919THI DRIVERS
Wishon Golf’s Most Popular Driver Design in a Wide Variety of Custom Fitting Options
Features:
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919THI Drivers available in both conventional finish and a Black Oxide finish – all designed with Wishon’s unique bendable hosel
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Variable Thickness Face with High MOI delivers the best off center hit performance in the game
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All 919THI drivers undergo 6 separate face thickness QC checks during production to ensure the highest conforming smash factor
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The 919THI is also available in a beautiful black oxide satin finish with a striking but subtle red top crown highlights for the most modern cosmetic appearance
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Available in conventional finish version in RH 9°, 11°, 13° and 15.5°. LH in 11°. Black Oxide version in RH in 9°, 11° and 13°
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Tom the folks At Diamond International and I am sure you have just released fantastic pictures and specs of the new 719MW Driver. I have a few questions for the head. Obviously adjustable on the hosel and a weighting system to help the draw, the fade, and center of gravity either rearward or forward. Your adjustable sleeve .. Will you have your own mechanism or will you use an adaptation of let’s say a Taylormade type or something like the Titleist? What will the head weight for the 719MW be before adding the weights? (raw weight 173 grams or so?)… Read more »
ROG Thanks for your kind comments and enthusiasm about the new 719MW driver. It’s been a LONG LONG time in development. Being able to investment cast the titanium body light enough with proper strength was a huge challenge, so we could incorporate as much as a 30g weight in the head to be able to make a visible difference in shot shape. It is so difficult to cast titanium very thin with proper strength, because molten titanium has the viscosity of molasses. It took some real casting breakthroughs to get the molten Ti to flow and fill every nook and… Read more »
Hi Tom, After much use and abuse, my much loved 9 degree THI has finally given up. I was hitting bombs at the driving range today when the lovely sound changed. After a few more hits and duds, upon inspection, there was a crack running from the middle of the face right to one the lines on the sole of the club ill be happy to share pics if you email me. My replacement is going to be another THI. I’ve tried newer drivers over the years but always come back to using the THI. Thanks for making a great… Read more »
NIK Just like with us humans, there is a life expectancy for driver heads. Thankfully ours is a lot longer than a driver head (!!) but still, that means you must have had several thousand hits with it before it decided it was time to retire! I really do have to say it has been very satisfying to have created the 919 because face performance wise, I just think it’s almost impossible to make a driver better. Then when I had the chance to tweak it with the bendable hosel, it just went down in my book as a driver… Read more »
Hi Tom,
Would you have any suggestions on how one could obtain this clubhead? I live in Canada and frequently visit the United States.
I am a short individual with long arms. Thus I play my clubs very flat (5 iron@ 55.5 Degrees).
This is the first Driver that I’ve seen that is capable of being bent to 54 degrees flat.
Marc Thanks very much for your interest. I can tell from your question that you are not familar with our company and how we do business so please allow me to explain so everything is clear. We sell our designs as component heads, shafts, grips only to approved, qualified custom clubmakers around the world, who then fit and custom build the components into finished custom made clubs for end user golfers. We do not sell our components to golfers who are not qualified clubmakers because if we did that, we would have no way to police the quality of the… Read more »
Tom,
Ed Ellis just called me to say he could get 919 clubheads now. You and I had conversed recently about my options. I’m going ahead.
Ed and I haven’t discussed static loft for my new club but I’m wondering if a 13.5 degree might benefit. My current TaylorMade Burner is 10.5. My range with this club is between 180-200 yards with an apex of about 75 feet.
I know fairway conditions will impact my rollout but I’m wondering what to expect with a similar clubhead speed but with a higher static loft? Any thoughts?
Thanks much.
Steve
Steve For every golfer, there is a launch angle for the driver shot that delivers the best combination of carry distance plus roll after landing. Assuming an on center impact, there are two things that dictate the launch angle, the loft of the head and the angle of attack of the clubhead into the ball. The slower the golfer’s clubhead speed, the higher the launch angle needs to be to maximize the carry plus roll of the ball. And vice versa, the higher the clubhead speed, the lower the launch angle must be to maximize carry + roll. If the… Read more »
I think I’ve got it now. Thanks Tom. Ed and I will start working in a week or so.
