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Golf Drivers - Distance, Distance, and the distance
The driver is considered the second most important club in the golf bag after the putter. This is because it can normally be used 14 times per round on a typical golf course par 72, and most importantly because the tee shot sets each hole. An accurate drive can make the rest of the hole looks easy, while a unit is off line and into the trap of the rough road, or behind a tree or a water hazard can cause enormous problems and make par almost impossible.
Golf Driver Evolution
Golf drivers have changed enormously in the last 10-15 years. If you have been out of golf for some time and suddenly decide to take the game again, you will be in a mild shock to try one of the pilots today. First, the price will be a slap in the face. It is not uncommon for the best brands today at a cost of $ 500 or even more of a driver. The next thing you will notice is the sheer size of the club head. Today's top driver models typically have the number 460 in them because the club head is 460 cubic centimeters (cc). This is now the maximum size allowed for a driver's head. Shaft technology has changed, and the combination Today the flexible graphite shafts, along with the technology of the club head and golf balls today's modern is what produces the prodigious drives tend to see each week on the PGA Tour. The ladies also greatly benefited. The top woman golfer, Lorena Ochoa, of Mexico, only weighs about 115 pounds, but often leads fly 270 yards or more. When this author was a child, the biggest hit of the season was a player named George Bayer. Bayer was a large man, probably 6'4 "or more and had a powerful swing. He hit the ball about 275 yards from the tee at the time, and of course that was considered for a long time. A good drive for male PGA Tour players was 250 to 260 yards in those days, drivers and other woods actually were made of wood, usually a hardwood such as khaki. Today there is rare to see a PGA tour tournament on TV and see units of the longest hitters in the range from 320 to 340 yards with a titanium head club. Distances and would been unthinkable at the time of Bayer.
Driver Club Head Evolution
A head 460 cc club is enormous. Why driver club heads evolved to this state, and what benefits they provide to the golfer? First, the reason that driver heads can be so large is because they are made lightweight titanium material weight. Titanium is strong and flexible, and the main lines of clubs today offer an effect of the spring or trampoline. That is, when the club hits the ball, the face of the drive actually bends inward similar to what happens when a person jumps on a trampoline. When the club face pushes setbacks ball faster than would otherwise travel, and distance is what you get older. The rules of golf now limit the amount of spring that can be provided by the driver club head. If this is not the case, then each years new models of different materials that go out and the units become more and increasingly long. Before long all the golf courses would be out of date. That has been the case with many courses and golf holes have often had to be lengthened to keep up with greater distances provided by today's drivers and golf balls. Another major advantage of the large driver clubs heads is now more time of inertia, representing the moment of inertia. To make a long story short, higher MOI means the club head does not touch both hits. The result is a better chance even on swings that miss the sweet spot of a certain amount. A miss-hit with one of the 460 titanium drivers current means to lose a little distance, but the same number of miss-hit a persimmon driver would result in old wood shot that would be comparatively much worse.
Of course most golfers love the extra distance that the new high-tech drivers provide. There is a downside to all this, however. That is, the larger the unit, the more difficult is to keep the ball in the fairway.
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