Why You Need This: Today you get a "PING G410 Plus Drive Review | 20 Reasons It's the Most Scientifically Advanced Driver in the World"

I'm guessing that at some point in your golfing career, you've been in the market to buy a new driver.

It can be a bit overwhelming when trying to decide between all the different models out there.

Today I'm hoping to shed a little light on what manufacturers are doing to make their clubs perform the best they possibly can.

You're going to know all there is to know about drivers, including:

• What does it mean for a club to be "forgiving"?
• Where should the weight be on the club to maximize performance?
• What makes a golf ball lose energy when it contacts a club face?
• What is trampoline face?  Is it a real thing?
• The 2 different ways a shaft can flex, and
• Why PING produces the highest quality product on the market

The next time you head out to purchase a driver, you'll be much better equipped for your search after today!

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 31:40

Video Transcription:

All right, so today we’re going to do a review of the Ping G410 Plus driver. It’s not going to be your typical review. We’re not going to talk about all the, does it feel good, does it look good, my personal opinion on it.

We’re actually going to get into the science of this club head and we’re going to talk about the real technology that goes into this that makes this the most technologically advanced driver on the market.

You’re not going to find a driver that’s any hotter, any more forgiving, any better than this driver. We’re going to talk about the real science that goes into that, that makes that the case.

So, let’s die right into it. What I did is I interviewed some of the engineers from Ping, and full disclosure, I’m Brand Ambassador for Ping, so I am biased. I really like these clubs.

I can’t imagine using any other clubs other than Ping in the future, after what I’ve learned about the level of detail that they go in, in manufacturing this.

I sat down and I asked tons of questions, everything I could think about for this driver, and really wanted to know what goes into this and what makes these drivers so great, and how in my personal opinion, they’re a little better than the competitors out there.

Now the very first question I had, and one that I think everybody’s had over the years, is how much straighter is a driver?

We know every year the drivers come out, there’s a lot of promises of being 15-20 yards farther. We know that’s not the case, so just how much straighter is it over say a driver from 20 years ago?

That all comes down to something called the MOI. The MOI is the moment of inertia, that’s basically how much this club is going to resist twisting.

When you mishit a drive, if you hit a little off the toe, what’s going to actually happen is that club face is going to twist open.

It’s going to cause you to lose some distance, because of the amount of energy transferred into the ball isn’t as high, and it’s also going to cause the ball to curve.

Usually when you hit off the toe, you’re going to get a little bit of a hook. When you hit it off the heel, you’re going to get a little bit of a slice.

Now as drivers have gotten more advanced, what’s happened is, they’ve made the overall materials and the manufacturing process has gotten so good, the crown, the sides, all the part you don’t want the weight is now paper, paper thin.

The crown of this driver is like the thickness of a sheet of paper, it’s very, very thin. What they’ve done is they’ve taken all that weight and put it low and back in the club to reduce that twisting.

So now when you hit a little bit more off the toe it twists less and you transfer more energy into the golf ball. So this driver, this Ping G410 Plus has the lowest farthest back, the center of gravity is as low and as far back as any driver on the market right now.

That means it’s going to be the most forgiving. The USGA sets a standard of 5,900 as the maximum MOI that’s allowed, so you actually can’t make it a crazy high MOI or it would be an illegal driver, it’s too forgiving.

The USGA says you’re not allowed to do that. This driver is right on the edge of that legal limit of the USAG, and it has as high or higher MOI than any driver on the market.

So there’s no other driver on the market that’s going to be more forgiving than this Ping G410 Plus.

Now going back to the question earlier, how much different is that from 20 years ago? The MOI on drivers back then was about half that.

If you take a Ping model driver from 20 years ago, that’s about half the MOI as the current model driver. That’s how much it’s advanced over the years.

So what does that mean for your actual mishits? Let’s take a driver from 20 years ago, let’s say, and hit it an inch off the toe, and now all of a sudden it’s going to go – let’s just balk park it.

It depends on the swing, how fast you’re swinging, stuff like that, other factors, but let’s say it’s going to be about 25 to 30 yards offline, and 25 to 30 yards shorter.

When you double the MOI, you only lose half that much, so now it’s only going to be 12 to 15 yards offline, and 12 to 15 yards shorter.

You’re picking up some real distance there by missing this same amount. You go way back in the day and swing a wooden driver, and it’s going to be totally different, way less forgiving. Now that’s assume that everything else is the same.

