Taylormade Stealth 2 Vs Taylormade Stealth Fairway Wood Comparison Overview

Choosing the right fairway wood for your game can mean the difference between having to pull out a few irons and having to use just one.

You need a good combination of distance and comfortability if you’re primarily using your woods off the deck.

It can be hard to find this combination but to help you out, today we will be taking a look at the Taylormade Stealth 2 and the Taylormade Stealth fairway woods.

Which one will be best for your game? Find out in the following comparison overview.

Taylormade Stealth 2 Fairway Wood Overview

“The Taylormade Stealth 2 comes in three versions: the standard, Stealth 2 Plus and Stealth 2 HD.”

For this comparison though, we used the standard Stealth 2. On paper, there isn’t a lot of difference between the Taylormade Stealth 2 fairway wood and the original  Stealth fairway woods.

However, Taylormade made one significant tweak to the new line: they included inverted cone technology.

The face of the new Taylormade Stealth 2 fairway wood has been labored over more meticulously to make it thinner in areas of the face where players usually mis-hit.

The effect is more forgiveness.

There is one more important difference between these two fairway woods: the Taylormade Stealth 2 has a slightly smaller head profile than the original Stealth fairway wood.

Taylormade Stealth Fairway Wood Overview

“The original Stealth fairway wood has a slightly larger 190cc head; but the same Maraging steel face as the new Taylormade Stealth 2.”

Other similarities include a carbon fiber crown, Speed Pocket, twist face architecture and the V-Steel sole panel.

At address, you can’t really tell the head size difference. However, shot dispersion was a bit wider in the original Stealth fairway wood.

We’re not sure why; but we can bet we can chalk it up to the lack of the inverted cone technology in the original Stealth.

In any case, the Stealth fairway wood played an average of 4.6 yards shorter than the new Taylormade Stealth 2 fairway woods – mostly having to do with spin rates and bending shots.

“Apart from the ICT and the head volume, these two fairway woods are almost identical in both features and performance.

Still, the few improvements that were made are significant enough for us to come to the conclusion that the Taylormade Stealth 2 is simply better.

It would be hard to imagine the original Stealth being better for anyone just because the Taylormade Stealth 2 does everything the original did; but better.”