RE: ShopTalk: Polishing clubs

2010-03-24 Thread Tom Flanagan
hell. She said "you have got to be the biggest goofball ever"! And ya know? She was right. The only thing waxing those golf balls did was to make them nice and shiny. TFlan > Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:36:57 -0400 > From: kelliso...@rogers.com > To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com >

Re: ShopTalk: Polishing clubs

2010-03-24 Thread Ron Kellison
Every test I know of has shown that, for a full swing (ball compresses considerably on the clubface) with clean, dry contact (e.g.- no grass between the ball and the clubface), the surface treatment has almost no effect on spin. This result extended to tests that included polished faces with no gro

RE: ShopTalk: Polishing clubs

2010-03-24 Thread Bruce Tunnicliffe
Dave Tutelman wrote at 03:39 AM 3/24/2010 wrote >I only use my driver off a tee, and I suspect you do, too. So all the criteria above are met. Should be no discernable effect on ball flight due to spin. Bruce: That was my suspicion too, and why I went ahead and polished the face. I suspected I m

Re: ShopTalk: Polishing clubs

2010-03-24 Thread Dave Tutelman
At 03:39 AM 3/24/2010, Bruce Tunnicliffe wrote: I also don't touch the face on the irons, but I have started to polish the face of my driver. I was a bit worried at first, but I haven't found any discernable change in ball flight, so the polished (versus brushed) face doesn't seem to cause prob