How have Nikes technology breakthroughs helped improve performance?
The larger head and larger sweet spot help. [The sweet spot] is a little wider, and it has a hotter face for more surface area. Q: Most average golfers like the hot face because they want distance. Do you want your driver to be superhot? A: No, no. One of the things that I’ve struggled with is that the faster you get the face, the harder it is to draw the golf ball because it’s not staying on the face long enough. If you get a hotter face, the predominant ball flight is going to be left to right, if not straight…. That’s why I had a hard time going to a faster face, and why my face isn’t as fast as the Tour standard out there or the recreational standard. Q: What about shafts? Doesn’t a longer shaft give more distance? A: It certainly does. But your dispersion pattern becomes greater too. Right now, I’m still young enough and long enough off the tee where I can sacrifice that and still be able to hit the ball out there far enough. I don’t have to jump up there and go to a 45-inch dri