Steve
Tom, my question is related to my upcoming fitting work on driver with Ed Ellis. I’m curious to understand what is happening on the driver clubface and whether the clubface twists at impact when I hit slightly off center. You mention in your books that an off-center driver strike travels less distance and my experience confirms that. I’m a good 15 yards shorter with an off-center hit, even when the balls travels relatively close to my target line. Is this distance change due to the energy from impact being dissipated slightly by the clubhead twisting a bit? Not enough to… Read more »
Steve An off center hit loses distance in chiefly two ways that both reduce the ball speed compared to an on center hit. First, as you say, the head vibrates and twists when hit off center which causes a tremendous loss of energy transferred from the head to the ball. Second, the face flexes the most in the geometric center of the face. Impact anywhere off the center brings about less face flexing, which also means more energy loss from the face. This one you can see/ measure when you hit shots that are tracked by a high quality launch… Read more »
Thanks for the explanation, Tom. I’ve never doubted your comments about shaft length, but for the last couple of months I’ve seen it in my driver hits. I spray talc sometimes on the driver clubface during practice and have seen the dispersion of my driver impacts narrow as I choke down. Full length dispersion is almost +/- 1.25″ or nearly the width of the clubface. Choking down on the club shaft a couple inches, my dispersion generally is less than +/-.75″ Thanks for the smash factor explanation. I hadn’t understood it before. I’ll keep you explanation in mind when Ed… Read more »
New 919 driver
Just put one together for a customer, his comment was it DOES NOT SOUND like my old one
TOM
I can assure you that the same factory that has made the 919 driver heads for the past 8 years made this latest shipment that came into Diamond’s warehouse last month. Nothing has changed on the head, its specs or its materials or method of manufacture. It can happen that with older driver heads, over time and many hits, the face can fatigue ever so slightly which could possibly make a little change in sound. But there have been no changes whatsoever on the 919 during the time that the factory was closed down due to covid lockdowns.
TOM
I currently hit a Krank formula 6 driver with diamana kahli shaft reg flex I’m 70 and need more distance I was going to buy the new Krank x driver with maximum COR but I found out that it’s non conforming.. I’m looking for the highest COR driver that is conforming please advise. Also should I consider using the same shaft on a new head or is there something better. Thank you. Tom
TOM I am sorry but to my knowledge there is no data out there to tell you what the COR of any driver is. Most companies do try to make their conforming drivers so that they would not be over 0.830 COR when the face thickness is at the thinner limit of the +/ tolerance. Due to every driver in history being subject to normal +/- tolerances, there is no possible way to know what any driver you actually buy will be in terms of its COR. But the range would not be all that much since a change of… Read more »
Tom,
I notice that the 13-degree (and 15.5 degree) heads denote a 1-degree closed face angle.
Could you please elaborate as to why a 1-degree closed face angle was incorporated into the design on these two lofts?
Most appreciated!
RAY The players who are properly fit into the higher lofts of the 13 and 15.5 driver heads will have lower clubhead speeds than those properly fit into the 9 or 11 loft models. This is because in proper loft fitting the slower the clubhead speed, the more loft is needed to properly elevate the shot to maximize carry distance plus roll for most distance. Players with slower clubhead speeds can have a little more of an issue rotating the face back around to be square at impact and can tend to leave the face a little open. This is… Read more »
Tom, I bought a PCF MICRO PRO wedge without test driving it first and am very pleased with its performance. Now, I’m interested in your driver and maybe some irons, but am hesitant to plop down big bucks without taking a demo to the range. The fitter I’m working with doesn’t have a demo. What do you advise? Thanks.
