Confidence on the golf course is an essential ingredient if you want to play the game consistently and work on reducing your handicap.

Moveable weights in the taylorMade r9 driver's head and the ability to take the head off altogether and put it back with an alternative face angle, loft and lie means I can make my adjustments and really feel the improvement.

Being able to stand over a shot with a clear idea of where you ideally need and want to put the ball in the fairway, is far better than clouding your head with thoughts of whether or not you're going to make a decent strike, avoid the bunkers on the left or miss the bushes down the right.

Most of us, surely, have had the experience that when we hit a trial club on a demo day or take it out on the course for a couple of rounds, our first impression is that we strike it like Nicklaus in his prime. But as soon as we've handed over our precious cash, our confidence drains and we end up playing like Nick Lousy!

After some experimentation, I opted for the straight trajectory from the weights but a Neutral hosel position a setting which promotes a slight fade in a swing that produces straight shots but serves to counter-act my hands getting over-active hands during my flatter swings and hooking shots to the left.

How to adjust the r9 driver - The R9 has a small metallic sleeve positioned over the tip of the shaft. The shaft is secured to the club head with a specially made bolt in the bottom of the club head. The FCT bolt is designed to be retained in the well to eliminate the chance of losing it. At the bottom of the sleeve is a ring of small, gear like teeth, which tightly mesh with a second ring of matching teeth within the hosel. You can change the club head's characteristics (face angle, loft, lie) by loosening the FCT bolt, removing the shaft from the head, rotating the sleeve and shaft into a specified position, then locking them into that position within the head with the FCT bolt.

But today's clubmakers have a few tricks up their sleeve and since it was launched in the US I've fallen for their best yet. I've been totally smitten by the latest TaylorMade R9 driver, a club which has given me a confidence off the tee I thought I might have lost forever.

I tend to draw the ball with a somewhat flat swing plane and getting the timing of my hands through the ball is vital. Now the big, black 10.5 degree clubhead of the TaylorMade R9 just seems to sweep effortlessly through on the end of the Fujikura Motore 65 regular flex shaft and that suddenly become a magic wand of confidence.

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