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Date: 12 Oct 2006 14:05:26
From: 3putt
Subject: Lead tape on driver heads?
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I've noticed on close-ups that some of the pros will have lead tape on their
irons. But what effect does lead tape have on titanium heads. Distance?
Swing correction? Club makers are now including screw weights on their
drivers, some even adding the weights inside the heads. Does adding your
own lead tape to a titanium head improve the ball flight? Reduce the
distance? Or is lead tape, like copper bracelets, only a keting ploy?
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Date: 12 Oct 2006 14:09:51
From: Ben.
Subject: Re: Lead tape on driver heads?
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On Oct 12, 9:05 am, "3putt" <golf2...@golfing.com > wrote:
> I've noticed on close-ups that some of the pros will have lead tape on their
> irons. But what effect does lead tape have on titanium heads. Distance?
> Swing correction? Club makers are now including screw weights on their
> drivers, some even adding the weights inside the heads. Does adding your
> own lead tape to a titanium head improve the ball flight? Reduce the
> distance? Or is lead tape, like copper bracelets, only a keting ploy?
It's for increasing the weight of the club, pure and simple. I have a
couple of strips on my driver, and quite a bit
on my irons. My irons are D3, which is somewhat heavy. I hear tale
that Els plays his irons at D6...which is
noticably heavy.
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Date: 12 Oct 2006 12:48:15
From: sfb
Subject: Re: Lead tape on driver heads?
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A earlier or primitive form of built-in weight adjustment such as Taylor
Made is pushing these days.
"3putt" <golf24/7@golfing.com > wrote in message
news:GYrXg.24022$fy.9208@tornado.southeast.rr.com...
> I've noticed on close-ups that some of the pros will have lead tape on
> their irons. But what effect does lead tape have on titanium heads.
> Distance? Swing correction? Club makers are now including screw weights
> on their drivers, some even adding the weights inside the heads. Does
> adding your own lead tape to a titanium head improve the ball flight?
> Reduce the distance? Or is lead tape, like copper bracelets, only a
> keting ploy?
>
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Date: 12 Oct 2006 14:56:48
From: Don Fordham
Subject: Re: Lead tape on driver heads?
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"3putt" <golf24/7@golfing.com > wrote in message
news:GYrXg.24022$fy.9208@tornado.southeast.rr.com...
> I've noticed on close-ups that some of the pros will have lead tape on
> their irons. But what effect does lead tape have on titanium heads.
> Distance? Swing correction? Club makers are now including screw weights
> on their drivers, some even adding the weights inside the heads. Does
> adding your own lead tape to a titanium head improve the ball flight?
> Reduce the distance? Or is lead tape, like copper bracelets, only a
> keting ploy?
It's done to increase swingweight of the club. Each 2oz of tape increases
the swingweight approximately 1 point.
While some people say they use it to create draw or fade bias by adding the
tape to the outside or inside end of the head, the actual effect on the
center of gravity is negligible for the small amount of weight that is
shifted. In order to significantly move the cg, the amount of tape required
would make the swingweight way too high for most of us. Never underestimate
the placebo effect, though, in a game as mental as golf.
Don
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Date: 12 Oct 2006 15:00:45
From: Don Fordham
Subject: Re: Lead tape on driver heads?
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"Don Fordham" <dfordham@elp.rr.com > wrote in message
news:QIsXg.46570$DU3.21813@tornado.texas.rr.com...
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> "3putt" <golf24/7@golfing.com> wrote in message
> news:GYrXg.24022$fy.9208@tornado.southeast.rr.com...
>> I've noticed on close-ups that some of the pros will have lead tape on
>> their irons. But what effect does lead tape have on titanium heads.
>> Distance? Swing correction? Club makers are now including screw weights
>> on their drivers, some even adding the weights inside the heads. Does
>> adding your own lead tape to a titanium head improve the ball flight?
>> Reduce the distance? Or is lead tape, like copper bracelets, only a
>> keting ploy?
> It's done to increase swingweight of the club. Each 2oz of tape increases
> the swingweight approximately 1 point.
>
> While some people say they use it to create draw or fade bias by adding
> the tape to the outside or inside end of the head, the actual effect on
> the center of gravity is negligible for the small amount of weight that is
> shifted. In order to significantly move the cg, the amount of tape
> required would make the swingweight way too high for most of us. Never
> underestimate the placebo effect, though, in a game as mental as golf.
>
> Don
>
Sorry, meant to say 2g not 2oz to impact swingweight by 1 point.
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Date: 12 Oct 2006 07:24:33
From: cja
Subject: Re: Lead tape on driver heads?
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3putt wrote:
> I've noticed on close-ups that some of the pros will have lead tape on their
> irons. But what effect does lead tape have on titanium heads. Distance?
> Swing correction? Club makers are now including screw weights on their
> drivers, some even adding the weights inside the heads. Does adding your
> own lead tape to a titanium head improve the ball flight? Reduce the
> distance? Or is lead tape, like copper bracelets, only a keting ploy?
>
I doubt anyone is getting rich from lead tape, so it's no keting
ploy. A little lead tape can create a measurable change in swingweight,
so it does have an effect. You can affect ball flight, biasing your
driver to draw, for example, by adding lead tape to the heel. I have
lead tape on most of my clubs, most of the time to adjust the
swingweight. With a swingweight scale it's easy to get that right, but
I have no way to measure the center of gravity, so positioning the
tape, for me, is an inexact science. There may be some placebo effect
involved for me, but I'll take any help I can get.
- cja
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