Persimmon Woods Comeback....

fatshot · 2023-12-22T13:46:32+00:00

Interesting article about a pro trying to make a comeback on the Champions Tour.....using Persimmon Woods....!! https://golf.com/gear/persimmon-woods-throwb...

scotts33

garyt1957 Agreed many players from the past (Nicklaus etal) have said instead of ball reel back take the 460cc behemoth driver size down to 250cc and that would cut down on the huge misses spray and pray. Most good PGA guys would use a 3 wood like club go from 350 yards to 275 - 290. Manufacturers would quickly put that down.

DC300

scotts33 they won’t go that short, the deep face 3 woods are still cannons. I still use the original “fankenwood”, x-hot 3-Deep, I occasionally get it over 3 bills and that’s on courses that are no where near as tight and fast as they play.

I agree in principal, manufactures want to advertise distance, so they aren’t giving up selling their golden goose. They are just going to hope the rules go to a tour ball instead of applying to everyone.

scotts33

DC300 they won’t go that short, the deep face 3 woods are still cannons. I still use the original “fankenwood”, x-hot 3-Deep, I occasionally get it over 3 bills and that’s on courses that are no where near as tight and fast as they play.

Agreed and since fairway woods aren't under any COR rules they are hotter than drivers.

DC300

scotts33 I don’t realize they were t under COR rules, I thought everything had to be less than the .83, live and learn. I know my 3 wood is the longest club I should ever touch off the tee 😆

DonM

I was thinking that fairway woods were subject to the COR limit. It took me some searching, but I found this written by Tom Wishon on a post on GolfWRX.

When the COR rule first went into effect in 98, it was created specifically for heads of 15* loft and lower, meaning it was aimed at drivers, chiefly because the USGA believed wrongly at that time that it would be impossible to make a fairway wood or any other head type to have a high COR face. They felt that the typically smaller size/area of fwy wood heads, iron heads, etc would never allow designers to achieve as high of a COR as was possible with drivers with their far larger size/area for the face.
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That was proven wrong in 2004 so from that point on, the USGA's COR rule was extended to cover ALL clubheads. So it is possible today for a fwy wood, or a hybrid or even an iron to be designed with a COR in excess of the 0.830 limit and if so, it will be declared to be non conforming.

scotts33

DonM Thanks Don. I stand corrected. USGA snuck one by me. ☺

mulegolf

sdandrea1 I even built my own whipping station. I still have whipping thread and the associated tools.

I did that also about 20 years ago. I used a BBQ grill rotisserie motor, what did you use? I didn't whip the end of
the shaft though, I used it to whip the hosel end of the head instead of a ferrule. I ended up also using it to whip
a pool cue grip. that worked too. It turned slow enough that I could follow along with the thread, keeping it tight
as the clubhead or pool cue turned. I think I may still have it somewhere in my basement, not sure though.

sdandrea1

mulegolf what did you use?

Mine was powered by elbow grease. 😉

DonM

I received my new Eye irons. Matching 3-W. Pretty decent shape all the way around.
They are black dot and are pretty flat by my standards. But I can play them.

Specs:

1 16.0° 58.0° 39.75"
2 18.5° 58.5° 39.25"
3 21.5° 59.5° 38.75"
4 25.0° 60.0° 38.25"
5 28.5° 61.0° 37.75"
6 32.0° 61.5° 37.25"
7 36.0° 62.5° 36.75"
8 40.0° 63.0° 36.25"
9 45.0° 64.0° 35.75"
PW 50.5° 64.5° 35.50"
SW 57.5° 64.5° 35.25"
LW 61.0° 64.5° 35.00"

Eguller

DonM

Nice. Interesting that they are 1/2” over and SW is
A bit light.

sdandrea1

Eguller Nice. Interesting that they are 1/2” over and SW is
A bit light.

Those are standard length which is actually 1/2" under today's standards. 5 iron is 37.5"

PING classics were always in the C9 range stock. Nice find!

DonM

sdandrea1
Have you ever played these Steve? In looking at them, I think they will be higher-flying than the Eye 2. They are really low profile. When I had the Eye 2+ (that I bought from you), I was impressed by the flighting. The short irons did not fly high like a typical GI iron does. It was very unique. OTOH these Eyes look like launchers.

I won't find out for a week or more.

DonM

I’ve heard as low as C7 was the spec. Apparently Karsten S thought that was optimal.
@Eguller I think you were off by a line on the lengths.

Eguller

DonM @Eguller I think you were off by a line on the lengths.

I was comparing the handwritten note specs to the ones listed below in the post ?? 🤔

DonM

Eguller Us too.

Mine are on spec or even shorter.
The columns are not in the same order though.

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