Equipment
Welcome Black: TaylorMade extends AeroBurner and R15 offerings
Since their release in January, golfers have been able to buy TaylorMade’s most popular driver, the R15 460, in either black or white, depending on their preference. But the company took the Henry Ford approach with its other metal woods — you could have any color you wanted, as long as it was white.
Today, TaylorMade announced the addition of black models of its AeroBurner driver, R15 and R15 TP fairway woods, and R15 and R15 TP hybrids, which will ship on May 22.
While bright-colored heads are no longer as taboo as they once were, there is still a group of golfers who hesitate to play clubs that are anything but the traditional hues of black, gray and silver. Kudos to TaylorMade for supporting that segment of players.
Black TaylorMade AeroBurner Driver ($299)
Black TaylorMade R15 Fairway Wood ($279)
Black TaylorMade R15 Hybrid ($219)
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At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals who all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.
It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.
Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, @Putt4Dough is selling some prototype wedges from Vokey Wedgeworks. These include a 54 degree wedge with the M grind and a 60 degree wedge with a T grind.
From the listing:
(1) Titleist Vokey Proto Wedge 54M with a Tour Issue DGS400 shaft and Golf Pride Tour Velvet (logo down). Standard length, lie, and loft. BB&F ferrule. Raw wedge in good condition. No initials. Price is $200 shipped. Buy both wedges for $380 shipped.
(2) Titleist Vokey Proto Wedge 60T with a KBS Tour 130X shaft and Golf Pride Tour Velvet. Standard length, lie, and loft. Raw wedge in good condition. No initials. Price is $200 shipped. Buy both wedges for $380 shipped.
To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link. If you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum, you can learn more here: GolfWRX BST Rules.
Driver: Callaway Quantum Triple Diamond (9 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Blue RDX 60 TX
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS T1100 70 6.5
5-wood: TaylorMade SIM2 Max (18 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black RDX 80 TX
Irons: Srixon ZXiU (23 degrees), Srixon Z785 MB (5-PW)
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Shafts: KBS Tour 130 X
Putter: Odyssey Dual Force Rossie II
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
This week, we have our Tour Photographer, Greg Moore, on the ground at the OccuNet Classic at Tascosa Golf Club in Amarillo, Texas, for the 14th event of the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour season. With that, we see some great things in the Lead Tape Report as we roll into Amarillo.
Joel Thelen
Monday Qualifier, Joel Thelen is in the field this week. He has played on the Korn Ferry Tour for a full season in 2023, and he is back in action this week. A couple of clubs caught my eye this week in his bag.
First off: His trusted Titleist 816 H2 hybrid. This club came out in October of 2015, and it still remains strong in the bag. Also, take a look at this Odyssey White Hot OG 7, putting a capital S in the 7S model. This custom neck has some impressive lean for an arm-lock-style putter. The bottom of the putter is covered in tape for optimal weighting.
Mitchell Meissner
Taking a look at Mitchell Meissner’s bag this week, we have some great lead tape coverage. Top to bottom working from fairway metals, irons, and wedges. We can see on the short irons and wedges that there is tape at the base of the grip, adding a little counterbalance. Along with that, some tape on the short irons and wedges as well. Moving to his putter, he rolls the Odyssey 7 Bird putter. Meissner putts left-handed and strikes the ball right-handed.
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James
May 19, 2015 at 11:01 pm
No TP or Aeroburner woods? Booooo!
gwillis7
May 19, 2015 at 8:28 pm
The black Aeroburner looks WAY better than the white, I actually really like the look.
BUT…won’t be buying it, love my (horrible selling, but awesome performing) Jetspeed too much
Matt
Aug 25, 2015 at 1:32 pm
The Jetspeed was so highly underappreciated. While I don’t play it, I would definitely go buy it right now if I was in the market for a new driver. It’s so cheap right now that I’ve referred 4 friends to it in the past few months and they’ve all picked it up from globalgolf for under $100 (used) and couldn’t be happier. If you wanted the driver, 3wood and hybrid, you could get all 3 of them used from globalgolf for under $200…..and that’s one hell of a deal! Even if you bought them new, they are pretty cheap online at like RBG. It baffles me how any golf manufacturer can make a profit when they bring out new drivers every year for $400-$600 that only offer a little improvement over the previous couple of models. The newest stuff might be better than 2013 stuff, but is it $300 worth better??
soreno
May 19, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Well the white Aero’s did not sell at my shop soooo maybe the black well. Hopefully they got rid of the nasty ugly Aero Burner decal on the shaft. Oh well Keep trying TM!
LorenRobertsFan
May 19, 2015 at 1:55 pm
Was really hoping the AB TP would have been included!
PROTOTYPE
May 18, 2015 at 11:11 pm
Paint a SLDR black; problem solved. BAM
Rich
May 18, 2015 at 9:22 pm
Oh nooooooooo. The only thing stopping me from getting an R15 HL 3 wood was that it only came in White. DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rich
May 20, 2015 at 10:25 pm
Don’t have to worry now. TMAG Australia won’t be bringing the black ones out here. The line I got from the guy on the phone was, “they won’t be coming out to the pacific region anytime soon and no you can’t custom order” and when I asked why he said “it’s not something that he could discuss with the general public”. Guess I won’t be buying an R15 fairway after all. Will look at something from Titleist or Ping I guess, maybe even tour edge exotics. How stupid is that, they will do the black driver here but not the fairway and hybrid. That is dumb with a capital D!
Curt
May 18, 2015 at 1:10 pm
Thank goodness, I just can’t play white heads and I spend a couple a grand every year on clubs!! Good move TM, been wanting the AB fairways but just was not going to play white!
Dave
May 18, 2015 at 11:55 am
Why does TM insist in making it impossible for small shop owners 🙁 Too many damn models and options. In order to display every option the shop will be full before you know it! And whats even worse is that in 2 months time everything is old because the new one is waiting. Same goes for Callaway :/ (long live Ping and Titleist for that matter)
Mike
May 18, 2015 at 3:01 pm
Next year will be interesting for Titleist once they become a public company. They will have the same pressures as TM and will face the same stock pressures which will force out more products and faster life cycles.
Matt
May 19, 2015 at 12:40 pm
+1 to Mike for that comment, Hopefully they try and stick with the traditional release cycle.
Jang Hyung-sun
May 18, 2015 at 10:40 am
I don’t like TM but this black new style driver looks good, can’t never go wrong with classic black. I hate that white driver….it look like it’s made for guys that might have feeling for other guy I think?
Robert
May 18, 2015 at 10:31 am
they just can’t help themselves.