Recently THP had a THP TV segment on the creation of golf clubs and what goes into it. It examined the entire process of engineering the perfect club and how much of a role Driver weight and the materials used play into that creation.
One of the things we do here at THP Golf is examine club technology and what goes into the creations that you end up playing and enjoying out on the golf course. We hear engineers talk about saving weight and moving weight from one area of the club to another to increase MOI or manipulate ball flight, and the talk is generally in small amounts of grams.
One area that is often overlooked by the golfer are the entire crowns and what they weigh and what modern materials have done to give engineers more weight to work with.
THP TV sat down with Mike Yagley, club tech extraordinaire to discuss the weight of crowns and compare a few in this episode of THP Quick Tech.
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Have you thought about the materials that make up the driver you use?
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I didn’t realize the difference between carbon fiber and titanium in the crown was that big in terms of grams.
Also shows what a ridiculous deal the Cobra F7 is in terms of materials at the price. In many other brands you’re still looking at an all titanium design at that price point.
Wow! That’s a huge difference between the carbon fiber and titanium, I had no idea there was that much weight savings in going to a CF crown.
… and still it seems these club design teams continue to find ways to shave off even more crown weight with every premium release. I like how Yagley referenced crown weight to overall club head weight. I didn’t realize that even the recent titanium crowns ate up a whopping 20%.
Great info!!! I wonder what the next big material will be!!
Love these quick hits of info. Many things that go into the creation of drivers that you don’t even think about.
Another great Yagley video! The weight saving is crazy, textreme is 15 grams, but 40 grams in titanium.
Wow, it definitely puts the importance of weight and and materials into perspective.