Another possibility is that they wanted to leave the door open for a .350" shaft.

Alan

At 01:28 AM 4/8/2005 -0400, you wrote:
At 12:33 PM 4/7/2005, Scott Stephens wrote:
>--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "tflan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I just finished examining the new Titleist 905 series driver.
>Interesting. They bored out the hosel to what appears to be about .350"
>and inserted an aluminum sleeve, with an I.D. of .335". The reasoning is
>that by reaming out the old-style hosel they could then redistribute the
>weight saved.
>
>Now, if I did my math correctly, boring the hosel and replacing with an
>aluminium sleeve would save a whopping 0.6 grams of  mass (using 2" bore
>depth). Titelist's explanation sounds like marketing spin to me. Would it
>be more likely that they were planning on a .350 shaft, then changed their
>minds after they already had a bunch heads cast (or forged)?

Sounds right to me!
I did the math independently and came up with 0.5 grams. Close enough for jazz.


DaveT



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