My buddy Mike at Harrison has been emailing/talking to me about this
new invention of his forever. He finally released it this spring and
I announced it at my newsletter, The Clubmaker Report, to gauge
interest. There was some interest but most were waiting to see if the
thing actually worked.
I recently noticed a thread at the golfwrx forum on the Shotmaker. I
guess some of the guys tried it earlier this summer and the positive
reviews started piling up. Some 31,000 views and a ton of positive
reviews later it looks like Mike's little invention is taking off.
Leath Anderson had a nice write-up in his excellent Golf Lab
Newsletter this week. He was also a bit skeptical but decided to
test it on his launch monitor and announced "it's the real deal" in
his newsletter. They were getting much tighter dispersion and about 8
extra yards distance with no increase in swingspeed.
If you're in SoCal, Leath is doing a launch monitor fitting session
for $99 and the shotmaker/install is another $99.
If you like to tinker, there's a complete Shotmaker kit that I'm
offering as a longtime Harrison distributor that you can buy for
installation. It includes the Shotmaker insert, installation tool,
grip cutter bit, and griplock for $149 plus shipping. Additional
inserts are $99 each.
Mike is a Shoptalk subscriber, feel free to contact him via Shoptalk
with questions.
Here's info from Harrison's PR, a good Youtube video link follows:
The Shotmaker is a removable golf shaft insert. It is the first ever
USGA rules conforming accuracy boosting device of its kind. The
insert is very light. It weighs only 4 grams. The Shotmaker invention
has received 4 U.S. patents.
The most vulnerable section of a golf shaft is its tip section. When
club head impacts golf ball, this is the area that vibrates and
deforms the most. It is common knowledge among golf shaft designers
that stable tip section improves accuracy dramatically. As a
solution, shaft makers offer tip stiff shafts for better tip
stability. However, tip stiff shafts are less responsiveness in play,
and golfers in general have shunned away from them.
With the Shotmaker insert, we now have a revolutionary tool to
stabilize the tip section. Because it is a removable insert and is
not glued to the golf shaft, it does not generate a proportional
increase in stiffness as compared to conventional tip stiff shafts.
The Shotmaker is locked inside the golf shaft at one point only.
Therefore, it allow the golf shaft to flex and twist freely with the
insert wedged inside.
Most accuracy enhancement devices augment accuracy indirectly.
However, the Shotmaker directly improves accuracy by improving shaft
stability, eliminating deformation and lowering impact vibrations. It
is so effective that accuracy improves up to 40% and spin rate
decreases up to 10% at repeated independent robot and player tests.
Youtube video here
http://www.youtube.com/user/harrisongolf1#p/a/u/0/U3CLzMUYlhg
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