Taylormade has taken two of its best technologies for customization and allowed them both to be used together in its R9 and R9 SuperTri drivers. Tea CTF and MWT The features that are now available create a wealth of custom options and while it’s great to be able to customize your controller, it can get quite confusing. Well that’s where we come in, we’ll provide you with instructions so you can take your new R9 controller and turn it into an amazing weapon that will completely change your golf game forever.
The FCT feature stands for Flight Control Technology, which involves unscrewing the shaft, twisting it to the setting you want, and then screwing it back onto the clubhead. There are 4 main options, L, R, N, NU, with 4 more options in the middle for a total of 8. We will describe below what effect the FCT settings have on the face angle, lie, loft when the head of the stick is square at impact and trajectory bias.
The MWT feature, which has been around since the R7 Quad, is Taylormade’s Moving Weight Technology. The Quad R7 had 4 weights that you could adjust while the R9 drivers only have 3 weights as you can also use the FCT technology to move the ball’s trajectory. R9 drivers come standard with two 1-gram weights and one 16-gram weight. Below is more information showing what effect the positions of these weights have on your trajectory.
FCT Instruction
The following graphs show you how each FCT position affects the face angle, orientation, pitch, and toolpath bias.
Note: The lofts in the chart below are when the clubhead is square at impact. Negative numbers for path skew mean a skew to the left or a draw skew.
CTF positionFace Angle, Lie, Loft, Toolpath Skew
8.5 Loft Drivers
position 1R2 Open, 59, 7.5, 16
position 2NR1 Open, 58.5, 8.0, 10
position 3 NU-R1 Open, 59.5, 8.0, 8
position 4NSquare, 58, 8.5, -2
position 5 NUDESquare, 60, 8.5, -6
position 6 NU-L1 Closed, 59.5, 9.0, -16
position 7NL1 Closed, 58.5, 9.0, -18
position 8L2 Closed, 59.0, 9.5, -24
9.5 Loft Drivers
position 1R2 Open, 59, 8.5, 16
position 2NR1 Open, 58.5, 9.0, 10
position 3 NU-R1 Open, 59.5, 9.0, 8
position 4NSquare, 58, 9.5, -2
position 5 NUDESquare, 60, 9.5, -6
position 6 NU-L1 Closed, 59.5, 10.0, -16
position 7NL1 Closed, 58.5, 10.0, -18
position 8L2 Closed, 59.0, 10.5, -24
10.5 Loft Drivers
position 1R2 Open, 59, 9.5, 16
position 2NR1 Open, 58.5, 10.0, 10
position 3 NU-R1 Open, 59.5, 10.0, 8
position 4NSquare, 58, 10.5, -2
position 5 NUDESquare, 60, 10.5, -6
position 6 NU-L1 Closed, 59.5, 11.0, -16
position 7NL1 Closed, 58.5, 11.0, -18
position 8L2 Closed, 59.0, 11.5, -24
MWT Instructions
If you’re trying to use simple logic and physics, then you shouldn’t have too much trouble learning Taylormade’s MWT technology. You can use MWT on top of FCT to increase the draw or fade bias you want even more.
The simple logic behind moving the toolpath bias from left to right and vice versa is as follows. If you add more weight to the heel of the club, you can expect the toe of the club to be lighter and therefore close faster through impact, providing more draw bias or right-to-left trajectory. If you increase the weight on the toe of the club, the toe will close more slowly through impact, resulting in a left to right hit or fade. If you have more weights available and want to know how it will affect the height of your units, read on. The more weight you add towards the front of the golf club, the lower the ball will fly, since you are moving the CG (center of gravity) closer to the face. Whereas, the more weight you put in the center of the back of the clubhead, the higher your trajectory will be as you are pushing the center of gravity further back. This would also increase your turning speed as well.
The chart below is a basic guide to the 3 weights that come with the R9.
Toe, Center, Heel – Trajectory Bias
16g, 1g, 1g – Fade Bias
1g, 16g, 1g – Straight
1g, 1g, 16g – Draw bias