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| Chemistry of Golf Clubs | |||||||||||||
| Club technology has come a long way since the days of wooden clubs. Shots are going higher, straighter, and longer because of new metal clubs. Chemistry has played a big part in the forming of these new clubs. Today, a high-end club head on a driver is a hollow shell made out of a titanium metal alloy. Metal alloys are substances that contain more than one metal. Because of this, their properties are changed. Metal alloys also have a very high fracture resistance which is crucial in golf. Titanium-based alloys are used in golf club making because of their low density and their high modulus. Modulus is the force needed to elongate your material. |
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| Diagram shows what happens when a material is elongated. The force is called modulus. | |||||||||||||
| Many of todays irons are made out of forged steel. Forging a club means that you take molten steel and pound it into the shape of a clubhead and working the metal into a finished design. Casting steel means pouring molten steel into a mold and creating a simple finish. | |||||||||||||
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