PERFORMANCE

Driver Fitting

Does face tape on a driver face affect performance when club fitting?

Robotic testing on a driver by a leading manufacturer showed no measurable difference between face tape on or off affecting:

  • Ball speed
  • Sidespin
  • Launch angle

Backspin increases 500 to 700 rpm.

As part of the fitting process, one can easily use an average of the increased spin for adjustment in calculating the optimum spin rate desired for a particular player.

  • “I myself saved over hundreds of woods from damage during my 13 years’ use of Gahost Tape. Ghost Tape allowed me as a club fitter to honestly evaluate ball flight with a club that was protected. Consider using Ghost Tape on the woods in your shop!”

    —John Kennedy,
    Westchester Country Club, recipient of the 1997 Met Section PGA Professional of the Year Award and the 2010 National PGA America Horton Smith Award

  • “I have been using Ghost Tape since Doug Ritter introduced it to me, and it has saved me thousands of dollars over the years by protecting my demo equipment and giving it a longer life span. I’ve been able to resell my demo equipment and recoup a lot of my dollars that would have been lost. Thank you, Doug!”

    —Rick Kline,
    Sittler Golf Center, one of America’s Top 100 Golf Shops, 2013 PGA National Merchandiser of the Year Award Winner