Thanks so much John, very much appreciated that you have followed what we have been trying to do over the years. That’s great. It is unusual to hear that you are not enamoured with the impact sound of the 919. I am being totally honest to say that this is the first time in the over ten year history of the 919 that I have heard anyone say that about the sound. I personally hate loud sounding drivers and worked very hard to avoid that with the 919 and all my driver designs, but at the same time to not… Read more »

DON
I would recommend you contact ADS Golf in San Marcos at either adsgolf@sbcglobal.net or 760-736-8269 and tell them that I told you to contact them to work with you for a fitting session. (That’ll put them on their toes!! HA! All kidding aside, ADS’ founder Gene Bonk is retired but he trained the people who took it over from him VERY WELL so you would be in good hands there if it is not too far from where you live. You can find out a little more about them at their website at adsgolf.com .
TOM

TOM
Good to hear from you! Well. . . . . . . there is a rumor to that effect I gather! Uhhhh, not much to say because the effects of the pandemic certainly have had an effect on things like this in terms of timing. Possible though for sometime next year but I’m not sure exactly when since there is a lot of work yet to be done. Here’s a little hint question. . . . what number is exactly halfway between 919 and 519?
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(The other Tom!!)

PETER Here’s how. . . . 1) since 2005 all drivers made by quality companies are at the limit for COR. No driver made has a higher COR other than by luck of the draw so to speak. All the big company drivers have a +/-0.1mm face thickness tolerance so at random when you buy one of these you could end up with a COR of 0.820 or 0.828. Because we are a small engineering company with little marketing, our production runs for the 919 are much smaller. As such we pay the factory extra to perform 6 different face… Read more »

Steve If you use the White shaft, at 95mph you should be in the S flex version for sure. Only if you had a very late and aggressive release would the White S not be the choice for you at 95mph clubhead speed. In that case you’d be better off with the Black 65 or 85 because of its stiffer tip section design. So if you have a mid way to ever so slightly later release with avg tempo you’ll be fine with the White S. But do not go more than 44″ for the playing length of the driver… Read more »

TK
+/-4* from the spec lie of 58*. Someone with a lot of bending experience and the right machine of course and a solid mandrel in the hosel bore could get to 52* lie but it would be dodgy to try to push it all the way down to 50*. It would be very hard to prevent the hosel from deforming so the bore would go oval at lies much different than that.
TOM

CRAIG From what you say about not being able to have success with the driver using the shaft you like in your woods, I don’t think that anyone could offer a long distance recommendation for a shaft that would perform as well as the one in your woods. The reason is because it is very unusual for a player to not be able to hit a driver with the same shaft that performs and feels so well in the woods. There has to be something in the area of how the longer length of the driver is changing the bending… Read more »

TOM
No, the 919 as with all of my driver models, accepts a conventional ferrule of 13.0 mm bottom OD with an ID for a 0.335″ parallel tip shaft. The top inside edge of the bore is beveled a lot to create a cushion of epoxy to protect the shaft at the area of the top of the hosel when the shaft is installed.
TOM

SCOTT
If you hit the Maltby driver very solid a high percentage of the time, then what that is telling you is that the length + the total weight + the swingweight must be very good for you and your strength and swing tempo/force. So if you had a 919 with the same shaft, same length, same swingweight but far less open face angle that should be a proper recommendation for you. Or convert one of the other drivers to the same length, shaft, swingweight as the Maltby driver.
TOM

Stephane Thank you very much for your interest in our custom design models of clubheads for custom fitting. I would recommend that you contact professional clubmaker Andre Thaon. Andre has a very successful custom fitting business that he operates by shop and website that is based in LePecq, a suburb of Paris. Andre also has the ability to work by email and phone with golfers who are not close to LePecq to offer quality custom fitting. You can contact Andre at (email) golfnswing@gmail.com – (phone) 33-139-161-860 – (web) http://www.golfnswing.com . Thank you again and the very best to you in… Read more »

Jeff Very sorry to hear that time took its toll on the driver head. The vast, vast majority (99.75%) of the 919 drivers stay intact forever but it is remotely possible that something like this can and will happen. Current welding line failures happen on around 1/4 of 1% of all driver heads but usually that happens within the first year or two. So for you to get many years before this happened means that it was just fatgue over time and many shots that eventually worked its way into a crack on the hosel welding line. We’ve made the… Read more »

JOHN Many thanks for your kind words about the information we provide. I do take trying to help golfers seriously because there is so much bad information out there that is spun strictly to try to get people to spend money. I’m pleased to hear that your friend has gotten some help and is making life a little more difficult for you guys who play with him!! The 919THI driver has been in our product line for now well over ten years. When I first designed it, I had not yet thought about how to incorporate a bendable hosel on… Read more »

