A look inside the ping tour truck.
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Let’s talk about a topic that gets fired gearheads and the medium weekend fighters reaching their wallets: golf clubs with tournaments.
You probably heard the term cast around by your friend who insists his driver is “The same thing that Rory uses“Or maybe you’ve been looking for eBay and stuck in a screaming list:” Rare tournament, hot melting, X-Flex, TC-not mortal people.
What is a touring club?
In the simplest terms, the “tournament issue” means a club specially built for professional players. These clubs are often identical in design to retail models But with stronger tolerances, custom tweaks and extra attention to details. We are talking manually selected heads for accurate attic and lies, special shafts, weighing by shaking less than a gram, and sometimes a secretly melted closet (tour sauce) inside the head to make the sound and feel good.
Think like this: you can buy the same sneakers that wears Lebron, but Lebron’s couple probably fits his leg as she had grown up in a lab. Tournament clubs are the same concept; They are precise tools built for a specific job … and a very specific player.
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Why do people love them?
Because we all want to believe that we are an axis update away from PGA Tour. Likewise, we always want what we can’t have. At least, I do… just me? Ok, moving forward
Let us be honest, has included some ego. Possessing a tourist club club feels like you are part of an exclusive club, as you just got the secret menu in In-N-out. You think, “If it’s good enough for JT, it’s good enough for me.” And for sure, there is a cute factor to play something built for a tour player. But cool is not always the best for your game.
Also, there is a myth floating around this Tournament iswash means “better” or “hotter”. Alert Spoiler: There is no. It means more precisely built to meet the correct numbers of a pro – and not necessarily built to store your slice or increase your starting angle. In some cases, the heads actually start “slow”. Why? Good Cor/CT testing on tournaments. These players hit thousands of balls and literally beat their face leading to faces becoming thinner and essentially “hotter” as the season continues. You also have to keep in mind that some of these players who hit thousands of balls are speeding 185 mph-plus balls.
“Aren’t they faster?” No, again wrong. If anything, they are slower. A tour player does not want to be so close to tolerance that they even risk a sentence. With what was said, most tournaments are actually slower. Modern players simply have enough speed to make the rest of us feel much slower.
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How do they differ from retail clubs?
Here is a division of the way tours of tour clubs differ from those on the shelf in your local store:
Tolerances: The tournament heads are measured and ranked, so repetitions in the truck know exactly what the specifications are and what they are building. Retail heads can be turned off from a diploma or two and still pass qc. And the reality of this is, most of us would never notice it.
Weighing: Tourist clubs often have added hot melts or interior weighing regulated for feeling and sound. Most retail clubs are what they are. Not to mention that you cannot treat a retail head. I do it all the time. Did anyone say lead tape?
Matching the axis: tour Players get prominent shafts, frequencies-Minated and tested. You? You get everything that was in the “action” bin in the factory. Which works completely well for a large population of players.
Serial numbers: tournament clubs usually have a serial number “T” or “TC”; AKA: Golf Golf Golf Golf sign. (my people)
Without a guarantee: Buy a tour -issued club and you are yourself. If it breaks down, without sending it back to the mother for a replacement. Which is a great risk, given that tournament heads are usually sold at a much higher price than those available with retail.
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Why do most people don’t have to play them
Here is the part no one wants to hear: if you are not a +2 handicap with a launch monitor in your garage and a part -time club in the fast number, you do not need a tour -issued club. In fact, it can actually worsen your game. I was there, I did it and got the blouse.
Tournament clubs are often set for players shaking out of their shoes, compressing the ball as we have never seen and want to remove their rotation, not add it. If you catch a driver released from the tournament built for a boy who swings 120 km per h with an X-stiff shaft and 8 degrees of attic … and you swing at 95 km with a faded child, you will hate your life.
