I recently cracked the face of my beloved TSR3. Based on past experience moving on from 983K, 913, 917 TS3 and TSi heads, I figured moving on from TSR to GT3 would be logical and relatively simple. I have not found that to be the case. FWIW, I’m a scratch and a seasoned tournament player- I’d like to think that I know what I’m doing. While I admit that I built my swing around the TSR, I find that when I make the same swing that I know produces a hold off fade with the TSR, I tend to hit the GT3 straight and sometimes left. The differences are so stark for across the board performance that it seriously perplexes me. I find that to hit the GT3 effectively, I have to change my swing, something I really don’t want to do. Maybe over the winter, but not now. Of course, when I hit the cracked head, it does exactly what I expect it to. The GT3 definitely seems livelier and one would think has more modern technology, but I’m nowhere near as consistent with it and I find that the face towards the toe scoreline seems a touch more closed than the TSR. Visually not as appealing. I guess what I really want a head that plays similar to the TSR.

So two questions: (1) has anyone else experienced this? (2) is there something about the internal construction of the club that is different enough to cause this? Again, never a problem moving on from previous models, but a noticeable difference between these two.