Quality Component Heads – The Truth

I did two fittings this weekend, and one of them was with a past customer who I built a set of irons for a month or so ago. He told me that he had never broken 90 before, but had recently shot 86 using the new irons (he also said he now hits his pitching wedge 130 yards, wow!). The fitting we did was to find him a new set of fairway woods, and we settled on a Wishon 525 GRT fairway wood head with an SK Fiber TT 80 wood shaft built to the specs that produced best test results – in particular a 42 inch length 3 wood (“standard” is 43 inches), 15 degree loft, and appropriate weighting and shaft flex. He bombed this test club when he hit it outside.

These results illustrate – as has been the case with other customers – that there are a LOT of great component golf heads out there. Not “knock off” clubs that try to imitate clubs like Callaway and others. But Wishon Golf, Infiniti Golf, Alpha Golf, and others who make heads that stack up with any of the OEM heads that can be bought.

Designers of these component heads have lots of experience with creating clubs that are easy to hit and also that produce good distance and accuracy.

The additional value of using these heads versus rebuilding OEM clubs with the right shaft and club weighting is that when you get these heads you KNOW what you are getting. This makes it much easier to do quality flex and MOI matching of clubs, and the results in terms of consistent feel and quality shots can definitely produce better golf.

This is not to say, to be fair, that rebuilding OEM clubs is not a good way to also get good results. But one should not be afraid, if they find a quality component head that you like, to play these clubs. With the proper fitting and clubs built to test specs, the results can be outstanding.

Tony

PS………..could not miss chance to talk a little about the new camera I just bought for use in fittings. A Casio EX-FH25. It will allow me to take video at 240 frames a second – about a factor of 4 higher resolution than my previous digital video movie camera could produce.