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I play mainly Titleists so in the main my kit has initials and numbers… AP2 Irons, 909 woods…The only exception is my Callaway Driver …. Get this…Diablo Octane Black.. God help me.

Also out there clubs called.

Razr Hawk, Fusions, Burners, Superfast, Special Release and on and on. To me it’s the Kings new clothes.

I appreciate manufacturers now operate in a world that demands and expects people to change items constantly and often for the smallest reason. Eg… must have the latest whatever, just because it is the latest.. Anyway.

My question is what do you think of these to my mind, silly names. Why can’t they just operate like Ping or Titleist with letters and numbers. Maybe you like this go faster strips marketing. Just thought I would ask..
 
A name is a name is a name. If people didn't believe that each new set of clubs would improve their game substantially, then what position would our economy be in now. A fool and his money........
 
I kind of get this.

Cobras new driver is Long Tom, named after a first world war howitzer. Stupid name for a golf club.

I prefer numbers and letters too. Seems simpler. Afterall, the club head is only so big, and too much writing on it looks messy.
 
It doesn't worry me either way if they have a name or a number it's just marketing.

It's no different than other products. Look at the car industy, you have BMW, Merc, Volvo etc using numbers, and then Ford, Vauxaul, Volkswagan etc using names.
 
Its a bit like "gofaster strips on cars" The younger customer likes it, and as they have more disposable income in the main. Hence the names like superfast, burner, diablo, etc. Well thats how I see it lol.
 
Yes clive.w… I new that, but the name is not spread all over the club, and personally I think there is a difference between Advanced Performance and Razr Hawk and superfast. But you are entitled to your view.. Which we still don't have.
 
but once the manufacturers realized that punters are willing to spend bucket loads of cash every year on equipment, it became a race to find the perfect marketing tool, and ALL manufacturers use different models. Mizuno play on "feel". Titleist on exclusivity, TM on gimmicks and fancy names etc etc.. If people want to spend money, let them, but don't think that some manufacturers are above such things...
 
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Yes clive.w… I new that, but the name is not spread all over the club, and personally I think there is a difference between Advanced Performance and Razr Hawk and superfast. But you are entitled to your view.. Which we still don't have.
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I wasn't posting a view. I was only pointing out that Titleist do use names for their clubs too, albeit as you point out not plastered all over the club.
 
with regards to the original post, yes numbers would be easy to follow, and in an ideal world clubs would have a uniform naming systems, for example.

P-09 (player 09 model
p-10 (player 10 model

GI09 (game improver 09 model)
GI10 (game improver 10 model)

but with this many club manufactures would get their models confused, if you could get GI1o from all of the brands you could buy the wrong model.. leave it as is.
 
It's a rather odd thing to concern yourself with if you ask me, I hadn't even thougt about it until now and I can honestly say it makes no difference to me whatsoever.
 
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I wasn't posting a view. I was only pointing out that Titleist do use names for their clubs too, albeit as you point out not plastered all over the club.
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justagolfer - thought you'd posted adieu on the OOB forum and yet here you are back again and picking faults with other people posting. Whether he makes a point or not his post is a credible as anyones. At the end of the day does it really matter. It is how they feel in your hand and how well you hit them. They could be called anything they like, as long as the set matched, could be C'F'd for those that wanted and they performed well so be it
 
I think that some names are a bit of the silly side (Diablo, Razr in fact a lot of Callaway at the moment). I have no problem with names in general but there appears to be a lot of pandering to the youth market with quite a few club names recently. That said, I always thought that Warbird was a good name.

A name will never stop me buying a club or make me buy one but as a whole I prefer the letter/number combination.
 
This has been going on since Jack was a Lad, I was rooting in my dads garage the other day and found a set of old irons from taylormade called Firesoles.

Not bother too much by the names, but the hard sell marketing pish that tries to convince us that the next gen equipment will go longer and straighter gets on my tit$.
 
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