That’s assuming that you’re going to be able to swing this driver the exact same swing speed, that the shaft technology and all that is the same consistency, so there may be some improvements there that would actually go a little bit above and beyond.

I think personally, it’s a little easier to swing drivers with the newest, latest, greatest technology, because everything’s kind of maxed out to give you a couple more miles an hour than it is a 20-year-old driver, but it’s going to be ball park the same.

Roughly over the last 20 years they have doubled the consistency of the drivers and there’s no driver on the market that’s more consistent, more forgiving than this Ping G410 Plus.

Now that all sounds great, but how would I actually visualize what the MOI is? This is something actually that Ping is world famous for.

Before Karsten Solheim came out with the Ping Anser putter, or the perimeter-weighted putters that he became famous for, everybody was using kind of a blade, just a flat piece of metal type putter.

Now when you have a flat piece of metal, it’s going to twist a little bit easier than if it’s perimeter weighted.

So if you look at the back of say like a Ping Anser, basically over the sweet spot there’s not much weight there, there’s not a lot of metal behind the face where you hit the putter.

Then on the ends there’s two big pieces of metal, two big chunks of metal, that are going to weight down the ends of that and keep it from twisting.

A great way to visualize this, again, with your thinking about this as a driver, if I was to blow this driver up to where it’s four feet wide, and now it’s this giant driver club face, and then I strapped two 20-pound weights, one of the toe and one on the heel.

Now this driver would have a lot of weight, and it would have a lot of the weight out on the heel and the toe which means if I hit a golf ball, which is relatively light compared to this gigantic driver, if I hit it an inch off the toe, that club isn’t really going to twist at all.

It’s not really going to do anything, it’s just going to plow right on through it, it would be perfectly consistent.

Same thing if you shrunk it down to the normal size of a driver, I slap a big 10-pound weight on the heel, I slap a 10-pound weight on the toe, and now all of a sudden if I barely mishit it, this driver’s not going to twist.

Now unfortunately as you start to add weight to the club, then it gets heavier and you can’t swing it as fast. I can’t swing a sledge hammer very fast, but it’s not going to twist very much when it hits the ball.

It’s always a give and take how light can we make the driver, and still have that very high MOI. That’s exactly what Ping’s done, they’ve made the driver basically as light as possible to get the highest swing speed.

I believe – don’t quote me on this – I think this entire driver setup is somewhere around 300 grams, that’s going to be about from their testing, the optimum weight to be able to swing the driver as fast as possible.

That’s for a male driver, ladies’ driver is going to be a little bit lighter, little bit different. That’s basically the optimum weight to swing it as fast as you can, and now let’s get that maximum MOI.

So on the opposite of that would be, let’s imagine that we didn’t have this weight ow in the club face, back away from the club face, and on the sides.

That’s where you want it to be to be able to create the maximum MOI. Let’s imagine this weight is all on the club face and it’s right behind the sweet spot.

Now if I hit behind the toe, all of a sudden that driver’s going to twist open. You’d be surprised just how much a driver will twist.

I have some slow-motion footage here, you’ll see this one that hit off the toe, that driver’s twisting way open. If I hit another one off the heel, that driver’s twisting way closed.

So the MOI is basically, in a nutshell, if you want to boil it down to the simplest way to visualize that, it’s taking all the weight, putting it toward the perimeter of the club so that when you hit off-center, it stabilizes the face and you hit a little bit straighter, because the club face wants to twist a lot.

Now if you look at an iron, that’s exactly what cavity-back, or perimeter-weighted irons have done. If you look at the bottom, again that’s taking the weight lower, below the ball, and if you look at the sides, that’s where all the weight is.

If you look right here behind where I hit the ball, there’s just a hollow cavity there, there’s nothing there. Putting all that on the perimeter’s going to reduce the twisting and increase MOI, that’s exactly what we’re doing in the driver, too.

Now that sounds real easy, why not you just take all the weight out of there, put it in the perimeters, well that’s what we’re going to go over and talk about just how complicated that is and some things that Ping does to separate themselves from the competition.

All right, so now let’s jump into another question that I’ve always had, is the trampoline face real?

Basically, what trampoline face is, when I hit it on the center of the face the face is going to bend a little bit, kind of sink in like a trampoline would, and then that’s going to launch the ball off there and make it fly a lot farther.

