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 2° open or lie position from 58° to 60.5°.

  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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Dennis Beltram
14 days ago

Tom,
I just switched from your 519 with a 10.5 degree loft to your new 719 with a 9 degree loft. I found myself struggling at 9 degrees so I adjusted to the “C” position to get to 11.25 degrees. This puts the club in a closed position, which actually increased my misses (I don’t ever slice my drive, I’m the complete opposite). I have a 30g weight in the front, an 8g in the back and 2g on each side. Should I be using different size weights or have them in different positions. Thanks

Admin
14 days ago
Reply to  Dennis Beltram

Dennis I realize this matter of using the hosel sleeve for face angle and lie vs using it for a loft change can be confusing. This is why I wrote the instruction sheet with the two charts with the statement above the loft chart saying “The 719MW hosel sleeve will only change loft as long as the golfer knows to always hold the club with the face square after each sleeve adjustment. WHen used to change loft, the sleeve cannot also offer a lie or face angle change.” WHen you put the sleeve on ‘ C ‘ and then you… Read more »

Marc
20 days ago

I am sure that this design will become popular enough to have his LH version. I hope so!

Admin
20 days ago
Reply to  Marc

Marc
We’re watching the numbers carefully so we can hopefully make this decision before too much longer!
TOM

Tom Summerhays
20 days ago
Reply to  Tom Wishon

A vote for the lefties, Canadians’, and Scandinavians!

Roger Huston
26 days ago

Tom first of all enjoy the discussion on the new driver head. Your expertise and explanation of moving the cg of the head with the weighting system especially using the 30 gram weight will be a benefit to all the golfers. My question in using your adjustable sleeve along with the weighting system is it possible to influence more of a fade or draw bias by setting the head up in more of a flat lie or an upright lie?

Admin
26 days ago
Reply to  Roger Huston

ROGER Thanks so much for your interest! IMO you never try to use the lie angle to elicit either a draw or fade from a clubhead. You use the FACE ANGLE. On the 719 sleeve there are positions C for closed face angle and O for open face angle. These make the head sit either closed or open when you sole the head in the address position. They are a better way to reduce a slice/fade or reduce a hook/draw because they are a degree for degree change in the orientation of the face at impact when the golfer either… Read more »

John Stonier
29 days ago

Hi Tom, Congrats on the new design. Reading your Q & A you go to some length to talk about the casting process for this head but in the description on this page it says the body material is plate forged and the face material is 2 piece investment cast. Could you elaborate on this for us? From the illustration it looks like this is not a cup face design (why?), and would be interested to know what the 2 face pieces are. If the body is forged not sure why you would cast the face, and forging the body… Read more »

Admin
29 days ago
Reply to  John Stonier

JOHN Sorry for the confusion, but it is the other way around from what you wrote in your comment post. If this is how it actually is stated on the material, I thank you for the question so I could tell Diamond to make the proper corrections. The body of the 719 is one piece vacuum investment cast from 6/4 titanium with an open face area, while the face piece that is plasma welded into the open face of the body is plate forged from the same titanium alloy in a variable thickness construction. In the production industry, investment casting… Read more »

John Stonier
29 days ago
Reply to  Tom Wishon

Tom, Thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that most of the big name drivers were 4 piece forged with a cup face, at least that’s what their “forged titanium head” marketing implies (with the exception of the Taylormade Stealth of course). I’m surprised to hear that the 719 would be producing more distance than the 919 with the cup face and would be interested to hear your ideas as to why. If the cup face doesn’t produce better “spring like effect” across a larger area of the face it would seem to eliminate the case for a… Read more »

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28 days ago
Reply to  John Stonier

JOHN Virtually none of the big companies have ever used 4 piece construction on their heads. They’ve been too scared to trust 25″ of welding, fearing that a higher than desired percentage of heads would crack on some part of one of the welding seams. And the other reason is that virtually all of the biggest foundries that the big companies deal with do not work in 4 piece construction. These bigger foundries all jumped as early as possible into titanium driver production (1993-4) and back then, investment casting was the only way a titanium driver head could be made.… Read more »

1 month ago

Tom, congrats on a masterpiece. I purchased one of the drivers and compared it head to head with my Titleist TSR3 and the 719 won. Great feel, great look at address and more customizable than anything on the market. Headed down next weekend to see Keith Chatham to see if we can squeeze a few more yards out of it!

