Small Head Driver

[RookieBlue7]

Just buy a Yonex Ezone 380... done

[chemclub]

I've been messing around with a Wishon 919THI. It's 460 cc but the head shape appears much smaller. Especially next to a TM M3/4, which just look too big to my eye. Might be worth a look.

 

You give away a lot in forgiveness by moving sub-400 in drivers. Best to find a head design that looks al little more compact but is still 400. 

[deejaid]

For those that dislike massive looking driver heads, look for a “deep face” driver. The face is taller than normal which means the shape of the club is more compact while still being 460cc.

 

 

 

 

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[GB13]

My experience with deep face drivers, which are especially common among Japanese Domestic market driver models, is that they are less forgiving. Specifically, I think a deep face requires a high swing speed to get suitably high shot trajectory. Ideally I would like to find a 400CC driver head with a shallow face. I understand that the shallow face would require the head to be relatively large from front to back, but I don't mind that shape. My current driver a 2016 Mizuno JPX-EZ, is 460CC head size , wide from front-to-back, with a relatively shallow face.

If you don't mind the large shape, why give up the forgiveness of the 460cc head? Why maintain the large size and have less forgiveness with the 400cc shallow face head?

Wouldn't the visible "footprint" be the same?

[GB13]

I think 460CC is a little bit past the point of diminishing returns. In other words, while 460CC allows for an off center strike to still get reasonably good shot results, the large size of the head makes this size relatively difficult to square at impact.

Regarding shallow vs deep head shape, at any CC size I believe shallow wins the "forgiveness game", because the deeper the face height the more challenging it is to attain suitable shot height trajectory. I don't mind my current shallow face-deep-front-to-back JPX-EZ head shape, but I would prefer if it were a 400CC size head rather than 460CC head size.

20 years ago, when metal drivers were rapidly gaining head size, the industry went from a 300Cc to 460CC standard within about an 18 month time period. So, for the most part, current technology (adjustable weighting, multi materials, adjustable lofts, shaft adapters etc...) were never used to optimize the 390CC to 410CC head size. I would like it very much if at least one brand introduced a 400CC head size utilizing the latest available technology.

That makes sense. I was just wondering about your rational.

[RookieBlue7]

I think 460CC is a little bit past the point of diminishing returns. In other words, while 460CC allows for an off center strike to still get reasonably good shot results, the large size of the head makes this size relatively difficult to square at impact.

Regarding shallow vs deep head shape, at any CC size I believe shallow wins the "forgiveness game", because the deeper the face height the more challenging it is to attain suitable shot height trajectory. I don't mind my current shallow face-deep-front-to-back JPX-EZ head shape, but I would prefer if it were a 400CC size head rather than 460CC head size.

20 years ago, when metal drivers were rapidly gaining head size, the industry went from a 300Cc to 460CC standard within about an 18 month time period. So, for the most part, current technology (adjustable weighting, multi materials, adjustable lofts, shaft adapters etc...) were never used to optimize the 390CC to 410CC head size. I would like it very much if at least one brand introduced a 400CC head size utilizing the latest available technology.

Scroll up, I gave you one. Yonex. The ezone 380 is, you guessed it, 380cc's.

[RookieBlue7]

Find a tournissued Nike Dymo 380. That's really the only other relatively modern driver you'll find that's 380cc's. You're not going to find a shallow 380cc head either. Because that's the inverse of what they're doing with 380cc's. They're going that small to be compact. Shallow defeats that purpose

[WardenGolf]

Went from a 460CC to a 445CC driver, and I will say that my drives improved and my accuracy improved tremendously.