degrees
3h - 19 degrees
4h - 22 degrees
5h - 25 degrees
The Rescue Fairway is a fantastic club. They come in 3 models, but be careful, they claim to be a 3Wood a 5Wood and a 7Wood, but the lofts are a little incorrect. All the Fairway models, produce a fairly high flying ball, but reasonably long and penetrating which is great. They do not fade or draw badly, and if they are hit well, they go dead straight, its amazing to watch.
The 3Wood is fantastic, but its 17 degrees, so it hits more like a 4 Wood. It is so so easy to hit long straight shots that I fell in love with this club.
I often prefer this club to a driver as it is often better to be only 190 yards down the fairway, than 240 yards into the water.
The 5Wood is also exceptional, but it is 20 degrees, so again, its tendency is more to be a 6Wood, and can sometimes hit quite a very high ball, but still gives fantastic accuracy.
The 7Wood is useless, its more like an 8 or 9 wood, and bubbles a lot, so that you're better off just using a 7 iron.
The lofts of the Rescue Fairway are:
3Wood - 17 degrees
5Wood - 20 degrees
7Wood - 23 degrees
Having said all that, I would strongly suggest that you try the Ben Hogan range of clubs aswell, and see which you prefer, as I found the Hogan and the Taylor Made were the best of all the rescue models that companies have made.
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I don't know about you but I would love to consistantly hit a 2 or 3 iron. I'd kill to be able to consistantly have the accuracy of a mid-iron but hit it 200--230 and at the target. Sometimes I can, but the "sometimes" can result in high numbers on long par fours and fives.
A number of players in my (mid) handicap group have long gone with a "rescue"-type club. "Rescue" is what TaylorMade called their hybrid iron/wood or wood/iron and have set the standard in the industry. I haven't been a major fan of TaylorMade clubs with a few exceptions. I don't have a "Brand Identification" issue, I simply hit a lot of different clubs and have settled on their products only a couple of times. The Firesole driver was my first titanium club; the bubble-shafted fairway woods have had a place in my bag at one time or another.
When I finally decided on going with a hybrid, my first choice was the Hogan Edge CFT hybrid 3 steel shafted. I settled on the 3 rather than buying a 2 and a 4, which I had hit courtesy of a friend. I loved the feel and the distance initially, but after getting used to the club, disliked my tendancy to hook the ball. I couldn't fade a shot with the club and the persistance of the draw made distance control difficult.
I normally play Ping G2 fairway woods, and because the G5 hybrid hadn't been released, I traded the Hogan for a Cleveland Halo 19* graphite shafted hybrid because it most closely resembled the Ping technology and word of mouth was excellent. I really liked the Cleveland Quadpro fairway woods and only replaced them with the Pings because they were even more accurate and easy to hit. Unfortunately, the Halo had the same accuracy issues as the Quadpro woods. The club produced a straight ball flight, but, like the Quadpros(and incidentally, when I had tried them, the Launcher drivers), the line-of-flight was not necessarily the line I had setup to hit. I think the Cleveland stock graphite shaft's torque characteristics are not quite right for my swing.
Finally, I hit Callaway, Nike, Ping and TaylorMade hybrids on an indoor range and, mainly on the basis of feel, I traded the Halo straight across for a new Taylormade Rescue Mid 19* with a steel shaft.
The Rescue performs the job I'd been hoping for. It's a true utility club. I can hit it long, straight and on target. I can hit from tight lies and long rough, sidehill, up and downhill lies, knock it down, cut it, draw it, trust it.
As far as I can tell, the original Rescue mid does everything a utility club is supposed to do and can't imagine that the new Rescue Dual can be a gigantic improvement, but who knows, technology surprises me.
At the current price point, $99 new, the club's a great value and the resultant price drop at auction on ebay makes the TaylorMade Rescue Mid a must-have for players looking for a Hybrid that does what they're supposed to do.
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