Opti Vibe Power Weights - The FEEL Word!!

I think there is an amazing trend in clubfitting in the area of Counterweighting. The concept of Counterweighting has been around a long time.....some of you probably know that Jack Nicklaus did this with his clubs - he put weight into the butt end of his clubs.

A company named Tour Lock Pro initially developed some counterweights to simply install in the butt end of golf clubs. They and their customers over the past few years have had a lot of success improving things like driver swing speed - in many cases increasing swing speed measureably, sometimes around 4 mph - and improving the performance of irons with counterweights.

They also have had great success with Putter Fitting - by putting more weight into the butt end of clubs players can often improve the Feel of their putting stroke. And particularly for folks who have some hand tremors, counterweighting of clubs can lead to great improvement in putting. I was told a year or so ago that most fitters have had about 85% success in improving putter feel using counterweights.

Now they have carried this a next step with what they call Opti Vibe Power Weights. In addition to putting some weight into the butt end of clubs (usually about 12 grams) they have developed weights that they can put DOWN the shaft to change the balance point and again FEEL of the golf club. I believe that they have usually used 15 or 25 gram weights down the shaft and again have had some great results with this to improve driver swing speed.

However, I think if you follow the golf world you are going to hear pretty soon about some great successes with professional golfers and the Opti Vibe Power Weights particularly for Putting. For improving putter feel, they typically put 50 to 100 gram weights down the shaft - between 4 inches and 12 inches down the shaft depending on what is the best feel. I cannot name names, but there are now a number of players on the Senior Tour using these weights in their putters and they love them.

I have not done much with the putting weights yet, but I am going to start experimenting with them soon. I bought the 50 and 100 gram weights, and in a week or so am going to "test" these with Des Mahoney at Centenial, and see if he experiences significant improvement in putter feel with them. I expect to find good results from these tests, and assuming so am going to start offering the opportunity for local players to test the Opti Vibe weights in their putters and see the results.

If you are interested in participating in some testing of these weights, email me at tony@gameimprovementgolf.com and I can arrange a time to do some testing with you.

In the meantime, if you are interested in more information here is a web site that you can go to for that:

www.golfclubcounterweighting.com


Tony