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GolfWRX Spotted: Adams Tight Lies fairway wood
After much teasing and speculation (Is Adams coming back!?) It’s official—TaylorMade has resurrected the beloved brand to bring one of its most iconic designs back to golfers with the new Tight Lies fairway wood.
For diehard fans of Adams Golf, this seems to be everything they could have hoped for when the company brought its social media presence back from the dead a few months ago with cryptic tweets and Instagram posts, but the new Tight Lies fairway wood is delivering on two tried and true promises—easy-to-hit clubs at a great price.
The new Tight Lies fairway woods will be sold using the “direct-to-consumer” model through a dedicated website, which happens to have a somewhat infomercially vibe to it. Knowing the team at TaylorMade, this was clearly intended to make the brand approachable and bring it back to its roots…all while non directly competing with its parent company TaylorMade. The reason I say “roots” is because it was through golf infomercials that Adams golf was initially launched with a single product, the “upside-down” design Tight Lies 3-wood.
With the launch of the new fairway wood and website, we reached out to TaylorMade for information on the Adams Golf brand resurrection.
Adams Golf is going back to its roots to re-introduce its Tight Lies products to all golfers via a direct response vehicle. Tight Lies provides game improvement benefits to golfers of all abilities looking to purchase an established brand, with proven technology at an affordable price.
-Ryan Lauder; Director of Consumer Engagement
Now that we’ve covered who and why, it’s time to cover the “what” when it comes to the design and technology.
Technology
For anyone looking for anything groundbreaking, it’s not here—and that’s OK. This club is designed for value and to be forgiving, and from all accounts it delivers.
- Tri-Sole Design – Just like the original, the new Tight Lies utilizes the iconic “upside-down” head shape with tri-sole to reduce turf interaction and make the club easy to hit from virtually any lie.
- Extended Face Technology – This little trick is really cool. The clubface has been expanded vertically by 7mm and then lowered right behind the top line of the head. This creates a 14% larger hitting on the face area compared to the previous generation according to Adams, while also keeping the center of gravity lower. This means more face above the clubs center of gravity resulting in a club that is easier to get in the air.
- Velocity Slot – A proven fairway wood technology that helps generate more ball speed, especially lower on the face, where a lot of fairway woods are commonly struck.
Price, specs, and availability
The new Adams Tight Lies fairway woods are available now at BuyAdamsGolf.com for $179.99
It is available in both right and left-handed in a 3-wood (16°) and a 5-wood (19°) and comes stock with an Aldila Synergy shaft and Tour Velvet grip.
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Jon Rahm and Alex Smalley were the best of the chasing pack, with both men sharing runner-up spot which was good enough for each to receive a check for $1,804,000.
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1: Aaron Rai, $3,690,000
T2 : Jon Rahm, $1,804,000
T2 : Alex Smalley, $1,804,000
T4: Justin Thomas, $843,866
T4: Ludvig Aberg, $843,866
T4: Matti Schmid, $843,866
T7: Cameron Smith, $637,050
T7: Rory McIlroy, $637,050
T7: Xander Schauffele, $637,050
T10: Kurt Kitayama, $496,707
T10: Chris Gotterup, $496,707
T10: Justin Rose, $496,707
T10: Patrick Reed, $496,707
T14: Matt Fitzpatrick, $364,762
T14: Scottie Scheffler, $364,762
T14: Max Greyserman, $364,762
T14: Ben Griffin, $364,762
T18: Maverick McNealy, $229,128
T18: Jordan Spieth, $229,128
T18: Stephan Jaeger, $229,128
T18: Padraigh Harrington, $229,128
T18: David Puig, $229,128
T18: Harris English, $229,128
T18: Min Woo Lee, $229,128
T18: Joaquin Niemann, $229,128
T26: Nick Taylor, $125,523
T26: Alex Noren, $125,523
T26: Cameron Young, $125,523
T26: Andrew Novak, $125,523
T-26: Daniel Hiller, $125,523
T26: Tom Hoge, $125,523
T26: Sam Burns, $125,523
T26: Hideki Matsuyama, $125,523
T26: Bud Cauley, $125,523
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T35: Patrick Cantlay, $78,805
T35: Ryo Hisatsune, $78,805
T35: Daniel Berger, $78,805
T35: Ryan Fox, $78,805
T35: Haotong Li, $78,805
T35: Aldrich Potgieter, $78,805
T35: Si Woo Kim, $78,805
T35: Martin Kaymer, $78,805
T44: Chris Kirk, $53,743
T44: Matt Wallace, $53,743
T44: Shane Lowry, $53,743
T44: Jhonattan Vegas, $53,743
T44: Denny McCarthy, $53,743
T44: Chandler Blachet, $53,743
T44: Taylor Pendrith, $53,743
T44: Dustin Johnson, $53,743
T44: Nicolai Hojgaard, $53,743
T44: Michael Kim, $53,743
T44: Kristoffer Reitan, $53,743
T55: Collin Morikawa, $34,186
T55: Corey Conners, $34,186
T55: Andrew Putnam, $34,186
T55: Brooks Koepka, $34,186
T55: Mikael Lindberg, $34,186
T60: Sami Valimaki, $29,218
T60: Sahith Theegala, $29,218
T60: Rico Hoey, $29,218
T60: Rickie Fowler, $29,218
T60: Brian Harman, $29,218
T65: Casey Jarvis, $26,900
T65: Jason Day, $26,900
T65: Rasmus Hojgaard, $26,900
T65: Keith Mitchell, $26,900
T65: Sam Stevens, $26,900
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ericsokp
Nov 4, 2020 at 3:24 am
Like a lot of golfers I used to have one of these back in the day and thought they were great for tight lies (pardon the pun). However, I think the sole design is no longer the best option and am now using PING G400/G410 fairway woods and hybrids as the soles are really flat and shallow which is a great design (in my opinion) for tight lies and hardpan.
Mark
Nov 4, 2020 at 12:54 am
“TaylorMade has resurrected the beloved brand to bring one of its most iconic designs”?
It would be better if you made it clear the “its” in this sentence does not refer to TaylorMade.
No Thanks
Nov 3, 2020 at 5:30 pm
As expected, it’s their value line.
money grows on trees apparently
Nov 3, 2020 at 6:13 pm
$179.99 = “value line”… i’ll take your life as long as it doesnt come with your terrible opinions…
Robin
Nov 4, 2020 at 11:19 am
Man you are dry . I have Ctes from boxing . You made me laugh for the first time and I don’t know when, the last time
andy hilbun
Nov 17, 2020 at 10:08 am
that was funny!!
Delbert
Nov 3, 2020 at 3:40 pm
Dang! I should’ve kept my CB1 irons.