Pat The absolute most rediculous thing that all of the other golf equipment companies do is to continue to sell their drivers with a standard off the rack length between 45 and 46 inches. I’ve worked on fitting research aimed at this for over 20 yrs now and fortunately the majority of clubmakers that work with my designs do understand this and rarely to never fit anyone with a 45″ length. Most never go over 44″ and end up around 43-43.5″ for most of the custom fit drivers they fit and make for golfers. The results are obvious – way… Read more »

David Yes, absolutely, that is one of the primary functions of the bendable hosel. You will need a way to clamp/secure the head to enable bending. Few of the usual loft and lie bending machines have this capability since most are developed to bend irons only. But a few out there can accommodate drivers/woods/hybrids for bending. Once clamped, for a more open FA, you bend the hosel in the direction away from the face, as if you are bending the hosel backward, away from the target. The CP4 hosel is soft, it bends with about the same effort as any… Read more »

DAVE I think Bryson is finding out that his 190-200+mph ball speeds is pushing the threshold of performance and known face performance dynamics for drivers that are made the way they are. I believe this could have been seen with the long drive guys except for the fact no one thinks anything odd when they see a long drive guy hit one that just goes off the planet. Everyone thinks that it is a really bad swing brought about by trying to swing that hard. And most of those off the planet long drive shots probably are. But with a… Read more »

TOM You can if desired, shorten the 9 and wedges by removing the grip and trimming off however much you wish to shorten these clubs. I would recommend doing that gradually, starting with taking off 1/2″ and seeing how that goes. If you still feel there is a lack of consistency because they are still a little too long, then take another half inch. Do keep in mind that for each half inch you shorten the clubs, they will lose 3 swingweight points and from that, can definitely swing with too little head feel for your swing timing and rhythm.… Read more »

Tom As one with severe hearing loss who has spent a LOT of time investigating sound (and the lack of it!!) I can definitely tell you that one man’s “ping” sound can easily be another man’s “click” or “thud” sound, because of the big differences in how human ears along with the brain works to process sound. I can tell you that in the several years that the 365’s have been out, I personally have not corresponded nor heard from anyone who said the impact sound was different in any way that could be perceived by some as being deleterious… Read more »

Gary Not until loft increases to a point of 26 to 27* (combined with a normal Angle of Attack) will you see a high COR face begin to measurably drop below the maximum possible smash factor allowed by the limit on spring face conformity in the rules of golf. First of all, for a driver (or any clubhead with a loft under 26*) with a 257 CT/0.830 COR face, the max smash factor you can get is 1.495. Because all launch monitors have +/- tolerances for picking up clubhead speed and ball speed, you will see an occasional max 257CT/0.83… Read more »

Gary Neither. The last biased driver I designed was believe it or not, back in the mid 1990s, a driver head I designed for Golfsmith called the ACCU CORE 50 with a 45g brass weight embedded in the heel side of the head. Since then I have never done any sort of bias design of weighting in ANY head I have created – at least until next year when there will be a new driver that will be capable of being either draw, neutral or fade biased. The 919 is designed with a CP4 titanium hosel which is a pure… Read more »

KURT Thanks for stopping by! Yes, I remember your Grandfather Ken. I do remember corresponding with him over the years. Good for you that you kept one of the clubs he made. Wow, the 360cc version of the 915CFE was our very first line of woods from back in 2002 when we started the company! The main thing that a larger size head brings is a higher MOI to reduce the amount of head twisting and energy loss when you hit one off center. But really, if a driver has a really well engineered variable thickness face (slightly thicker center… Read more »

Mike
Yes. When the head is ordered from Diamond Golf, you can ask for them to bend it before they ship it and they will do that. The 919 is made with a special CP4 grade titanium hosel so it can be bent 4* in any direction – up, flat, open, closed. So your preferred 54* lie is within that range.
TOM

KURT Standard off the rack clubs made by the big companies don’t do a very good job of accommodating MOST golfers, not just shorter golfers. You might find 1 to 2% of all golfers who could be compatible with the 45 to 46″ length of std made drivers and that’s just one thing. It is good to hear you are working with John because he is VERY experienced and knowledgeable from many years of working with golfers. I’ve known him for a long time in this business and I know you are in good hands working with him. I am… Read more »

Nathan You would have to contact Mondher or Aimen at golfmechanix.com directly to ask them to make the back clamp piece for the bending machine they make for this to be able to secure the drivers and woods/hybrids for bending. These molded clamps were always made with hardening putty and never were made with any type of softer, rubber type material. We just always used a thin sheet of rubber you can get from any supplier like Grainger or MSC in between the putty clamp and the back of the clubhead to prevent any marring of the head, and that… Read more »

Juergen Thank you so much for coming to our website and posting a comment!! Also MANY thanks for having chosen to work with Mike – he is without question one of the very, very best and most knowledgeable clubmaker clubfitters on the entire planet. And your club at Jakobsberg is truly a nice facility and a wonderful place to spend a day. I have had the pleasure of being there 4 or 5 times over the years to teach clubfitting seminars for clubmakers or for the German PGA and I never get tired of the visit because it is so… Read more »

DON Hmmmm. . . now where would you have heard something like that??!! Hmmmm. . . . . mum’s the word but I can say that being in semi retirement with no responsibility for the day to day operations of a business means I can be messing around with a LOT of new things !!!!! ;>) Maybe. . . . . but I can assure you that no way, and I mean NO WAY, can I design a different driver that can be any better than the 919 for ball speed and off center hit performance. It just can’t be… Read more »

Craig First off, if you could see any of my S2S graphite shafts in raw uncut form, you could look at the butt end and see a red and white line drawn about 4″ long on the unpainted end of the shafts. These are the stable plane testing lines put on by the shaft making factory when they perform a stable plane orientation test on EVERY S2S shaft they make for us. This is done before the shafts are painted and logo’d so when the name of the shaft goes on, it goes on in line with the red line… Read more »

PHIL To be totally honest with you, balance point is the least important of all the shaft specs and pales in comparison to the importance of the weight, flex, bend profile and torsional stiffness. Balance point is what happens after the designer comes up with the flex and bend profile and weight of the shaft – it is a by product of those three elements. It is also related somewhat to what type of composite material the designer chooses to use in the shaft. Main point is that balance point is not considered a separate fitting element in a shaft… Read more »

JOHAN Thanks very much for stopping by the website to share your nice comment about the 919 you played with this season! Glad to hear that it is behaving itself in your bag!! We do not offer the black finish version in a 9* loft, only in the 11 and 13 because those two lofts are by far the models that have the highest demand. With the conventional finish version of the 919 in 9, 11, 13, and 15.5 and left hand in 11, adding on the 11 and 13 in black makes 7 different 919 models that we have… Read more »

Phil
That’s great to hear that Bill nailed it with your specs for the new 919 driver! That’s music to my ears, and really, because Bill is a fantastic fitter I am not surprised one bit that you were pleased with his work to help you enjoy this great game a little more. Thanks so much for your interest and your support!
TOM

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