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Originally Posted by widgeon13
The pro's get paid big money to play new clubs and sign with a particular company. I believe the technology does offer some potential for improvement with new metal woods but I would also say that if you look in most pro's bags they are not playing perimeter weighted cast irons, they are much more inclined to be hitting the forged tour blade design from years ago. They do this because they can work the ball better and the irons are not marketed as strongly as the woods.
What the pros do is purely for marketing purposes, if they paid me a few mill to play with the DCI driver, I would make it work for me as well.
Tiger can hit a persimmon club damn near as well as the toaster on the end of a stick. He won't tell you that because he's getting paid 60 mil by Nike to play their ****, good for him.
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That's only true to a certain extent. Pros have to play the brand that they are sponsored by, but that's just a label. If Tiger or anyone else felt that 460cc didn't give them a competitive advantage, they wouldn't play 460cc. The first order of biz for any pro is to WIN.
Nike could easily make a Nike-labeled persimmon driver for Tiger, and he'd use it, if he thought it would help him win.