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Taylor Shrake

By Taylor Shrake,
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Taylor Shrake Established Member

Taylor Shrake

was playing a round of 18 today and my head goes flying around 8th hole.... drive was short and went around 230, and I look down and I didn't see my clubhead... No clue why this happened, contacted PING and they are gonna give me a new head and shaft soon as this one gets to their shop.

long day >< time for the next 2-3 weeks to be closely acquainted with the 3 wood.

G15 10.5 Driver
G15 17 Wood
G10 24 Hybrid
G10 6-PW Irons
52, 56, 60, and 64 degree wedges Detour Newport 2 DT SoLo BallSwing Speed: 111 MPH, wish I could putt.

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Dub Great Member

Dub

That bites.

Hope they speed the process up.

It would have been nice if they could have just sent you into your local PING dealer and swapped out driver for you.....assuming of course, that they had one in your specs.

On the brighter side.....you may see your fairways hit % go up for the next couple of weeks.
909D Comp 9.5* (house MATRIX OZIK XCON-6)
Burner Superfast 3 & 5 woods (house MATRIX OZIK XCON-4.8)
G15 Hybrid 23* (AWT shaft)
G5 5 iron-PW-46*, UW-50*, SW-54 & LW-58 (AWT shaft)
Studio Select Newport 2 Mid SlantGrips: PING cords & Golf Pride New Decade Multi-Coumpound Bag: C-130...
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WUTiger Incredible Member

WUTiger

In the future, don't hit the ball so hard! Eat fewer power bars before you play!

Just kidding. Hope your replacement driver comes in OK. And, you'll get a chance to see what all your 3-wood can do.

Focus, connect and follow through!

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hkmp5 Established Member

hkmp5

when I first started playing golf, I went to the local pro shop picked up a new ping driver to try it out and on the first swing hit the ball right on the shaft and the club head went flying ooops

The pro shop said it happens don't worry about it , I have spent several thousand of dollars their ever since.

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Msokol13 Established Member

Msokol13

These things happen...no biggie.

G5 9* w/Aldila NV Shaft
4DX +3 (13*)
3DX RC 2-Iwood 17*
i5 3-PW GREEN DOT w/Z-Z65 steel shafts
Ping Eye 2 XG SW & LW

Ping Zing G2 Putter

Hoofer 3 Bag

Nike ball (any)

Rounds this year:81: Granite Falls North84: Trilogy at Vistancia84: Falcon Golf Course82: Granite Falls South 82

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RnR

In earlier days, I had expected this to happen on my DIY designs - until I had a clubmaker try to pull a Vector 320 off a UST 65...

"Who put this head on here?"

With eyes downcast, I responded: "I did!"

"Well by now it would have popped off, especially with a hydraulic puller -- hey! there it goes!"

So then I didn't feel so bad...

The OEM's (not so sure about PING) tend to use carefully selected amounts of epoxy to precisely fill the voids in the head, hosel & ferrule during their automated assembly processes in order to eliminate manual touch up during QA. I however believe in thorough over-kill in this step - and probably overdo the epoxy application when I build my own...

But then again, I run the risk of burning the paint if overheating of the hosel is needed to free the friggin' head if I want to try a different shaft down the road.

Oh well, the up side is I haven't had a loose (or lost) head yet!

Tools: Vector 370cc 9° w/GD YS-6 (S) @ 46" or SnakeEyes Elasteel 230cc 10° w/UST ProForce 65 (R) @ 46" / 3W: SnakeEyes Elasteel w/UST ProForce 75 (R) / UW: Dynacraft HyperSteel 16° w/Mercury Pro-Kevlar (R) / 4W-7W: Dynacraft LCG 16°-24° w/Rifle Ti-Bore (R) / 5i-Pw: GolfSmith Elasteel cavity...
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tsanders11 Member

tsanders11

At least you were able to recover your driver head. I lost the head on my Adams Insight a3 last month right into a hazard and couldn't get it back.

In my Syncro:

Speedline 9032ls
Speedline 9032ti 14.5* Hybrid
Idea A1 17* 3Hybrid mx-25 3-PW vr 52.10 sm56.10 & sm60.04 Studio Select Squareback 1

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-BAMA- Well Established Member

-BAMA-

ive broken the head off a 3 wood by making solid contact with the ball off a tee before....(an old taylor made system 2)

i wouldnt worry about it. at least they're sending you a new driver.

RBZ stage 2 driver & 3 wood

Original AP1 4-GW

Vokey 54.10 & 58.04

Scotty Newport 2

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