Clubhead Cup Face and How it Affects Performance
All driver heads as well as some fairway wood and hybrid heads are manufactured from a number of separate pieces which are welded together to complete the final construction of the clubhead. Most common are driver heads which are manufactured from 4 separate pieces, as shown by this illustration below. Of the separate pieces which make up the complete clubhead, one is always the clubface. Within such types of driver, fairway wood and hybrid head construction, the face can be formed to be welded to the body in two different ways, one called an EDGE WELDED face and the other referred to as a...
Read MoreDriver Clubhead Size and Performance – Who Wins?
I’m well aware there are a number of golfers who can’t stand looking down at drivers which to them, look so large in size they seem like a “grapefruit on the end of a stick.” Golf equipment information forums will occasionally have threads in which golfer’s plea for the companies to develop and introduce sub 400cc drivers. Within such comments invariably is the question, “can a smaller size driver perform as well as a larger one, and if so, why haven’t the golf companies offered at least an alternative smaller size driver?” In a nutshell, if they can be sure it will sell...
Read MoreWhat Does TWGT Have Planned for 2012?
As much as I hate the fact that November brings the beginning of the end of golf season, it also brings the final pre-production models of all of the new products and designs we have been working all year long to get ready for 2012. Now in my 26th year of designing golf equipment components, I still get a big kick out of opening the boxes with the final versions of each of the new designs. It’s really like an early Christmas for a confirmed golf club nut like me! You know, I’ve also always liked sprinkling a little fun in with the serious task of creating new clubhead, shaft,...
Read MoreForged Irons from Japan vs US or China – The Facts
If you’re into golf clubs or spend time reading the various golf equipment internet forums, there are occasional discussions from which you could get the impression that forged carbon steel iron heads made in Japan are superior to those made anywhere else in the world. As a veteran of clubhead design and production with more than 25 yrs of head design experience including a whole lot of forged ironhead designs, I’m here to tell you this buzz about Japanese made forgings is simply not true. But first, a brief time out – sadly as an American I have to tell you that the US...
Read MoreWhat’s the Big Deal About a Variable Thickness Face?
I began what has been a long fascination with clubface design back in 1994 when my engineering mentor talked me into buying a combination package of Pro Engineer CAD and Pro Mechanica FEA software. And man, let me tell you back then these modeling software programs were not cheap!! But to use that same vernacular once more, man, did that both open the door and my eyes to the potential for stretching the performance of the clubface to offer golfers the opportunity to be able to hit the ball off-center and not suffer a measurable loss of distance. As a result of our early dynamic modeling...
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