| Golf Technology is a wonderful thing. It has helped | | | | needed on your driver the better player (or |
| out heroes from yesterday like Jack Nicklaus and | | | | bigger ego) you had. As these players used the |
| Tom Watson to stay competitive longer than | | | | new technology and discovered they could hit it |
| they would have been able to otherwise. | | | | farther with more loft on their driver, again, their |
| However, the good news is that the new golf | | | | ego took over and the switch to more loft was |
| technology has just not helped the professional | | | | on! At the beginning of this revolution, it go to the |
| players. It has also allowed amateurs many | | | | point where some golf club companies would |
| benefits to their game as well. What are some of | | | | even place the "preferred lower loft" on the |
| the golf technology factors that currently affect | | | | bottom of the head when the head actually had |
| the amateur's game today? Here are a few | | | | more loft on it. They did this so sales would not |
| suggestions: | | | | slump as they would have if the "real loft" was |
| Golf Technology - Through the research of many | | | | placed on the driver. |
| golf club manufacturing companies, including | | | | Golf Technology - If you polled most amateurs on |
| Titleist, the science of tracking a golf ball with a | | | | what their "bad shot" is on the golf course with |
| launch monitor was made available to more PGA | | | | their driver, what type of answer do you think |
| Professionals and their club members. The launch | | | | you would get? After giving literally thousands of |
| monitor could follow the golf ball from impact, to | | | | golf lessons, I can promise you that the mass |
| the launch angle to the flight apex and finally to | | | | majority of golfers fade or in most cases slice |
| when and where it hits the ground including the | | | | the golf ball. The manufactures know this and |
| ball's roll out has greatly improved. Doppler Radar | | | | have introduced the golf technology of closing the |
| is now used to track all of the characteristics of | | | | face of the majority of the drivers to be sold to |
| ball flight. This now allows a player receiving a club | | | | the mass public by one or two degrees. This |
| fitting to swing multiple drivers to find the correct | | | | tweaking of the clubhead design of the driver is |
| combination of length and loft just for them. | | | | considered by the manufactures a design |
| Through using this technology, it has been | | | | technology. Obviously, the closing of the face |
| discovered that most players hit longer shots with | | | | would allow you to hit straighter drives but in |
| more loft on their drivers. Currently, some tour | | | | theory they should be longer as well. As the |
| professionals are using drivers with 10.5 degrees | | | | clubface is not as open as it was with "your |
| of loft. Just a few short years ago, you would | | | | driver", the closed driver head would have less |
| have been laughed at for having this much loft on | | | | loft on it as impact is made and would provide a |
| your driver. It was thought that the less loft you | | | | longer drive. Hmmmm thought the manufacturers. |