It’s fascinating to so see the precision used to assemble the driver. A follow up video on how a tour player tests and chooses the ideal specification would be interesting as there are so many variables to choose from.
I had the pleasure of meeting Jack a few years back, great guy. Glad to see he's on the Tour Truck. G430 LST is an amazing driver. Great behind the scenes video
Too many amateur builders “over prep” graphite because they do it on a belt sander. Huge believer in a hand file method shown here especially on premium composites like an MCA or Graphite Design one.
Goes to show that when being fit, if you can't walk away with the exact club then it's completely pointless. If the 10.5 you ordered arrives at 9.75 because of a tolerance then you're going to get a massively different driver to your fitting unless the exact loft of the fitting head is known.
That's what's nice about ping. If you are worried about it you can order your driver digitally lofted like in the video. If you want a 10.5° that plays 10 or 11 or whatever, just request it. I heard that they digitally loft demo heads to their stated loft so if you want to make an adjustment you know where you started.
I just noted this above about the tolerances. This is maybe why the club fitter could of put a shaft lean backwards when gluing at small (-) setting, to lower the loft. There is probably as much tolerance adjustment in the gluing the hosel, then the driver head. Glass beading is supposed to center the shaft, but without leaning the shaft when curing.
If you start with a 10.5* head and you want to play at 8.75* at small (-), that would put it at 9.5*. Big (--) would play at 9*. So I guess the club fitter is looking for a head that is .75* out of spec, to play at 8.75*. Hopefully the hot melt screw is aluminum or might change the swing weight slightly. I think it was measured D3 without it. 45.75" is standard length for the LST, but with D4 swing weight from factory. Factory standard is 22-gram tungsten backweight, but with 11g backweight for Tyrrell, he can put 9g-11g extra hot melt low and forward. This should produce a lower spin driver then factory, but less forgiving. Probable will sound better also.
I'm a little confused here. You started with a 10.5* head. Put the sleeve in the small minus setting...and came out with a loft of 8.75*???Shouldn't that have resulted in 9.5* give or take? I could see if it had been the big minus setting getting down to 9* and then the manufacturing tolerance of the loft of the head dropping the "measured" loft down to 8.75*. Could you address this? Thanks!
I'd like to know this as well... the small- should have only taken one degree of Loft off. More importantly I would have liked to known how he could fix the issue if the driver would have come out to 9.1 degrees when they were looking to go 8.75? How can they fine tune something like that
It's amazing that these players swings are so precise that a gram here or there makes a big difference to them. When you think about it a gram is almost nothing.
Not a pro anymore but I’ve been on the same driver build spec wise for almost two decades. I started building clubs in the mid nineties and I can manage too heavy but too light and it’s like I’ve never had a club in my hands. It’s interesting how some players are very sensitive to weight or grip size and other just go ham with anything.
Radar......."The Pro's dont get any preferential treatment".......my arse. Tyrell's getting a back up driver free, actually no, he's getting paid by Ping and getting a back up driver. 😂😂
I was thinking the same thing. When I saw they don’t bother to “pure” the shaft for a PGA Tour player, it made me wonder if Club Champion is selling us snake oil…. 🤔
@@wiscobuckeye Pretty sure there have been a lot of people on the internet that have shown no discernable difference with pureing. You might be able to see the difference on a frequency machine if you let the shaft flex/cycle a dozen times, but I have yet to see any evidence that it actually has any influence during a golf swing. One of those things they sell you on like insurance: "if you're spending the money, wouldn't you want to cover every possible variable? You never know/it could help/etc."
No need with the shaft you just saw being installed. They are the "full blown" manufacturers model and not the cheapo ones that are produced under licence for us average golfers hence the big difference in their retail price.
It’s hardly rocket science chaps …. Sorry but they just glueing stuff together ( slowly to make it look difficult 😂) Or justifying inflated prices Love what you normally do radar ❤️
@@JMEAUS22 the sleeve he has is identical to off the rack sleeves. The heads have manufacturing tolerances, that's why he had a few 10.5's lined up. He found one that was actually 9.75 and put it in the small minus setting to get 8.75. A tolerance of +/- .75 degrees from stamped loft is not uncommon.
@@bert1450 I thought the same thing until my fitter at club champion told me that’s only true for TaylorMade. Adjusting a ping’s loft up or down leaves the face alone apparently…
