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Hi everybody, it's Donal from Golfbidder at the 2012 PGA Show. Now the great thing about
being out here in Orlando is we get to speak to the people who design the clubs. I'm with
Tony Dabbs from Nike, he's involved in club design, start to finish. This is the VR_S
driver, new for 2012. Now Tony, it's great to meet you first of all and thanks for talking
to us. Talk to us about the face technology. Everybody's talking about the face technology.
Can you put in terms that the lame man would understand. Sure. It's simple. It's a product
we call Nex-Cor. It's a brand new face thickness that we have in this driver. And what it is
is adaptable to the size of the face. It actually stretches out with the geometry and essentially
it’s taking the hotspot, which is traditionally right in the middle and making it really spread
out. Really spreading it out but its adaptable in every single club, whatever loft it is,
it's based upon the size of the face. Now, all the best drivers bow are adjustable. Talk
to us about the STR8-Fit technology. So the STR8-FIt, this is something. We were one of
the first that came out with adjustability about 4 years ago. What we’ve done with
STR8-Fit we've actually moved it so we're actually able to get to the shaft through
the sole rather than the neck. It still has the same eight positions. Open, closed, upright,
flat and neutral. It's a lot thinner on the hosel than the previous version. Much thinner.
Simply said when you look down on it you don’t know you have adjustability and when you flip
it over its really easy to get in and out. So say i buy a nine degree STR8-FIt VR_S drive,
what degree can i adjust that too? Low and high. You're going to be able to adjust it
up or down one degree but more importantly you’re going to be able to get it open and
closed. So you're going to be able to move your ball flight from left to right. And another
thing, what a lot of people overlook when they buy a driver is the shaft. These drivers
have a quality, quality shaft in them that you've developed with Fubuki. Yeah, so this
is the Mitsubishi Rayon from Fubuki which is a company we use basically across our entire
range. And we were working in line to build this shaft with this head. And what this particular
shaft is the Mitsubishi K Profile. So the Fubuki K Profile in the aftermarket come in
at sixty and seventy grams, this comes with a much lighter weight fifty gram version which
is going to give more ball speed to more players than what that more Tour type shaft is going
to be. It has the same bend profile and works the same but its ten, twenty grams lighter.
Fantastic, so for 2012 the Nike VR_S driver with a fantastic shaft as the stock version.
Check it out on Golfbidder.