You’ve got to love their marketing team for coming up with these names. It was also the model to receive the aerodynamic sole called the Inertia Generator.

The TaylorMade M6 was packed full of technology: Speed injected face, where they produce a face that’s beyond the R&A and USGA speed limits and dialled it back to the maximum tolerance by injecting the face to make sure each driver is right on the legal limit.

You had three lofts and the choice of a regular or stiff shaft. The Burner was simple and not caught up in the moveable weight technology found in their R series range. To see how TaylorMade have evolved we put their lastest SIM2 driver up against the 2007 TaylorMade Burner and the 2019 M6. Their 2021 SIM2 head has dropped that feature – but has it affected performance? Over the past four decades we have seen TaylorMade bring out some game changing advancements in driver technology, especially moveable head weighting. TaylorMade has been one of the most consistent manufacturers of metal drivers since they launched the Burner back in the early 1980s, and it’s 40 years since Ron Streck gave the brand their first victory at the 1981 Houston Open.