Well, in a nutshell, it is real, that is happening to some degree but it’s less about the club springing back and helping propel that golf ball, as it is to conserving the energy that’s inside the golf ball.

So let me grab a golf ball here, one thing that golf balls I’ve learned are really bad at doing, is conserving the energy when you smash these.

Imagine I swing this club a thousand miles an hour, obviously the longest hitters in the world are only swinging 150 miles an hour, let’s say I did swing this a thousand miles an hour, and I just smash this golf ball.

This thing is going to smoosh like a pancake. When it does that, as that ball starts to smoosh together, it loses a lot of energy out of this golf ball due to heat, and that was all news to me.

This is the smartest engineers in the world explaining this to me, but basically as those polymers inside this golf ball smoosh together.

There’s a lot of friction in there, and they lose a lot of the energy that could be gone into shooting this golf ball forward into creating heat inside the golf ball and the deformation of this golf ball.

So ideally, what you’d like to have happen is a driver face that can be hot enough to absorb a little bit of that energy, and keep this ball from deforming, but then still transfer all that energy back into the ball and keep it shooting forward as fast and as far as possible.

That’s one of the reasons that titanium is really good. It’s able to bend a little bit, flex a little bit, but still keep a lot of its energy. That’s a lot better than steel and other materials.

Now this isn’t just new to Ping, all the faces out there now are using this type of titanium, or similar types of titanium, but when you have a face like this, it’s going to flex a little bit, keep the ball from deforming a lot and then still transfer a lot of that energy in there to be really hot.

Now one thing that’s kind of interesting, is whenever you hit it on the center of the club, that’s obviously the hottest, so what they’ve done to keep the hotness across the face and again, a lot of manufacturers are doing this, is you make the center of the club face a little bit thicker than the perimeter.

They’re actually deadening the center of the club face by making thicker metal there, so if you hit it dead sweet on the sweet spot, they can make an overall hotter driver.

If you hit it on the sweet spot, it’s as hot as the USGA will allow you to make it, and then as you go to the perimeter, they’re making the faces hotter out there, so that it stays a little bit closer to the high end of the maximum speed that you can get.

Let me explain that a little bit more too. Drivers, for a long time, let’s go back to that 20-year-old driver scenario.

If you hit it dead-center in the sweet spot, you’re swinging the same miles per hour, everything’s exactly the same with this club head, and you hit it as perfect as it can get.

Drivers even 20 years ago were maxed out by what the USGA would allow for what’s called the COR, or the coefficient of restitution, which is basically how hot the driver face can be.

They’ve now switched over to something called characteristic time. So basically, what this means is, you take any driver on the market and roughly, if you hit them absolutely dead-center solid perfect, they’re going to all go roughly the same distance.

Now we’re assuming the launch, and the spin, and the swing speed, everything else is the same, it’s just right in the dead center.

They’re pretty much all maxed out to the highest characteristic time, or COR, so that the ball goes as far as possible.

Now what the difference is, is when you go off-center hits like we were talking about before. When you hit an inch off the toe or an inch off the heel, that’s where you’re seeing the differences.

So what they’ve done, is they’ve made thicker metal in the sweet spot of the club so that you’re still reaching the maximum allowable limit for the USGA.

If you hit it in the sweet spot right dead-center of this club, it’s going as far as the USGA will allow you to hit a golf ball. Any farther than that, and the clubs are going to be illegal.

But as you start to go to the sides, now the sides and the bottom, all that is hotter than the older model drivers. You go back 20 years, not as hot on the sides and the perimeter.

So when you do mishit one, the ball’s going almost as far and it’s going almost as straight. You’re not losing as much when you mishit the golf ball. That’s really some of the differences that are made.

That’s really coming from the variable thickness in the face, and then MOI throughout the driver, that’s what makes the real difference with this.

Now another really cool thing that Ping did for this driver, and I think this is one of the secrets of the industry, that kind of agitated me a little bit when I found out what a lot of the manufacturers are doing.

But what Ping did, is they used a higher quality shaft. So basically, when you’re buying a really expensive shaft, say a $300 shaft versus a $20 shaft.

When you’re buying the really expensive shaft, they’re taking more advanced sheets of graphite, all the different materials that make up a shaft, carbon fiber, whatever’s in the shaft.

They’re taking these sheets of this stuff, and then they wrap it in a circle with the epoxy, and depending on what types of sheets, stiffer or softer, that’s going to depend how the shaft plays.

