The PT 906 F2 Fairway Wood is keeping the long tradition of Titleist’s commitment to the better players and golf professionals. Having had the ability to hit a lot of their products this season, I was able to review all of their new stuff including their two new fairway woods. Check back for my review of the 906 F4!
The PT 906F2 is your typical Titleist fairway wood. A nice clean head, slightly deeper face with a bore through design. The ability to work this club is incredible like most Titleist fairway woods which is desired by the better players in the game. So what makes this club different from any other Titleist?
First, the research team at Titleist put a lot of time in finding out how some of their tour players contacted the ground at impact. They took all of this data and came up with the Multi-Relief Sole. This design allows for better contact from a number of turf conditions by keeping more of the club off the ground through impact. This helps players that play on tighter fairways as it helps them to pick the ball more cleanly off the turf, and helps to prevent them from hitting behind the ball and skipping into the back of it. From heavier and longer fairways this will help them by keeping the contact to the ground at a minimum and prevent the dreaded fat shot from a perfectly good lie in the short grass!
While I was testing this club I was able to do a lot with it. The club has a higher center of gravity with a square face angle and very neutral weighting. I was able to work the ball any way I wanted and the ball took off with a nice penetrating ball flight. Now, I had trouble getting the ball very high, but that is not what this club is designed to do. (See my review of the 906F4) The clean look of this club adds confidence even before you take your swing. Titleist has always done a good job at listening to not only what the better player wants in terms of playability, but looks as well.
The head is designed much like the driver with its bore-through look and face insert. The club is made up of a 431 stainless steel body with a very lightweight, yet very hard Carpenter 275 steel insert. This adds to the explosiveness of this club and also allows for more weight to be moved around for added playability.
Overall this is a great fairway wood. It will be much better used by the better player or those with faster club head speeds as this club is not designed to launch high, yet at a medium flight and maximum workability. I’ll review the new 906F4 fairway wood next as this is the club for the mid to high handicap player.
Give the Titleist 906F2 a try; you will be surprised at how far Titleist has come in its designs!
