This is the first installment of what will quickly become a recurring segment on our YouTube Channel. In this first episode of Quick Hits, our Sam Robinson shares his initial impressions of the new Orlimar V18 Driver.
That’s right, the Orlimar brand is back!
Available through Hireko Golf, the V18 features a unique 360° adjustable weight system. As you’ll see in the video, it also features some unique acoustics as well.
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| Driver Ping G30 | Hybrids PXG 0317 |
| 3/4 IRON PXG 0311XF | 5-GW Srixon Z 565 |
| SW PXG 0317 | LW PXG 0311 |
| Putter EVNROLL |
6 years ago
Back in the day I use to rotate Orlimar Tri-Metals(distance) with Tight Lies (accuracy) and/or Warbirds (distance + accuracy}. good memories. Hope these new versions are quality with good price point.
6 years ago
Whats in a name, Ping Callaway Taylormade make great clubs but when a driver starting price is $400 they should be a great club . Orlimar once made a great fairway wood ( once ) the trick is to make a great driver that’s less then two hundred bucks
6 years ago
If you know your clubs, you can find unused older heads and top quality shafts on Ebay for very low prices. Putting them together is pretty simple. Or you could pay a repair/custom fitting shop to put them together for very little.
6 years ago
With R & D cost and the costs of shafts, how so you expect to bring to market a driver for less than a deuce? Enlighten me.
6 years ago
Orlimar the brand name was bought by King Par years ago. King Par was a huge retailer in Flint that sold Knight clubs and Intec balls as well. When King Par went under, like so many businesses in Flint, all of King Pars brand names were bought by Hireko. Hireko has accumulated many brand names overr the years including Dynacraft and Powerbilt. But these are just names they’ve bought with maybe some tech. Hireko makes nice affordable grips and irons, but I’d be very cautious buying their woods. I had two woods I bought from them and the faces caved in during my first range session.
6 years ago
No comparison to other drivers as far as distance, impact, spin ???
Thanks
6 years ago
THUMBS UP FOR OLIMAR ..OUR CLUB CARRIED THIS LINE FOR YRS.
THEIR GLOVES WERE SOME OF THE BEST AVAIL. @ FANTASTIC PRICES
PLUS YOU COULD GET THE CLUBS NAME ON THEM..DW
6 years ago
STOP IT ALREADY
6 years ago
Interesting concept on the weighting. Is Jessie Ortiz revitalizing Orlimar. A good nickname could be “Dial your shape of the day”.
6 years ago
I remember buying a set of Black Ice clubs from Orlimar. Played them for years very nice clubs.
6 years ago
Still have my Orlimar clubs with Penley shafts. Actually just brought them out recently since the weather has been warmer. Great combo, glad to see them back, maybe Orlimar and penley will get together and make clubs again – can’t wait to try the new ones out!
6 years ago
I still use Orlimar #3 and #4 Tri Metal. Tried all the newer fairway clubs but never found better.
6 years ago
Thanks for the video, great stuff. You would have to pry my G400 Max from my cold dead hands before I changed drivers, unless of course, Ping had something newer.
6 years ago
I played the Orlimar Tri-Metals back in high school and they were great fairway woods (metals). I just googled this driver and their price point is up there with the top brands…not sure they will get a very big piece of the market without coming in at a lower price point.
6 years ago
looks like they stole the idea from the Wilson Triton, which is one hell of a Driver. I have nothing as long and consistent as the Triton which for some reason went over like a lead balloon. Loud as hell if not hit on the sweetspot, but on the SS it sounds like what it is, a gun going off.
6 years ago
I have several orlimar clubs with maraging steel faces and they are great. Most of my clubs have maraging steel faces. They out distance titanium. I am older and orlimar helps along with maraging steel.
6 years ago
So…what kind of numbers are did you get for comparison?
6 years ago
That sound he never heard before sounds just like when you bang a ball against the bottom of my Wilson Triton driver…also with the bottom plate you can remove….
6 years ago
I remember having an Orlimar Fairway wood in the 90s and I swear it was the best fairway wood i ever owned.
I guess it is the same deal as Lynx
Someone just bought the brand and there is nothing really connecting the new owners to the original
Anyone confirm?
6 years ago
You are correct.
6 years ago
I agree. I still carry a maraging steel faced 12 degree and a 17 degree fairway metal. Still the best I have ever used!
6 years ago
The Trimetals were amazing back in the day. Every time I let someone hit mine they went looking for one.
6 years ago
So Olimar is making a comeback? Wait and see how popular it becomes.
6 years ago
I never owned an Orlimar club but I’m always willing to try. No brand loyalty for me, I’ll play what works!
6 years ago
Yawn…another driver I’ll never see in any shop I frequent. Not the best but not the worst? I already have a couple of those. Another gimmick for adjustment? Still no better than the old SuperQuad which is what 10-12 years old?
6 years ago
Sam is pleasantly surprised? I’m in!
6 years ago
Is Jessie Ortiz, the designer of this new driver?
Would love to swing it sometime!
6 years ago
No he is not. Last I read he works for Bobby Jones. Taylor Made destroyed the original company through litigation. It’s one reason why I’ll never buy TMag.
Some people from Australia I believe just bought the name a few years out.
6 years ago
Adidas sold off the TaylorMade brand. So they’re no longer TMaG.
6 years ago
Actually it was Ely Callaway who destroyed Orlimar through litigation. In the late 1990s Orlimar had an IPO. Funding by investors was dependent on the success of the IPO. A few days before the IPO Ely Callaway filed a frivolous lawsuit in order to kill Orlimar even though Callaway was WAY bigger. Unfortunately,he succeeded.
6 years ago
Wow! Loved my Trimetal Strong 3 back in the day, it was LONG just not as forgiving as today’s clubs! Glad to see them making a comeback. I’ll definitely test it out somewhere.
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6 years ago
I liked their product back in the day! That’s one of many reasons I don’t like Cally and will never play or wear their products…