Many better players will appreciate this aspect of the wood, but insecure golfers who prefer larger, wider heads will not. Those who routinely make their mishits high on the toe will definitely want to look elsewhere since this wood has virtually no toe on it at all. This toelessness was not much of a factor on the wider faces of the earlier models, but with the more compact ST, we have had a few bad mishits result from high toe-hits that flew well right of the target line. The up side to the compact, upside-down head design is the fact that so much concentrated mass is applied low to the ball at impact. A very solid and substantial feel results.
Balls launch high.
Distances as well have been more akin to strong 5-wood length than to the Strong 4 designation on the sole. Both have shown considerably more roll. Some of our 5-woods, such as the Golfsmith Tour Steel and Callaway Steelhead Plus have produced trajectories virtually as long and often less high the Tight Lie's. Seventeen degrees can be low enough for a strong 4, but not with as much low, sole weighting as is present with in the ST design. More testing needs to be done with the Tight Lies ST in various conditions, but we have hit it more than enough to say that this is a very accurate wood that looks classy and feels very good.