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Head	Volume	Loft	Lie	Face Angle	Face Prog.	headweight	Bulge	Roll
1	390cc	10.5°	58°	0.5° hook	20mm	196 g.	12"	16"/0"

Head	Face Height	Face Width	Front-Back	Face Mat'l	Face Thick.	Body Mat'l	T/H Sole Radius	F/B Sole Radius
1 - 10.5°	57mm	106mm	98.5mm	SP700 Ti	2.7mm/2.3mm	Long Fiber Graphite	100mm R	600mm R

949G/Ti driver has the TWGT weight bore for final weighting
Bore Diameter: 0.335" parallel
Bore Depth: Drivers - 35mm
Hosel O.D.: Drivers - 13.0mm
Ferrule Needed: Yes, any .335 wood ferrule with 13.0mm bottom O.D.

Features and Benefits:

Tom Wishon designed the industry's first driver of this construction in 1995, a model called the Power-Link, which was featured on the cover of the Golfsmith 1995 clubmaking catalog.
The 949G/Ti is created in two pieces. First the face/sole/back/hosel is forged in one piece from SP700, which is one of the two best titanium alloys for face construction because of its high strength to elastic modulus ratio. Then this piece is inserted into a compression mold die, at which point the lightweight, long-fiber graphite is molded in the shape of the body of the head, and bonded to the SP700 titanium face/sole/back/hosel piece.
The principle of the 949G/Ti design is to replace the heavier titanium normally used to make the body of the driver with lightweight long-fiber graphite. The savings in weight from this replacement can then be used to change the weight distribution.
In the case of the 949G/Ti the weight savings is used to install a 35g tungsten weight piece in the rear back of the head so that the Center of Gravity of the driver is moved back in the head much farther than possible with any all-metal, all-Ti driver.
By moving the CG much farther back in the head, the launch angle will be increased much more than is possible for a driver of the same loft made from all Titanium. Thus the launch angle of this 10.5 loft driver is closer to what would result from an all Ti driver of 12 degrees.
By creating the same launch angle as a 12 degree driver, but with a real 10.5 degrees of loft, this means the ball speed is higher for this same launch angle. Lower loft means higher ball speed, but unless the lower loft can be matched with a higher launch angle, that ball speed increase does no good for increasing distance. Hence the 949G/Ti combines the optimal launch angle from the more rear located CG with lower loft to bring about better overall distance.
949G/Ti also has the GRT variable face roll radius design, innovated by TWGT. With 0 roll on the bottom of the face and 16" roll on the top half of the face, golfers who mis-hit the ball up and down on the face will get a much higher launch angle on low face hits than with drivers made with conventional roll radius. Yet shots hit higher on the face will not "balloon" too high with the upper face's 16" roll radius.
949G/Ti uses the 'wrap-around' forged face construction to maximize face deflection. Tom Wishon was the first to develop Titanium drivers made with a 'wrap-around' face in 1997.
949G/Ti Driver is produced with a satin polish on all Titanium surfaces, and an attractive black opaque coating that fades into the natural weave pattern of the long-fiber high-strength graphite composite material of the body.
Differences between the 949G/Ti and the Callaway Fusion:
- Callway Fusion has no extra mass in the rear of the head. Thus all of the heavier metal of the titanium is in the front of the head design, which results in a lower trajectory for any loft than the 949G/Ti
- The 949G/Ti not only has the 35g tungsten weight piece in the back rear of the head, but the sole and the back of the head are made from the heavier Titanium to help further pull the CG lower and back.