Golf Swing Clubhead Release

Dynacraft Prophet ICT Driver - Clubhead $59.95 Interchangeable shaft technology is all well and good, but what if you had technology that would allow you to adjust the lie and face angle of the clubhead itself? This breakthrough technology is now available from the amazing new Dynacraft ICT. The ICT features a unique adjustable 8-position hosel. Each hosel position provides differing lie and face angles of the clubhead, allowing you to optimize the club for your swing tendencies. The hosel is instantly adjustable, which means you can make changes on-the-spot. The Prophet ICT driver is not designed as a fitting tool (although it can be used as one), rather a club you can be fit for on the spot and taken home or to the course immediately. As your game progresses or if you are simply looking for a change of new technology, additional shafts can be purchased. Imagine the possibilities of changing shafts quickly and efficiently without harming the shaft. View more detailed information on the Prophet ICT Driver with diagrams and moi charts. View the Dynacraft Prophet ICT Videoblog on YouTube! However, interchangeable hosels are nothing new to exchange one shaft for another. What makes the Prophet ICT so unique is the adjustable hosel allows for eight distinct lie and face angle configurations. Not only do you have the ability to change different shafts in seconds with a tool, but one can also fine-tune the angles to provide the best possible combination to help improve accuracy. The hosel adapter can be removed and re-inserted in another position to provide directional help as one’s swing changes. This club can grow with the owner instead of becoming obsolete like so many clubs on the market. The key is the octagonal interchangeable hosel insert will create eight different lie and face angle sets of specifications from upright to flat to open to closed. Add this to the three different loft options and the countless shafts on the market and you have an almost unlimited number of custom-fitting opportunities. Purchase additional Prophet ICT Adapters. Purchase additional Prophet ICT Wrenches. Download the Dynacraft Prophet ICT Driver Instructional Guide.

Acer XDS Insider Thriver - Clubhead $59.95 If you are missing fairways off the tee on a regular basis, then the Acer XDS Insider Thriver was designed for you. We took the best aspects of a driver and a 3-wood to create the best of both worlds. For instance, a driver is approximately 3 times the size of a #3 wood but has a much higher moment of inertia (MOI) making it more forgiving on off-center shots. Plus you have a large confidence-building, thin face that produces a spring-like effect right up to the legal limit for more distance. On the other hand, a 3 wood is more lofted and this cuts down on side spin for straighter shots, plus the shorter length enables you to have more control. Why not just cut down your driver? It would be too light to effectively control. The Acer XDS Insider Thriver club head weighs a full 10g more than a normal driver to allow for a shorter, more controllable length that now has the proper amount of club weight. Plus we placed this added weight in a strategic location to produce an even higher MOI. Combine the higher loft (14º) of a stronger lofted #3 fairway wood and what you now have is the ultimate in control off of the tee. The head shape and contour on the crown was specifically designed to encourage one to swing the driver on an inside-out swing path. Plus the XDS Insider’s internal weighting creates a draw enhancing ball flight on center impact. The masking on the crown using our exclusive Square Optical Alignment System, cleverly disguises the closed face angle to provide a “square” appearance so one can just trust their natural swing. When a standard driver goes long but wrong and your #3 wood doesn’t give you the distance you need, the Acer XDS Insider “Thriver” edition is that one club you have been searching for.

iBella Obsession Titanium Driver - Clubhead $59.95 Your hands grasp the soft textured grip. You gaze upon its decadent curves and you are immediately imbued with the feeling of confidence. You draw the club back and your body coils. You release...and nail the best drive of your life. You attempt to conceal your smirk as you strut past the boys with their jaws wide open. Click here for more information on the iBella Obsession Titanium Driver

