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Two GM readers look to find the perfect club from Taylormade’s GAPR range to optimise their long-distance options…

Two GM readers test out Taylormade’s GAPR range

For most of us, the middle part of our 14-club line-up tends to take care of itself via our iron set, with decisions then to be made over our ideal wedge and long-range selections.

With greater choice than ever, and many golfers now carrying more wedges, getting things spot on at the long end can be tricky. Taylormade launched its new GAPR range in mid-2018 to address that very problem and make it easier for golfers of all abilities to find their ideal gap-bridging options at the long end of their sets.

“One of the most difficult problems to solve is the gapping distance between maybe the longest iron and the fairway wood,” Matt Byrne, fitting tour manager for Taylormade, told us when we went to West Hill with readers Alex Malpass and Andrew Judkins to help them fine-tune the longer end of their bags. “GAPR has been conceived to plug that gap for all ranges of golfers via three models – Hi, Mid and Lo – which both look and launch differently, performing pretty much as you would expect from their names, with varying degrees of playability and forgiveness.”

But could Matt help Alex and Andrew pinpoint their ideal GAPR model? Here’s how they got on…