Rocketballz Irons give you more distance

TaylorMade even advertises that the new RBZ 3-wood will generate an additional 17 yards in distance -- a fascinating claim that they can golfers of levels obsessively consumed with gaining more distance.

"We're advertising 17 yards because legally that's all we're in a position to advertise, but a majority of when we've done 1-on-1 [testing], this has been 20 to 26 yards," said Tom Olsavsky, TaylorMade's senior director of product creation. "When we tested it during our demo day in Orlando [at the PGA Merchandise Show], the average was 28.6 yards longer. We've never had a rise prefer that. Never.

"The last real begin performance is when we went in the standard drivers to high-COR drivers, understanding that was ready 12 yards with a driver."

The COR is coefficient of restitution, the so-called "trampoline effect" that measures the force transfer whenever a golf ball collides using the clubface. Greater souped up that is transferred in the face, the farther the ball can travel.

The United States Golf Association has placed Taylormade Rocketballz Irons a COR limit of .830 on all clubs (1.000 is maximum transfer), though it is normally linked to drivers. As yet.

By making a deeper face and moving the middle of gravity better the front from the clubhead, TaylorMade surely could improve the COR from .780 in its former Burner fairway model to between .810-.813 in its new RBZ fairway metal. That increase allows the ball to come over face with greater speed but in addition decreases the spin rate on your ball by a minimum of 1,000 rpm. The less a ball spins, the farther it travels.

RocketBallz not merely is rocketing balls greater distances; it really is skyrocketing sales and heightening requirement for fairway metals -- a site usually restricted to high-end, big-headed drivers. Golf Galaxy, the leading golf retailer in Western Pennsylvania, said hello is selling 5 times the number of RBZ fairway metals than some other model.

"It's really been a breakthrough," said Olsavsky, brother of Steelers assistant coach Jerry Olsavsky. "We haven't seen this kind of breakthrough in Two decades, these kinds of start ping g15 driver performance, probably because the first steel fairway wood and maybe even to the Big Bertha fairway wood in the early '90s. We haven't seen it since there wasn't such a jump in playability."

TaylorMade officially launched the modern fairway metal with the WGC-Cadillac Championship being held at Doral, operating their potential customers wearing hats with "17" on the front. But that number represents the distance the average player will gain; PGA Tour players are hitting it much farther. Dustin Johnson was hitting his 3-metal so far at Pebble Beach a few weeks ago, he had to scale back to a 5-metal.

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