Gone are the heel and toe weight ports. In its place: a 10 percent MOI bump, a stiffer crown and a low-back CG built to keep the ball in the air. All for $329.
The new Takomo Ignis D2 driver take to the streets today.
OK, not on the streets, but it hit the World Wide Web today. It’s cause for celebration and relief at the Takomo headquarters in Finland. The launch officially closes the book on an embarrassing episode for the company. At the same time, open a new, new and compliant chapter as Takomo moves closer to becoming a full-line brand.
Takomo certainly wasn’t planning on releasing a new driver so soon, but the kerfuffle with the R&A over the original Ignis D1 changed everything. We’ll get into all the gory details of how it all went down later. First, though, let’s examine what Takomo has in its new Ignis D2 driver.
The Takomo Ignis D2 driver: Scandinavian forgiveness
You can say the new Look at it Ignis D2 driver is the anti-Ignis D1. The original Ignis D1 featured interchangeable rear, heel, and toe sole weights to favor draw or fade bias as well as a forward CG that favored ball speed. The new Ignis D2 opts for forgiveness and MOI. According to the company, it focuses on high launch, consistent spin and distance while keeping the ball in the air.
The heel and toe weight ports are gone on the D2, leaving only the single weight port on the back of the clubhead, with a standard two gram weight installed. The club comes with an optional weight of eight grams. That weight gives the club even more of a low, rear CG that improves forgiveness and increases launch.
“We saw a 10 percent increase in MOI over the Ignis D1,” Takomo Chief Marketing Officer Sean McCullum tells MyGolfSpy. “We also improved the sound by adding more stiffness to the crown.”
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Titanium and carbon to the rescue
For a first effort, the original Ignis D1 performed fairly decently in this year’s MyGolfSpy driver test. He fared best in the low swing speed category where he finished fourth overall and second by distance. However, it had a bit of a sound problem.
As McCullum said, Look at it adding rigidity to the lightweight carbon crown and its HST160C body in High Strength Titanium. We looked up HST160C only to find that it is most likely a manufacturer specific trade name, not a metallurgical designation. It is common practice for manufacturers to keep their alloy chemistry confidential. We can, however, venture a couple of educated guesses.
First, it’s titanium, so it’s designed to have an extremely high strength-to-weight ratio. That allows the OEM to make the face of the driver as thin as possible for maximum flexibility, while keeping it durable enough to avoid caving.
Second, the low weight keeps the head as light as possible for optimal CG placement. The Ignis D2 head weighs 197 grams with the two gram weight installed. It’s right in the sweet spot for most core OEM model drivers. When the weight of eight grams is installed, the head jumps to 203 grams, more in line with max-forgiveness models.
The new Ignis D2 features an eight-position adjustable hosel sleeve. Allows you to adjust loft up or down two degrees in one degree increments. The lie angle can also be adjusted from standard to a straighter lie that can help mitigate a slice, at least a little.
So why do we have an Ignis D2? What happened to the D1?
By the time Look at it launched the original Ignis D1 in August 2025, it did before ensuring R&A compliance. This is not unusual for direct-to-consumer brands as their products tend not to be used in sanctioned competitions. Takomo eventually submitted heads to the R & A (the company is headquartered in Finland, after all, and the R & A rules everywhere except the United States and Mexico) but last April. the Ignis hit the fan.
UR & A found that some of the submitted heads, when the three head weights were placed in a specific configuration, exceeded the CT (Characteristic Time) limits. CT measures the amount of time (in milliseconds) that a ball remains in contact with the driver’s face at impact. In effect, it limits the so-called “trampoline effect”.
“Yeah, the R&A slapped us on the wrist,” McCullum told MyGolfSpy last summer. “It’s been a huge problem now, growing pains for us.”
The R&A and USGA use the same equipment rules so the D1 was not compliant even in North America. Takomo immediately removed the D1 from its website, contacted its customers to explain the problem and promised to provide a new compliance head at no cost.
That new boss is, in fact, the Ignis D2. Takomo has sent the first shipment of D2 heads to its existing D1 customers to get them started. Now that they have been taken care of, Takomo is ready to launch the new D2 to everyone.
Takomo Ignis D2 driver: Final thoughts, specs and price
One thing I have always appreciated about Takomo is their packaging. For a direct-to-consumer brand that touts price as its key selling point, its package presentation is second to none. The Ignis D2 came in a single brown box. However, in that box there were two separate branded boxes: a long and thin one for the shaft and a smaller cube for the driver’s head.
I can’t explain why but it looks premium to me.
The box contains the head securely wrapped in a very nice faux leather cap, plus a bag containing the weight of the spare head and – hold the phone, Earthlings – an honest-to-goodness torque wrench.
Not bad for $329.
We haven’t had the new Ignis D2 out on the course yet, but we’ll give you performance updates in the coming weeks.
What we can say is that the Takomo Ignis D2 is a 460cc head and is available in lofts of nine and 10.5 degrees for lefties and righties. The stock trees are garden variety Fujikura Ventus Red and Blue. The Red is available in 5R regular flex and 5S stiff flex. The lower-launching Ventus Blue is available in 5R regular and 5S stiff, as well as the heavier 6R regular, 6S stiff and 6X extra stiff.
The Ignis D2 is available now on the The Takomo Golf site.
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