£4,000 Honma Beres Driver Review

published 17 April 2019

In this video, Neil Tappin tests out Honma's ultra-premium Beres range...

£4,000 Honma Beres Driver Review

What does a £4,000 driver look like and how does it perform? That's what we found out.

Honma is a brand known for producing high end, premium golf equipment but it also has a sub-brand/franchise called Beres which is designed to be ultra-premium.

If you thought Honma was expensive, Beres takes it to a whole new level with customisation and its component parts.

In the video above, Neil Tappin gets fit for the super-premium offering from Honma - the Beres.

"We are very much offering performance, with luxury," Honma Fitting Specialist Luke Peterken told us.

"As you see there, it's completely gold the clubhead, as is the shaft. In the ferrel you've got gold bands, platinum bands so it's very much the luxury side of things.

"We've got 24 carat gold sprinkled pretty much throughout the whole of this golf club.

"You start from 2 star, all the way up to 5. The biggest difference is in the shaft quality, so the shaft basically gets better and better and better in the sense that when we measure elasticity of tensile rating in graphite shafts, which is basically how quickly your graphite fibres can return to their original state., he rating gets better and better and better the higher star rating you go, meaning that it's basically designed to be even tighter dispersion-wise as you go.

"We use more glass fibres in the higher star ratings, so again to make it that little bit stable and a little bit firmer.

"You can have your name engraved in the clubhead, you can have your name engraved in the shaft, you could change the colours. If this gold was a little bit too blingy for you, you could change that to - we've got a selection of about 10-12 colours in both clubhead and shaft as well.

"Let's say you were looking at a five star set of these, all in gold, you'd be maybe £60k+ for a set of 10-12 golf clubs."

For our full review of the Honma Beres driver, watch the video at the top of the page.

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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!

Elliott is currently playing:

Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV

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