New Patented Technology

Dean Knuth (pronounced Ka-nooth), a former Senior Director at the United States Golf Association (1981-1997) and the primary inventor of the USGA Course Rating and Slope System, has invented a new high performance driver. After leaving the USGA, Knuth developed a driver based on the principle that the greatest loss of kinetic energy at impact between a golf ball and a driver is the result of heat generated during the deformation (flattening) of the ball. If the flattening of the ball can be reduced, it will launch off the face with higher velocity and less spin, for a longer flight and with greater roll. In researching how to optimize energy transfer at impact, Knuth patented the discovery that when the driver face vibrates at a very high frequency, golf ball acceleration increases and spin decreases. He also discovered that the optimum feel increases at higher frequencies.

Hot launches at high frequency

As drivers have increased in size in recent years to provide golfers with more forgiveness, the result normally has lowered the natural frequency of the face plates to as low as 2,500 HZ. The larger faces have produced springier clubfaces and hotter launches. But the clubfaces' COR (Coefficient of Restitution), a measure of their springiness, has been limited to 0.83 by the USGA and most leading brands now have CORs close to the USGA limit.

Dean Knuth has invented a large driver head that uses his patented parabolic design inside of the face plate that “tunes-up” its frequency, achieving great forgiveness and maintaining the highest COR permitted by the USGA.

Greater flexibility and strength

His company, Panda Golf, has developed his patent-pending process of creating dense titanium alloy face plates, by cutting them with lasers, pressing them into a die at extreme pressure to produce highly precise and dense face plates. The resulting driver produces consistently long drives with lower spin rates and longer roll.

Russian Titanium

Panda Golf’s Russian titanium is among the most advanced and superior titanium alloys in the world. Panda Golf teamed with a Russian aerospace company under Knuth’s direction to manufacture his patented face plates using BT-22 alloy---a superior Russian-made titanium. This process has made the face plate more dense and efficient for maximum driver performance.

Optimized ball flight

The strength advantages of Panda Golf’s patented parabolic designs are also built into the sole and the crown of the P4 High Heat Driver ™. The combination of the BT-22 titanium in the body of the head, as well as the parabolic-shaped design, provides increased body strength. These inventions result in an improved distribution of weight – resulting in optimized ball flight and ease of getting the ball airborne. The trailing edge of the driver also has an imbedded dense “weight ball” design for distributing weight and to enhance center of gravity.

The P4 High Heat Driver is made in 420cc volume (called the ES™ model), with two versions—9.5 degrees loft and the 11degree loft for higher ball launching assistance. We also have a left-handed 10.5-degree model.

The shaft is the “engine” of a quality driver, and all of our drivers come with a top-end premium Fujikura shaft.

Our driver is painted with a distinctively rich and durable metallic cobalt blue.

Test-drive the new P4 High Heat Driver and detect its superior technology on the first swing. The loud and high-pitched sound will also allow you to “HEAR THE POWER”.

*U.S. Patents 6,659,885, 6,659,884, 7,131,912 and 7,273,421. Panda Golf also has other patent applications pending. Those inventions are not disclosed.

Federal Trademarks: Panda Golf, P4 Face, ES and P4 High Heat Driver.

Panda Golf, Inc., 4532 Bonita Road, Bonita, CA 91902, 619-246-7947 or dknuth@cox.net

For more information about Dean Knuth please visit http://www.popeofslope.com

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