JJ The clubmakers are all independent business people which means they all can run their businesses differently. Because the essence of what they do is purely custom clubmaking based from fitting golfers, every club they build is different, tailored to each golfer. So the prospect of Demos is not all that great because what if the shaft, length, swingweight, loft, etc, is not what YOU need. You hit that demo and don’t like it and you form an incorrect conclusion about the club because it doesn’t fit YOU. Some of the clubmakers do work with special devices called connectors that… Read more »
Tom, I’m going to finish fitting my two fairway woods this week with Ed Ellis and then consider working on a driver. I’m continuing trying to understand the science behind my clubs, beginning with my single length irons and single length hybrids. Driver seems a whole new ball game. I am using a Callaway Burner with a senior shaft right now. I hit it about 180; up to 200 if I hit it in the sweet spot. My swing speed at impact is about 85, sometimes a bit more. I’m sure Ed will have me try out various shafts with… Read more »
Steve On its own, flex does not contribute one thing to clubhead speed. It’s main contribution is to launch angle/spin and shot height and shape of the shot with respect to landing angle and best combination of carry + roll. And then very much, there is a contribution to shaft feel in terms of how well it matches to the golfer’s preferred sense of bending feel in a shaft – if the golfer does have such a preference. Many do not. That right there is how a shaft can contribute to swing speed. If the golfer over time has developed… Read more »
Yes, your thoughts make sense to me. I misnamed my drivers previously. I have TaylorMade Burners not Callaway. Today I put in about an hour at the range trying to understand why I tended to favor one of the Burners over the other. There was a clear difference not so much in total distance but in shot dispersion. I want to be equipped with this sense when I start working with Ed Ellis fitting my fairway woods followed by driver. The senior flex shaft driver, which I’ve been using and currently prefer, tended to fly straighter with a little less… Read more »
Steve First of all, do place your fitting needs in Ed’s hands to let him do the in person analysis and to come up with the recommendations based on his experience plus what he sees. I can only act as an information source while Ed will have the advantage of continuing to see your swing and shot patterns/results. Typically a stiffer shaft can tend to miss more to the right/push because of two possible reasons. One, being stiffer it can’t achieve as much of a forward bend position prior to impact as can a more flexible shaft. When a shaft… Read more »
Tom, your thoughts do help. Your thoughts on the difference between flex and stiff driver shaft fits what I’ve been experiencing and yesterday’s focused practice. My hands tell me there is a bit of whip in the flexible shaft as I get around the ball. I’ve no photo evidence of this but my hands say so. And yes, my EQ1-NX single length irons and wedges are the best thing I’ve done with my game to date. Full swing results are clearly more consistent but my short game work using my single length sand wedge has improved significantly. There is much… Read more »
Tom, Ed Ellis and I got together yesterday on the range to begin fitting fairway woods and talk about working with driver. We used an EQ1-NX 4-wood head and tested three shafts with club length about 40″. He has two more Wishon shafts coming this week and we’ll give these a go next weekend. This practice session was my first experience swinging a fairway wood. Previously my long clubs were standard length 41″ hybrids. So, I had a pretty steep learning curve with the 4-wood. I liked it though. Impacts felt good and I was pleasantly surprised to see my… Read more »
Tom, I’m looking forward to working with Ed Ellis to fit my driver very soon. Ed gave me my 9 wood a couple weeks ago, which is working nicely with my other two single length woods. I have single length Wishon clubs from lob wedge to 4 wood now. Not looking back. Am really pleased. I have a question about what to expect from the new driver, possibly with a higher loft. I currently use a TaylorMade Burner 10.5-degree in a flexible senior shaft. My swing speed is 80-85. My range is around 185-200 yds, rarely any more distance. I… Read more »
Steve The best driver loft for any golfer will be determined by analyzing the clubhead speed plus the angle of attack the golfer generates with the club coming into the ball. Normally the higher the clubhead speed, the lower the loft – and vice versa. But angle of attack has to be included in the final decision because one golfer can have a steep/downward A of A while another can have an upward A of A. Steep/downward always compels the loft to be higher than what the clubhead speed would otherwise indicate on its own, while upward always means the… Read more »
Tom, Thanks for your thoughts. I haven’t had my angle of attack measured with driver but I’m guessing I have an upward angle by the time I reach the ball. If I understand rightly, then I’d need a lower design loft in the clubface than the standard for my swing speed. Ed Ellis will know. I’m looking forward to starting my driver fitting. Loft will only be one detail. I’m particularly interested in shaft specifics too. I already know that my club length will be less than standard for driver. The impact pattern in the picture is for 5 strikes.… Read more »
STEVE
Most of the time but not always, a player that slices the ball will be downward while one that hooks the ball will be lss downward to level to upward. But as I said, not always so that’s why it is better to be analyzed properly. Good luck on the driver fitting!!
