Welcome to the golf equipment website that’s plugged in with industry experts and all about the devoted, avid golfer. If those 14 clubs in the bag are your babies, we can help you select them, test them, get custom-fit for them and tune them for optimum performance. Today’s golf gear is tech-heavy and ever-changing. If you want to keep up with every latest detail of product innovation, we’re the place to read, comment, state your opinions and offer feedback to your fellow GearEffect-ers. If you don’t need a full information load at all times, we’re the site to hop on when questions arise or a new wonder product appears on the horizon. This site’s writers have more combined experience studying and writing about golf gear than just about any other media outlet in the sport. We know who to get the best info from, and they know us. Visit GearEffectGolf whenever you get the chance, and fire off your opinions whenever the spirit moves you.
Oh yeah, our name. Obviously it’s a nod to the fact that the equipment you play affects your shotmaking, your overall performance and even the swing motion you make (trust us, it’s the arrow and the indian). Gear effect is also a fun fact about the golf ball’s spin dynamics on a toe hit with your driver or 3-wood, especially if the club’s face has a fair amount of horizontal bulge (the curve along the face from heel to toe). Picture this: impact is out at the toe, the ball becomes a fulcrum of sorts, slowing the toe down and speeding the heel up. That causes the clubhead to turn clockwise very slightly. Like two meshed gears, the toe section of the clubface and the ball turn or spin in opposite directions. For the ball, that means a counter-clockwise spin motion, otherwise known as hook spin. The ball starts out right and curves back on the fairway. Gear effect to the rescue!
