Wilson Staff Hybrid Golf Clubs

Wilson Staff Hybrid Golf Clubs 2008 Update- The Fybrid

This article will describe the three hybrid golf club product lines by Wilson Staff: the Dh6 distance hybrid, the Hb5 line of hybrid clubs, and the LH6 line of ladies’ hybrids.

Dh6 Distance Hybrids

The most unique feature of these clubs is what Wilson Staff calls EFT technology which they have incorporated into their drivers, fairway woods and hybrids. ETF stands for Energy Transfer Frame. A thin slice of metal is placed perhaps a half inch or so behind the club face. This piece is inside the club head and is not visible.

The “hot zone” is the part of the face that provides a spring-like effect as measured by the COR (coefficient of restitution). There is a limit on the COR which obviously limits the amount of spring effect that a club can produce.

This ETF metal slice does seem to make some intuitive sense. If the air chamber formed by the club face and the metal slice is air tight, it would seem that the air inside the chamber would be compressed at impact and would thus sort of push back to increase the spring effect and increase the speed of the ball and thus the distance. This is just speculation on my part, however, and for all I know this is nothing but a gimmick. I think it would behoove Wilson Staff to produce some real data on their web site to prove that the ETF technology does something useful. Right now they just simply state that it does and that is the end of it. Of course even if the claim is true this creates an issue for hybrid golf clubs. That is, hybrids are mean to be replacements for hard-to-hit long irons. So if you end up hitting your 3H farther than you hit your 3 iron, you now have a larger gap between your 3H and 4 iron, for example. So the player needs to be aware of this and must know how much farther the ball goes when hit with the 3H. For drivers this is not an issue since you want to hit that as far as you can with accuracy. For fairway woods it probably isn’t a huge issue for most average golfers either.

In addition to the EFT plate, Wilson Staff has added weight to the back of the Dh6 hybrid clubs to move the center of gravity (CG) of the head low and back. This is a design goal of just about every hybrid club because it allows the player to get the ball up into the air easier.

The Dh6 hybrid line consists of 2 clubs, a 3H with 19 degrees of loft, and a 4H with 22 degrees of loft. They come in both steel and graphite shafts and they are also available for left handed golfers.

Hb5 Hybrid Golf Clubs

The predecessor to the Dh6 line is the Hb5 line of hybrids. There are 4 clubs available in this product line, 3H-6H, with lofts of 17, 21, 25, and 29 degrees respectively. Nano Tech graphite shafts are standard with various levels of flex, and Taper-Tech HB steel shafts come standard as well. Left-handed clubs are available.

LH6 Hybrid Golf Clubs for Women

This line of ladies’ hybrids also uses the new ETF technology discussed earlier. 3 clubs are offered, 4-6H, with lofts of 22, 25, and 28 degrees. Nano Flex II Graphite shafts are standard. Left-handed clubs are not available in the ladies’ set.