Nickent
Golf Launches Exciting
New 4DX Driver
 What's
the deal with driver design these days? We all know geometry
is the buzzword today, because of the increase it makes
on a club's Moment of Inertia or MOI. But whatever happened
to the classic shape that PGA Tour players demand?
Nickent Golf may be the first to have an answer for this
dilemma. Under the careful eye of Master Designer John Hoeflich,
Nickent Senior Vice President, Nickent has made a driver
that perfectly combines art and science, while offering
state-of-the-art directional control capabilities. It also
features a 0.4 mm super thin Titanium crown, making it one
of the thinnest crowns of any driver on the market. Nickent
says this is the secret recipe for the performance, sound
and feel of the 4DX Driver.
The 0.4 mm super thin Titanium crown allowed Nickent to
save enough weight to manufacture a 460 CC directional control
driver that combines a classic tour shape and cutting-edge
weight technology.
Nickent improved upon their screw-less weight system by
utilizing Tungsten-Polymer XW Inserts, an innovation that
allows for 16 grams of weight to be adjusted in 2-gram increments
by the manufacturer for directional control and swing weight
purposes, without relying on bulky screws that often determine
the shape and feel of a driver.
The raw head of this 460 CC driver weighs 180 grams. This
is one of the lightest of any raw 460 CC driver heads on
the market. This helps increase the swing speed of the driver
significantly and allows for maximum distance. It also gives
Nickent engineers room to utilize the XW technology and
to raise the MOI significantly. The construction of the
driver is a 6/4 titanium body fused with a 15-3-3 .4mm Titanium
crown. 15-3-3 Titanium is the alloy for Titanium and is
stronger and thinner than cast 6-4 Titanium. It reduces
the thickness of the crown by 50%, reduces the weight of
the crown by 20 grams and makes for a better sound and feel.
Laser welding the crown adds more strength and saves even
more weight to put back in the clubhead. A patented A-frame
face application is used for a high COR/CT on the face map.
"XW is a very smart directional control technology,
and it gives us the flexibility to maneuver a significant
amount of weight without taking away from our tour-driven
design," said Hoeflich. "The XW Inserts, which
are now in almost all the clubs I have designed for Nickent,
also raise the MOI, and provide the perfect heel/toe weighting
for a particular swing. When you can use weights this small
to bring back the Center of Gravity, raise the MOI and create
a very large sweet spot on the face, all while keeping the
desired shape you and dampening vibration, you have found
a technology that stands above the rest."
Two versions of the 4DX Driver are available, the Draw Spec
and the Tour Spec. The loft, lie and weight have all been
configured to fit the two basic types of swings that represent
the vast majority of golfers. The Draw Spec will be an anti-slice
setup that gives the player seeking a higher ball flight
a natural draw. The Tour Spec is engineered for players
who prefer a flatter trajectory and a more workable ball
flight. Unlike most drivers, which use the same head with
different weight distribution to produce a draw or a fade,
the Draw Spec and Tour Spec heads are completely different
tooling with different face angles and face curvatures to
give the player the address profile that they prefer.
The 4DX comes standard with a UST SR3 Driver Shaft System,
available in 75 gram Stiff, a 65 gram Regular , an R-Light
55 grams and a 55 gram Ladies shaft. MSRP on the 4DX
Driver is $399.
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Draw
Spec Lofts: 9°, 10.5°,
12°, 14.5°
Tour Spec Lofts: 8°,
9°, 10.5°
45.5 inch long driver has been found to be the best
driver length possible in the 4DX, standard swing weight
is: Men's: D2 Women's: C7. |
Photos are available for download at http://www.nickentgolf.com/media/images/4dx_driver/
4DX
- Perfectly Balancing Art and Science
Tour News > Nickent Golf
Launches Exciting New 4DX Driver
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