PRESENTING THE MOST VERSATILE ADJUSTABLE DRIVER EVER DESIGNED…
Four years in the making, the 719MW is the most advanced moveable weight driver designed by Wishon Golf. The basis for the 719MW can be traced back to an early design in the mid-80s by Tom Wishon and Elmore Just – the founder of Louisville Golf Company: the Cure driver was the first original heel-weighted draw-bias driver ever made in the golf industry. Made from laminated maple, it effectively proved that the centre of gravity on a clubhead can be shifted with the heel weight. And when a golfer contacts the ball in an on-centre shot, this causes a slight rotation on the vertical axis, creating in essence, a tilt on the spin axis of the ball: reducing the amount of fade on a shot.
A later woodhead design in the mid-1990s by Tom Wishon, the AccuCore 50 Driver, would further demonstrate the benefits of heel-weighted drivers, but also most importantly that at least 25-30g was needed in the heel-side to move the COG enough to the point where a centre shot off the face would create a visible draw bias effect on the shot.
Many modern adjustable weight drivers have a maximum of 20g of moveable weight – this is not enough to move the centre of gravity and create a marked difference for the vast majority of golfers with average clubhead speed.
So when Wishon began the design process for the 719 moveable weight driver, it was obvious that it would need to have the ability to move at least 30g of additional weight around the head to be able to offer regular golfers a chance to be able to see a change in the shape of their shots.
And that’s not an easy task (to say the least).
For a 450cc driver, total weight shouldn’t exceed 202-205g in order to be built to a normal range of swingweights, so to take the additional moveable weights, the body of the head had to be in the realm of 172g – an extremely difficult object to achieve.
Wishon was able to engineer the 719MW with the help of one of the very best investment cast titanium foundries in the world, and by varying the wall thickness and removing the entire titanium crown, replacing with lightweight carbon composite, we were able to create the objective design for the 719MW.
The 719MW is the ultimate in advanced adjustable driver technology – offering more versatility and multiple fitting options to clubmakers than any other adjustable driver.
The 719MW features an ultralight carbon composite crown to lighten the head structure and lower CG.
Additionally, the 719MW includes a Custom Hosel Sleeve which enables a wide range in custom lie and face angle specifications and can also be used to offer diffferent lofts when the golfer does not need a custom lie or face angle – only when the driver is held in the square face position at address.
Designed with four separate weight cavity positions, the 719MW has the ability to accept seven different weights – 2g, 4g, 6g, 8g, 10g, 20g, 30g.
+ Place 20g or 30g to either heel or toe position for draw or fade bias OR
+ Place 20g or 30g to either forward or rear position for higher or lower ball flight OR
+ Split 10g or 20g weights in the toe and heel positions to increase head MOI
+ Place other weights in remaining sole cavities to adjust finished weight for fine tuning swingweight/club MOI on a very wide range of finished club length options
CUSTOM HOSEL SLEEVE
The 719MW’s Custom Hosel Sleeve offers a wide range in custom lie and face angle specifications. The Custom Hosel Sleeve can also be used to offer different lofts when the golfer does not need a custom lie or face angle, but only when the driver is held in the square face position at address.
• With the driver SOLED in the address position, the custom hosel sleeve will allow a change in face angle from 2° closed to 3° open or lie position from 57° to 61°.
• By holding the club with the face square to the target in the address position, the hosel sleeve will allow a change in loft of the 9° model from 7.5° to 11°. For the 11° model, by holding the club with the face square to the target in the address position, the hosel sleeve will allow a change in loft from 9.5° to 13°. Full instructions can be found at the link on the right and will also be included with each 719MW driver when purchased.
The following charts reveal the change in the lie, face angle and loft specs for each of the 8 sleeve positions for the 9° and 11° models. The change in lie and face angle is in relation to the measured lie and face angle of each 719MW head, when it is measured traditionally with the hosel sleeve in the N position.
(Hosel sleeve designations: N= Neutral; C=Closed; U=Upright; O=Open)
- All 719MW Drivers are supplied with a wrench, custom hosel adaptor and ferrule included. All components are also available to purchase individually.
- All weight pieces available and sold separately in: 2g, 4g, 6g, 8g, 10g, 20g, 30g.
- Also available is the Wishon 360 Grip, made for matching with the 719MW.
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How can the 57 degree lie angle be achieved? Is that the lowest possible setting? Thanks!
