Spider X
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The Record
Written from the sources it cites · machine-drafted for the Community to correctThe Spider X line opens on record in 2019 with the Copper edition, listed as a 10th generation mallet at a head weight of 355 grams with the True Path alignment system, available in left and right hand in 33, 34, and 35 inch lengths, per the maker's page as reported by 2ndswing.com. That same generational framework runs through the maker's own MySpider X pages, which describe the line as built around a heavy 320 gram steel frame paired with a 15 gram carbon composite sole, a frame the maker's page calls "30% heavier to minimize twisting" than what came before, with weight ports of 2, 6, or 12 grams for tuning feel and stability. The maker's page also carries the through-line for the whole family across its captures: the Pure Roll insert and the True Path alignment system, along with a choice of three hosel designs, Short Slant, Single Bend, and Flow Neck, to fit different stroke types.
The line's second entry on record, the Hydro Blast, is defined here mostly by finish and by a tour credential rather than by fresh mechanical specification. Golf.com reports the finish simply as Hydro Blast, and separately credits the model with tour pedigree, writing that Rory McIlroy used the Hydro Blast version to win the Wells Fargo Championship. Note that this is golf.com's reporting, not a maker claim or a house finding, and it stands as the more editorial half of the Spider X record next to the Copper's maker-published spec sheet.
Across the two releases on record, the arc reads as one platform, the 320 gram steel frame with True Path alignment and Pure Roll insert, wearing different surfaces: Copper's cosmetic and dimensional detail from the 2019 capture, and Hydro Blast's finish and tour story picked up by outside coverage. What isn't on record here is a maker-published spec table for the Hydro Blast to set directly against the Copper's numbers, so readers weighing the two are working from two different kinds of source rather than two rows of the same ledger.
Sources: taylormadegolf.com/myspider-x (captured 2019) · taylormadegolf.com/myspider-x (captured 2020) · taylormadegolf.com/myspider-x (captured 2021)
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