Can A 3D Printed Driver Really Be This Fast?!

Sub 70 just sent me their brand new 3D printed driver and I haven't even opened the box yet. I haven't looked at it. I honestly have no idea what to expect. 3D printed golf clubs are all the rage these days, but they are getting very, very expensive, rightfully so. But Sub 70 says we can deliver a 3D printed driver that performs and it's only $550. So in this video, we're gonna open this together. We're gonna dive into this together for my first time. We're gonna see what it can do on the range. We're gonna get on the launch monitor and then we're gonna take this to the golf course and see what a 3D printed driver can do. So let's open this together. I've only cut the seam just to basically film the B roll of the box not open, but I'm not kidding to you. I have not opened it. Driver is here in the head cover. I got a Ventus black 6X shaft, upgrade shaft, but this is the best one for me. We have the weight kit. The weight kit or just a wrench? I don't know. The old 859 driver came with a weight kit, the 859 Pro, which is an awesome driver for 400 bucks. Sub 70 makes incredible stuff. This is, yeah, we've got some weights in here. 20 gram, 10 gram, 15 gram. So there's a lot of, I guess, adjustability to really dial it in. Like I said, Ventus black 6X Velocor Plus. This is it. Tommy Armour III 3D printed. Really classy head cover in there too. It's a heavy duty head cover. I wish you could feel how heavy that is. So it's got a lot of carbon. And then we have the two weight ports here that we can adjust, but we won't get into that just yet. We just want to see what 3D printed feels like. Cause I've hit a 3D printed driver at the PGA show from Power Built. And I can't really tell you if it felt any different than a regular driver. They know there's 3D printed irons out there. They're obviously using the materials that irons are made of, but they're 3D printing them. And it's making them cost a lot of money, but it's very exciting for a lot of people because the customization that is available with 3D printed golf clubs is the future we feel. So we'll go standard. That's interesting. There's no, usually there's a little bit of a mini ferrule, if you will. That just sits right in there. Got the launch monitor too, just to see what kind of ball speed this thing is producing with range balls. Sub 70 on the face. Like I said, a carbon crown. It feels so light. Cause yeah, it's 3D printed, dude. Let's hit it. So with how light it kind of feels and I don't know what the sound is going to be like. It looks good. And it's just a very classic round-ish shape. That was really easy to hit. 170 ball speed on just a smooth one. Okay. The sound was a little better than I expected. Oh my gosh. A little high on the face. 169 ball speed. Spin came down. It feels like a regular driver. It doesn't feel like a 3D printed plastic toy you see at the fair. That maybe, but that impact. Whoa. I pulled that. I thought that was going to go there. 171 ball speed. There's a wee bit of forgiveness in there. A little high spinner. 170 ball speed. High on the face, but man. 167 ball speed. Ball speed comes down. The sound's pretty, pretty all right. The look is pretty all right. The forgiveness is definitely there, but we know range balls aren't the best representation of numbers. So let's go see what this thing does on the watch monitor. That was an impressive showing on the driving range. And then bringing this beauty in here to see what kind of numbers it can produce was unlike anything I've tested in 2026 or 2025 or 2024. I don't see more than 170 to 171, maybe two ball speed here in the garage. The garage has swing a few miles slower, 115, 116. Maybe on the course I can get like 120, but my Cobra drivers have been the fastest drivers that I've tested in this garage until this. This thing is fast. It feels really, really good. And it's relatively consistent. For whatever reason, the Launch Pro was having a hard time picking up club head speed every time. But if we look at these 10 shots that I hit well, the carry is long, 296, average 171. But if we look in here, we see 174 ball speed in the garage. I've never done that. I maybe have done that when like trying to just destroy something, but not a cruising golf swing. The launch is really steady. The spin is really steady. If I caught it high on the face, the spin came down appropriately. And if I left the face a little bit open, we see the spin go up just over 3000. The forgiveness that I maybe experienced out on the range might not be there when we dive into data, but the spin relative to where I was striking it on the face and in here, I swing a wee bit slower and I swing a little bit more left. For whatever reason, but this thing is fast AF. I've never hit something this fast in the garage. So, so impressed with what this thing can do with a little bit more dialing, messing with those weights because the weights, the 25 at the front, five at the back. Maybe I could put the 20 at the front. Just, I don't necessarily need to mess with the spin or the launch too much, but I need to mess with kind of maybe where I'm