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1 month ago
Reply to  Jonathan Coats

Jonathan
Wow, may I say that you MADE MY DAY with your comment that the new 719 outperformed the TSR3 !!! How nice is that for you (and me!!) to have the chance to realize the 719 turned out to be something pretty special! Thanks very much for your interest and especially for your support of what we try to do in our work! DO be sure to say HI to Keith when you get to Kerrville to see him!
TOM

Michael Korosoglou
1 month ago

Hi Tom, really excited to see this new Driver model! It’s great having a club which is that adjustable for us “normal” mortal golfers. Really wondering whether the majority of golfers believe they play the same models as the tour players just because both have just apparently same brand. I even don’t think that buyable clubs come from the same foundries as the ones for the pros… Anyway I was not going to start a discussion about this (although I’d be very curious about your opinion on this topic). Much simpler I just wanted to ask whether there are also… Read more »

Admin
1 month ago

Michael Thank you so much for your enthusiasm about the 719! Makes us all feel very good to hear that! I am sorry that most times we cannot start out with a LH version of a new clubhead model. We’re small enough that we need to see that the model has a good chance of being successful in the RH version before we can think about it in LH. That is thanks to the fact that while in Canada LH players are 15% of the market and in Sweden they are 10%, but here they are 6% so the worldwide… Read more »

Jason Zuback
1 month ago

Hello Tom, hope all is well! Driver line looks great!! Just wondering if you are using a variable bulge and roll or symmetric. If constant what do they start at? Where is the 5.5° offering 😢

Admin
1 month ago
Reply to  Jason Zuback

HI Jason Been awhile since I have heard from you and hope all is going well with you too! I still remember you working with my first engineering mentor Art Mittendorf to try to get you a few more MPH in the swing. Thanks for the kind words on the driver line. Much appreciated. I stay consistent with a 13″ bulge but I have deviated from the industry norm for vertical roll by going to a much reduced radius of 20″. I do that to reduce the increase in loft at the top of the face and the decrease in… Read more »

Clayton J
1 month ago

Tom, I had a wonderful fitting session with “Clubs by Moe” yesterday where I got to try this head with a top secret “prototype” shaft you created. What a club! When I first picked it up and gave it a few waggles, I told Moe there was no way I could hit it because of the significant flex in the shaft (my swing speed is around 115). He insisted I try it and could not believe the results. I was carrying it 300-310 yards. The head sounded and felt great. I would suggest putting this shaft out to the market!… Read more »

Admin
1 month ago
Reply to  Clayton J

Clayton I am SO PLEASED to hear that you chose to work with Moe for your fitting needs. Moe and I have corresponded for many years, discussing all manner of technical topics related to fitting and head and shaft design. That’s why I chose to let him try out a prototype of that very different shaft that you were able to hit. For me, this is tremendous feedback to hear that at your very high clubhead speed, you found the shaft very playable. The shaft will come to market one of these days as I am lobbying Diamond Golf to… Read more »

Ben
1 month ago

Tom, which of your drivers offers the lowest COG? I know moving weights can change it on this driver compared to your other models. Thanks!

Admin
1 month ago
Reply to  Ben

Ben Without question that would be the 719MW driver. The weight of the 719 head with NO SCREWS is 170grams. So that means in EVERY case of assembly of the driver, the weights have to be used in the sole. The usual head weight for a finished, assembled driver is going to be between 192 and 210 grams, depending on the length the club is made and depending on the weight of the shaft and grip used on the club. Therefore there would be anywhere between 22g and 40g added to the head by using the different weights that all… Read more »

Bill Post
1 month ago

Tom, I want to take advantage of your adjustable hosel’s 2.25 degree loft increase but also need fade correction. Placing 20 grams in the heal, 8 grams in the rear and 2 grams in the other two positions will put the total head weight at 201 grams which works well for swing weight at my prefered 45″ playing length. My concern is whether this weight distrbution will give enough fade correction where you findings show that 25 – 30 grams are needed for a “visible draw bias effect”. If I put 30 grams in the heal and 2 grams in… Read more »

Admin
1 month ago
Reply to  Bill Post

Bill Sorry but you cannot do both at the same time with the 719 or with any adj hosel sleeve. You can either use it to change loft, at which to get the loft chanve you have to grip the club to hold the face square behind the ball. Or you can use the sleeve to close the face but the loft will remain what it is. The 45″ playing length is not helping the fade/slice because that long of a club encourages an over the top, outside in swing path. But as long as your clubhead speed is at… Read more »

Bill Post
1 month ago
Reply to  Tom Wishon

Tom, thanks for your reply. I has my best results at a 45″ driver length while having a smooth tempo and transition, but, I do have a fairly early release. Thus, I would be more comfortable if a 25 gram weight were available and would then reduce the rear weight to 2 grams. Any further thoughts you have would be appreciated.

