Full circle

[ruff-driver]

Is there a point when golf club manufacturers will go full circle
will the tech eventually run out and all the oem's can do is a new colour scheme .

Just browsing at the new vokey sm6 due out soon, bear a striking resemblance to the sm4

Yes the sales patter says they are new & improved, but is that just a way of getting us to part with our hard earned.

I think the only thing that will cut shots from my game is time & effort.

 

[tugglesf239]

I agree that it must surely be a matter of time before tech plateaus and that all the OEM's will hit a barrier.

For me personally i think the future is very, very specific custom fitting. The PXG thread from yesterday got me thinking that having the ability to fine tune (or hood wink) the consumers game to a very personal level, may be the future of equipment.

The volume of metrics that can be pulled from various systems about every single nuance of our swings will will fuel this i reckon

 

[Crow]

I agree that it must surely be a matter of time before tech plateaus and that all the OEM's will hit a barrier.

For me personally i think the future is very, very specific custom fitting. The PXG thread from yesterday got me thinking that having the ability to fine tune (or hood wink) the consumers game to a very personal level, may be the future of equipment.

The volume of metrics that can be pulled from various systems about every single nuance of our swings will will fuel this i reckon

This can only go so far for me (and I suspect most amateurs) as my swing isn't consistent enough to justify that level of super-custom fit.
Not only does it change from round to round (or even during a round) but as I try different fixes for my crap golf it will evolve, or mutate is probably a better description, over the course of a season.

 

[tugglesf239]

The fact that all players change slightly over time, could just give OEMs another excuse to squeeze us for a few more quid for a "re calibration" type service

Call me cynical ..