Titleist GT4 Golf Driver

Features of the Titleist GT4 Golf Driver
The Titleist GT4 has been designed by Titleist to offer exceptional low-spin performance.
GT4 is designed for players looking to eliminate sub-optimal spin rates – usually over 3,000 RPMs – to create a more penetrating and efficient ball flight. GT4’s dual-spin control settings allow golfers to choose between more aggressive spin reduction or a more balanced and stable setting with more moderate spin reduction. This is accomplished by flipping a heavier (11 gram) and lighter (3 gram) weight between two positions. GT4 also has a smaller profile than the GT2 and GT3 models at 430cc.
 
GT4’s performance improvements begin with its Seamless Thermoform Crown and Split Mass Construction, as Titleist engineers pushed its internal mass distribution farther apart, maintaining back-weighted stability while driving CG forward for greater spin reduction.
 

About the Titleist GT Golf Driver Family
Titleist GT2, GT3 and GT4 golf driver models deliver a generational leap in Titleist driver design.  Already the the most played driver on the PGA TOUR for five years and counting, Titleist GT driver models are the most advanced and best-performing drivers to ever bear the Titleist script.

GT2, GT3 and GT4 drivers are engineered to deliver total driver performance without sacrifice. In addition to exceptional looks, feel and sound, the new line is faster, longer, straighter and more forgiving across the face than any Titleist driver to precede it.
 
The Titleist GT line consists of three models:
- GT2 is designed for speed and forgiveness across the face with a higher-MOI setup
- GT3 is designed for fine-tuned speed and control, maximising distance and optimising flight
- GT4 is a low-spin, 430cc driver designed to eliminate excessive spin and deliver a fast, penetrating trajectory

Each driver in the Titleist GT line features an all-new Seamless Thermoform Crown comprised of a new Proprietary Matrix Polymer. This unique, ultra-light material allowed Titleist engineers to place discretionary mass in the optimal locations for each model, providing exceptional speed and stability with GT’s Split Mass Construction. GT maintains the classic Titleist driver look at address with a clean transition between the crown and the club’s titanium body, and the acoustic properties of the Proprietary Matrix Polymer preserve a player-preferred sound and feel. Refined aerodynamics increase clubhead speed, and a new Speed Ring and VFT face design contributes to faster ball speed on centre and off-centre strikes. The sum of these advancements creates an exceptionally fast driver that offers extremely consistent spin and launch conditions across the face.
 

Seamless Thermoform Crown
Each model in the GT lineup features an ultra-lightweight crown made from a new Proprietary Matrix Polymer. The material, never used previously in golf clubhead design, afforded Titleist engineers unprecedented design solutions regarding internal weight positioning, unlocking gains across multiple categories of driver performance. The crown is wrapped to the sole using an advanced thermoforming process, resulting in a clean look with no visible seam or transition between material.  In moving to a multi-material construction, one of the top priorities from Titleist’s R&D team was to preserve the classic sound of Titleist metals. The unique acoustic properties of the Proprietary Matrix Polymer allowed Titleist engineers to fine-tune tremendous sound and feel while still maximising the weight-saving gains from GT’s new construction.

Split Mass Construction
The weight savings that resulted from GT’s Thermoform Crown gave Titleist engineers the ability to re-position discretionary weight in optimal positions within the clubhead. Mass was strategically pushed both towards the front of the club, unlocking greater speed through CG placement, and towards the rear, offering stable, high-MOI performance. CG placements across the three models vary, giving players the opportunity to find the right combination of speed, launch angle and spin for their games with three unique setups.  The discretionary mass gained from the Thermoform Crown allowed Titleist to move the centre of gravity exactly where they want it.  The mass savings were distributed, isolating it incredibly low and forward, and taking the remainder of the mass and pushing it to the back of the head.  Titleist were able to get incredible speed along with stability from that balanced mass position.
 
Improved Aerodynamics
Improvements to internal construction and weight distribution have allowed greater optimisation of aerodynamics across the three models, a breakthrough that was previously impossible to execute due to design constraints. The GT drivers feature refined profiles that help reduce drag and increase clubhead speed.
 
Enhanced Speed Ring with VFT
GT’s exceptionally fast face has two key technologies behind it. An upgraded titanium Speed Ring reinforces and stabilises the perimeter of the clubface, which produces maximum ball speed for on-centre strikes, while Variable Face Thickness (VFT) works to preserve consistently fast ball speeds on off-centre strikes, eliminating excessive distance drop-off.  The Speed Ring maximizes COR [coefficient of restitution] on the centre and as a result maximises ball speed.  VFT effectively allows us to discretely thin the face, expanding the sweet spot size and maximising speed on mishits.
 
Tour-Inspired Face Graphics
GT models feature new face graphics, which are designed to frame the ball squarely at address. This change, driven by specific Tour player prototyping and feedback, helps golfers align the golf ball with the centre of the club with more confidence.


What Titleist say about the Titleist GT Golf Driver Family

“When we release a new product, it has to outperform the previous line.  For GT, it needed to be faster than TSR. It needed to be longer and straighter, and it had to sound better, look better and feel better. GT delivers across the board without compromise.”
Josh Talge, VP of Titleist Golf Club Marketing

“The GT line represents a monumental leap forward for Titleist driver design and engineering.  The breakthroughs we made in material, construction, shaping and design weren’t possible in prior generations. All the advancements found in GT are working in concert to create the highest-performing driver we have ever made.”
Stephanie Luttrell, Director, Titleist Metalwood Product Development

“One of our first goals with GT was to make it faster than TSR.  And the only way to achieve our design goals was to break out of an all-titanium construction.  The density of this crown is approximately three times lighter than where we were in an all-titanium construction.  By wrapping the crown down to the sole, we optimise the mass distribution throughout the head, allowing us significant advantages in designing to our centre of gravity and inertia goals.”
Chuck Golden, SVP, Titleist Club Research & Development