The Dynamic Discs Lucid Maverick is an understable fairway driver built around a smaller rim that fits almost any hand. Lucid is the same durable blend Dynamic Discs puts on its bigger drivers, and on the Maverick it turns into a control driver that ends up trusted more than anything else in the bag.

Flight Numbers: 7 / 4 / -1 / 2

Lucid on the Maverick feels firm out of the box and grippy enough to throw in the rain. It resists nicks from tree hits and takes a long time to soften, so the turn you get new stays close to the turn you'll get after a hundred rounds. Forehand throwers notice the grip first: the smaller rim sits cleanly against the fingers on release.

Thrown flat it carries a gentle high speed turn before settling back to straight, and on a forehand flick it holds a clean anhyzer line through gaps a bigger driver won't fit through. Hyzer flips are where it earns its keep, flipping up to flat and riding out with barely any fade. New players get an easier grip than most fairway drivers offer, and anyone who already trusts a control driver often adds the Maverick for tight, technical shots. It is not a distance disc, it is the tool for a tunnel shot or a low ceiling hole where the disc needs to sit down fast.

New to the game? The Fluid Maverick gives you the same shape in a softer, cheaper plastic to learn on. Want more turn out of a similar mold? The Innova Champion Glow Leopard3 flips easier for anhyzer shots. See the rest of our stable fairway drivers.

Speed 7, glide 4, turn -1, fade 2. Diameter 21.2 cm, rim width 1.7 cm, max weight 176 g.