GERRY
Thanks very much for your interest but I am sorry to say that we discontinued the last offset driver model in our design line a few years ago due to simply not nearly enough demand to keep it in the line. Most clubmakers today choose to fit golfers with a slice tendency into a driver of the proper loft that has then been adjusted to have enough of a closed face angle to reduce the slice to manageable terms. Once again, sorry we do not have exactly what you seek but I do thank you for your interest,

TOM

JOE In the case of the driver, yes, definitely you both should be custom fit by a good, experienced custom clubmaker. Not at any of the retail golf stores that only sell off the rack big company clubs but by an independent custom clubmaker. The reason is because all the men’s drivers made by the big brand companies are way too long for the vast majority of golfers. For over 20 yrs now it has been known that the longer the length of the driver, the more difficult it will be to control and to use to hit the ball… Read more »

Steve
You will never get the face rough enough with hand sanding to substantially increase friction and from that, spin. Sand blasting is the only good way to do that and if possible to do it with aluminum oxide sand cuz that will leave a nice consistently rough surface.

TOM

STEVE: I have always been someone in all of my fitting research to believe that if you have a shaft model that you presently like a lot, there is absolutely no reason to reinvent the wheel and go out to look for something different. Only if there have been issues that make you suspect the shaft is part of the problem should you go into a whole new search for the perfect shaft for you. This is one area where “if it isn’t broken, don’t try to fix it.” Thanks so much for your interest and your support of what… Read more »

Steve This is going to require that I get a little more info from you before I can offer any opinion so I apologize for asking you to respond back to me before I can take this farther. What is the real loft of the driver you have that gives you the 13* launch angle and 1700-1900 spin? And do you know your angle of attack with the driver? If not, that is ok because I can extrapolate it from the LA if you let me know the loft. And what ball do you currently play? Thanks for getting back… Read more »

STEVE It will be very soon. The last time I spoke with Diamond Golf about this, they said they would be sending out an email with all the information about the new EQ1-NX irons by the third week of March. So that should be within a short time period. The new catalog will be out before the end of March and that will of course have the full layout for the new iron and its matching wood and hybrid designs as well. I do not know the timing for adding it to the website but that too has to be… Read more »

Mr. Aguilar The fairway wood models that are bendable for lie and face angle fitting adjustment are the 929HS, 365PF and 950HC. Any other models than those would have been made before I figured out how to design the heads so they could be bendable. But whoever does the bending of the woods needs to have a bending machine made just for woods and hybrids and driver heads. Very few bending machines for irons adapt to be able to be used to clamp a woodhead/hybrid head/driver head for bending. So you’ll have to check with your clubmaker to ask if… Read more »

OLLIE Wishon Golf is a WHOLESALER of our original clubhead, shaft, grip and technology designs to certified custom clubmakers worldwide. The custom clubmakers use our designs when they custom fit and custom build Wishon brand golf clubs for golfers. We do not sell directly to the public because we are completely committed to golf clubs being professionally custom fit and custom built, one set at a time for one golfer at a time, done by a qualified custom clubmaker. No company that sells direct to golfers could ever do that. To be able to see, test or be fit into… Read more »

SCOTT Thanks much for stopping in and sharing your experience with the 870s. That model is right at the top of my favorites because it was the first iron I did with a thin titanium face and from that the first iron to actually reach a COR of right on the limit. I still remember having the first samples with me on a business trip to Europe when I had the chance to stop in at the R&A and have them put the 870 on their COR test machine – the actual measurement was 0.829! How the first samples of… Read more »

Dennis Many thanks for your interest. We’ve been providing the absolute facts about golf club performance and clubfitting technology for a long time simply because the standard business model of selling in standard form off the rack done by ALL of the big companies is just not the best for the vast majority of golfers. There is definitely a point in shortening the driver at which a golfer will see a decrease in distance because of the effect of a much shorter length on clubhead speed. I see this for most male players at a length under 43″. At lengths… Read more »

NATHAN INvestment casting is usually chosen for the method of manufacture for a ti driver if the driver has more intricate shape features on the head such as any sharp angles of ledges or surface changes of the cosmetics or weight distribution of the design. Very intricate shape features cannot be made by forging or plate forming and can only be made by casting. But casting typically leaves the titanium with more voids and inclusions (tiny microscopic holes) which can decrease the toughness or durability of the head a slight amount. So if the designer knows the head could be… Read more »

VINCE There are two possibilities for getting a little bit more distance. If you feel that your shot height with the 15.5 HLP driver is much too high and you see the ball never roll much at all after landing, you can drop the loft down to 13 and from the lower trajectory you might get enough roll after landing to make your TOTAL distance more than what you see now from the 919 HLP driver. Second, and this one is a little dangerous, if you go longer in length you should see a little increase in clubhead speed which… Read more »