Keeping clubs cool in a car in the summer?

[tm22721]

I keep mine in the trunk and have had heads fly off of both a driver at the course and a wedge at the range.

The wedge head flew off in the backswing, pretty disturbing with kids everywhere.

The driver head went straight down the fairway, farther than the ball.

[mikelz]

I keep my clubs in the trunk during the summer. Inside during winter when I obv dont use them.

Wolverine has a valid, if not the the most important point about avoiding damage to your clubs.

Clubmakers (meaning us) sometimes buy anything called Epoxy and what they pick up might be for for fixing broken china. "Industrial Strength" is at least a 24 hour cure. Build them right and there's not a problem with the heat. The heat is more likely to damage your golf balls. I don't know how to keep the car cooler in the summer. I guess I could leave the windows down and throw the bag in the back seat for the thieves. Wait a minute: if you are really wealthy, put them in the back seat, set the A/C on "Antarctic", leave the motor running and lock the doors with your second key. If you are that rich, you probably don't work anyway so forget that suggestion.

[Fourputt]

Lots of myths here. If you lose a clubhead due to a swing, it's because the club was assembled incorrectly, not because the epoxy melted due to the heat in your car. If it got that hot you could literally cook meat in it, and I can assure you that a roast will do no more than just dry out. More likely it will just rot.

OEM manufacturers often skimp on the glue, and that results in gaps in the bond. The constant shock of hitting a golf ball can cause the bond to loosen even more around those gaps, and eventually the clubhead may come off. I've also seen a cheaper club where the shaft wasn't even inserted all the way into the hosel. Instead of about 1.5 inches of bond, it only had 3/4 of an inch.

To the topic at hand:

My clubs live in my car almost 24/7/365. Here in Denver the temps range from a little below zero to as high as 106 or 107, with intense sunlight like you will never see at lower elevations. Back in the 70's I had a plastic butane lighter blow up in the console tray of my Corolla station wagon (didn't damage anything, just had tiny pieces of yellow plastic all over the inside of the car), something even the Mythbusters couldn't duplicate in California. I have NEVER had a clubhead come off, not from an OEM club, nor from any that I've made myself.