4.5
Low spin and forgiveness
Pros: Thanks to their radical cavity back design (a.k.a. the large chunk missing from the rear portion of the sole), the Nike Covert and Covert Tour drivers less spin and are more
forgiving than previous models. Surprisingly, they also have a very pleasing sound. Their adjustable hosel system, Flex Loft, is also one of the widest ranging and most intuitive in the
industry.
Cons: Not everyone will love the shiny red paint and the white Nike Swoosh on their crown. Flex Loft is easy to use, but it's not as fine-tuned as other systems, allowing only 1.5-
degree changes in face angle (from neutral) and 1-degree adjustments through its 5- degree loft range. The drivers also lack a non- invasive way to adjust swing weight, which would have been nice to have.
The Takeaway: The Covert and Covert Tour drivers will be hard to beat for golfers who are looking to reduce spin without parting ways with forgiveness. That's why for the first time,
Nike will have non-Nike Golf fans interested in its driver. It's cool, it's adjustable and it's long
and straight.
Overview
Before Covert, we never had a reason to play a Nike driver.
Sure, Tiger and the rest of the Nike Golf staff played one. But at GolfWRX, we tend to measure the success of equipment by the usage habits of golfers who are
not getting paid to play
certain equipment. For Nike
drivers, that number was low.
We didn't know what to say when we first saw the Nike VR_S Covert driver. Unlike the company's position in some other sports, Nike is the new kid on the block in golf. And here they were in 2013 attempting to sell consumers a driver with one-third of its sole missing. And it was red. And it had a Swoosh on the crown. Were they crazy? Tiger was never going to hit that. But as the technology behind the Covert drivers began to leak out, we suddenly became very interested.
Performance For years, industry leader TaylorMade has been touting its movement of the center of gravity lower and more forward in the head, which helps create the high-launch, low-spin conditions golfers need to optimize their launch angles. But there's a problem with moving the weight really far forward in a driver head – it decreases MOI, or in layman's terms, it makes a driver less forgiving.
That's why the cavity-back design of the Covert drivers makes perfect sense. The removal of mass from the rear portion of the driver sole gave Nike engineers more discretionary weight to put in other places – not just forward, but in the rear corners as well, which boosts forgiveness. So even though the standard Covert driver measures 460 cubic centimeters and the Tour model measures 430, Nike's slick engineering makes them play larger and faster than that
Source: golfwrx
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