Rick tries a 1991 Callaway Big Bertha chauffeur & compares it to the 2023 Callaway Paradym!
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Surely it can’t be like hitting a 3 wood Rick, you never topped one 😉
Can you do this test with the same shaft?
Can we get the same length shaft on that Bertha and revisit this? Id be interested to see the club head technology isolated.
I’d love to see you review a 19 degree Ram Bore Thru 5 wood, the club head is almost the same size as the ball but it hits incredibly great!
Love the comparison. I’m curious about the last wooden driver to market. How does the best of persimmon tech compare to the best in steel and carbon?
Would LOVE to see a retro break 75. Research old tee and distances from 30-40 years ago, then match with equipment (clubs and balls). Just to see what they would have been dealing with and how hard it would have been.
Marvelous idea 🎉❤!
You can get sort of an idea by watching the 1972, 1982, 1992, 2000, and 2019 US Opens held at Pebble Beach. Same course, different equipment, different distances to holes.
I have two persimmon Wilson woods a 3 and 5, they are lovely but replaced with newer kit. I also have from my dad a big Bertha driver same as Rick shows here.
I now play g400 3W and g425 max driver
Absolutely agree on this. I myself only play old clubs due to financial reason, but I love them all. Like £10 Ping Eye2 3 – sw and now even a £10 Dunlop Maxfli Australian Blades DI +2-sw
Would be Interesting to see what this head will do with the Modern Shaft fitted in the Paradym
Agreed, get a modern shaft in the old driver and the gaps will surely close
Yes….and at least a shaft of equal length. This comparison is interesting…but two variables muddy the water a bit. Also it would be interesting to explore the ‘gear effect’ that the older driver faces employed which tends to straight out off center strikes more than the ‘trampoline’ faces we have in the modern drivers.
Through a modern shaft, he could potentially get his club speed up to the same as the Paradym. He was lacking about 5mph in the BB, so he could potentially add 10 more yards to it. The smash factor won’t change from the shaft change, so it would still be 1.41, bringing his ball speed to about 152mph, compared to 158mph with the Paradym. So theoretically he would potentially carry the BB in the low 260s.
Lol. Everything thing would change, sound, dynamic loft, nothing would be the same impossible to predict, one thing I do know is a 45.5” playing length with a ventus shaft would give him 10+ yds easily
It’s why I think the rules should limit driver heads to ≈225cc. The marketers try to make people think they can buy strokes. You can’t and your driver isn’t even 1/4 of the game — wedges and putters are where it’s at, and so-called technology doesn’t matter very much even there. Just make sure your clubs fit pretty well and play more. You can do fine with secondhand clubs. Keep track of greens in regulation, up and down, three-putts. If getting one more or one fewer would make a difference in your season, maybe look at equipment with a realistic pro.
Had one in high school and they were game changers in the 90’s playing with Balata balls and the new Titleist wound Professional. The good ole days.
Ah, balata balls…I used to get a box of 100 balata lake balls delivered, it was like xmas when they arrived 🙂
It is pretty interesting that the spin was so similar with the Big Bertha. Usually I expect higher spin from older clubs, but this one seems to be all down to ball speed. The club face is definitely hotter these days.
We need a Great Big Bertha Ti driver next. Or an old Titleist 975D or TM Burner(og) to new. Also, would love to see this again with a modern graphite shaft in the Big Bertha. I still use my old Steelhead driver like a mini driver when its windy.😊
975D possibly the greatest driver ever made, had to have a decent amount of game to use it though.
The driver a lot of people used before this was the Taylormade midsize system 2. We called it the “Flex Twist” after the name of the shaft.
Love these videos. How about a marathon one where you test a Callaway driver for each year?
i love this. i’m a less than casual golfer, but want to get out more. my driver is ancient, and it’s great to see the value in what upgrading can bring.
It would be interesting to see a comparison of the 2 drivers with the same length shaft
Once upon a time, my first driver was the “Biggest Big Bertha”. Loved that driver. I ended up replacing it with the Nike Sumo SQ driver lol. I love my Cobra SZ driver, but the Bertha will always have a place in my heart 😊
Hi Rick, I love these videos… but what would be really good would be if you could test every callaway driver that was released every year, from 90’s until now, then compare performance from one year to the next, to see which years really made the difference to club performance! i’d be intrigued, especially when you compare the difference to club cost!
I’m still playing with a set of the Big Bertha woods as well as the 2002 Big Bertha irons. I got them used, they are a big step up from the King Cobra knock offs I was playing with before. In 31 years, I hope to be able to acquire a Paradym driver. I’ll remember this review for when I finally get to swing one of those. 🙂
I love my Paradym! Tried every driver of the year pretty much in my fitting. I’m a high handicapper but the standard Paradym suited me best. Looks beautiful too!
That was my first “new to me” driver when I was in high school in the late 90’s. Got it used in a 2nd hand sports store.. LOVED that thing! It was such a huge upgrade over the old persimmon driver (Wilson maybe?) I had previously in my ‘hand me down’ set when I was first starting out.
Graphite shafts were actually the default on the Bertha and the extra weight of the steel shaft would account for a few yards as well. Would be interesting to see what the difference would have with identical shafts. Also goes to show you can pick up a set of second hand clubs for half nothing that you can have a perfectly decent game with.
I’d be interested to see you put a longer shaft on the Big Bertha driver and then see what happens. Like, how much does the head do? If you could get an extra 4 mph on the club head speed, how much more yardage would that translate to? Cool comparison, but I really want to see that! 🙂