When you have really light-weight, super stiff sheets of this material, then it’s going to be more brittle.

It’s prone to break a little bit easier, for the shaft to snap, that’s how you make a really light, really stiff shaft, you have to use higher-quality products.

When you go with a cheaper shaft, you’re using not as stiff material, a little bit heavier material, and the shaft doesn’t perform quite as well.

So what Ping did, is they really upgraded the quality of all of their shafts, and they’ve done this for years. They even went a little above and beyond and used even higher-grade materials here, so they could take some of this weight out of the butt end of the shaft.

Basically, when you swing this golf club, any of the energy, any of the weight that’s in the shaft is really just lost energy.

What you’d like to do is have 100 percent of the weight in the head, and have 100 percent of the weight kind of low back and away on the perimeter so that it has the highest MOI as possible.

So what they did is they used higher quality materials out of the shaft, reduced some of the weight by using stiffer, lighter-weight material in the butt end, took all that saved weight and then put it in better spots of the head.

So now you could keep the overall weight of the driver the same, and increase the forgiveness of the driver head on those mishits.

Now typical shafts, I can’t speak for everybody, I’m not going to speak for every brand, but I know for a fact that a lot of companies are using very inexpensive materials to make their stock shaft.

So I’ve heard, and I can’t confirm or deny this, but I’ve heard that most manufacturers for their stock shaft that’s not the upgraded shaft, the one that comes with the driver, they try to keep it under around $5 or so in the manufacturing process to make that shaft.

Now Ping doesn’t do that, they spend a lot more of that, many multiples of that, to give you the best quality shaft stock in the driver. Really, that’s just lost profits for them.

They could easily put that lower quality shaft in there, not be able to remove the weight from it and put in the head to have the highest MOI.

They would just have more profits because people probably wouldn’t know the difference because it’s very difficult to tell from one shaft to another really how it performs.

So they have just kind of bit the bullet there, put more money into the club shaft, lost that off the profit so they can put a higher quality product in there.

One of the reasons that they can do this, is because a lot of the other manufacturers, a lot of the big-name manufacturers have huge amounts of money they spend on endorsements, and huge amounts of money they spend on marketing, and Ping doesn’t quite as much of that.

They still have pros that they endorse, they still do some marketing, but not nearly to the level of some of the biggest brands out there so they can take some of that saved marketing expense and they can put that back into the quality of the club.

Really all that does is allows them to have a better-quality club shaft, and to have the most forgiving head on the market and have the driver cost about the same as most of the drivers out there, or even a little bit less than a lot of the drivers out there.

So I thought that was pretty cool, you’re actually getting – and when I talked to the engineers, he said if you want to simplify it a bit, really the quality of the materials that go in the shaft are at the same level as your $200, $300, and $400 golf shafts.

Now a lot of those have fancy marketing behind them, when you pay for the big fancy shaft and it’s got nanotechnology, or it’s got the – what’s the new stuff? – T1100 or whatever, that’s not really doing a ton to make this play a lot different.

The quality of this shaft, the stock ping shaft is going to be just as much as your $200, $300, $400 shaft, but they’re giving it to you for a much lower price.

Now one of the things I thought was interesting on this, is that Ping shafts feel a little bit softer, and I always wondered why that is. You pick up even a really stiff Ping shaft, like an extra stiff flex shaft, it always feels fairly soft.

They explained to me that there’s two ways you can do the flex, there’s the main flex which you get in the shaft which would be forwards and backwards, if I just kind of bend this shaft this way.

So if I take that flex this shaft, that’s the main flex point that you’re testing, how it bends forwards and backwards throughout the swing.

But there’s also torque, so if I clamp this and held my hand perfectly still here like this was in a vice grip, and then I twisted open and closed, that’s the torque of the shaft.

What Ping does to make the shaft feel fairly soft and play pretty stiff, is they make the shaft very stiff, if you’re trying to get a stiff shaft, they make the shaft very stiff this way so it won’t flex a ton.

But they keep the torque rating fairly high, so when it twists this way, it still is fairly soft. You can feel that softness in the shaft without having the performance of a softer shaft.

Now obviously if you’re getting a regular flex, or a senior, or a lady’s flex, whatever the software flex shafts are, then that’s not going to be a stiff misdirection, it’s going to have a little bit loser feel to it, and it’s going to be softer overall.

