The NEW Search for the Perfect Golf Club
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
How much do you really know about your golf clubs?
Did you know that:
* The lower the loft on your driver, the farther you’ll hit it?
* Your new driver has a larger “sweetspot?”
* You are playing a stiff shaft, because it says so on it.
* Women’s clubs are designed for women?
Fine, but the problem is… NONE OF THOSE THINGS ARE TRUE
Tom Wishon, one of the world’s leading club designers, takes you on a guided tour of the golf club, explaining in lay language how and why golf clubs work the way they do. Perhaps of even greater importance, he explains what to look for—and what to look out for—when you buy your next club.
“...the average golfer knows little more about golf clubs than what he or she reads in advertising or sees in Golf Channel infomercials. This lack of golf equipment knowledge results in millions of golfers attempting to play an already difficult game with equipment that not only won’t, but CAN’T POSSIBLY allow them to play to the best of their ability.”
It turns out the latest cutting-edge frontier in golf… is plain old-fashioned custom club fitting.
Do you think:
* That clubheads made from harder metal will hit the ball farther?
* The faster you swing, the stiffer your shaft should be?
* That your clubs are “just like the ones the pros use?”
Find out WHY those things are not true and learn the things they do NOT tell you in the golf club ads!
Customer Reviews
Eye-opening
I am only about halfway through this book, but am compelled to write a review as the information, opinion and analysis contained even in the first half-a-dozen chapters are worth the cost of the book several times over. To hear from a man who has been at the top of golf club design for decades that the average length of a Tour pro's driver shaft is up to 2" shorter than the clubs you or I buy in the shops is remarkable and goes some way to explain why us average golfers can have so much trouble getting on with the latest and greatest "innovations" in club design.
The author definitely keeps banging the drum about getting yourself to a professional clubfitter, which may be impossible/impractical given your location, but he does a great job of explaining the factors that go into determining what is the right/wrong club for "you", meaning that you can apply that yourself if you are a little DIY-minded.
I am learning about the history, the reasoning and the methodology of golf club design, while being entertained by a very informal yet appropriate style. Having this much understanding of one's equipment can only help in the long run, and for the sake of a fiver, you'd be mad not to invest in Wishon's book - for the club-length guidance charts if nothing else. I now have a 44" driver which I am middle-ing more than ever before, and as a result my shorter club is giving me longer distance. The man's not a magician, he's an engineer and his logic is sound!