Takomo Golf Had a Driver Ruled Illegal. The Fix Is Here for $329

Gone are the heel and toe weight ports. In their place: a 10-percent MOI bump, a stiffer crown and a low-back CG built to keep the ball in the air. All for $329.

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The new Takomo Ignis D2 driver hits the streets today.

OK, not the streets, but it does hit the World Wide Web today. That’s cause for both celebration and relief at Takomo HQ in Finland. The launch officially closes the book on one embarrassing episode for the company. At the same time, it opens a fresh, new and conforming chapter as Takomo moves closer to becoming a full-line brand.

Takomo certainly wasn’t planning on releasing a new driver so soon but the kerfuffle with the R&A over the original Ignis D1changed all that. We’ll get into all the gory details of how that all went down later. First, however, let’s examine what Takomo has in its new Ignis D2 driver.

The Takomo Ignis D2 driver: Scandinavian forgiveness

You could say the new Takomo Ignis D2 driver is the anti-Ignis D1. The original Ignis D1 featured swappable rear, heel and toe sole weights to promote a draw or fade bias as well as a ball speed-promoting forward CG. The new Ignis D2 opts for forgiveness and MOI. According to the company, it focuses on high launch, consistent spin and distance by keeping the ball in the air.

The heel and toe weight ports are gone in the D2, leaving just the single weight port in the very rear of the clubhead, with a standard three-gram weight installed. The club comes with an optional eight-gram weight. That weight gives the club even more of a low and back CG which improves forgiveness and increases launch.

“We’ve seen a 10-percent increase in MOI over the Ignis D1,” Takomo Chief Marketing Officer Sean McCullum tells MyGolfSpy. “We’ve also improved sound by adding more rigidity to the crown.”

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Titanium and carbon to the rescue

For a first effort, the original Ignis D1 performed decently enough in this year’s MyGolfSpy driver test. It fared best in the low swing speed category where it finished fourth overall and second for distance. It did, however, have a bit of a sound issue.

As McCullum said, Takomo is adding rigidity to the lightweight carbon crown and its HST160C High Strength Titanium body. We looked up HST160C only to find that it’s more than likely a manufacturer-specific trade name, not a metallurgical designation. It’s a common practice for manufacturers to keep their alloy chemistry confidential. We can, however, venture a couple of educated guesses.

First, it’s titanium, so it’s designed to have an extremely high strength-to-weight ratio.  That allows OEMs to make the driver face as thin as possible for maximum flex while keeping it durable enough to avoid caving in.

Second, the low weight keeps the head as light as possible for optimal CG placement. The Ignis D2 head weighs 197 grams with the three-gram weight installed. That’s right in the sweet spot for most OEM core model drivers. When the eight-gram weight is installed, the head jumps to 202 grams, more in line with max-forgiveness models.

The new Ignis D2 features an eight-position adjustable hosel sleeve. It allows you to adjust loft up or down two degrees in one-degree increments. Lie angle can also be adjusted from standard to a more upright lie which can help mitigate a slice, at least a little.

So why do we have an Ignis D2?  What happened with the D1?

When Takomo launched the original Ignis D1 in August 2025, it did so before securing R&A conformance. That’s not unusual for direct-to-consumer brands as their products tend not to be used in sanctioned competitions. Takomo eventually did submit heads to the R&A (the company is headquartered in Finland, after all, and the R&A rules everywhere outside the U.S. and Mexico) but this past April the Ignis hit the fan.

The R&A found that some of the heads submitted, when the three head weights were placed in a specific configuration, exceeded CT (Characteristic Time) limits. CT measures the amount of time (in milliseconds) that a ball stays in contact with a driver face at impact. In effect, it limits the so-called “trampoline effect.”

“Yeah, the R&A slapped us on the wrist,” McCullum told MyGolfSpy last summer. “It was a huge amateur-hour, growing-pain issue for us.”

The R&A and USGA use the same equipment rules so the D1 was non-conforming in North America as well.  Takomo promptly removed the D1 from its website, contacted its customers to explain the issue and promised to provide them with a new conforming head at no charge.

That new head is, in fact, the Ignis D2. Takomo sent the first shipment of D2 heads to its existing D1 customers to make them whole. Now that they’ve been taken care of, Takomo is ready to launch the new D2 to everyone.

Takomo Ignis D2 driver: Final thoughts, specs and price

One thing I’ve always appreciated about Takomo is its packaging. For a direct-to-consumer brand that features price as its key selling point, its package presentation is second to none. The Ignis D2 arrived in one plain, brown box. However, in that box were two separate branded boxes: a long, thin one for the shaft and a smaller cube for the driver head.

I can’t explain why but that feels premium to me.

The box contains the head packaged securely in a very nice faux-leather headcover, plus a pouch containing the spare head weight and – hold the phone, Earthlings – an honest-to-goodness torque wrench.

Not bad for $329.

We haven’t had the new Ignis D2 out on the course yet but we’ll give you performance updates in the coming weeks.

What we can tell you is the Takomo Ignis D2 is a 460cc head and is available in nine- and 10.5-degree lofts for lefties and righties. Stock shafts are the garden-variety Fujikura Ventus Red and Blue. The Red is available in 5R regular flex and 5S stiff flex. The lower-launching Ventus Blue is available in 5R regular and 5S stiff as well as the heavier 6R regular, 6S stiff and 6X extra stiff.

The Ignis D2 is available now.