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Heat question - leaving clubs in the trunk - probably not a good thing, huh?

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Righty to Lefty Great Member

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Leave em in the the trunk there in the Middle East and you might barely be able to touch them for a while after they come out of the oven!  If you leave them in the trunk here you will eventually rocket a clubhead downrange I assure you!


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Yes... I am ****ing aware that it doesn't necessarily link the two.  Obviously it wasn't a 'scientific' study, but rather an 'anecdotal' source of information, and I [U]sincerely[/U] apologize for forcing you to waste your valuable time on the internet pointing out and correcting such a grievous error in judgment on my part.  Oh, and by the way, you misspelled 'necessarily'. But really... thank you for your concern. [COLOR=FF0000] [U]I HAVE SEEN THE ERROR OF MY BELIEF THAT GOLF CLUBS BEING STORED IN THE TRUNK COULD.  THERE IS NO FURTHER NEED TO POINT THIS OUT.  THANK YOU.[/U] [/COLOR]

LMFAO! I think there IS a direct link, and as a result of your original post, I'm going to make my wife fetch my clubs from the trunk after every round. She can use the exercise (no, she doesn't read these posts, so I'm safe).

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saevel25 Incredible Member

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I would say if you left them over winter that might be a worse case than leaving them in the summer. Freeze thaw would have a bigger effect on the irons than a hot summer. I've never had an issue with it.

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Mattplusness Great Member

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I leave mine in my garage, it can't get too much hotter than my trunk.

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lumpuckeroo Great Member

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For me, I'm just not taking a chance that it might damage my clubs, I have a lot of money invested in them.  Also, I have electronics in my bag, pretty sure that a range finder and a GPS were not made to sit around in hot trunk.  No idea what the temperature would get to in my trunk, but we have had several weeks of 100+ temperatures here in the midwest.  I have room for them in the house, I'll take them in after I play!

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BuckeyeNut Great Member

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Here is my 2 cents.....the heat probably sweats away the bad-club karma from the previous day!  One could argue that to play good golf the following day, the clubs need the opportunity to sweat away/and forget what they did wrong the day before!!  So they can be born again.....so to speak and be forgiven for the previous day sins!

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Originally Posted by bwdial

Yes... I am ****ing aware that it doesn't necessarily link the two.  Obviously it wasn't a 'scientific' study, but rather an 'anecdotal' source of information, and I sincerely apologize for forcing you to waste your valuable time on the internet pointing out and correcting such a grievous error in judgment on my part.

Oh, and by the way, you misspelled 'necessarily'.

But really... thank you for your concern.

I HAVE SEEN THE ERROR OF MY BELIEF THAT GOLF CLUBS BEING STORED IN THE TRUNK COULD.  THERE IS NO FURTHER NEED TO POINT THIS OUT.  THANK YOU.

Well what about me, I have never stored my clubs in the trunk of a car.  I know this because I don't have a car.  My 9 iron became loose, it never came of the shaft but I could rotate it about 40 degrees.  I didn't use it for the rest of the round and when I got home I worked out the head and sanded it up and reattached it and never had any problems.  This was a mizuno mp 57 so it wasn't a wall mart club.  I could see you making the connection if 3 or 4 of you club heads came loose but you can't make an assumption based on one club and what a club fitter told you.  Did you have any problems with the other clubs in your set after this?  If it was caused by heat damage I would think that the epoxy on some of the other clubs might have been weakened as well.  I would also think that your 3 or 4 iron would have broken first because there is more stress on those clubs due to a longer shaft and higher club head speed even if you don't hit them as often.

It is fine with me if you would rather be safe than sorry and not store your clubs in the car but to think that because of one club becoming detached that you can say with authority that keeping your clubs in the trunk of a car will cause damage is misleading.  If storing clubs in a hot trunk caused the club head to come off when it was attached properly there would be a lot more club heads coming off.  I could see that if the club was not installed properly that the heat could exacerbate the situation but I don't think that the heat caused the situation.

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