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Pressutdrag TC-20 Woods Ex-Navy engineer puts armor-piercing material on a driver. Outguns steel and titanium on distance. PGA professionals outhit their titanium Drivers by 25 and 50 yards. ...and you thought steel and titanium were tough. Well, steel and titanium can't penetrate an armor-plated tank or sink a warship. To pierce their defenses the military had to make something so powerful it had to keep it secret... so powerful that once it was declassified, some innovative company would surely apply it to the face of a golf club to add distance. One company has and it doesn't bode well for golf's current state-of-the-art metal, titanium. · A well-known professional outhit his own titanium driver with the new club by 25 yards. · Another Tour professional outhit his titanium driver by almost 50 yards! The new driver is the creation of a former Naval Ordnance engineer, who used to apply the material to the tip of torpedoes, and a small golf company in Connecticut. Together, they have adapted it to the hitting surface of a steel driver. The same material is also used in the nose cone of the reentry capsules in the space program. They say their adaptation is proprietary and a patent has been applied for. All the company will say is that the new metal is a sort of ceramic titanium, ceramic for hardness and titanium for strength and lightness. The material - called TC-20 - is twice as hard as steel and 70% harder than titanium. It whacks a ball with such force that at club head speeds of 120 MPH - the level of longball champs - the new club split the cover on some balls. TC-20 also increases a golfer's accuracy by holding the ball on the face of the club four times longer than steel and titanium. This makes off-center shots far less likely to hook or slice, and allows a good golfer to draw and fade the ball with more control. I watched a top Tour professional test the club at a PGA Tournament. Here's what he told me. "I'm hitting the ball 30 yards past my driver and controlling it like a five-iron. You see all my competitors smiling at me? That's not admiration. It's worry! On the driving range the company's Research Director explained the club this way..."It's basic physics. The harder you hit a ball, the farther it goes, and Condor Armor-Pierce (the club's name) clobbers the ball like a battering ram. It not only launches it farther down range than anything else does on the market; its TC 20 face reduces a ball's normal spin rate. A lower spin rate keeps the ball flying longer and at a lower trajectory for a longer roll. Condor Armor-Pierce also reduces abnormal spins that cause off center shots to hook and slice. That's why he(a well known pro) is outhitting his titanium driver by 30 yards and controlling 300-yards shots like a five-iron. It's a pleasure to watch, isn't it? "You know who he is? (I said I did.) He loves the club. I wish he weren't tied up with a big company. He would shoot in the 50's with the Condor Armor-Pierce. The once secret TC-20 is backed up by a stainless steel head the same size as a titanium driver (250 cc) for maximum forgiveness. To maximize clubhead speed it comes with a 45-inch graphite shaft or a new big butt Turbo/Tip™ graphite shaft with extra weight in the tip.
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