Canada
Ok, so rumour had it that today was "Sumo Saturday". Curiousity and boredom got the best of me (and the GF was baking some gawd awful smelling shit), so the shop came a'callin'.
I head down there with intentions of being is impartial towards this Nike as possible. I really don't have a like for Nike stuff, but I wanted to be on the fence with this as it was a new technology and perhaps something that might put Nike on my page.
I won't hold back any longer.
The new Sumo2.
This thing is gargantuan and just about the ugliest thing I have ever seen. The colour scheme is clownshoes, the shaft is just as ugly and the headcover is completely insane. You'd have to be colour blind or blind period to play this thing.
I'm on the fence, remember this.
The thing is straight. That's it. Straight. It goes straight.....and nothing else. BUT, it's extremely loud and ugly loud at that. It feels like you have a 1 qt paint can on the end of stick. Not good. People in the shop were making faces at me when I was hitting this thing. If this thing looked like a TEE or a Hibore or a FT-5, I couldn't play it. It's just a sickening, almost worrysome metallic noise that makes you look at the face as though it's missing some parts. There's really something wrong here.
The shaft flexed all over the place for me. I had no idea where the head was, eerily close to how the NV felt for me. Or maybe it was the small country of a head attached to the end. Who knows, who cares. End of demo.
After hitting this atrosity, I went on to the Sumo. This driver is ugly at address, but it's way more solid and the ball explodes off the face. More spin equals less control, but the club felt like a solid unit. Even the shaft felt better with this head in it.
Sitting on the fence as I walked in, I quickly found myself in familiar territory with Nike equipment as before I walked in. It's not for me. I honestly can't think of anyone that could use this driver (Sumo2) and still go home and kiss their wife afterwards. Ridiculous. The Sumo, however, is a better alternative and could pass as a piece of golf equipment and not be mistaken for an aircraft carrier. The shaft works in it, and the ball flies off the face. However, the colour scheme and address look need some serious work. That "shadowing effect" that they do just sucks.
Scores:
Sumo
Appearance 7/10
Sound 7/10
Feel 8/10
Shaft 8/10
Forgiveness 8/10
Sumo2
Appearance 2/10 (I give it 2 because the face was sorta shiny. Other than that, it has no other astethic qualities)
Sound 0/10
Feel -huh?
Shaft - 1/10
Forgiveness - your guess is as good as mine, but the ball goes straight - every time.
Overall, I would play a Sumo if it was all I could rent. I'd never buy one. And there's not a hope you could get me to play a Sumo2. I'd play 3 wood all day.
The saddest part of this story takes me back to waiting for some time in the sim with the Nike's. I hit the putting green and tried out a few putters that had escaped my grasp in the past. Some Yes!'s, a few Callys, even a Ping (old school Anser).
Sigh.
I now sit at home here with a new ITrax from Callaway. I've hit this thing before and really liked it. But today took the cake. I hit 35 putts of 16 feet and sunk 32. 18 from one direction and 17 from another. By the end I was making putts with my eyes closed. I started to put it back on the shelf and the store manager comes up and says "I watched you hit every one of those putters and you ripped it up with the Itrax. Give me 60 bucks and it's yours."
Cripes.
I'm happy I have a solid putter in the bag. But now I have some competition. This thing really - really - rolls the rock.
I need help. Seriously.
R35
I head down there with intentions of being is impartial towards this Nike as possible. I really don't have a like for Nike stuff, but I wanted to be on the fence with this as it was a new technology and perhaps something that might put Nike on my page.
I won't hold back any longer.
The new Sumo2.
This thing is gargantuan and just about the ugliest thing I have ever seen. The colour scheme is clownshoes, the shaft is just as ugly and the headcover is completely insane. You'd have to be colour blind or blind period to play this thing.
I'm on the fence, remember this.
The thing is straight. That's it. Straight. It goes straight.....and nothing else. BUT, it's extremely loud and ugly loud at that. It feels like you have a 1 qt paint can on the end of stick. Not good. People in the shop were making faces at me when I was hitting this thing. If this thing looked like a TEE or a Hibore or a FT-5, I couldn't play it. It's just a sickening, almost worrysome metallic noise that makes you look at the face as though it's missing some parts. There's really something wrong here.
The shaft flexed all over the place for me. I had no idea where the head was, eerily close to how the NV felt for me. Or maybe it was the small country of a head attached to the end. Who knows, who cares. End of demo.
After hitting this atrosity, I went on to the Sumo. This driver is ugly at address, but it's way more solid and the ball explodes off the face. More spin equals less control, but the club felt like a solid unit. Even the shaft felt better with this head in it.
Sitting on the fence as I walked in, I quickly found myself in familiar territory with Nike equipment as before I walked in. It's not for me. I honestly can't think of anyone that could use this driver (Sumo2) and still go home and kiss their wife afterwards. Ridiculous. The Sumo, however, is a better alternative and could pass as a piece of golf equipment and not be mistaken for an aircraft carrier. The shaft works in it, and the ball flies off the face. However, the colour scheme and address look need some serious work. That "shadowing effect" that they do just sucks.
Scores:
Sumo
Appearance 7/10
Sound 7/10
Feel 8/10
Shaft 8/10
Forgiveness 8/10
Sumo2
Appearance 2/10 (I give it 2 because the face was sorta shiny. Other than that, it has no other astethic qualities)
Sound 0/10
Feel -huh?
Shaft - 1/10
Forgiveness - your guess is as good as mine, but the ball goes straight - every time.
Overall, I would play a Sumo if it was all I could rent. I'd never buy one. And there's not a hope you could get me to play a Sumo2. I'd play 3 wood all day.
The saddest part of this story takes me back to waiting for some time in the sim with the Nike's. I hit the putting green and tried out a few putters that had escaped my grasp in the past. Some Yes!'s, a few Callys, even a Ping (old school Anser).
Sigh.
I now sit at home here with a new ITrax from Callaway. I've hit this thing before and really liked it. But today took the cake. I hit 35 putts of 16 feet and sunk 32. 18 from one direction and 17 from another. By the end I was making putts with my eyes closed. I started to put it back on the shelf and the store manager comes up and says "I watched you hit every one of those putters and you ripped it up with the Itrax. Give me 60 bucks and it's yours."
Cripes.
I'm happy I have a solid putter in the bag. But now I have some competition. This thing really - really - rolls the rock.
I need help. Seriously.
R35
. I might recheck next time and see if the prices have dropped. I've been thinking of changing from a blade to a mallet putter just to try something different.
