At its most basic level, golf is a game of feel. I have heard this from a long list of Tour players. The bottom line is that Balance-Certified’s technologies have been specifically designed to enhance or amplify the vibration response of the golf club. This super-important vibration information is the magic that a golfer feels with his hands at impact. Without this critical information, the golfer cannot perceive where on the face of the club he impacted the ball. He is effectively numb to ball impact. Thus he cannot improve his swing path from one swing to the next. This is true for putters as well as full swing clubs.

The imitation shaft weighting systems function as a damper absorbing golf club vibration. They work like Novocain making the grip end of the club numb to the golfer’s hands. To further illustrate these phenomena, click on the play buttons below to hear the actual "wave" files representing acoustic response measured with the accelerometer.

Balance-Certified’s weighting system

Imitation weights

The difference is very clear. The imitation weights make the club sound and feel dead.

For those that like a little more detail, we have included Fourier transformations of the previous time history data into the frequency domain so you can see a more clear indication of the amount of vibration damping that the imitation systems generate. As you can readily observe from the following plots, the vibration response of the imitation equipped club is much lower than that of the Balance-Certified Golf equipped club. Actually, the 480 Hz mode amplitude was reduced by a FACTOR of at least 5X and the higher order modes have been pretty much completely damped out. Keep in mind that this vibration response is the definition of feel.