hitting it on the face because I can heal it. But if we look at the dispersion of these 10 shots that were struck well, it's really, really impressive. This driver's fast. It's as forgiving as it needs to be for being like a low spinning tour head. The numbers are tight. The tolerances are tight. The launch is great at nine and a half degrees. I've got a tee time this afternoon. I'm going to bump this down just one notch just to make it a little bit lower loft, which maybe brings my launch down a hair, maybe brings my spin down a hair, and that's it. I'm going to go play 18 holes with this. I'm going to bring the launch monitor out there. So we'll just, I'm playing with my buddies. We're still going to have some fun, but I want to see what kind of ball speed this thing can produce on the golf course and see if I can hit this thing and trust this thing as much as I do my gamer and see if sub 70 has replaced another golf club in my bag. So let's go play some golf. Two drives in, the first hole was just a feeler and it was amazing. This is the fifth hole par five, a little spinny on the heel there, 176 ball speed. I mean, the spin was up. You saw that 3,300. Just got to make some better swings. A few times I get the driver out here. This could be really fun. 179 ball speed, 121. Front nine done, not swinging it very well. The path isn't good. I'm hitting it off the heel, but the speed that I'm seeing is really, really impressive. Obviously the spin is high because I'm not hitting it well, wiping it a little bit, flipping with the hands on that one that did get close to 180. So back nine, I'm not gonna do launch one. I'm gonna try to hit some better shots with it and just let the camera run, but speed-wise unmatched. I just need to be swinging better to consider putting this into my bag. All right, back nine, a little bit better. I actually moved the loft down two notches lower and I struck every drive off the center of the face, not on the heel. Some solid drives. This thing is fast. It's pretty forgiving. Obviously I'm not swinging at my best, but sub 70 and a 3D printed driver, hands down the fastest driver I've hit in 2026 or ever for that matter. So I was gonna end things there. On the golf course, this driver is fast and so impressive, but I have had a few more days to think about it. And I think there's more to be said. When I started this, I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know what to expect out of a 3D printed driver. I know sub 70 makes great golf clubs that are just as good as the OEMs for about 75% of the price. This, people may look at it and go, it's 550 bucks. It's basically the same price as an OEM driver. But what I discovered, I hope you discovered, this is as good as, if not better than anything an OEM is producing, numbers-wise, performance-wise, but also tech-wise. Like, yes, sub 70 has their patent pending face that they've put into this driver, but to do a 3D printed titanium driver is a little ahead of its time. Do I think we'll start seeing the OEMs do this? Yes, I do. But to see a DTC do it is ballsy, bold, and impressive. Because what 3D printing ultimately to me in my understanding of it, is it probably keeps their stock low. They don't have to produce a lot of heads to meet demand or hope for demand. They can make these as the demand comes, but we're seeing it with Cobra with their irons. We've seen it with Avoda with their irons. We're seeing other brands start to dabble into the 3D printed space because they can make really great stuff and probably keep their overhead down a little bit more, but are able to tap into what makes golf clubs really perform. And the ball speed that this thing is producing speaks to the capability and the potential of 3D printing. So who is it for? This is an incredible driver for good golfers. If you're looking for speed, distance, low spin, and 550 bucks is something that you're comfortable spending, this, don't look any further. This driver is as good as what I've been trusting in my Cobra Optum. I'm gonna play around with this a little bit more because I can't deny I hit this thing further than anything I've ever hit. If I can't tweak it and dial it to keep my spin on miss hits down, well, then it doesn't stay in the bag, but the performance is so good. And we know sub 70s customer service is unmatched. They care about you, the golfer, and they're setting, I think, a precedent that we're gonna see other DTCs step into, but also other OEM companies step into, like we're seeing Cobra. 3D printing, I believe, is the future of golf. I don't think this is just a one-off trend that we're seeing and no one's going to go down that path. I think we're gonna be seeing a lot of this. It's long, it's fast. I wanted to end it there, but there's so much more to be said about what sub 70 has done with this driver. Sound off in those comments. Do you have it? Because I've had people comment on other sub 70 videos that they have it and they're so impressed. Are you interested in it? What do you think about 3D printing? Do you agree with me? Do you disagree? Sound off in those comments and we'll see you in the next video.