I am asked, more times than I can count “where does Rankmark get testers from?” What makes it possible for your company to find a great many impartial, average players who are willing to show up at a specific time and place to spend hours testing and accurately reporting which clubs are “best”? In the case of drivers that cost anywhere between $150 and $500, most testers would like to try and compare them prior to plunking down their hard earned cash.

Another factor is that certain design features that manufacturers say “add to the playability of a club” can be found so distracting that some players find they “would never buy a club so ugly.”

We at Rankmark were given the task of selecting 24 different drivers. All were thought by us or the manufacturers to be competitive and if put to the test could certainly end up “best”.

Each club was placed in a group of 6 so that they could be easily compared. Each was tested for feel, accuracy, and distance – awarding 5 points for first, 4 for second, 3 for third, 2 for forth, and one for fifth.

Since this Randmark scoring system seems to have a 5% margin of error and our usual cut line of 30 points or more (all the way down to 28) the leaders who would continue to the second stage of testing included;