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The Gear Dive: Jeff Sheets, the man behind some incredibly important club designs

Published

8 years ago

Oct 26, 2018

R&D veteran Jeff Sheets joins the Gear Dive to discuss building bounce into woods with Lee Trevino, getting a young Lee Janzen dialed in, making Payne Stewart comfortable with Top Flite equipment, and how the industry has changed in the last 20 years.

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11 Comments

Ozymandius

Oct 27, 2018 at 7:06 pm

Yes… very incredibly important club designs… so incredibly important that it has changed the face of golf… not the clubhead face… the clubhead rear end. (_!_)

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Blake

Oct 27, 2018 at 3:07 pm

Sounded a lot better

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- jim
  
  Oct 27, 2018 at 4:23 pm
  
  Plunk ….
  
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Rob

Oct 27, 2018 at 8:37 am

I’ve traded emails with Mr. Sheets on several topics about club design through the years. He has always been extremely helpful and friendly.
Interesting that the big companies are now budding fairway woods very similar to his and Wishon’s designs at Golfsmith.

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- aga
  
  Oct 28, 2018 at 6:03 pm
  
  Golf Hall of Fame nominee…. without doubt…
  
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RAT

Oct 26, 2018 at 9:44 pm

Pretty cool, I have a friend that has a course and he has a set although not sure if they are TOUR version . They do hit very well,I hit them ever so often on the range.

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ogo

Oct 26, 2018 at 3:48 pm

All the wannabes and gearheads think the back of the clubhead design will elevate their game. What they should do is stand naked in front of a mirror and ask themselves:”Does that body have a golfswing in it??” 8-(

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JP

Oct 26, 2018 at 3:09 pm

That Top Flite TOUR iron looks an awful lot like the PRGR idBl. Did PRGR steal the design?

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rex235

Oct 26, 2018 at 3:02 pm

Great stories from Jeff Sheets on the people behind the scences as well as those in the public eye.

Sheets has detailed the design of the ’99 Ben Hogan irons on a different website- Can’t name it.

Unfortunately most of Sheets design work has been exclusively RH Only.

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Geoffrey Holland

Oct 26, 2018 at 12:10 pm

Payne Stewart pretty much never got comfortable with Spalding and his game only improved after he got out of that contract. I did have a set of those top-flight irons and I quite liked them while I had them.

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- Obee
  
  Oct 29, 2018 at 9:08 am
  
  Fantastic irons. Best irons on the market at the time, IMHO.
  
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