Yonex?

[CWHolland]

+1 to that

[rcaddell23]

heard during the US Open that they spent $1million on R&D; with Ishikawa's driver... I guess they're just trying to get their money back.

[clubchamp]

I used to game a yonex adx titanium back in the day when mickelson was hitting it. I think I got it for 200 and it was maybe 2 months after it came out plus yonex in my opinion was in bigger in the US back then.

[wolverine_man]

  motteler621 said:

phil mickelson use to be sponsored by yonex, he use to play their irons etc.

Back in the late 90s, I bought the exact driver that Phil used to use, the Super ADX Biam Titanium 9.5*. I remember going to the Buick Open and getting really close to Phil and Bones and I told Bones, "I've got the same driver and I love it." Bones told Phil, "You hear that Phil, another guy bought your driver." I paid $300 for it used and I swapped out the stock shaft for a Graffaloy Pro Lite X. My new driver, I paid $130 for brand new, 13 years later. So yeah, Yonex has never been cheap. I can still hit that ADX driver damn well, longer than my 07 Burner. Club head is just so small that I'm not as consistent.

[bbedell]

  kurisu said:

In the same line, i.e. Nanov SD, an iron set (#5~#9 + PW) seems to start at 52,000 yen with a NS Pro 950 GH shaft.

These figures like 30,000 yen, 50,000 yen, 82,000 yen mean nothing to me...what does that translate to in US dollars? I have a friend over in Japan right now for a few weeks...maybe I'll have her pick something up for me if she can find it for cheap!

[motteler621]

30,000 yen is like 330 US dollars.

[kurisu]

If your friend is Japanese, she can use rakuten.co.jp

But keep in mind that standard measurements in Japan are not the same as standard measurements in the US. A standard #6 iron shaft here is 37 inches long, i.e. half an inch shorter than a standard #6 iron in the US, and has a lie angle of 61º, i.e. 1 to 2 degrees flatter than the US counterpart.

[bbedell]

yeah I was more thinking along the lines of a driver. Thanks for the heads up though.