Read something interesting the other day - apparently the Callaway FT-3 is now the most used driver on the European Tour. I know Callaway have more staff players in Europe than in the US but that is still surprising.
Read something interesting the other day - apparently the Callaway FT-3 is now the most used driver on the European Tour. I know Callaway have more staff players in Europe than in the US but that is still surprising.
Yes it is- Mostly R7 425's , a few R7460's and even a few 580's. And one thing that suprised me ALOT is that - while I was at the Western Open last week was that many of those TM's had the stock shafts in them...
They are pretty easy to see with how they are colored and I noticed almost all the players using those TM's had a stock shaft- heck Daly even had them in his irons??? didnt even know they made those... must be a prototype
Yes but you have to understand that the R7 425 and 460 is the TP version and the stock shaft for that club is a Fujikura Rombax.....it is called the RE-Ax but it is just about the same thing as the Rombax which is a $300 shaft.
I've learned through the years that we should care less and less about the clubs, bags, balls that Tiger, Phil, Retief, etc. use, and focus on the equipment that helps our individual game the most.
I guess this is why the tv marketing guys are targeting 18 - 29 year olds, because they are more suceptible to this marketing. I would be more curious how many Pro's play driver's without any driver club sponsorship and which driver the unsponsored players play.
That sure is the truth. Think about this. Today's equipment has reached all the limits that the USGA have created. So technologically and physically, all the equipment is made of titanium, has .830 cor, 460 cc, 48" or lower shafts, made in china, etc. Everything is equal except aesthetics. Now, how do you think they would distinguish themselves in order to get us to pay $500 for a driver or $1000 for a set of irons? Well it's simple marketing. Pay someone, who can play well with anything, to play with OUR equipment. When they win, we can claim that it is our equipment that helped them win. Pay a bunch of players to play our stuff and we can say that tour players "prefer" (TP) our equipment. Then us people feel like this equipment is better than So-and-So Golf equipment because (a) Tour players "prefer" them and (b) you get what you pay for. One time, I played golf with a guy who had an expensive Scotty Cameron putter. He saw my little Wilson blade and called it an inadequate putter (although he used a word that rhymed with "city"). I asked him if he wanted to bet $1 a hole for putts. He said ok. I won 13 holes, he won 3, we tied 2, and I made $10 that day. I don't know what he did to that putter. But by the way he buried it on 10, he could be using it as a shovel.
BTW Freddie Couples still uses an R510 and still hits it 300 yds.
Yes it is- Mostly R7 425's , a few R7460's and even a few 580's. And one thing that suprised me ALOT is that - while I was at the Western Open last week was that many of those TM's had the stock shafts in them...
They are pretty easy to see with how they are colored and I noticed almost all the players using those TM's had a stock shaft- heck Daly even had them in his irons??? didnt even know they made those... must be a prototype
TM requires their players to use the Rombax shaft in their drivers. It's not a decision that the player can make. The shaft may have the same color pattern but they have many types of shaft available for the Tour players to fit their needs. Those shafts aren't available to us though. Simp
July 7th, 2006, 09:45 AM
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