Understanding the difference between pro-line and store-line equipment   Click here for print version
     

advent of newer designs and technologies and certainly factor in the price of each club. Store-line equipment clubheads will not be the same cutting edge designs with the most advanced materials available, but more open sourced models provided by the many foundries that supplier the equipment industry.

Nearly all of the pro-line drivers will be made of different grades of titanium and fairway wood and most irons cast from stainless steel. This may not be the case with store-line equipment. As a means of cutting cost, certain materials are used for exclusively for starter or boxed sets. Driver may be much smaller (normally not as forgiving) and made from stainless steel. If the driver is large it is produced from aluminum (even though they may have names like Ti alloy or Ti matrix). Aluminum heads have to have their faces made much thicker for durability and as a result the ball coming off the clubhead will not come off the face at the same velocity as a titanium-face driver.

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