Bill

Admin
1 month ago
Reply to  Bill Post

Bill At a length of 45″, I would think that your swingweight would be pretty high if you had a 25g and a 2g weight in the head, of course depending on the weight of the shaft and weight of the grip you would be using. But you could go 10g in the toe side, 10g in the heel side, 4g in the front and 2g in the back to be within 1g of what you want to do. Since you say you have an early release it would not matter if you had a 25g in the front or… Read more »

Bill Post
1 month ago
Reply to  Tom Wishon

Tom, thanks.

Scott Benson
2 months ago

Tom very interested in the 719MW but built to 43″ and built to 5w head weight( 220-225 gram) with mid seventy grams shaft. How and what weights would you recommend for a golfer who’s miss is a hook

Admin
2 months ago
Reply to  Scott Benson

Scott Fun question to answer since there are several angles to it! First off, you realize that with a mid 70s gram shaft at 43″ and based on a 50g grip, if you make the head weight of the 719 to be 220-225, your swingweight is going to be up in the D6-D8 range. Quite high in other words. a 5 wood is typically 42″ in the basic standard industry length so 43″ increases the swingweight by a good chunk. Second, a better way to reduce a hook with the 719 would be to set the adjustable hosel sleeve on… Read more »

Greg Guyotte
2 months ago
Reply to  Tom Wishon

I think you mean to put the 30g in the toe side to reduce the hook.

Admin
2 months ago
Reply to  Greg Guyotte

Greg
Yeah, sorry for the mix up. Senior moment there! Weight in the heel reduces a fade/enhances a draw. Weight in the toe reduces a draw/enhances a fade.
Sorry for the confusion!
TOM

Scott Benson
1 month ago
Reply to  Tom Wishon

? I always thought if you want to reduce a hook then you would want to toe weight the club? My original thought was use O position and weight the club for more MOI 20 grams in heel/ toe ports and 10 gram in back and 2 gram in front and use a heavier mid sized grip to get the swing weight around D3? and use a 11* degree loft

Admin
1 month ago
Reply to  Scott Benson

Scott Weight in the heel creates a draw bias, weight in the toe side creates a fade bias, depending on how much weight is added and how consistently the golfer can hit the ball on center. If I have miss typed in a previous post, I am sorry to cause confusion. But the O position of the hosel sleeve would be the more sure way to reduce a hook/draw because that is a face angle change, which is a degree for degree reduction in how closed the face is to cause the hook/draw. O position plus weight in the toe… Read more »

Scott Benson
1 month ago
Reply to  Tom Wishon

Tom adding 52 grams of weights 20 in heel and toe 10 in back and 2 in front gets us to 221 in the head using O position for the hook issue what shaft would you recommend going for 43″ length. Me 5’4″ 32 wrist to floor swing is above average for Tempo, Transition, and strength, speed 95ish mph with driver, short compact swing also how or if you would tip it?

Admin
1 month ago
Reply to  Scott Benson

Scott
Thanks very much for your understanding. For your characteristics I would say that in addition to your above average Tempo, transition and strength, if you have a late release of the wrist cock angle coming into the ball, I would recommend the S2S Black 85 S flex with no additional tipping. If you do not have a very late release, then I would recommend the S2S White in S with no additional tipping. Hope this helps, and thanks so much for your interest and your patience,
TOM

Bill Taylor
2 months ago

Tom I have encountered a real loud hollow sound when using the 719 MW with the 30 gram weight in the back and the lightest weights for the rest of the positions. It reminds me of when the titanium driver’s first came out and had that loud ping. For me it is very annoying and will stop me from using that set-up if can’t change the sound. I will try using the thin insulator of cloth or rubber you suggested to the gentlemen that had a similar issue. I will let you know what happens. I have been testing it… Read more »

Admin
2 months ago
Reply to  Bill Taylor

BILL

That’s very strange. We’ve continued to hit test the 719 after its introduction and we can’t recreate a loud impact sound when moving weights around, including putting the 30g in the rear port. Diamond Golf has done this a lot because with every clubmaking school they teach, they have the students go out and work with the 719 with different weights in the different ports on the sole and there have been no mentions of any odd sound situations.
TOM

George Alexander
2 months ago

Is it possible to remove the shaft from the adapter? If so, would it be the same process as removing from a regular hosel?

