SANTA ANA, Calif. -- “We took the time to ask the question ‘Why isn’t anyone manufacturing an excellent driver for the average player?’ And then we answered our own question,” says David Dugally, CEO and Head of Design for Vector Golf Inc. dba The Golf Coast Fitting Centers.

New for 2006 Vector Golf offers a remarkable driver, the Vector Beta-Ti 460cc Multi-Face. For those with a swing speed under 105 mph, they make the bold claim that it will outperform any other driver made today, by any company, anywhere.

Big talk? Maybe, but they back it up. The technology behind this driver is impressive, if not downright extraordinary. The secret is in their exclusive Multi Face design. The standard face thickness—the primary contributor to spring effect in a club head—in the golf industry is approximately 3.0 mm. This gives decent performance and is very durable; much thinner than this and you run the risk of the face caving-in on impact.

“In our Vector 444 driver we are at 2.7 mm on the 10.5 º and the 12 º and at 2.85 mm on the 6.5 º and the 9 º, and we are bumping the edge of the USGA limit on spring effect. The only reason we can even go this thin is the quality of the 15-3-3-3 Beta-Ti we use, the world's best,” says Dugally.

“On the new 460 MF we have thinned the face to 1.5 mm which is 1/2 as thick as most drivers and has a tremendous spring effect, but which up until now has been unheard of in golf because a solid hit would flex the face so much that it would shatter.“

Vector Golf has solved this problem by designing the Vector Beta-Ti 460 MF with a second face behind the first. With a minute gap between the two, the first micro-thin face produces the massive spring one would expect, and just at the point where over-flex would typically shatter a thin face the second face kicks in to serve as a backstop and prevent failure.

The other principal design feature that contributes to the extreme high performance of this head is the use of their proprietary TC-101 Beta-Ti alloy throughout the entire body of the head. This gives the Vector Beta-Ti 460cc MF the stiffest body of any jumbo driver manufactured today. This dramatically reduces body flex which in turn increases face flex and thus increases energy transfer to the ball.

The strong toe on the Vector Beta-Ti 460cc MF—a design feature Vector Golf has incorporated since the original Stiletto driver in 1996 (the driver that pioneered the use of Beta-Ti)—provides more mass in this area for less loss of distance on high toe shots, while their heel and forward internal weighting system creates a draw bias and helps to reduce spin. But what really damps down spin—and encourages extra yards of roll—is the driver’s industry-defying forward and high centers of gravity. Here again Vector shows that they not only are ahead of the curve, but bucking it entirely.

The Vector Beta-Ti 460cc Multi Face is available as an assembled good, or as component goods for authorized distributors. For more information about these, or any of the Vector Golf line, contact them at 800.465.3767 or visit their website at www.TheGolfCoast.com.