....
Tobell, you'll be lucky!....
Some people on here may remember a website called "insidegolfsecrets" run by an ex pro called Bill Bolton who worked for the OEMs during his lifetime.
He had volumes of info on the site about how BAD "off the shelf" OEM equipment was.
I had a couple of conversations with him amd basically the bottom line is this.
If it can take the OEMs up to three days just to set up one single club to work with a sponsored pro's swing. THREE DAYS!....The pro goes to the factory driving range and just hits balls. The factory then adjusts, reforges, whatever they do to the the club progressively until it fits the pro's swing. And so on for all the clubs in the set...
Bill also found the manufacturing tolerances were way off from the Far Eastern factories..for example a five iron could come off the production line weighing the same as a six iron...
So what happens to that club? Thrown in the bin? Not likely..it ends up in a set where every other club has has extra weight shoved down the hosel (thereby bringing the sweet spot back towards the heel of the club). Ever wondered why you sometimes get a set of clubs and you can't seem to hit a couple of them? Like your six iron only goes as far as your seven iron?...All other things being equal, that's the reason..
So how good are our clubs?...go figure....
Tobell, you'll be lucky!....
Some people on here may remember a website called "insidegolfsecrets" run by an ex pro called Bill Bolton who worked for the OEMs during his lifetime.
He had volumes of info on the site about how BAD "off the shelf" OEM equipment was.
I had a couple of conversations with him amd basically the bottom line is this.
If it can take the OEMs up to three days just to set up one single club to work with a sponsored pro's swing. THREE DAYS!....The pro goes to the factory driving range and just hits balls. The factory then adjusts, reforges, whatever they do to the the club progressively until it fits the pro's swing. And so on for all the clubs in the set...
Bill also found the manufacturing tolerances were way off from the Far Eastern factories..for example a five iron could come off the production line weighing the same as a six iron...
So what happens to that club? Thrown in the bin? Not likely..it ends up in a set where every other club has has extra weight shoved down the hosel (thereby bringing the sweet spot back towards the heel of the club). Ever wondered why you sometimes get a set of clubs and you can't seem to hit a couple of them? Like your six iron only goes as far as your seven iron?...All other things being equal, that's the reason..
So how good are our clubs?...go figure....
