Bernie, You are absolutely correct about the weight adjustable drivers, and Tom Wishon has discussed this with regard to his weight adjustable driver. According to Tom (I think this is correct), approximately 20+ grams of weight has to be moved around to affect ballflight significantly, but moving much more than that will move the center of gravity (i.e. sweetspot) significantly away from the center of the face. IMHO, the best use of moveable weights is to move the CG farther away from the face (towards the rear of the head) to increase the forgiveness of the head, and also the launch angle. Of course, the easiest way to increase launch angle is to use more loft, but some players are averse to high-lofted drivers.
On a similar topic, what is the deal with a lot of LPGA players using low-lofted drivers? I have seen several "in the bag" reports on the Golf Channel or in the golf mags, and it seems a lot of the women are playing drivers with lofts in the 9* range, even though they avearge 250 or less off the tee. Haven't they got the low spin, high launch message yet, or optimized their launcg angle to swingspeed? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bernie Baymiller Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 1:24 PM To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Anybody out there? OK, Tom, here's some theory stuff nobody's discussed here yet (to my knowledge). What makes these driver heads with adjustable weights work as advertised? Is it all hype? And, it is conceivable that they don't work as well as a well designed driver head without the weights? Seems to me they work by moving the center of gravity one way or the other off the center of the face. Move the weight back and toward the heel and the bulge is off center. Hitting the ball square in the middle of the face would actually be a miss-hit outside the cg, so the ball would start out straight and gear effect would give it a draw. Assuming most golfers slice the ball, a slight slice spin might result in a straight ball flight. But any miss-hit loses some distance...so doesn't make much sense to me. Is that how the adjustable weight stuff works and if not, how does it work? Can't really see any benefit for a player that isn't achieved better with an offset face. Bernie Write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ShopTalk@mail.msen.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:23 AM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Anybody out there? > Lots of us here but there's nothing to discuss. Every conceivable factor > regarding golf wear, golf ability, golf shafts, heads, fitting etc., has > been solved on this forum. All we can do now is sulk if we don't get any > emails, and hope that some company comes up with a radical idea. I'm > thinking the re-invention of the tee would be a great place to start. MOI, > flex, how a tee helps a golfer to hit it farther and straighter, or - what > device is available to the average clubmaker that will show us precisely > how to determine where to set a shaft tip in a hosel. I'd begin with > something that would divide a .335" diameter tip into 360 degrees - the > possibilities are endless. > > TFlan :-) > > grampa wrote: >> Haven't had any mail in about a week. Is everybody golfing? >> >> Grampa Sielski >> >> >
