YONEX EZONE 2011
Yonex is releasing 3 new drivers this march which are to debut at the 2011 Tokyo Golf Fair next week. Type 450/Type 420/ Type 380 are the three models. Ryo Ishikawa has recently been spotted on tour using the Type 380 which is their faced players model that suites the professional athlete. The technology behind the new Yonex drivers is called EZONE and it utilizes a proprietary Yonex carbon composite crown. Most other brand’s drivers feature sweet spots that are not located directly in the center of the face. You may have seen it before when Tour Issue drivers have the dot which signifies CG location, it’s usually not center of the club face.
Another important aspect of its development is it’s pear shaped design. Even the Type 450 features one of the most beautiful pear shaped heads when compared to many other large headed drivers on the market, usually the pear shaped design is reserved for the professional model. All three models carry this same philosophy which was adopted to inspire confidence and satisfy the players eye.
One of the biggest selling points is that these Yonex drivers are manufactured by ENDO factory in Niigata Japan. The Yonex production office is also located in Niigata. Every process from the head manufacturing & paint, carbon composite crown construction, shaft production, and assembly is all done in Japan. ENDO produces the tightest tolerance of any golf factory in the world and kudo’s to Yonex for understanding that.
This is the best looking yonex i’ve seen in a while. Is the Ezone sweet spot large than the current drivers out there?
I agree the best Yonex I’ve seen in years. I just hope a new pro model forged iron is announced next week in Tokyo. In regards to the sweet spot, It’s tuff to say, every brand will say theirs is larger. The great thing about this one is the CG is located in the optimal position.
That diagramme of the sweet spot is silly. It makes it look as though if you missed that center spot, you’re just not going to to get any forgiveness. Does it mean that if you miss it on the toe or heel the ball just fails? That’s a mistake on their part. Put this club alongside a club from Cobra with the all-face forgiveness, I don’t know if too many people would choose this Yonex other than the fact that it’s used by Ryo, who is, by all measures, a PRO! who can hit it properly in that middle of the face.
It’s not silly, the vast majority of clubs on the market can’t align their CG with the center of the club face. I’m not a big fan of Yonex but this is considered somewhat of a breakthrough. That is the center of gravity on the club head. Yonex is not saying anything about forgiveness of the club or off center hits.
On top of that these are produced by ENDO in Japan. IMO that’s a major selling point and when you look at what the club features there is no way they could get it to the U.S driver average price point.
Again, don’t really care for RYO or Yonex so much but the product in the last 2 years has been top notch. The technology and manufacturing is great as well.
ahh i see. I had no idea that most drivers’s sweetspot is not in the center. But, i do remember the CG dots being off after measuring. By looking at the image, the sweetspot is in the center and it seems to have a large area of forgiveness marked by the yellow.
@Tourspecgolfer:
Huh? What are you talking about, TSG? It literally says,
“Even with clubs that had it tuned for low center of gravity, the actual center of gravity as well as the center of the sweetspot were found to not be at the center. The EZONE’s sweetspot is at the center of the face.”
Therefore, I conclude, even with the YELLOW area, that if you were to hit it on the toe or the heel outside of the yellow area, this club will not be as forgiving as a Cobra, lets say, which has 9-points on its face where you could literally hit the ball and still have plenty of forgiveness. Which is not a very good selling point for Yonex, if the area that you need to hit on this new driver is as small as that yellow area, considering how big the actual face is!!!!!
Think about it. Doesn’t matter who makes it, even if it is Endo, if you have to be THAT accurate to gain anything from this club.
Am I wrong? I don’t think so. I think my translation is correct.
That diagram does not necessarily show the “size” of the sweet spot but rather its location (CG) and yes it is right in the center. The yellow area doesn’t show the extent of the sweet spots reach though I do have to say it probably wasn’t a good idea to use that circle as it is misleading that it is the actual sweet area when in fact, the sweet area is more of an oval shape spanning towards the heel and toe. In this case Yonex tries to use the yellow are to show that the sweet spot evenly spreads out forgiveness in a consistent direction. Though again, the sweet “area” is certainly bigger than that or yes it would be hard to consistently strike.
Thank you gocchin, One more thing I would like to add to support Geet is that when Cobra show’s 9 point, that does not meet 9 cetners of gravity. There can be only one authentic CG point.
2011 Northern Trust Open at The Riviera Country Club – Yonex player Ryo Ishikawa (EZONE) will play his first U.S. tournament of 2011. All of the locals go out and support RYO!