Dynacraft ICT Titanium Driver - Clubhead $79.95 The patent pending adjustable 8-position hosel defines the new Dynacraft Prophet ICT series for 2010 (available on driver and fairway woods). Each hosel position provides differing lie angles and face angles, allowing you to optimize the club to suit your swing tendencies. The hosel is instantly adjustable, and changes can be made on-the-spot. The adjustable hosel is not designed as a fitting tool (although it can be used as one), rather it’s fit and play: a club you can be fit for on the spot and played immediately. As your game progresses or if you are simply looking for a change of new shaft technology, additional shafts and adapters (#ICTADAPTER) can be purchased. Imagine the possibilities of changing shafts quickly and efficiently without harming the shaft. The new Dynacraft Prophet ICT driver is our second generation driver to offer your complete customization with a new Tour-preferred shape. No other club on the market is as diverse as the Prophet ICT driver. Not only do you have the ability to change different shafts in seconds with the tool supplied, but one can also fine-tune the angles to provide the best possible combination to help improve accuracy on any given day. The four-piece forged titanium driver is available in three lofts and possesses a traditional pear shape preferred by better golfers. This club can grow with the owner instead of becoming obsolete like so many clubs on the market. The octagonal interchangeable hosel adapter will create eight distinct lie and face angle sets of specifications from upright to flat to open to closed. Add this to the three different loft options and the countless shafts on the market and you have an almost unlimited number of custom-fitting opportunities. Download the Dynacraft Prophet ICT Instruction Sheet here. Click here for more information on the Dynacraft Prophet ICT Titanium Driver

Momentus Golf Speed Trainer Swing Aid $29.99 The Speed Trainer is a clubhead speed accelerator. Instantly increase your clubhead speed with this useful swing training aid. You will be able to hear the sound of a progressively increased clubhead speed and potentially add 30 yards to your tee shots. This swing training aid is used by top Tour pros and will boost your clubhead speed 10+ mph.

Acer XDS Insider Titanium Driver - Clubhead $59.95 What does every golfer expect when they put a shiny new driver in play? More distance! But the USGA has been putting all sorts of rules and restrictions on club head designs to prevent that very situation from occurring. This is why designers have to be more creative in designing clubs to that will truly enhance their customers’ game. One method is to design clubs around the way average golfers swing, rather than creating perfect clubs and expecting golfers to swing that way. In that respect, there is still quite a bit room for improvement. One of the most common tendencies is when a golfer comes over the top and makes an outside-in move. This is evident by most shots off the tee resulting into a push, fade or the dreaded slice. A Golf Digest article “Add 42 Yards Now” explained that if you were able to change to more of an inside-out movement a golfer who swung 95 mph could gain as much as 42 yards. Of course, this would require a huge change in how the person swings the club and let’s face it most golfers are not going to be able to put in that time and effort. But through creating design features in the club head, the golfer can be encouraged to make more of an inside path. This is how the Acer XDS Insider got its name. The profile of the head as well as the contour on the crown was specifically designed to create a mental picture of swinging from the inside. This will encourage one to swing the driver on an inside-out swing path instead of that dreaded distance robbing over-the-top move. The XDS Insider also helps you in two other ways. By adding internal weighting within the head in the heel area, this creates draw spin on center shots. The other method in creating a “draw bias” is the unique asymmetrical sole. More weight is shifted toward the heel in order to assist in rotating the head and squaring the face at impact. The face angle is a little more closed than normal to provide some additional corrective measures. In many cases when a golfer sees a closed club face they are not even aware they are manipulating the club face or their stance open and essentially negating the potential benefit of the clubface being closed. The Acer XDS Insider’s addressed this problem as the face angle is cleverly disguised by the masking on the crown to provide a “square” appearance so they can just trust their natural swing. Lastly, the Acer XDS Insider also boasts a variable face thickness, cup face design to make the entire club face become one gigantic sweet spot and ensure that you get all the distance possible.

