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When there I saw them being made. If they are also made at ENDO thailand there is no difference the steel is imported from Japan. Tourstage usually uses endo for the majority of their forgings. These IMO do feel more pure at impact than the Type X.

ComoCome has been expanding quite a bit in Japan with their new 2007 product and new collaboration models with some of Japan's more admired female up and coming pro's. Here are their latest signings: Yukari Baba　（putter　cover／head cove/cap clip ball marker） Saiki　Fujita (putter　cover） Yasuko Satoh　（golf　bag／cap　&　sun visor／cap cilp ball marker／putter cover／head cover etc.） Yumiko Baba　（golf　bag／cap　cilp　ball　marker／putter　cover／head　cover　etc.） Better yet they are set to join the U.S LPGA Tour late 2007 and as you know many of the top girls have already used comocome head covers simply because they love the quality and design. We have seen players like Ai Miyazato, Paula Creamer, Shigeku Maruyama, and Tadd Fujikawa support the brand.

Tourstage is on to something, They make the GR at Endo Japan plant.

If your looking for a small headed driver get the Epon 415 custom built or the epon 380, the 380 is unreal long but its .5 closed. Some argue this is Epons best head to date. Of the Tourstage heads you mentioned the 430P is easier to hit than the other two, sets up much better and even feels more solid yet not as muted. The 340 and 365 have open face angles and are 1-2 generations older than the 430P with also a metal crunch, those still have the turbo rubber used in them.

EPON's UT is not gonna be coming out any time soon. The 306 will not be released to the public sir im sorry.

It would be the Tourstage 460P for least spin possible, but low spin for the average golfer usually isn't a good thing. Guys with very high club head speeds usually get a straighter flight from a driver like the that. Spin is needed to obtain max distance there are many factors that can be contributing to your need to decrease spin, if its a wayward ball flight u may want to look into the swing. In my case and my 99-105 swing speed I found even the lowest spin drivers with my #1 shaft are much shorter and lower than higher spin clubs i have tried the same combo in. Do you slice the ball or Hook it? Whats going there?

If its not kicking its pretty much a waste of time. The club is very very new so there is little feedback as of now. Roddio is an option but it must be built at TSG. Make sure to get the proper flex and use the Roddio fitting thread as it really helps that the shaft is the best possible profile in the line up. Here are some pics.

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The reason i mentioned that is because people get stale with one putter and need something to reinvigorate their putting game. Even with that Hiro putter i would still suggest to someone to get something in harsh contrast as it really helps people get over the hump and brings a fresh feel back to the original gamer when you return to it. Just a couple of cents given to me by a highly regarded Japanese putting teacher.

They are not overrated for its original price which is 249.00 premium zone. Bettinardi is made very well, now imo only second to Golds Factory but what gets me and yes we sell a lot of Bettinardi Japan putters is the engraving style and the honey comb design. On video it produces more skip than YES, G.Rife, and G-Field. All three mentioned that rolled better in testing were far cheaper and not made as well. That said i never liked any Gauge putter that has a flat face, too clicky and too light, only their 350g stuff. Also looking at design only, tungsten on the face does make it less forgiving when you miss the sweet spot. The frenzy for the premium zone I feel is very odd, people trying to sell theirs for way above market value calling them rare when shops cant dump them fast enough in Japan and Asia. Its not a 400.00 putter guys. My suggestion to TSG'ers is to have 2 gamer putters one Neo Mallet and one Anser style, when one goes cold switch to the other and so on. Make sure length is right for you along with the lie angle and loft based on forward press. If your a not so gifted putter a heavier or much heavier head should help you. Also most important, putting lessons are worth a ton on the course if you like to place bets.

Only problem is the XXIO's dont feel anything close to the Yururi. Even the forged doesnt feel like a pure forged club which is prob because of the undercut. Yes to answer your question and I have hit the 3 mentioned, the Yururi are very soft and very forgiving. Its a little shorter heel to toe than most other medium size clubs but IMO because it is shorter it also has more meat behind the toe and back cavity. It goes straighter and less offline due to this. Very few people have them. Its not a released club anywhere other than TSG at the moment. The remind me of the GD handmades in performance.

That is a new Bettinardi insert that they are working on.

1. The P has a more pear shape and also features a fade bias. the 460P has more of a fade bias than the 430P. 2. full score lines is the 430P

