Carbon heads

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By mjones

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  1. I’m just wondering if the designer's at titleist are looking to make a carbon head driver ?

  2. Dale V

    Dale V
    Surprise AZ

    Not likely. I know the design engineers study all materials and possibilities and test all other companies models. When we toured the assembly plant and talked to them a couple of years ago, the concern over Titleist durability requirements were keeping them away from carbon face designs.
  3. J22abe

    J22abe
    Texas

    Titleist has looked at making a carbon fiber driver head. The result of that wanderings is the GT drivers.
    The brand’s new Proprietary Matrix Polymer (PMP) crown (yes carbon fiber is also a polymer) has taken six years to develop. Which basically means they have been looking into carbon fiber since at least the start of the Titleist Speed Project (The TS, TSi, TSR line of drivers). The reasoning behind the TSR and previous drivers not utilizing carbon fiber was due to the construction and adhesive required to mount a carbon fiber crown somewhat mitigated the weight savings of the carbon fiber crown itself. If you think, well TM's been doing it for years... TM has also frequently fullfiled RMAs for carbon fiber falling off their drivers for years. Go ask any club builder, this is not a rumour...

    Titleist is also all about tradition, and would not put out a driver with (in my opinion, awful) sound and feel of carbon fiber drivers. It took the PMP in the GT drivers to get something they and the tour pros were happy with in that respect.
  4. Thanks for the feedback, I am I titleist player through and through but just recently bought my son the tm iq35 driver and it looks and sounds lovely, I would not go to any other manufacturer other than titleist but if they do decide to bring out a carbon head it will out rival all its competitors
  5. J22abe

    J22abe
    Texas

    Their research and testing has found their Proprietary Matrix Polymer to be superior to carbon fiber, they won't likely ever be making a carbon fiber head. I would try not to fall into the marketing gimmick of carbon fiber that TM and cally spend a bazillion dollars to get you to buy their clubs. All manufactures do their testing, for Titleist they found the glue and construction to use a carbon fiber crown almost completely negated the weight saving effects. srxn and png have also been very hesitant to use carbon, srxn used carbon then went back to titanium. Titleist specifically develops their drivers to not sound like a TM driver because people (like me, but more the Tour pros) don't like that sound and feel.

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