Now here’s another thing that I’ve learned over the last few years, not necessarily from Ping, but just out there general information, is I’ve learned that there’s other manufacturers out there that actually degrade the quality of their builds when they’re running discount drivers.

Now again, I can’t attest to any specific models, but a lot of times what you’ll see is you’ll see a driver that’s say $500 or $600 when it hits the market.

Then all of a sudden when they’re releasing the new driver six months later, or a year later, that $500 and $600 driver is now on sale for $200 or $300.

That seems like a fantastic deal, because I’m getting this great driver that’s just a year old, or whatever, that the top pros were playing, and now I’m getting it for half the price.

I better jump on that and take advantage of this deal. What they actually do, and that Ping has promised me they’ve never done and will never do, which is I think pretty cool.

Shows a lot about what they believe in, the highest quality products, but what those manufacturers that try to cheat the system will do, when they knock back the prices on that drive, so that driver that used to be $500 or $600, now it’s $200 or $300, they actually make a different driver.

It looks exactly the same, from the outside you cannot tell any difference, but they change the way they weld the metal, they change the way that it’s put together to be a little bit of a cheaper manufacturing process.

It doesn’t perform quite as well but it looks exactly the same, and then they sell that cheaper driver. That’s one of the ways that they save money, and they kind of trick the consumer into thinking that they’re getting this amazing driver for a really good deal.

Now I think that’s pretty dishonest, and I really didn’t like that when I first heard that, because they’re relying on the credibility they’ve built up by having this expensive driver, and having the top pros play on that.

If I see a driver that’s on sale, now I’m thinking oh, this is great. I can go get that driver for this discount, but in reality, it’s not the same driver, it's a different driver, it’s a cheaper version of the driver, and I just don’t think that’s right.

So that’s one of the reasons I like Ping so much, and you’re going to hear me harp on all the time, and you’ll say Clay, you’re biased, you’re an ambassador.

You’re right, I am biased, I’m completely biased. I think these are the best made clubs, and after talking with the engineers there, really visiting them, the level of detail they go in every piece, the ethics that they have, I just can’t imagine really playing any other clubs.

It’s stuff like that that I hear about in the industry from other people telling me that, that really makes me like what Ping is doing so much more.

Another good thing about this is they’ve made the decision to assemble right at their headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona.

I’ve visited there a couple times now, they assemble all their clubs in America to make sure that their standards and their quality is right on point every single time.

So a lot of companies in an effort to sell tons and tons of drivers, they have to manufacture and put together the clubs in different parts of the world, and the quality checkpoints aren’t as good.

Everything you see with Ping is right there at the headquarters where it’s assembled, it’s checked and double checked to make sure all the standards and the specs are right.

That’s why whenever I used to do some club making, I would always notice the specs on the Pings would always come correct.

Then I’d get specs on other clubs, again I’d test the lies, I’d test the lofts, I’d test the shaft stiffness, and it wouldn’t necessarily be what it’s supposed to be.

You’d order a stiff flex shaft, you measure a Ping it’s stiff every single time, or within the parameters of being a stiff flex shaft.

You order it from other companies, sometimes it’d be a regular sometimes it’d be an extra stiff, it just depends on the quality of the club and different things.

I’m not saying every company’s like that, that’s definitely not the case, but I definitely saw a lot more variation between lofts, lies and shaft stiffness going with other brands, even some of the top brands that are one of the biggest in the market. You’d be surprised how off those could be.

All right, so now let’s go into one of the areas that Ping again excels at, and that is the thickness of the crown of this club.

So I had no idea before visiting with engineers, talking about the crowns, just how paper thin these are.

These are the thickness, again, don’t quite me on this, but it’s about roughly the same thickness as a single sheet of paper.

It’s very, very thin material. Again, the reason is, I don’t want weight high in this driver head.

I want to bring the weight down low in the driver head, I want to bring it back toward the back of the driver head, that way it’ll be as forgiving as possible, and I can swing it as fast as possible.

They’ve taken that weight out of the crown which is a bad area to have it in, and they have the thinnest crown, as thin or thinner crown than any other club on the market.

Again, that’s one of the advantages, how they get the MOI so high and the forgiveness so high. With this crown, now all of a sudden if you just had a perfectly smooth crown, if you really pushed on it really hard, you could probably even dent it.

