Adams Golf Clubs - Owners experiences an rating:
Adams Ultimate GT golf clubs - What normal golfers say about them:
"I was originally playing with a set of XPC+ and decided it was time for new clubs. I bought the Adams on a whim on Ebay. I didn't realize initially that they had all steel shafts but I couldn't be happier. I broke 100 the first time I played with them. You can't beat them especially for the price." ... That's what a happy owner of Adams Ultimate GT golf clubs has to say about them.
Adams Ultimate GT golf clubs have one of the most loyal followings in the golf game, largely because of the quality and tradition that go into each and every club that Adams manufactures.
Barney Adams founded Adams Golf nearly 20 years ago in 1987. It originally focused on custom fitting golf clubs, as well as creating innovative new golf products. It was through this tinkering and customizing that Mr. Adams worked out his first line of revolutionary clubs, the Tight Lies fairway wood.
The Tight Lies fairway wood offered a low profile and low center of gravity with a unique upside-down head design. The combination of these factors blew away the golf world and resulted in fantastic reviews and a boom in business, which still continues today.
Adams Golf hasn’t rested on its laurels with this success. Recently, it has launched such innovative club lines as the Redline and Ovation woods, the hybrid IDEA irons, and the Adams Ultimate GT golf clubs.
These last clubs come with a full line of clubs. The driver comes with a super-hard but thin titanium face. It provides the most power from a 430cc, barely legal, club face. That gives its user a huge sweet spot and the capabilities to rocket the ball off the tee.
The Adams Ultimate GT golf clubs lineup also includes fairway woods, which come with the same thin but powerful face. Another top feature of these clubs are their heel and toe weighting, which squares the club face and provides straighter shots. The club’s sole is also worth mentioning, since it can slide practically through any lie.
The irons offer oversized heads that not only look good, but hit well, too. You’ll appreciate longer distances because of an undercut channel that sets the center of gravity low and to the back. And you’ll find yourself hitting the ball straighter thanks to the clubs’ progressive offset.
"I recently purchased an Adams GT Ultimate Tight Lies sand wedge, and I would have to say that this is the best club I've ever hit. It offers maximum distance with little power required. The graphite/steel composite shaft gives a fantastic feel to the club, with no vibrations when you duff a shot. Overall a great club that I would recommend to all." ... does this sound like an other happy golfer? I'd say yes: Adams Ultimate GT golf clubs really seem to be all their owners expected.
Here is a professional review about the new Adams Golf Clubs:
Adams Golf springs into action with new metalwoods
By Chuck Stogel - GolfWeb Columnist
(as seen on http://www.pgatour.com/)
Adams Golf pushes the limits of clubhead size and spring-like effect, while preserving its patented upside-down head design, in a series of new drivers and fairway woods that were unveiled for the 2002 season.
Adams Golf's clubs feature the Bi-Matrx shaft.
The introduction of the Tight Lies GT metalwoods follows the debut last year of Adams' Tight Lies GT irons, the first irons in the industry to offer the combination of graphite and steel in one shaft.
The Bi-Matrx shaft, developed in conjunction with True Temper, has been supplied as standard equipment on all Adams Golf clubs since the unique multi-material shaft itself was launched last January. Other manufacturers offer the shaft as an option.
"This is a revolutionary shaft, and a major advance in equipment technology," said Barney Adams, founder and president of Adams Golf.
For its drivers and fairway woods, the Bi-Matrx shaft is made of graphite from the handle down, until it morphs into steel at the tip and junction with the hosel. The irons are proportionately the reverse, with steel from the handle down and graphite at the tips.
With the GT woods just being launched, Adams continues to apply advanced technology as it hones in on recently proposed U.S. Golf Association equipment limits. The clubhead faces are very thin, to maximize spring-like velocity at impact. Further, there is a new heel-weighting zone built in, to help square clubfaces through the swing. The upside-down clubheads on the fairway woods are designed to lower the centers of gravity, to help get balls airborne, and provide more hitting area, for enhanced forgiveness.
"State of the art technology has been applied to the complete line of GT woods," said Adams. "They are designed to be easy to hit and are going to be offered at a great value."
Available in Smart 3, Strong 3, 4, 5 and 7 models, the Tight Lies GT fairway woods carry a suggested retail price of $229.95 each.
Two versions of the GT driver are being introduced. The 303 stainless steel driver, available with face lofts of 9.5, 10.5 and 11.5 degrees, has a list price of $249.95. The 363 driver, with a titanium clubhead and loft options of 8, 9, 10 and 11 degrees, is listed at $349.95.
The driver numbers represent the size of the clubheads, 303cc and 363cc, respectively. The 363 is designed to provide solid drives, even on off-center hits.
All the new Adams clubs conform to USGA regulations. The 363 driver, in the range of the largest clubheads in the U.S. marketplace, is well within the proposed USGA conforming limit of 385cc.
The proposal by the USGA, though, to limit clubhead size along with restricting shaft lengths to 48 inches, took Adams officials by surprise, and drew an immediate protest.
"I am opposed to the (USGA) position," said Barney Adams. "The USGA has presented no technical evidence that their limits are anything but arbitrary. My education by the USGA in the Rules of Golf is that ball flight should be swing-affected and the player should not have a piece of equipment that produces better results than his swing. If this is just arbitrary, then it stifles innovation, which is the heart and soul of the golf industry."
The latest Tight Lies irons, called the Ultimate GT, were introduced last fall and follow the debut earlier in the year of the Tour GT and Performance GT models. The long irons in the Ultimate GT set contain more offset and a lower center of gravity to help get the ball airborne and provide greater forgiveness, while the short irons have less offset and a higher center of gravity to help deliver a more controlled trajectory and workability.
Available in 2-9 and four counterpart wedges, the Ultimate GT irons have a suggested retail price of $799.95 per set of eight clubs.
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