Wiz Lab

We received the C-Taper late last week.  Immediately we prep them and had them on our fitting system.  Here’s what KBS says about the C-Taper.

Inspired from Tour player feedback, the KBS C-Taper shaft builds on the KBS Tour shaft design offering an innovative balance of performance and feel targeting aggressive players that have a rapid swing tempo and high shot trajectory. Designed to complement the KBS Tour shaft, the all-new KBS C-Taper design is specially modified through the taper and tip section to produce a lower trajectory and reduced ball spin without sacrificing the signature feel and distance gains players enjoy from KBS. Introduced in 2011, the KBS C-Taper shaft is already tour proven and trusted by several of the top Tour players in the world today. The KBS C-Taper shaft is offered standard in our signature Satin Brushed finish.

Well, that’s for the pros…. we are curious how is it for the everyday golfer like you and me.  So we had a golfer hit a couple of balls with KBS Tour 90 S (taper), KBS Tour 6.0 and the new KBS Tour C-Taper.  All with the same head (KZG Evolution II).  Here is the Trackman report.

For this golfer, it does lower spin and improve the distance a little but not the height.  But well, this may just show that everyone is unique.  We hope to get a golfer to do a qualitative comparison next week.  Stay tune.

Enjoy the read.

In Aug 2011 issue of SMASH!, we spoke briefly about Pelz’s study and why it is so important to get into 10 feet of the hole to increase your chance of 1 putting the hole. I’m crazy about numbers, and I’m sure some of you do Here’s a chart done up by Mark Sweeny (AimPoint Inventor) on putt make percentage on PGA tour. It is amazing that the best putters in the world barely make more than half of their 5 to 10 footers.   This shows even more why it is so so important that your wedges or irons get you to the scoring zone.