Rep Ping Tour Kenton Oates Works with Victor Hovland in calling on his ping lst driver.
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Ed. Note: This is part 2 of a special series with six parts in the fit. Previous these: How to find the perfect golf ball
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For part 2 of this series, we are breaking the driver’s equipment. For knowledge, I got tied up with my long friend and my long friend Washingtonian, Kenton Oates, who makes his trade in Ping Tour Truck. When it comes to drivers, “ko” – as we call it all the man behind the bags of Victor Hovland, Our arguments, Corey ConnersSahith Theegala and Taylor Moore – has done some really interesting work with Ping’s G430 AND G440 Drivers, including their insertion into non-staff bags over the past two years.
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Hope to enjoy part 2 of this series. More to come.
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By Kenton Oates, Ping PGA Tour Rep
When we are adapting to our tour players in the drivers, we are looking to give them optimal starting conditions Maximum forgiveness In a configuration that inspires faith, both visually and obediently. These days, with the technology we have in our 430 and 440 drivers, players should not sacrifice much or nothing. In previous years, there was always a choice to be made; I think I can talk about all the repetitions of the tournament when I say it is much easier to attract levers to get something properly today than in previous years. We all make fast, durable clothing that looks good, but in ping our first advantage is forgiveness and efficiency. It will always be.
After all, where I want to get off with a player is find a driver who provides them with a cannon In their optimal window with protection against their most likely loss. At this level, with the amount of ball control these players have, you are adapting to a specific box. For example, in your appropriate local store, you can find that increased ball speed, start, etc., is the main focus of your Fitter, but in the tour we are looking for perfect start lines, rotate windows within 500-600 rpm across the face and start within 1-3 degrees up or down the player wants to hit.
Here are two case studies:
Tony argument: For Tony, after finding the window he likes to see (a cut), which lives at 10 degrees of release and 2500 spin, his biggest concern is his starting line. Tony knows that he directs him better when he is hitting his cutting, which of course should start to the left of his target line. So, although a good number of players will put glue on their driver’s toes to help lower the right miss, we put glue on the tony driver’s side to make sure it starts where he wants it. The glue slows the heel, allowing the toe to win the race in the impact and providing an initial left line of the center. Other ways to do this is by making the driver straight, adding more weight to the back or simply adding a staircase (closes face). We call the rest using adjustable settings and weighing the perimeter.
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Corey Conners: One of Corey’s biggest concerns is visual; He should see enough attic at the address, a typical question of shelves. During Corey’s career, this number was about 9.5-10 degrees of actual attic. While he has gained speed in recent years, in moments when Loft has produced a little bit. Corey is also inclined to hold the same UST shaft that he has used for nearly a decade now. So we pull our heads to 9.5 and make sure they are acceptable to his eye, and then start moving the front weight on the head with glue and reduce the back weight until we get the rotation where needed, which for Corey is about 2700 rpms.
It is rare, but in some cases the players are emotionally united in a certain part of the club (in this case a shaft) with which you have to fit or in harmony. Honestly, this makes the work easier because it is a fixed variable that we do not need to manage. The best tournaments of the tournament have few variables from year to year; Look at the bags of the world’s top 20 players – not many changes that are happening. The shafts can create new feelings for a player, and although I’m sure we could get down to the axis matrix with Corey and find something a little more optimized, it’s not really points. He knows and trusts what he does the shaft, and I am not a guy who will convince one of the best ball attackers in the world that he has to adapt to a new feeling just to squeeze another yard or two.
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What can you learn from the way the good fit
You may have noticed: Kenton did not mention anything for prioritizing speed or distance. Ping leaders are very long-term for the company, all the last leaders live within 1-2 mphs of each other-but Kenton’s goal is to find the clearest path towards efficiency. It means getting a driver to give you more effective distance level.