TOM
Hi Tom
I see that it seems that the 919THI is no longer offered in the LH model. I understand the challenges with global production. What are current models of drivers, woods and hybrids that are still offered in LH?
Thanks
Lincoln We’re in a bit of a transition phase with regard to many of our models going forward. Much of that transition into retiring some and introducing new models has been “monkey wrenched” (delayed) a bit due to the effects of the pandemic on the factories and supply chain issues so the timing of this is a bit affected. For now the LH models are the 929 and EQ1 woods, the EQ1 hybrids, 979 irons, 771 irons, PCF Micro Pro wedges. The 919 LH driver got whacked when we were working on different new things with the 919 that also… Read more »
Tom, I represent Meadowlake Golf Club in Keithville, LA as their IT person and their “golf club testing person”. I have been playing golf for about 45 years. Over the past 15 years I have owned just about every popular brand name of golf clubs in an obsessive search for the perfect set of clubs. When Meadowlake owner / swing coach / club fitter, Peter Winkler, told me he was interested in doing business with Wishon, I volunteered to purchase the 919 THI Black driver, 929 HS #4 fairway wood, and 989 CLA iron set 5 – AW. I also… Read more »
Andrew Wow, thanks so much for taking the time to not just take a good look at our product line in a thorough manner, but also for stopping by the comments section to share your experience with the models and shafts that you had the chance to hit. I’m humbled and honored by your comments. And to everyone else who may see this, no, I did not in anyway solicit this!! HA! However, I do have to be totally honest and say that it does not surprise me that you were able to find the models could out perform any… Read more »
Tom, I’m getting ready to start fitting a driver with Ed Ellis, my local Wishon fitter. I have a question about driver loft. I have a full set of EQ1NX irons and wedges plus a 5 & 6 EQ1NX hybrids. Ed gave me the lob wedge just yesterday. It took a while with the pandemic to get these clubs, but they have transformed my game. I’m very pleased with the clubs and their fit. We used S2S R 55 blue shafts for the irons and S2S Hybrid R 55 black for the hybrids. Club length is 37.” I’m in my… Read more »
Steve There is no question that DEPENDING ON YOUR ANGLE OF ATTACK (downward vs upward vs level), as clubhead speed drops, driver loft should increase to enable the ball to stay in the air longer to achieve better carry distance. The key is to get the ball to fly high enough so it does that, but not so high that the ball cannot achieve decent roll to enhance the total distance. CLubhead speed is just one part of this loft decision making process. Your angle of attack is the other and I would think with Ed’s experience he will be… Read more »
Thanks Tom. Your explanation of trajectory and roll makes sense. I hadn’t understood them, nor the differences brought on by fairway moisture levels. Ed Ellis is going to get me started on my fairway fitting process in a couple weeks. He has the EQ1NX clubheads for this. Concurrent with that we’ve decided to start experimenting with driver. Gonna be fun.