Tokyo -- As the rest of the world grapples with its "first" transition to HDTV, demonstrations of third- and fourth-generation "super" or "ultra" high-definition (HD) displays, with resolutions eight to 16 times sharper than current offerings, were all the rage at recent electronics and display trade shows in Japan. Full-HD resolution (1,080 x 1,920 pixels), often described as "2k" because of its horizontal resolution lines, is already the norm in Japan, where flat-panel display companies are fiercely competing to promote their own products. But for the Japanese domestic electronics industry, determined to preserve its lead in the next-generation display market, 2k is rapidly becoming obsolete. At two trade shows here last month, Ceatec Japan 2006--Japan's largest electronics show--and FPD International 2006, Japanese exhibitors said that they are aiming for "supreme picture quality," by offering 4k: 2,160 x 4,096 pixels. These vendors regard the Digital Cinema System Specification (DCI) format, which was defined by Digital Cinema Initiatives LLC in July 2005, as their target spec. Digital Cinema Initiatives--a joint venture of Disney, Fox, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros. Studios--was formed to promote an open architecture for digital cinema. At FPD International, Sadayasu Ono, a professor at the Research Institute for Digital Media and Content at Keio University, said that the DCI format will be used not only for delivering movies to theaters, but also for online-content distribution to a variety of places, including the home. Ono, one of the originators of DCI, predicted that the format will enter the home market in less than 10 years. The DCI format specifies 4k resolution and a 12-bit gray scale with XYZ color space. It uses Motion JPEG200 for video compression and has a data transfer rate of 250 Mbits/second. DCI-compliant display? Sharp has already developed and demonstrated a 64-inch LCD display prototype with 8.84 million pixels that complies with the DCI specification. To date, the industry has developed displays in tandem with the progress of the broadcast or package media format, said Mikio Katayama, corporate executive senior director of Sharp. "But that's changing now," he said. "Display technology evolution is surpassing content and infrastructure evolution." The two display technologies that deliver high-resolution images based on DCI are SXRD, from Sony Corp., and D-ILA, from Victor Company of Japan Ltd. (JVC), currently in a number of digital cinema trials. As display engineers gear up for DCI, they face challenges in upgrading input devices--cameras--for DCI resolution. "It is technically possible to build a camera capable of DCI resolution. But the initial demand for such a camera will be limited to professional use," said Ono. At present, Olympus Corp.'s camera captures images in 4k resolution, but it does not comply with the DCI spec. Today, the DCI format is limited to motion picture films. A project that the Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) launched in the mid-'90s for next-generation displays, dubbed Super Hi-vision, sought a resolution of 4,20 x 7,680 (or 8k, counted by horizontal resolution) pixels. That resolution is 16 times sharper than present full-HD displays (1,080 x 1,920 pixels.) NHK's proposal was submitted to the International Telecommunication Union and was approved this July as ITU-R BT.1769, an extension to Large Screen Digital Imagery. "NHK's goal is to develop the Super Hi-vision system for future broadcast- ing. It's not aimed at replacing cinema," said Yuji Nojiri, a senior researcher at NHK's Science and Technology Research Laboratory and the leader of the Super Hi-vision project. By projecting images on a 600-inch screen, NHK demonstrated Super Hi-vision to an international audience at this year's National Association of Broad- casters convention. The big challenge in developing Super Hi-vision is the camera. NHK is shooting video footage on a camera with four (RGGB) 8- megapixel CMOS sensors, each of which captures images in red, green1, green2 and blue at 60 frames per second. Micron Technology supplied 1.25-inch, 8-Mpixel CMOS sensors for the cameras. "We need a 32-Mpixel sensor to build a full-specification camera," said Nojiri. Although NHK may not start broadcasting Super Hi-vision for 15 to 20 years, the technology is already being implemented in other applications in Japan. Two museums last year introduced Super Hi-vision systems to display art collections normally kept in storage. In pursuit of high-resolution display technologies, JVC has been working on its D-ILA microdevice-based projectors. The company supplies its projectors to NHK for the Super Hi-vision project. Separately, JVC demonstrated realistic 3-D images using two DCI-class projectors at Ceatec. When 3-D images are created, the original resolution is reduced 50 percent because images are split to generate right- and left-eye images. But in JVC's demonstration, in which two 4k projectors were used, the company employed 4k images for each eye, offering double the resolution of current, 2k-based HD images. The two 4k projectors generated 3-D images that looked very natural, defying the conventional wisdom that 3-D images tend to look artificial. Anticipating commercial potential in 4k-class image-creation systems, JVC has already developed and tested a corresponding 4k-resolution video camera. The camera employs three 8-Mpixel CMOS sensors for red, blue and green. "We successfully captured natural 4k images [noncomputer graphics images] with our new camera," said Takashi Kuri- yama, senior staff engineer at JVC's Innovative Imaging Unit.

If longer equals better I would be playing the Srixon ZR600 for its higher ball speeds. My longest combo with the Epon is still the DREV Tour SR flex at 247cpm's. Its longer than my current Roddio combo but doesnt give me the baby draw i love as a fader. I take the fairway + good feel over 5-10 yds any day. We have FT-5's, Super Quads, Sumo2's demo's etc.. If you mess with shafts and specs enough you can find any driver to beat any driver, it just takes fine tuning and tweaking. I have taken a Honma RF460 with a 3 star ultra whippy R flex that smokes just about anything, a full second of hang time more, and about 15 yards more carry, this club dies in the wind though but this just goes to show its more about how the shaft, specs, and head characteristics fit your swing.

Great Info, I always thought XXIO was the #1 seller.

202-205 is perfect and I see the authorized heads coming in at that weight.

If you got the XD as a head only on ebay, its a defect. Many people are buying these up now, we have had tons reach us and many are 2-8 grams lighter than the stuff that comes from Tourstage direct.

Last i checked she is using a Bettinardi Japan mallet and is requesting a new ComoCome cover for it

Im pretty sure he is talking about the steel standard NS950 when combined with this head shoots low flights. graphite would for sure not only make it easier but give you a higher ball flight.

If you want a higher ball flight yet not something that balloons try the tour ad UT hybrid shafts. Many really enjoy the UT-85.

No sir, drop fourteen an E-mail and ask them. they will confirm what im telling you. that japanese text you posted is talking about the finish of the wedge.

Thanks for the pics D, Your the only guy i know who owns both of these amazing drivers. IMO the 430P looking down at is the #1 best top view setup ever.

WD40 is working fine on mine, i have used baby oil in the past as well. Your Golds Putter is nicer than mine Thank you for sharing it with the members.