How much weight would be required towards the heel to create a significant draw bias on a standard driver?
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Rlafoone Selected answer as best December 29, 2023
How much weight would be required towards the heel to create a significant draw bias on a standard driver?
First, I always like to point out that face angle will have a MUCH greater affect on creating a “draw bias” (if we want to call it that) than a move in weight. It does not take as much weight to have an affect on a driver compared to irons or smaller heads in general because the head weight is lighter and the volume (size) is bigger. How much to create a significant draw bias is hard to say and we have not done any testing in recent years to give us data to know if there is a number. We know that 10 grams generally moves cg 3/32″ or .09375 on an iron. Because of the depth and breadth of a driver compared to an iron we could expect that same 10 grams might move it a little farther. 20 grams would be 10% of a driver head weight and I would think a player might start seeing some evidence of change with 20 grams, assuming it was moved as far as it could be towards the heel. I couldn’t say for sure if it would be significant, but it might be. I know I (we) have tested this in the past somewhere along the way, so I will dig around to see if I have any more precise data.
Britt Lindsey