Although La Golf has been part of the golf equipment industry for nearly seven years, I am still not fully sure where it adapts or even what to do.
So while the company gears to start Her first driverIt makes sense to review La Golf’s timeline to see how we arrived here (wherever here happens to be).
A short story of La Golf
The company appeared on the golf equipment scene in early 2018 when it won the inventory, assets and matrix axes patents that had gone to the stomach a few months ago.
At that time, the founder and the CEO LA LA promised Golf It would not be just another grafted company of Blass-Mull. Dickens’ plan was to implement the success of his model Marucci (Baseball Bats) in Golf. This meant the implementation of a model owned by players who rely on players themselves to raise awareness.
La Golf axes were used by Dustin Johnson, Bryson Dechambeau, Michelle Wie West and others, but it is right to say that neither the company nor its products have gone completely. To be right, the success of the main stream in the Axis category usually requires widespread OEM adoption and is not like LA Golf’s $ 300-dollar shafts that come in shares in nothing.
As a shaft brand, Golf It may not be blasé but it is certainly boutique.
In 2021, La Golf Bleu Sik Golf, mainly for the company’s “Loft Loft” technology. It is the same Cobra technology licenses for use in its printed 3D putters. Technology is fundamentally healthy and surely the most valuable asset in the La Golf portfolio, though I’m not sure it is enough to justify the LA 500- $ 600 Golf fees for its putters.
At the beginning of 2023, La Golf started Golf. Our Topi test showed that he was a strong performer, good enough to consider along with other Top DTC offers such as Maxfli and Vice. That being said, at a price of $ 70, it was difficult to make a reasonable occasion for La Golf on those other DTC options, let alone the Premium OEM-especially if factory level quality is part of the conversation.
It is worth noting that La Golf currently lists the ball off stock with $ 54.99. Whether the ball is temporarily out of stock, a young man is in the pipeline or was a permanent fire of fire in starting technologies remains to be seen.
Uniting all this, the suggestion is that La Golf’s success so far comes more from buying things (remains of a shaft company, a brand of putter and a factory golf ball) than creating things and its reputation is Built so much in price as of any documented performance benefit.
Her parish is because, in general, on his “player partners” list like Bryson and DJ. And it brings us this week and announcement of the availability before the sale of La Golf’s next driver formation and an opportunity to start something uniquely La Golf.
leader They are listed in $ 650 that feel steep for a company without previous product or documented R&D story in the driver’s category, but it matches La Golf’s position as a premium brand.
La Golf bills new drivers as “the first driver to offer a face and performance shaft to match your pace”.
There are some indications that the tagline is attributed to Dechambeau which would make sense given the ratios of its obsession with bulge and roll and its supposed confidence that it must be possible for a driver to fly straight, no matter where it hit .
It is an interesting theory but this is not the first time it has been explored. It is the reason that it will ultimately be important to leave Golf to pronounce data on how their models differ from what has been done so far.
So far, the information is great for the potential, but light in detail.
About La Golf Drivers
Golf will be available in five models. The name of each seems to have any relationship with their unique profiles of bulbs and rolls. This takes us these five models: 13-12, 12-11, 10-10, 9-9, 8-7.
A quick memory: Bulge (heel to the feet) and roll (from top to bottom) refer to facial curvature. Much is written for Bulge and Roll but the simple explanation is that they work to make up for the effect of gears seeking to create optimal starting conditions from the sub-optimal impact.
Bulge works to correct or tuce what is generally described as the side rotation while the rolls work to increase or decrease the release of growth (low face) or lowering (high face) in rotation in the impact outside the center.
Based only on names, it may not be completely clear which is likely to be right for you. Fortunately La Golf has provided an appropriate tool.
The heads are designed to fit a range of players with swinging speeds as low as 89 MPH all the way to boys with long car at speeds above 135.
To add an additional context, 9-9 swing targets 125-135 and suggest a nominal attic of eight. 8-7 is for 135-plus swingers with a four-degree nominal attic, so we are definitely not targeting the masses.
It is likely that most of the common people (swing speed above 89) will be introduced at 13-12 or 12-11.
The initial description, and photos on that issue, suggest that all the heads are extremely similar, if not identical, in shape. The same height, the same shape (and aerodynamics)… the same thing, except for the profiles of the unique bulbs and rolls for each model.
This is based on what is available now, so it is fully possible that there will be more stories when drivers go from pre-sale pre-sale, but someone would hope that photos on the selling pages accurately represent what Players can buy now.
With this, $ 650 is a big requirement for me given that the information we have so far suggests La Golf is drawing a design lever (Bulge and Roll) to distinguish models in a category where the rest of the industry draws to routine way some.
When the dust is placed, the la golf can, in fact, prove to be the first to specifically trade bulge and roll with your swinging as THING This makes its drivers better, but borders with absurd to suggest it is the first company to change bounce and flip based on the shaking of the target golf.
We can go back further, but in the interest of the recipe, adjusting the head design to the specifics of your swing (or any other golf) is exactly what Callaway was doing with Paradym smoke formation he When talking about models that are optimized for specific buckets of player types. In that case, the shape of the head, the facial topology and the CG location were optimized for a target group of players defined by things such as swinging speed, attack angle and other aspects of club distribution.
Likewise, in the discussion G440 With ping two years ago, the R&D team spoke about how the data collected from the Stack system informed the facial patterns for each model, noting the specifically how it allocated the LST inflating profile to avoid overcoming a player finger rapidly higher.
These are just two of the examples as the offering of different facial design optimizations between the models is literally part of almost every driver’s conversation.
It is also right to note that golf companies have tried to choose the shafts for different types of players as long as one of us can remember. Again, this is not a new opinion.
More details to follow?
Is certainly possible Golf It will add details and clarity as their leaders become widely available, but the initial reading is that there is nothing fundamentally new here although the obvious lack of differentiation between models based on anything other than Bulge and Roll would qualify as unique .
The wild card throughout this is in implementation.
As I said, Bryson has long theories kept about the best optimization of swelling and rotation and it is possible, if it is unlikely that special LA Golf implementation may be significantly different from everything we have seen before. If this is true, then we can have something to talk about and take a closer look.
It is also true that there is a lot of risk of getting something that works for bryson and its implementation in masses.
So, with all that is said, I am certainly curious to see how La Golf gets Bulge and Roll differs from everything we have seen to this day, but I am not convinced to bow down to bounce and roll as the most important difference between The heads designed for different audiences have the greatest meaning.
It is certainly not enough to justify $ 650 during the pre-sale period for a driver unproven by a company without history in this category.
More to come, for sure.
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