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The Science of IMPACT!

In this high speed motion capture it clearly shows that the ball can become compressed upon impact by as much as 25% before any forward motion begins. This places your driver at a critical point of alignment with the ball and the tee. It's obvious at this point something will have to give. Either the tee will break or the ground is hopefully soft enough to give way. If you've played more than your fair share then you probably know what usually happens. Tomahawx™ is designed to give way resistance-free regardless of playing conditions.

Using a rubber tee, the frames at left clearly shows the interaction betweeen the golf ball and the leading edge of the tee. Tomahawx™ has an open-face crescent-shaped top with a graduating cavity which helps to mininimize this interaction.

If soil conditions are good (ie not rock hard) then standard tees OR those with a top heavy bias may tend to carry forward an unacceptable distance post-impact.

Tomahawx™ Golf tees are designed
to minimize forward carry by:

1. The quarter-round tapered knife edge
    adds more bottom mass than standard tees

2. Optionally an integrated flaired depth guard         adds additional weight at the point of pivot

3. The crescent shaped graduating cavity at
    tee head helps to reduce top weight.

"Tee it high to make it fly!"

That's the mantra of today's golf marketing. With the initial introduction and USGA appoval of 3.25" now even 4" long tees. The accepted wisdom is the higher you can tee it up and the higher your angle of attack the farther your ball will go.

But what most technical studies have shown is that what's more important than tee length is the height at which the ball is placed. Most research reports optimum drive distance is acheived by setting the base of the ball at or just below the crown of the driver. In most cases this is approximately 1.875" to 2" depending on your driver.

You can achieve this whether you're using a 2.75", 3.25" or 4" tee. It really depends on the firmness of the soil to maintain tee stability.

The Tomahawx@ 2.75" version is designed for optimum "big hitter" placement.

Let's face it, if you're like most of us your swing is not consistant and the "big hitter" heights can be a little bit intimidating and hard to perfect.

Proof of this usually happens by means of the notorius "pop-up". That's when you really get under one and instead of going the 250+ yards you intended, the ball goes about 40 yards straight up. This often leaves an indelible reminder on the crown of your expensive driver. And in a game of mental courage and superstition the last thing you want looking up at you is that big dent as you try to concentrate on your current drive.

The Tomahawx@ 2.25" version is designed for those of us looking for more safety and consistency from our drives. The crown of the driver is placed at the ball's midpoint. So even if you get under it you still got a shot at making something of it.

• A golf ball remains in contact with the club face for only about
   450 microseconds (0.00045 s), much less time than it takes to
   blink your eye.

• During impact, the clubhead exerts an average force in excess
   of 2,000 pounds on the ball, compressing it about one-fourth of
   its diameter.

• All properly struck golf shots are hit with backspin, making the
   golf ball fly just as the wings provide lift to an airplane.

Source: usga.org