They said they actually made some clubs where they had this really cool, ultra-lightweight crown, but you could take your thumb and just press it right through there, it was that thin.

Obviously, they couldn’t make that driver. With this crown so thin, now what they’ve done is they’ve added some reinforcement.

You’ll notice there’s creases, which is nice to help you line up the golf ball, I like the way this looks. But those also reinforce the driver crown to make sure that it doesn’t bend or cave, because it is so lightweight, so advanced.

Also have the turbulators at the top, which some people love them, some people hate them, with the turbulators, but at the end of the day they help you swing very slightly faster.

So the best judge I could see, or the best information I could see is maybe you get about an extra mile an hour or so of swing speed.

Now that doesn’t equate to a ton, but for every mile an hour of swing speed, you’re getting roughly two-and-a-half yards or so.

You’re getting an extra two-and-a-half yards from the turbulators, maybe somewhere around in there. So hey, if it’s better, why not use it? It’s not going to hurt anything.

So again, the most technologically advanced crown you’re going to see on any driver in the marketplace.

A couple other questions you always get from Ping is why is the hosel, this adjustable hosel, why did it take Ping so dag-gone long to put the adjustable hosel in there.

Again, it comes down, I don’t want all the weight of this driver up towards the face, I want to bring it back away from the face, and the hosel comes in right by the face.

If I create an adjustable hosel, now all of a sudden I have to make a thicker sleeve that the hosel fits in, it has to be bored out a little bit bigger because of the shaft actually turns inside the hosel, and then the sleeve that I put around the shaft itself has some weight to it.

So what I’m doing is I’m moving weight up toward the face and toward the hosel which is not exactly where you want the weight to be to get the highest MOI, and the performance of the driver goes down.

So it took a while for the manufacturing processes to get good enough to where now they have the lightest weight shaft adapter on the market.

They have taken tons and tons of weight out of this shaft system here, really made that super, super light, and the manufacturing processes got good enough to where they could have the tolerances low enough to make this super light, to where now it makes sense.

You can still hit that highest MOI number, and have an adjustable shaft driver. That took a while because of the manufacturing processes had to catch up, and that’s why you didn’t see adjustable shaft drivers with Ping drivers until the last few years.

10 years ago, when everybody was doing it, they were basically decreasing the performance of the driver, but adding the feature of having the adjustable shaft.

They knew that it wasn’t performing as well, but said hell, don’t worry about it, it’s cool to have the shaft adjust.

Ping says we’re not putting out any clubs unless they’re the highest performance that we can make them.

They said we’re going to keep the shaft in there, until the manufacturing processes get good enough to where we can produce these to have an adjustable shaft, and it not decrease the performance of the head.

I thought that’s pretty cool, because again, that was a determinant to why Ping didn’t probably sell as many drivers over the last 10 years or so, as they could have, because they didn’t want to sacrifice the performance.

They would rather make a little bit less money and have a better driver than make more money and have a worse performing driver.

Another thing is the removable weight, or the adjustable weight in the back of the driver.

Now again, if I have weights in the sole of this driver, so a lot of drivers you’ll see a channel in the front, and you may see a channel going all the way across the sole of the driver.

Well what happens when I make that channel to move that weight around, so I can move it heel or toe, forwards or back, the channel that that sits in, the metal that’s in that channel adds weight to the front of the driver where I don’t want weight to be.

The metal that goes across the bottom, the channel that that sits in adds weight to the front and areas of the driver that I don’t want weight, and it makes it less performing.

You’re not going to be able to get that highest MOI number if you have all these channels on the bottom because there’s too much weight toward the face and not in the parts that you need it to be.

That’s when Ping finally again came up with pretty ingenious way of doing this, where now this weight that’s on the back of the driver is all the way back as far as you can get from the face, and it stays toward the perimeter.

That way you can move a little more, draw bias or fade bias, however you like to set up your driver, and the performance isn’t going to go down a lot by having that big channels in the bottom of the club.

So that’s why they’re so late to the game, having adjustable shafts, having adjustable weights in the bottom, because they didn’t want to sacrifice the performance of the head, and have you hit drives not as straight as you could.

All right, so finally let’s talk about the sound of these drivers. That’s actually something that’s pretty interesting.

Whenever you hit a solid drive, a lot of that perception of hitting it solid comes from the sounds of how you’ve hit this club.

It’s also the amount of twisting it has, like I talked about, if you hit off the toe it’s going to twist a lot and you can feel that in your hands, it doesn’t feel very good, you lose some ball speed.