Acer XK High Trajectory Iron - Clubhead $8.95 The Acer XK HT (High Trajectory) iron is designed for either slower swing players, beginners or those mid and higher handicappers looking to improve upon their iron play. A 30% wider sole than the standard Acer XK model coupled with additional loft and lower and a deeper center of gravity will enables the player to get the ball up in the air quickly from virtually any lie and hold the greens. The expansive undercut channel and generous hitting surface makes this one of the most forgiving irons available anywhere. Manufactured of 431 stainless steel. Click here for more information on the Acer XK Iron

Acer XDS Insider Fairway Wood - Clubhead $19.95 The XDS Insider fairway woods derive their name from the very subtle visual aligning aids on the crown as well as the shape to encourage one to swing on an inside-out swing path. This is important not only to provide increased distance, but accuracy and a solid feel at impact. Golfers that swing on an outside-in path or sometimes called over the top move end up slicing the ball and losing confidence in their clubs. The Acer XDS Insider fairways were designed to prevent that. Each numbered fairway wood in this series has a different face angle to help deliver the clubface square upon impact. For the average golfer, the lower the loft and longer the club, the more likely the clubface will be open at impact. But with our Square Optical Alignment System, it provides a “square” appearance to each club and creates a consistent appearance. This eliminates the need to make minor adjustments ball placement in the stance or how the golfer aligns to the target instead of letting the club do what it was intended to do. While we have explained the Acer XDS Insider has technology you can see, it also has three other features you can’t see. A substantial amount of additional internal weighting was placed deep within the head to provide increased stability and create a higher launch angle. This is only possible by incorporating our exclusive Variable Crown Technology to lighten the crown area. We also have a variable thickness face for more explosive distance and incredible feel at impact. The shallow face design and 4 way radius sole reduces contact with the turf for any course condition making this series one, if not, the most user-friendly fairway woods on the market today geared for the average golfer. Click here for more information on the Acer XDS Insider Fairway Wood

Dynacraft Prophet ICT Fairway Wood - Clubhead $34.95 The patent pending adjustable 8-position hosel defines the new Dynacraft Prophet ICT series for 2010 (available on driver and fairway woods). Each hosel position provides differing lie angles and face angles, allowing you to optimize the club to suit your swing tendencies. The hosel is instantly adjustable, and changes can be made on-the-spot. The adjustable hosel is not designed as a fitting tool (although it can be used as one), rather it’s fit and play: a club you can be fit for on the spot and played immediately. As your game progresses or if you are simply looking for a change of new shaft technology, additional shafts and adapters (#ICTADAPTER) can be purchased. Imagine the possibilities of changing shafts quickly and efficiently without harming the shaft. The Dynacraft Prophet ICT series takes our revolutionary, patent pending interchangeable hosel adapter to the fairway woods. Now with the interchangeable Prophet ICT 8-position adapter each hosel insertion provides differing lie angles ranging from 2º upright to 2º flat and face angles that range from 2º open to 2º closed, allowing you to optimize the club to suit your swing tendencies. Need a #3 fairway wood that can provide a draw on a certain hole and a #5 fairway wood that can create a cut for another? No problem. Purchase additional adapters (#ICTADAPTER) and you can interchange countless shafts on the market with an almost unlimited number of custom-fitting opportunities. The fairway woods feature the same shape and their compact size allows for some degree of workability that most behemoth geometric designs do not. Their variable face thickness provides for an incredible crisp sound and solid feel at impact. Download the Dynacraft Prophet ICT Instruction Sheet here. Click here for more information on the Dynacraft ICT Fairway Wood

Acer XK Ti-Ceptional Iron - Clubhead $19.95 If you thought our standard Acer XK irons were easy to hit, you haven’t experienced anything yet. Pushing the design envelope even further, we replaced the stainless steel face with a thin sheet of lightweight titanium to experience the same benefits of a modern titanium driver wrapped up into an iron. Titanium was selected for two reasons. First it provides a responsive striking zone to increase ball speed and distance. Secondly it allows for an extraordinary source of weight savings that can used to create unparalleled forgiveness for laser-like accuracy. If you don’t think there is some weight in the face to be saved, you would be wrong. Simply substituting titanium where the stainless steel face resided, we shed 45% or a total of 25g of weight from the face. All this weight was then put to much better use by placing it in the toe (position A in the diagram) and in the sole (position B) to help stabilize the head more so on off-center shot. Now image your same old swing rejuvenated by producing greater distance with no additional effort, in addition to creating a higher ball flight, more spin to hold the greens and with pinpoint accuracy. You can have it all with the Acer XK Ti-Ceptional irons. Click here for more detailed information on the Acer XK Ti-Ceptional Irons. Click here for more information on the Acer XK Ti-ceptional Iron

