Michigan Golf Journal April 2020

Knuth Golf started with the simple idea of making high quality golf clubs optimized for amateur players, not professionals – the benchmark often used by other companies for their designs. The first High Heat brand metalwoods and hybrids were well received – yet when the USGA increased the allowable amount of rebound for areas of the face outside the center, founders Dean Knuth and Steve Trattner saw an opportunity. Knuth is the retired USGA Director of Handicapping and inventor of the Course Rating and Slope System while Trattner is a former USGA intellectual property attorney. Knuth invented what is called 3-Trampoline Technology, a construction giving the clubface higher rebound towards the heel and toe than in the center – all perfectly legal and within the Rules of Golf. These 257+ metalwoods — drivers, fairways and hybrids – are a real help to amateurs, many of whom tend to hit the ball towards the toe or the heel. They get more distance plus better control. High Heat 257+ metalwoods are the only clubs with three rebound zones and Knuth is the only brand that has this capability. Tony Leodora, NBC Sports TV and ESPN Radio called it “the most significant new technology for amateurs in the past 25 years.” Lots of amateurs, especially higher handicap players, have downswings even with their woods that are too steep, and this vertical angle of attack can cause large divots. Some call this “digging” or hitting it fat, but whatever the word it is a shot destroyer. Knuth knew if he could come up with a design that didn’t “dig”, golfers could do away with fat shots which would be a winner. The solution he came up with is the Turf Glider Sole (TGS) which is now built in to all the High Heat 257+ fairway woods and hybrids Improved High Heat Fairway Clubs “The most significant new technology for amateurs in the past 25 years” By Ed Travis Michigan Golf Journal Equipment Review