Sully: All of our products are co-engineered with the University of Vermont. ZK: How did you come up with your design? We want you to try it, and then you can decide. Our design also offers unique accuracy benefits as well, due to airflow.īottom line? We don’t promise 20 more yards, but we are so confident that you will add distance and accuracy that we offer a 60-day money back guarantee. The benefits are increased club head speed due to the reduction in drag, which leads to high ball speeds. Our Dual Cavity design offers a CG that is low and back with an intersection with the face at true center. Low and back would be considered the traditional placement for CG. Yes, TaylorMade is now using a low-and-forward CG and Ping’s are low and back. This is not propriety to us, but most companies that use it charge double what we do. As you may have guessed, the Grenade is manufactured using a two-piece cast with a plasma weld.
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A four-piece driver has wider tolerances. Why is this important? A two-piece driver has tighter tolerances for loft, weight and most importantly COR or CT. Most companies use a four-piece forged technique because it is more affordable, but tolerances will be wider.
Here’s the question to ask: Is your driver manufactured out of two pieces or four pieces. Sully: There’s all this talk about center of gravity (CG), but there are two things missing.
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Other companies such as Callaway believe that different golfers need different types of drivers to hit their longest drives. At Ping, it’s a driver with a low, rearward CG. For TaylorMade, it’s a driver with a low, forward center of gravity (CG). ZK: Every major golf equipment manufacturer seems to have its own view on what will create more driver distance. Learn more about Sullivan and the BombTech brand in the Q&A below. That’s one of the reasons things are going so well.” “They’re buying from me, so there’s a connection. “I promise to be the person who takes the phone calls and calls and does the customer service,” Sullivan says. One thing the former salesman says he never let go of, however, is his role in customer service. Sullivan expects to shed his one-man show persona in 2015 and hire club builders and shippers to meet increased demand. He guarantees every BombTech clubs he sells - drivers, fairway woods, hybrids and putters - and says his return rate is miniscule, roughly 1-to-5 percent depending on the month.Ī BombTech Grenade driver (10.5 degrees) at address. Sullivan, 30, says business is good, especially considering the difficulties the large equipment manufacturers have had selling their products. “They can come up with ideas that people in the golf industry might not.” “The reason I use the University of Vermont instead of golf engineers is that they’re not in golf.” Sullivan says. Sullivan also lives in a suburb of Burlington.Ĭollege kids and professors designing golf clubs? That’s out-of-the-box thinking, which is why Sullivan likes it. Why green? To honor Vermont (The Green Mountain State) and the University of Vermont’s colors. The idea became less crazy when he reached out to his alma mater, the University of Vermont, whose engineering department agreed to co-design the golf club that ultimately became BombTech’s Grenade driver. A few months later, he had what he calls ” a crazy and expensive idea.” He wanted to design his own driver. He thought he could do better, so he started to start his own custom-fitting company in 2011. Sullivan’s story goes like this: His niche was long drive, and he broke several drivers that another club builder had built for him in a span of two months. Founder Tyler “Sully” Sullivan is a true one-man show, building and shipping every club himself. Yes, it’s much more difficult.īombTech Golf is on the short list of small golf equipment companies that produce metalwoods, and it’s almost certainly the smallest. Now name a small company that makes drivers. If you’re into golf equipment, you can probably name several small companies that make putters, irons and forged wedges. "Q&A: BombTech Golf Founder “Sully” SullivanīombTech Golf Founder and CEO Tyler “Sully” Sullivan. Zak from Golf Wrx interviewed BombTech golf and myself. December has been incredibly busy, but I still had time to sneak in a few interviews.
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