www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

R What? The driver is perhaps golf's most intriguing club and rightly so. Recently I spoke to two persons and the topic centered on drivers. One bought a R11. What is distinct about the R11 from TaylorMade? If you have ever played Taylormade drivers such as the r5, r7, R9, R9 460, R9 SuperTri you will understand roughly what the R11 could be. When they first came out with the R9 it was about 420cc in club head size with a D4 swing weight, torque at 3.5, length of 45.25 and shaft weight at 65g and it offered only MVT (Movable Weight Technology). This clubs should be used by better players just for the head size alone. Following the R9 along came the R9 460 which as the name suggest now comes in a bigger head at 460cc with similar swingweight, torque but now with a longer length at 45.75. Torque is 3.1 for Aldila shaft and 3.5 (60g) for Fujikura Motore (65g) but there is an absence of MVT but they gave us FCT (Flight Control Technology). Maybe at this point, they haven...

Swing Weight? A friend who is a very good golfer once asked me what is the swing weight of a certain club and I drew a complete blank. I have since talked to many people about swing weight and few knew the meaning much less the significance of it. So, I embarked on a journey of discovery both theoretical and practical. I have even spoken to club fitters (or maybe some are not club fitters, they just change shafts and grips). So What is Swing Weight? Swing Weight is an expression of a club in terms of its feel, its head weight in relation to the entire weight of a club and its performance based on the timing of its release. It is liken to say lifting a bag of rice and that weight is thought of as the resistance in being lifted. That is the equivalent to the swing weight of a golf club and its resistance in being lifted and then swung in a circular movement. In technical terms, it is called the "Moment of Inertia". When a club gets longer, you will find that it fee...

Why am I Sharing? Life is short, you don't have time to make all the mistakes yourself. Besides, it can be costly. So, why do I want to share precious information with you without ripping you off? Let me share with you a true story concerning the late but legendary Bruce Lee. While he was still a young man at the beginning of his martial arts career under Grandmaster Ip Man who founded Wing Chun, Bruce Lee absorbed knowledge like a sponge even when he was beaten up, he would analyse and search for answers on why different kicks hurt him differently. When Ip Man came back from a trip, he asked an older disciple who followed him to exchange information and practise with Bruce what he learned on the trip and in turn learned from Bruce. Some days later, they would both spar. Because Bruce taught him everything he had learned, that disciple could use those moves but Bruce knew nothing as that disciple kept everything to himself and has not taught Bruce as told. The rest of the s...