George Alexander
2 months ago
Reply to  Ash

Thanks for the help. Will let you know who it goes.

Graham Troth
2 months ago

Hi Tom, as you know I have your new 719MW driver. As I read all these reviews I only wish I had a more technical approach for your reviewers to read. But in the short time I have had your superbly designed driver (and I have had a few Wishon drivers) for me this is the outstanding one. The black Wishon shaft compliments the set up. It’s first outing was in St Andrews a couple of weeks ago, the home of golf. I was amazed at the feel, the impact sound, everything. Back here in Cumbria and today on the… Read more »

Roger Huston
2 months ago

Tom I have had a chance to read the many comments and to look at your video (at least 3 times) of the 719MW driver. The thing that sticks out most about this is the little mechanism the adjustable sleeve. I am not the engineer, but what you have tackled is something that should have been addressed years ago and that is face and lie angle. I have as a player always thought if we can achieve hitting the ball with in the middle of the driver then we have accomplished our mission. I think moving the center of gravity… Read more »

Admin
2 months ago
Reply to  Roger Huston

Roger You are right in saying that it is easier to find a driver with the right loft for a golfer than to find one with the right face angle, or lie. But this is because since the advent of the modern adj hosel sleeves that all purport to change loft only, no companies offer drivers with a selection of different face angles or lies Even before all the companies went to adj hosel sleeves, they still didn’t even identify face angle as a spec. People who slice the ball (or hook, though slicing is FAR more common) were always… Read more »

2 months ago

I got my 719MW today and I put the head on a scale without the weights and the weight came out at 160 grams. In your specs it say 169 grams without the weight.

Is it something weong with it?

Admin
2 months ago

Christher
I would recommend you double check the accuracy of your scale. It is really not very possible for the head to ever be that light because the factory had a very difficult time getting the body without any weights down to the upper 160s in gram weight.
TOM

2 months ago
Reply to  Tom Wishon

Is the hosel sleeve included in the head weight? Because I mesured the head with out the sleve. Just the raw head without weights and sleve.

Admin
2 months ago

Christher
Yes, the hosel sleeve is to be included in the headweight of the body of the head because you cannot use the head without the hosel sleeve installed. I should have thought to ask if you included the sleeve in your weight measurement but I didn’t because I never thought anyone would weigh the head without the sleeve. Nice to know this matter is straightened out and that the head is made properly!!
TOM

Matt Carstens
2 months ago

Hey Tom, curious why the graduated roll technology wasn’t included on the 719?

Admin
2 months ago
Reply to  Matt Carstens

MATT It is, as it is on every driver, wood and hybrid I have designed since 2004. I did make a change many years ago in terms of how we actually do the change in vertical roll that we have called GRT to where the vertical roll is now set at 20″. The original GRT done in 2004 was a combination of two different roll radii which proved to be too difficult for any foundry to achieve with accuracy and consistency. So since my original goal for GRT was to reduce the vertical radius to reduce the much greater loft… Read more »

Steve Hoard
2 months ago

Tom, I just watched your YouTube post on the 719 MW driver. I understand better the design features you’ve built in. Thanks. Ed Ellis here in Richmond, Va fitted me with my 11 degree 719 several weeks ago. I’d been waiting for some months to get my hands on it. I’m still dialing in my swing with this club, but I really like what I’m seeing. Ed fitted it with a 65-gm flexible shaft resulting in a swing weight of about C9. Large diameter grip too. Shaft length of 44.5″ which I think about right for my modest swing speed.… Read more »

2 months ago

. Tom
I put the 719 together and played today. Looks awesome hits as good as the 919 but had a very loud PING to it, 20 g in front 10 in back and 6 on the other spots, any suggestions.

Admin
2 months ago
Reply to  Tom L Miller

TOM Interesting. We have not encountered this before nor did we in any of the hit testing. In thinking about this, it must be because the weights are made from different materials which have different densities. Since we never experienced this in hit testing, we are not sure what weight material in what position might change the sound or what. I suppose you could try to cut a small piece of cloth or even very thin rubber if you can find such, and screw the weight down on that very thin material to see if it could act like a… Read more »

Kourt
3 months ago

Hey Tom now that you’ve launched a driver with an adjustable sleeve is there any plan on implementing the hosel adapter into the fairway woods and hybrids? Would make life much easier being able to swap out shafts in fittings with ease and offering small adjustments to face angle and loft during the fitting process.