Advantages of the Mike Austin Golf Swing

As Trackman launch monitors and 3D swing analysis technology become more popular, I believe it will usher in a new age in the world of professional golf, and golf instruction as a whole. Today's current 'fad' teaching styles will give way to a new style of swing - a style who's origins date back over 100 years!

 

This 'classic' style of swinging, featuring much more active hips and legs, and a free release of the clubhead, can be seen as far back as 1900 and before. James Braid, John Henry Taylor, and Harry Vardon, dubbed 'The Great Triumvirate', won 16 British Open titles in 21 years. The trio was astonishingly dominant - one coming in runner up the 5 times they didn't win.

 

This early swing of the three featured a free lifting left heel on the backswing, with a swinging spine in each direction. The left arm was allowed to bend slightly at the elbow, for the sake of suppleness. The clubhead was thrown with a lashing sidearm baseball type motion. Braid reportedly woke up one day with this concept, and soon was driving balls ridiculous distances for the times - perhaps as far as 375 yards!

 

The classic swing style continued in the hands of Walter Hagen and Bobby Jones in the 20's, the latter whom continued to refine the style with much careful thought and practice. It was about this time that a teenage Mike Austin probably watched and was influenced by Jones at Eastlake Country Club.

 

Although there is evidence to suggest that Austin was naturally gifted at golf from an early age, it was the Eastlake period where he really started to shine. A big strong lad, Austin started to hit more prodigious drives seemingly all the time. First, the drives over a 300 yard lake, then 350, and later on in the 30's over 400 yards in tournament play!

 

An obviously gifted athlete, Mike Austin was equally as studious. Presently, his college background has come into question, but nevertheless, the knowledge and understanding of his subjects was gained somehow. Psychology, physiology, then physics and engineering - their secrets were all mastered by Austin and applied to the golf swing. By 1946 when Austin earned a PhD in Kinesiology, he had taken the classic swing model and refined it to scientific perfection.

 

Mike's raw swing slowly became more measured and precise, and with it, the distance and accuracy continued to improve. Mike's study of the human body and the physics that guide the swing and the impact with the ball yielded what many people called 'the perfect golf swing'. Mike himself claimed that his technique was, 'The most efficient way to hit a ball.'

 

The advantages of this style of swing are numerous. All 12 levers of the body are moved in a manner to produce large amounts of power, while also swinging the clubhead around a perfect elliptical wheel into the ball, transferring the most energy possible from the collision. The spine is also used for leverage, to transfer weight from foot to foot. The clubface is precisely controlled by the wrists and forearms, in the same manner as many other sports motions such as tennis, racquetball, and baseball.

 

Its ability to reduce risk of injury is another great advantage of the Austin swing. Because the joints only move according to their design, within normal range of motion, they undergo significantly less stress than the modern golf swing. The lumbar spine, especially, can be at great risk from the style of golf stroke that one chooses. Many of today's styles place exponential torquing forces on the lower back, and the chronic injuries to many young stars is well documented.

 

So I say, bring on the technology! Trackman is already supporting the advantages of Mike Austin's "Under, Up, and Out' philosophy - showing that the ball will carry and roll farther when hit upwards from the inside on a driver.

 

As the scientific community has finally started throwing their new toys at the golf swing to unravel its mysteries, I have no doubt that the classic swing, and particularly the Austin swing, will hold up to scrutiny, and usher in a new age of teaching and swinging which will look suspiciously like 1950!

 

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