richart
Major Champion
Not an expert so don't go to that section.
Just trying to be helpful but you seem to have it covered.
Do we make this game harder than needed with the equipment we choose,
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Just trying to be helpful but you seem to have it covered.
Crow
Crow Person
For me the easiest way to find the sweet spot is to hold the culb by the tip of the grip and let it hang, then tap the face with your finger tip until you find the point where there is no twisting of the club and you sense maximum weight/feedback.
Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
Not arguing, but I don't buy the intersection being the sweet spot. Taking it to extremes, imagine a club being a lot narrower at the hosel and a lot wider at the toe. Much more material added to the toe of the club yet the sweet spot would move nearer the hosel?
Richart mentioned a pic of TW's 8 iron. I'd put money on the sweet spot being where the (thousands of) ball marks are:
Richart mentioned a pic of TW's 8 iron. I'd put money on the sweet spot being where the (thousands of) ball marks are:
Robobum
Money List Winner
Not arguing, but I don't buy the intersection being the sweet spot. Taking it to extremes, imagine a club being a lot narrower at the hosel and a lot wider at the toe. Much more material added to the toe of the club yet the sweet spot would move nearer the hosel?
Richart mentioned a pic of TW's 8 iron. I'd put money on the sweet spot being where the (thousands of) ball marks are:
You were a topic of conversation @ Hayling the other week Gary! You and your accurate, well reasoned posts!! Damn you
Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
You were a topic of conversation @ Hayling the other week Gary! You and your accurate, well reasoned posts!! Damn you
One man's logical and well reasoned person is another man's over zealous pedantic geek of an anorak
I think my work colleagues and family think it's the latter!!
pokerjoke
Money List Winner
One man's logical and well reasoned person is another man's over zealous pedantic geek of an anorak
I think my work colleagues and family think it's the latter!!
Off train spotting this afternoon Gaz
Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
Off train spotting this afternoon Gaz
No need. I work about a mile away from East Midlands airport so can 'spot' aeroplanes out of my window while I work.
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
he caught that one flush out of the heel.
this was supposedly the case with older irons. I highly doubt that is the sweet spot on a modern iron.
drawing two lines on a face doesn't even begin to take into account the weighting behind the club or even the offset of the hosel.
this was supposedly the case with older irons. I highly doubt that is the sweet spot on a modern iron.
drawing two lines on a face doesn't even begin to take into account the weighting behind the club or even the offset of the hosel.
richart
Major Champion
Not arguing, but I don't buy the intersection being the sweet spot. Taking it to extremes, imagine a club being a lot narrower at the hosel and a lot wider at the toe. Much more material added to the toe of the club yet the sweet spot would move nearer the hosel?
Richart mentioned a pic of TW's 8 iron. I'd put money on the sweet spot being where the (thousands of) ball marks are:
I would have put that picture up Gary, but unfortunately I had no idea how.
My 8 iron looks like that except that black circle area is pristine on mine.USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
I find the picture of tigers eight iron puzzling. Do you think tiger has black balls?
HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
SGC001
Challenge Tour Pro
Not arguing, but I don't buy the intersection being the sweet spot. Taking it to extremes, imagine a club being a lot narrower at the hosel and a lot wider at the toe. Much more material added to the toe of the club yet the sweet spot would move nearer the hosel?
Richart mentioned a pic of TW's 8 iron. I'd put money on the sweet spot being where the (thousands of) ball marks are:
Hi Region3:
It sounds nice in theory, but they don't really make clubs like that. Clubs are built for humans to use and have to perform. Adding a lot of weight there would increase shaft bowing (a CoG further from the hosel exerting more of a moment on the shaft - apologies my physics terms may well be wrong). The weight is also in the hosel, shaft and grip which are all to the side of the head due to the way clubs are designed to be soled to play a ball at ground level that is lying to the side of us, this all has an effect of the CoG and limits where CoG can be moved to and results in it been nearer to the hosel than the centre. Again the CoG may not even be on the clubface, but it is an approximation.
Edit: Not 100% sure they'd include the shaft and grip as they may treat the clubhead as a seperate entity for the purposes of impact, the hosel is pulling the CoG that way.
Edit II: http://www.ralphmaltby.com/108
This guy claims that due to a shorter hosel design in one club they are able to get the CoG to the geometric centre, the implication is that with a more normal hosel design this is very difficult to do as again illustrated in the diagram.
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