What was really interesting to me is that a lot of the engineering goes into trying to make a driver sound good and still have it perform really well.

It’s actually a lot easier to make a driver that performs well that doesn’t sound very good, sounds real loud like a tin can.

So they worked a lot on the acoustics of this driver to not only get that high MOI again, but to also make it sound very solid. You can hear when I’m hitting this drive, it has a nice sound to it.

Now one of the things that competitors do, and I’ll be 100 percent honest with you, some of the competitors out there like TaylorMade that have the carbon fiber crown on top of the driver, that’s a very lightweight material.

Again, the more weight we can take out of the crown, the better that’s going to be. By using carbon fiber, it’s actually lighter than steel, lighter than titanium even, but there’s some more problems we’ll talk about that in a minute.

Whenever you use that carbon fiber, it sounds good. Carbon fiber drivers sound really nice and solid, that’s one of the advantages of them.

When you hit a carbon fiber crown driver, it just sounds really nice, got a nice click to it, it’s not that high-pitched ting that you’ve had with some titanium drivers in the past.

So why not use carbon fiber instead of this ultra, ultra-lightweight, or very thin lightweight metal? The reason is, even though the carbon fiber is very light, you have to glue that carbon fiber to something.

The competitors have metal on the face and the sides, and you have that carbon fiber crown, and now you’re going to put that, you have to put a lip all the way around that’s going to allow that carbon fiber to set in there, then you have to use an epoxy to glue that carbon fiber crown to the sides.

If you do that, the overall weight goes up. So this very, very thin metal crown, titanium crown, is going to be lighter weight than a carbon fiber crown.

You have to do a little bit of engineering to still make this sound really good, to make the acoustics and the sound waves bounce around in the head to where it’s pleasing to the ear, and make it feel very solid.

But I thought that was very interesting, because carbon fiber is kind of all of the craze right now, I figure that it would be lighter and better performing, but in reality, it may not the best performing, but it sure does sound good when you’re hitting it.

One thing is to think about, if other manufacturers don’t have quite as thin of a crown, maybe carbon fiber for them is the best way to go, because it’s still lighter weight than other metal crowns they were using.

But with Ping, it’s just lighter weight than all the other materials out there, or as light or lighter than all the other manufacturers out there, so it has the best performance.

So overall, you can tell that I obviously very biased, love this club, but after learning about the technology in this, I just don’t think you can really justify going with any other club, especially going with these super high-end expensive shafts.

From what I’ve learned about club shafts, a lot of that is marketing. You buy a thousand-dollar club shaft it’s really not going to perform all that much better than just your stock, very good, solid Ping shaft.

You buy a really fancy thousand dollar, two thousand, three-thousand-dollar driver, the technology in it is not any better, or it’s not even as good as what you’re getting with a Ping driver.

I just can’t imagine playing with any other club, any other manufacturer, and that’s the science behind it, those are the reasons why.

All right, now with all this talk of the most consistent driver and how this is so technologically advanced, let’s be completely honest with ourselves. The driver’s only going to do so much here.

We have to make a good swing to hit the ball well. It’s the old Indian versus the arrow kind of thing.

Obviously, the ideal situation would be we have a fantastic club, fantastic technology, and we also have a fantastic swing, so we’re getting both the best Indian and the best arrow, so to speak.

One of the easiest ways to make consistent contact from what I’ve found, is the Stable Fluid Spine.

When I’m setting up to this golf ball, I want to have a slight tilt away from the target, and then throughout my swing, in the backswing, and in my downswing, I want to maintain that tilt away from the target.

That way your spine angle is staying relatively constant, and you’re rotating around that, that’s going to keep your head much more still, it’s going to keep your balance better, it’s just going to improve everything so that you can hit the center of the club face time and time again.

Now the right way to learn that is to go through the Stable Fluid Spine system, section of the Top Speed Golf System. So you start on level one in the Stable Fluid Spine.

You do those drills, you move to level two, you move to level three, you work right on through it, and that’s going to ingrain that for a lifetime.

So doing it for one day is great, you’re probably going to play better. But we want to go through that system so we can bake it into our swing.

It’s locked in, and we never have to worry about it again, we can always play very consistent, very solid golf. So best of luck, I’ll see you in the Stable Fluid Spine. Let’s go ahead and get started right now.