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HX Hot Bite Golf Ball - About
HX Hot Bite Golf Ball - About: Inspired by the success of the HX Hot golf ball, winner of the illustrious GolfDigest Editor's Choice award in 2007, We are proud to introduce a complement to the Hot Franchise that delivers blistering speed and green-grabbing control: The HX Hot Bite. The HX Hot Bite features an extremely soft cover that delivers green-grabbing spin and control. And it's powered by a core that's even better than the high-resilient core used to power the HX Hot golf ball. It also features tour-proven HX zero-dynamics for exceptional distance and stability. Take advantage of blistering speed and green-grabbing control with the new HX Hot Bite golf ball. Callaway Golf, a better game by design.
HX Hot Bite Golf Ball - Steve Ogg
HX Hot Bite Golf Ball - Steve Ogg: The Callaway Golf HX Hot Bite Golf Ball features our double cover technology, it has a firm ionomer outer cover and a soft, highly-resilient HPF mantle. This ball is for that person looking for the ultimate distance and low-dispersion with great feel.
HX Hot Bite Golf Ball Technology - Olin Browne
HX Hot Bite Golf Ball Technology - Olin Browne: Golf ball technology, when Callaway came out with its golfball it was Rule 35. It was the first golfball that they made and it, I think it brought a revolution in the golfball technology. It was not a wound ball, it was a three-piece ball with the hard core and it had performance characteristics unlike any other that I had ever played. In fact, I was under contract with another company and this ball impressed me so much that I approached them and I said, "You know, what? Callaway's got a product, I think I need to play that, I think it's better for me and my career." And it has been. The evolution of that golfball technology has gotten us to the point where Callaway now builds the XTour ball with a hexagonal dimple feature. It's not really a dimple, it started as a tubular-lattice network with the HX balls and it's a revolutionary and innovative idea. And I think it's the most solid ball in golf.
Making of a HX Hot Bite Golf Ball
Making of a HX Hot Bite Golf Ball: Most shots are hit with a golfball, every good shot is certainly hit with a golfball. My name's Steve Ogg and I'm the Vice President of Golfball Research and Development at Callaway Golf. Golfballs affect everything, they affect the accuracy, the dispersion, the distance, the feel, the control. Regardless, whether if they're out there just to have fun and want a good ball that's a good value, gives them good distance and keeps the ball in play, we've got those products. Starting with the two-piece golfball, the key there is balancing the cover with the core. Big Bertha is a really good example of that, it's a really soft feeling ball with really good distance characteristics. As you move on to the three-piece golfball, there's a lot more variables, there's a lot more product variety that you can provide to the golfer with three-piece construction. Here you can adjust the mantle and cover, individually to give distance and control. Now, if you do want the ultimate in performance and the ultimate in combination of feel, control, distance and durability that's when you move up to our four-piece golfballs. You have a duel-core that's the foundation for these two I-series golfballs, so you have two different concepts there that are embodied in duel-core: differential compression and inertia. And we utilize both of those to create, I think, the best golfballs on the market. And I'd like to think that the technology is the key differentiator when it comes to Callaway versus the competition. The golfball starts with the core, the core is the engine of the golfball and the core is made up of synthetic rubber. And it starts off with cutting and mixing these materials, all of these materials are accurately weighed and their mixed in an internal mixer. We have two different styles of mixers that we use. Once this material is thoroughly mixed, it is sheeted on a two-roll mill, imagine two counter-rotating cylinders that have a gap, it continues to mix the material but also gets it into a form that allows it to get extruded in an extruder. The extruder is designed to take a large mass of material and make plugs. Here's an example of an extruded piece of [xx] rubber, the core formulation. After extrusion, we take the plugs and we load them into a compression mold and they're molded into a heated compression mold tool. And they're made into a round core. That spherical core depending on the product, will get ground in our [xx] machine. The grinding can be very concentric. When it's a four-piece golfball we actually do two series of compression molding, we'll mold the inner core, then we'll make two smaller plugs, they look like this but they're smaller that we use to mold the hemispherical shells of our duel-core golfballs. Once you have the core, you move on to the injection molding of either the cover or the mantle depending on if it's two-piece, three-piece or four-piece golfball. Injection molding involves an insert molding this core, so you have pins that support the core, you have a mold that surrounds that core and then you have plastic that's heated and it's injection flows around the core, as the plastic flows around the core, these pins are retracted to be flush with the outside of the cavity. In the case of our rim golfballs, you actually use a process called reaction-injection molding or rim to injection-mold a cover around the injection molded insert. The cavities that we use are machined to have the surface geometry that gives us aerodynamic performance. Regardless of whether you have an injection-molded cover of thermal-plastic ionomer or whether it's a rim cover, you then degauge the ball so the material is removed, leaving a small amount of flash. Those balls are then moved to what we call a seam-buffer or other people call it a milling-machine, where you remove the flash around the equator of the golfball. Once you've done that, typically the golfballs go through a prep-process where they're tumbled to remove any debris that's on the golfball and prepare the balls for finishing. Once the balls move to the finishing room then they're preheated prior to being finished with a two-component urethane finish system. In the case of our premium golfballs like the Touride or the Touride X, there's actually two coats of tinted urethane paint that go on top of the golfball. And then the balls have a logo stamped on them and they go to packaging. And then they go to the distribution hub in the warehouse and shipped off to our consumers.