Steve
Tom, I was also wondering how cold temperatures affect the durability of golf clubs. Living in Colorado Springs I play a lot of golf in the winter, temps in the 30s on the low side but many days in the 40s-50s even up to the low 60s for short stretches possible. As long as the course is playable snow wise and it’s not too windy I usually don’t slow down my normal routine of playing at least 3 times a week. The discussion below on durability has me wondering if I’m significantly lowering the life expectancy of my 919 THI… Read more »
Dave Cold won’t adversely affect anything on the golf clubs themselves. You won’t do any damage to the clubs by playing when it is cold. Depending on the type of grip you have on the clubs, very cold weather will make the grips feel firmer/harder but it won’t cause any damage to them. I would recommend that you never store your golf balls where it is cold because they will be affected and you would notice a difference in performance and mainly in the impact feel of the ball. Keep the balls warm and when you play, try to keep… Read more »
Hi Tom, I have a 919THI I’ve had for 3 years now and a 519 SHPR I got last year. I have the S-Flex Red shaft in both and I absolutely LOVE the different characteristics of each. I was curious your thoughts on other material components for driver heads. Taylor Made just came out with the “Stealth” carbon faced driver with the “twist-face” design. I know this concept has been tried before in the past and I understand it is a complete marketing gimmick as the testing seems to indicate it doesn’t improve on last year’s model. I’ve seen you’ve… Read more »
DAVE Very pleased to hear that you like both the 919 and 519 and that you do notice differences in the two. That’s precisely what we had in mind when I did the 519 to follow on the 919. Now we hope down the road when it comes out, the number in between those two will get positive reviews as well!! Shhhhh. HA! Not enough is known by people outside of Taylor Made about this new Stealth driver. There are foundry people who insist there is a thin titanium face behind the composite material, such that it may not be… Read more »
Awesome! Love your clubs! Currently hitting the Sterling and I have an EQ1-NX 5i – LW set with Red S-Flex shafts on order with my friend and club fitter/maker Bill Nottingham so very much looking forward to that. Can’t wait to see what comes out next!
Dave
Tom
Been using a 919THI that I was fit to a couple of years ago. During the fitting I was getting higher smash factor and more ball speed with the 919 compared to my gamer. Recently I converted my garage to a simulator room with a TrackMan 4 unit and land angle and spin with the 919THI is less consistent vs other drivers but smash is on avg higher. Spin is higher when I hit it low on the face.
Could it be the GRT roll doesn’t suit my 120mph swing?
David The GRT reduced vertical roll is fine for speeds up to 120-125, or at least in the >10 yrs that we have been making the 919, we’ve never once heard of or seen any situation in which a player of your velocity had any issues with it. What you may want to check since you have had this for a few years is whether you may have started to cave in the face a little bit. Titanium driver faces do have a life expectancy and especially if you with your 120mph speed have been playing with this for 2+… Read more »
Tom, Your comment about life expectancy has me thinking. I had a 919THI 11 degree for almost 10 years but a few weeks ago while playing, I noticed a 2 inch crack on the sole up by the face. I’m sure it had just happened. Is 10 years about typical for life expectancy for drivers?
Steve No, 2-3 years is much more typical for life expectancy of a Ti driver, for a player who plays and hits balls a fair bit. Most Ti driver manufacturing factories will run a typical air cannon hit durability test to check how many hits at a specific higher clubhead speed it takes to begin to fatigue the face. Typical for that test is 5,000 hits. If a driver goes through 5,000 hits at 120mph and the face radii of roll and bulge only change/flatten by 1″ of radius measurement, the head is considered to be plenty durable enough. Now… Read more »
Hi Tom,
I’m a huge fan and devotee of your club designs including irons (Sterling & 752TC), hybrids (785HF) and woods (929HS). I have a 919THI (16.5*) that doesn’t seem to look like your current design. Were the “old” 919THI’s made with a volume less than 460CC? Thanks!
Thank you for the email.
Its great to hear you are a fan of Tom’s designs, so thank you for that.
The 919 has always been 460cc to the best of my knowledge, the earlier model did have a slightly shorter hosel, so less of the chrome section.