Admin
3 months ago
Reply to  Kourt

KOURT Since the 719MW drivers are a standalone driver design, there is always the possibility that if it continues to do well with the clubmakers and their customers, there certainly can be matching fairway woods in the future. Based on your comment about making life easier with an adj sleeve, all of the other head models can be used with Diamond’s connectors that they offer, I think which are called MasterFit. That would be the same thing, ease of use wise, as the adj hosel sleeve. And probably cheaper since I think buying the MasterFit connector pieces is cheaper than… Read more »

Jon Belmont
3 months ago

Tom- So excited for this launch! I’m absolutely loving my EQ1-NX clubs… I have 3W & 7W @ 41”, 4H & 5I – LW @ 36.5” and the improvement thanks to consistency of ONE SWING has been considerable. Might add some length to the hybrid and maybe shave some off the wedges but considering I tinkered with setting them up all winter long, I need to remind myself to JUST PLAY ‘EM!!! and tinker more this winter. One question on the 719MW… what is the conversion from raw shaft length to “playing length”… i.e. when people say “I have a… Read more »

Last edited 3 months ago by Jon Belmont
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3 months ago
Reply to  Jon Belmont

JON How nice of a post you made and I’m truly pleased to hear how well the EQs are performing for you. It’s being able to read a comment like this that really makes my “work” not really be work! I’m pleased for you and hope that your good play and enjoyment do continue! To be honest with you, we really do not ever think about the length of the shaft itself when removed from a clubhead. There is a term for that – the CUT SHFT LENGTH – but what clubfitters really focus on is the playing length of… Read more »

Jon Belmont
3 months ago
Reply to  Tom Wishon

Tom- I thank you again for your prompt and thorough reply… truly the exception to the rule to find designer-to-consumer communication in nearly any form these days. I hope folks don’t take it for granted. Okay, I understand “playing length” vs. “raw shaft length” difference. Certainly understand that it varies from club to club. Higher up on this page, the only spec given (last graphic before the comments start) is for a 919THI with a bottom of bore to ground (BBTG) length of 1.5”. Does this mean that a 44” long raw shaft installed in a 919THI will have a… Read more »

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3 months ago
Reply to  Jon Belmont

JON Ever since I started “working” in the golf equipment industry, and that’s a LOOOONG time now (!!!), I have always made it a point to respond quickly and in detail to ANY questions. Mainly because WAY BACK when I was first getting started in club repair as a lowly asst pro, no one, and I mean NO ONE, with any of the companies would give me the time of day when I called to ask questions. So I made a promise that if I ever got into a position where I needed to offer help or advice or answers,… Read more »

Greg Guyotte
3 months ago

How can the 57 degree lie angle be achieved? Is that the lowest possible setting? Thanks!

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3 months ago
Reply to  Greg Guyotte

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

Greg Guyotte
3 months ago
Reply to  Tom Wishon

Thanks! FYI the N position lie is given as 58 degrees on the head specs chart. In the text above the charts, it reads “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°.” Just a couple of typos in the web page. Also according to the chart 2 degrees open is the largest face angle adjustment, not 3 degrees as given in the text.

Bob Howe
3 months ago

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 »

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3 months ago
Reply to  Bob Howe

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 »

Ray Monty
3 months ago
Reply to  Tom Wishon

Tom, if one wanted to use the 30 gram weight for fade correction and filled the remaning cavities (as recommended) with the 2 gram weights swing weight gets too high for most golfers unless going < 45″ so I would think a 25 gram would be useful for many golfers to give good fade correction and keep a more reasonable swing weight. With the variety of lower weight options I think the addition of both a 15 and 25 gram weight would be ideal. Whatever changes you are able to make the 719 is a great addition to your new… Read more »

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3 months ago
Reply to  Ray Monty

RAY Yes, trying to build the driver at greater than 45″ would bring about a swingweight issue unless the shaft were a 50g or less weight and the grip were not too light. The whole reason my desired spec for driver heads has sat at 202g for so long is because that was my way of sort of “forcing” clubmakers to not fit their golfers with a length that long. I have been against drivers longer than 44-44.5 for a very long time because it was so very obvious that performance, distance and consistency was so much better for like… Read more »

Bill Nottingham
3 months ago

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

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3 months ago

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

Art Abrahams
3 months ago

YeeeHaww!

Great to finally see it! Love your work, Tom.