Greg
The N position on the 719MW driver is 57* and that is the flattest lie angle. Most upright is of course the U position which is 59.5*. Hope this helps,
TOM
The new driver looks great, Tom, and the explanation of adjustments clear. Like James, I would like more MOI info. To maximize this, I thought equal (15g?) weights heel/toe would be best and still keep the head weight a little over 200g. Is there any chance these could be added in future? Do you consider the 919THI has a higher MOI then can be achieved with the 719MW? I do have to say I’m still a bit negative about hosel adjustment adaptors. Effective loft changes, at least on the plus side, are quite large and your hosel bending concept seems… Read more »
BOB I will ask the factory to get to work on a 15g weight, thanks for the suggestion. But remember that adding weight to the REAR also acts to increase the MOI. Not just the toe and heel sides. Weight added anywhere far away from the head’s CG will increase the MOI. So you could use a 10g weight in the toe, heel anhd rear cavities to push the MOI higher. But I will still ask the factory to make a 15g weight. I think the 919 and 719 will be very close to each other in MOI. Size/shape wise,… Read more »
Hi Tom,
Once the adjustable hosel is set and all the weight ports are filled properly for *final* configuration, do you recommend applying a small amount of Blue Loctite to both the weight port and adapter screws?
I have a client with 110+ mph swing impact that plays several times a week. Any possibility the vibration could loosen an adapter or weight screw? I want to mitigate any potential customer satisfaction issue if there’s any risk. Not to mention a negative first impression.
Thanks,
Bill Nottingham
Custom Golf Club Fitting by Design, LLC
Colorado Springs, CO
BILL
The weights and adj hosel sleeve both should stay put for many, many impacts, regardless of the clubhead speed. However, with such a high speed as >110, the golfer should be aware to just check it every so many weeks or so. All of the other company sleeves are the same way. Players with high speeds do need to just check the tightness every so often.
TOM
YeeeHaww!
Great to finally see it! Love your work, Tom.
I’m really excited to try this new head! Most of your drivers in the past have the MOI listed as one of the specs, and I understand that can’t really be done for this one since the MOI will depend on the weight configuration. But I was wondering if you might have a chart of different configurations and their MOI numbers? That would be a useful piece of data to have. What I’m actually looking to do is make the total head weight around 220g to make it the same weight as my EQ1-NX fairway woods and play it at… Read more »
James
Very good question you asked to come up with such a chart! I’ll have to put that on my to do list since honestly, I never thought about including something like that. The 719 head is full, decent size but the moi won’t be over 5,000. Guesstimate on your configuration for 220g for the head should be in the 4700-4800 g-cm2 area, I should think. Might be a tad more since no other heads will be anywhere close to 220g these days. But I am sure you’ll feel it to be pretty forgiving.
Tom
Doesn’t the MOI increases when the head gets higher ?
ANDRE I am sorry, I am not sure what you mean when you say “when the head gets higher.” Higher in what way? Taller, as in a taller face height? If you do mean a taller face height, the answer is yes, the MOI can be higher on a head with a much taller face. But only very slightly higher because the distance from the CG to the top of the head is always much, much less than the distance from the CG to the toe, heel or back of the head. Therefore, weight added to the outer areas of… Read more »
Hi Tom,
Congrats on the new 719MW driver club head final release. I know the design effort has kept you very busy. I hope you have plans to enjoy your downtime.
I’ve had one client in my work queue for a few months and I’ll be placing an order this week.
Thanks for everything you do for us!
Best regards,
Bill Nottingham
Custom Golf Club Fitting by Design, LLC
Colorado Springs, CO
Bill Seriously, the thanks are all to you for your support over the years for your commitment to proper custom clubfitting. The time required took so long mainly because the production foundry had an extreme challenge to make the body of the head light enough with no weights so when a 30g weight was installed, the total head weight would not be over our normal finished head weight of 202g. That took a long time to build controls I to the actual casting process that for titanium has to be done in a vacuum. It was an interesting project to… Read more »
Also, for a 100mph head speed with a 2 to 3 degree upward strike, would you recommend the 9 or the 11 degree head?
The posted 169g head weight I assume that includes the hosel adapter?
Dennis
Yes it does include the adj hosel sleeve that can be used either for lie/face angle or separately for loft.
Tom
What affect would placing 8g weights toe and heel, 2g back and 10g front have on MOI and spin?
Dennis
Virtually no effect on spin because the toe and heel weights have no effect on spin and the effect from the 2g back and 10g front weights only results in a net 8g movement to the front. That will drop spin a little, but not much more than a couple hundred rpms, which really would not be that detectable. But that really depends on the club head speed. Over 110mph it could be detected in shot shape a little bit, but for 100 or less, likely not much.
Tom
Thanks for the reply Tom.
Knowing now that the hosel sleeve is included in the weight of the head i would need to add another 10g to get it to match weight of my current setup. I would put 20g in front instead of ten.