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15.09 TaylorMade med jernsensasjon:
Nå kan du bytte insert i wedgene dine - lite har skjedd på dette området på 70 år!
TaylorMade kommer nå med en nyhet på wedge-fronten. Som de fleste vet, kommer det nye regler for grooves på køller for tour-spillere til neste år.

Dermed blir det mindre spin i ballen og lettere å få flier - spesielt fra høyt gress.

TaylorMade presenterer nå wedger med utskiftbare køllefronter - inserts. Som kjent slites wedgene fort ut. Proene skifter gjerne wedger tre-fire ganger i året. Det nye nå er at de bare kan skru ut den gamle fronten - insert'en - ved hjelp av noen skruer fra baksiden. Det ryktes at en av verdens beste spillere allerede har bestilt et 50-talls slike inserts som han kan skifte ut etter hvert som wedgene blir slitt. Amatører kan hamstre slike inserts slik at de har gode wedger i mange år fremover. På den måten slipper nå spillerne å lete etter en ny wedge som de liker. De kan beholde den gamle, men bare skifte ut køllefronten. Og pregene når det trengs.

Produsentene kan bare selge jernkøller etter gamle regler for grooves ut neste år. Amatører (regular duffers) kan spille med slike køller fram til 1024. Proene må skifte allerede 1. januar 2010.


Fra Tour Van har Golfsiden sakset følgende:

Exchangeable faces for wedges
TaylorMade had been gearing up for the week of the BMW Championship for quite some time. At Cog Hill, the company had planned to unveil new irons and a highly-anticipated wedge series with exchangeable faces.

Exchangeable faces?
Yep. The idea is that players can have a wedge they love, and when the grooves wear out, they don't have to spend ages looking for another just as good. They just pop on a new face, with new grooves.

"It's not just the fresh grooves - it's obviously a nice part to have equipment stay at its peak," said Brian Bazzell, TaylorMade's manager of iron and wedge creation. "But also, a lot of guys get a grind on the wedge or they get the wedge dialed in exactly the way they want it.

"The ability to just switch out the face means they can keep it performing highly and they won't have to recreate it."

The idea also makes it easier for TaylorMade to produce wedges for tour use. The tour will have a different set of rules governing grooves beginning Jan. 1. (Non-tour players who compete in U.S. Golf Association events have until 2014 to adopt the new grooves, while regular duffers can legally use the grooves through 2024.)

TaylorMade had its product marketing team and several members of its R-and-D department on site for the week, showing off the new R9 irons and the TP wedge with exchangeable face technology. They also wanted to give players some idea of what to expect with the new, soon-to-be-legal grooves they'd need to use.

"A lot of players still, even at this point so close to the time to switch over, are not really concerned," Bazzell said. "We had equipment out there to test from fairways, rough, different conditions, to give the guys an idea of how the performance differs."

Some of the players, notably Retief Goosen, who tested severe lies in the rough saw an almost 40 percent reduction in spin and increase in trajectory, Bazzell said. Others, like John Mallinger, only saw about 20 percent difference, which jives with the testing TaylorMade has been doing.

"We're seeing that out of the rough, 20 to 40 percent loss of spin and almost equal to that in trajectory," Bazzell said.

Although the wedges are not formally approved for tour play, several players said they were interested in switching as soon as the final approval comes through. The company will release more details, including technical specifications about the wedges and R9 irons, by Oct. 1.

"This is a break-through product for that category, for TaylorMade and for wedges in general," Bazzell said. "There hasn't been a lot of changes to the technology for 70 years - similar shapes, bounces and grinds. They have improved the grooves but that's going away."


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