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Special Tour Grinds
This is the tuning of the sole of the wedge (or any iron). This can be a great advantage to your confidence when making shots. There is nothing worse than being within scoring distance with a short iron and hitting a "fat" shot with your wedge, doing nothing more than "laying over the sod." After only going a few yards, you try to pick the ball off the turf and blade the ball over the back of the green.
Understanding your divots, or lack of, can shed some light on how to modify your clubs so they can be adjusted and ground to fit your swing. For most serious amateurs and tour pros, having the correct sole modifications for competitive play and lower scores are key.
Tour Grind
This is typically a 7 degree roll of the trailing edge at the heel. The overall effect of this grind reduces the perpendicular mass on the trailing edge, which will help keep the face square at impact and reduce drag. It lets you open the face without adding extra bounce.
Typical cost is $15.00 per club.
"GTO" Grind
The "GTO" grind consists of a 3 degree toe roll, a 7 degree heel roll, and a 2 degree trailing edge roll. This allows the club to be open or closed without adding additional bounce. This also helps reduce drag, thus helping keep the face square at impact.
Typical cost is $15.00 per club.
"P" Grind
This special sole grind reduces digging and large divot taking associated with steep swings. It also helps keep the club square at impact and makes pitching/chipping very forgiving in tight or firm playing conditions.
Typical cost is $20.00 per club.
"M" Grind
This special sole grind is designed to be more forgiving in softer conditions, as it has a foil effect over the surface as the club head passes over it. The "M" stands for "More Forgiving".
Typical cost is $15.00 per club.
Porting
By milling (porting) two holes in the back of the club muscle, the center of gravity is raised. Porting moves the sweet spot to the center of the club, just where it should be. This will give your ball a lower trajectory, adding more control.
Clubs are rebalanced (swing weight) to industry standards after porting.
Typical cost is $15.00 per club.
Swing Weight
This is weight distribution of a club around a fixed fulcrum point. Swing Weight should be keyed according to a club's shaft flex and length. Wow!
This is all about the feel of the club head at the end of the shaft. If it feels too heavy, it is tough to generate a "fast" club head speed. This can be a good thing regarding wedges and not so good with your woods and irons. A typical three-quarter wedge shot may only be a 50-70 mph club head swing speed; whereas, a driver has a much faster tempo.
This could mean several things. The heavier the swing weight, the more the shaft will flex and torque at faster swing speeds. If your clubs have a heavy swing weight and a regular flex shaft that is high torque, and you swing fast, this will cause the ball to have too high a trajectory and the ball will fade or slice ("ballooning"). The opposite effect can occur with a very light swing weight club and a stiff low torque shaft for players with a slower swing speed.
Finding a swing weight that feels right is one of the first steps for balancing your irons and/or wedges. Basically, you need to find the club that "feels good" and always produces that "great shot" for you. Once you have identified your perfect club "swing weight", Nomad Golf WRX can duplicate the same "swing weight" for all your clubs.
Typical cost is $15.00 per club (price does not include any new shafts if needed).
Accelerated ball speed equals more distance. Less side spin equals less fade on draw -- thus straighter shots!
The ThermoBonding process represents a major breakthrough in technology. This process is recognized worldwide and is used by such players as Aaron Badderly, Greg Norman, Peter Jacobson, Robert Allenby, and many more professional golfers. The number 1, 2 and 6 finishers in both the Australian Open and the Australian PGA championship had their clubs treated, as well as the winner of the Mercedes Classic, and three of the top 10 finishers in the Masters. When ThermoBonding is applied to existing clubs, the results will deliver an amazing improvement in distance and accuracy off the tee.
The Thermal Cycling Process (or thermal bonding) has proven remarkably successful and repetitive in creating molecular structure changes on golf club heads.
These changes are evident to the golfer as distance increases and sound changes, resulting in straighter shots.
The reasons for these obvious changes, as certified by facilities such as Golf Labs in California (the foremost golf equipment testing company in the world) and Constellation Technologies (a leader in materials testing for the United States military) have documented changes such as increases in The Modulus of Resistance, increase in tensile and yield strength.
These ‘science’ changes will not only show improvements in distance, straightness and feel, but improves the strength of the material to show less groove wear and less dimpling to the face of the club. The improvement in the feel means that we have taken the vibration out of the metal and less vibration means more focused energy to the ball.
The Thermal Cycling process (or Thermal Bonding or ThermalBalance) has proven dramatically more effective than the cryogenic process currently in use on a number of other clubs. Coincidentally, this cryogenic process was developed by the same person who developed the thermal cycling process
How does this improve my clubs?
When the metal of a golf club is exposed to the process of extreme temperatures, the metallurgical characteristics change dramatically. Molecules fuse together, eliminating vibration and loss of energy resulting in the smoothness of contact as the lost energy translates into extra distance.
Will it improve my game?
Absolutely! You will experience improved accuracy, greater distance and a more solid feel. This process expands the sweet spot and transfers more energy to the ball on impact.
How does this process make the ball go farther & straighter?
At the precise millisecond the club head comes in contact with the ball, a tremendous amount of energy is released. The major portion of the energy transfers into the ball at flight. The remaining energy is transferred into the club head and up the shaft as vibration. By ThermoBonding the club, less energy is lost through the head and shaft. This translates into greater distance, straighter flight and a softer feel.
Difference:
Make your current golf clubs state-of-the art.
Eliminate shock and vibration.
Less vibration equals greater distance and accuracy.
Off center hits go farther and straighter.
Conforms to all current USGA Rules of Golf.
Works on all kinds of metals.
Many tendonitis and arthritis sufferers experience less pain after using clubs that have been treated with ThermoBonding.
Imagine hitting the ball farther than ever before!
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