Thanks,
Doug
Tom
I know your a strong proponent of playing the correct length driver. In my case shorter is better. 100 mph with driver. Cut a 45 inch at butt down to 42 and added 24 g to head weight. In theory will this work ? Also cut another to 43 and added 12g to head. Appreciate your thoughts. Pat
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 »
Amen. Makes me want to start a company just selling 42-44 inch 460cc drivers. F-Squared or FairwayFinder. Any concerns about shaft stiffness, flex, kick point, etc. I started with 45 inches in Stiff and cut to 42. Would you recommend starting with Regular flex and then cutting ? Alternatively would you use 3 wood shaft ? If you built one from scratch how would you go about it ?
Will play with head weights. Initial range results encouraging. Will test on course tomorrow
PAT: The vast majority of the time the shaft never changes from the club being shortened because there are offsetting actions happening. When you cut from the butt end, it being the larger end is more stiff than the tip half of the shaft which is much smaller in diameter. A principle of shaft stiffness design and performance is that the two primary things that control stiffness are diameter and wall thickness, with diameter being three times more influential on stiffness than wall thickness. So to start with, when you cut say, 3″ from the butt, you are getting rid… Read more »
Hi Tom
Just purchased the 919 driver 9 degree.
I was going to ask, can one open up the face angle. The clubhead sits a little closed for me.
Points a little left.
With the bendable hosel…?
Thanks Tom
Regards
David
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 »
Tom,
Interested to hear your take on Bryson Dechambeau’s driver issues highlighted at the Open this week. Noting his club company’s response, from a a clubhead designer’s perspective, is it even possible to build a driver for a golfer who swings like Bryson?
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 »
Dear Tom. I’ve been using the EQ1-NX irons for a while and just can’t get consistency with the 9 iron or below. How “out” will the clubs be if these were made to regular shaft lengths for the 9, PW, GW and SW please. Could they still be usable. Thank you. Tom
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 »
Many thanks indeed for your clear reply
Should i be getting a ping sound on striking a ball with a new 365 f way 3 I’ve just bought,
I have C.F. 555m irons and love them .
Tom 2.7
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 »
I love the sound of the 365 and it is a great value as well. One thing I have noticed is subtle difference in how it sounds depending on the use of the weight port on the bottom of the club. Each weight 2, 4, 6, and 9 gram and material, brass, tungsten change the sound a touch. I mostly use the hosel bore weight port for my builds, but occasionally use the bottom port. Hope that helps.
Tom,
I’ve read that all things being equal a lower loft driver will have a higher smash factor than the same driver in a higher loft. Is this true? If I wanted a 919 head at 10* loft would I be better off Smash factor wise bending a 9* up to 10 * as opposed to an 11* bent down to 10*?
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 »
Thanks
Is the 919THI more of a draw bias or fade bias in the standard face? I’m looking for something that is fade biased internally and then bend the face open a degree or two. Wasn’t the old 949MC fade biased? I had 3 of those.
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 »
I’ll be all over that new driver head for sure
Gary, can we talk about your 949?
Sure? What do you want to know?
Sorry, I’ve been a little busy. Tom says that 949MC is one of his best fairway wood designs. I’m intrigued but right now is hard to find one, also a little pricey for a club of that age. In your experience there’s a club similar to 949MC? I know all Tom’s designs are unique but maybe you can find a similarity of any kind. Thanks.
Diego My comment about the 949 being one of my best fwy wood designs is based on two things, the high COR face and its 1.49 smash factor, plus the shape – it was a “normal shape”, not too large, not too small, not shallow faced and not deeper faced enough to generate any feelings about getting the ball well up to fly. The 949 was my 2nd high COR face fwy wood model. The first one was the 515GRT but to get it to a high smash factor I had to make the face taller than some golfers were… Read more »
Hey Tom, stoked to see you’re still making clubs. My Grandfather, Ken Pattison was a club maker in the early 2000s in Western Canada. I’m still playing with my 360cc 915CFE high launch driver to honor his memory but thinking it’s time to upgrade. Still driving 260yrds and keeping up with my friends and their name brand 460cc’s though.
Can’t beat your quality.
Any tidbits you can offer on what to expect when using a larger club head?
Thank you
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 »
tom
can we have a 919 bent by you? looking to get a 54* Lie angle driver head.
Please advise
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