Srixon Golf Clubs
Srixon ZXi RKT Drivers Compared: Standard, Max and LS
Three heads, three problems, and how to identify which one is yours.
ZXi RKT
The standard head. Balanced launch, balanced spin, meaningful forgiveness without being built specifically around it.
If you have no particular driver problem — no slice, no spin issue, no launch struggle — this is your head, and most golfers who test all three end up here.
ZXi RKT Max
The forgiving option. Weight positioned to resist twisting on off-centre strikes and to help the ball launch.
Forgiveness is not a beginner’s feature. It is what protects your average drive, and plenty of good golfers would drive the ball better from Max than from LS.
ZXi RKT LS
The low-spin head, for fast swings that generate more spin than they want and lose distance to a flight that climbs and stalls.
The requirement is consistency, not just speed. A fast golfer with a scattered strike loses more to LS’s reduced forgiveness than they gain from its reduced spin. This head fits a narrower golfer than its appeal suggests.
Choosing between them
- Strike wanders, distance inconsistent → Max.
- No specific problem → standard ZXi RKT.
- Fast, consistent, flight stalls and drops → LS.
That is genuinely the whole decision. Srixon’s driver range is refreshingly uncomplicated.
Loft matters more than head choice
Take more loft than your instinct suggests. Loft adds carry for most amateurs and makes the face easier to square.
The idea that low loft equals distance is one of the most persistent and expensive myths in golf, and it costs club golfers more yardage than any head choice ever will.
Length beats almost everything
Stock drivers are longer than most golfers should play. Half an inch shorter reliably improves centre contact, and centre contact beats marginal clubhead speed nearly every time.
If two ZXi RKT heads test identically, try the same head shorter. That change frequently outperforms switching model.
Testing whether RKT actually delivers
Every driver generation arrives with a speed claim, and every golfer testing one wants it to be true. That combination makes honest assessment difficult — you hit one good drive with the new head and the conclusion writes itself.
FocusGolf gives you the full picture instead. It runs on Wear OS, Apple Watch and Garmin, detects each swing automatically with nothing attached to the club, and records swing speed, tempo and shot distance across the whole session. Hit fifteen with your current driver and fifteen with the ZXi RKT head you are considering, then compare the two blocks in your history. A genuine gain shows across fifteen shots. An imagined one does not.
Fitting tip: Test all three heads on the same shaft. Changing head and shaft together tells you nothing about which one produced the difference.
Model names current as of September 2026.