by Cliff
2. February 2010 04:22
Take The Top Down And Enjoy The Ride!
 For over 8 years, golfers’ world-wide had enjoyed the virtues of the original Acer XDS Wide Sole series iron making them one of the coimpany's best selling and performing irons in their history. Golfers found out first hand what the benefits that a wide sole iron can provide. The Acer XDS Cabriolet takes that same concept and combines it with the modern hybrid. Some hybrids on the market are merely a hollow-bodied iron as a way to move weight further back from the face to create greater forgiveness on off-center shots and the purpose of a wide sole iron is to shift a higher concentration of weight lower to assist in getting the ball up quickly and easily.
 The Acer XDS Cabriolet does both by starting out with the chassis of a hybrid but removing the heavy crown and relocating that weight to the extra wide sole creating the best of both worlds; an iron look with hybrid accuracy. The gigantic face will instill confidence for those that need it the most making these the ultimate game improvement iron without the massive offset. Each club in the set required a distinct sole radius to complement the progressive sole width (wider in the longer irons and gradually reducing in size in the scoring irons). This places weight where it is needed most to ensure an ultra-forgiving design that is not only functional, but puts more fun back into the game.
Online review from Kiel Christianson, of Worldgolf.com
Acer XDS Cabriolet: Affordable, integrated game-improvement irons
“”For golfers looking to replace their irons with a fully-integrated, progressively more forgiving game-improvement set, the Cabriolets make for a solid choice.” > Continue rest of review.
 Acer XDS Cabriolet irons available from Golf Clubs Down Under
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by Cliff
2. February 2010 03:37
Titanium Face.
Exceptional Results
 If you have been paying attention lately, you might have noticed that our popular Acer XK irons were voted “Best Value” by Golf Digest in the 2009 Hot List. Acer, instead of resting on their laurels decided to take a little walk on the wild side and try to improve upon it. But the big question was how?
In order to enhance what was already an easy-to-hit design, Acer decided the club head should go on a diet to shed some unwanted weight. They started where it was needed least and that was ultimately the face area.
Most iron heads are made of a single material throughout, whether it is some grade of stainless or carbon steel. Doing so cuts down on tooling costs and  production problems, plus, you can still make some fine products. Since the metal on modern irons are stretched out to the max, one way to lighten the club is making the club smaller, and they didn’t want to do that! The other option is to incorporate a secondary lighter material such as a thin, reactive titanium plate for the face. This state-of-the-art titanium face is an integral component in the new Ti-Ceptional irons.
If you don’t think there is some weight savings in the face, you would be wrong. Simply substituting titanium where the stainless steel face resided, we shed 45% or a total of 25g of weight from the face.
 All this weight was then put to much better use by placing it in the toe (position A in the diagram) and in the sole (position B) to help stabilize the head even more so on off-center shots. So if you thought the standard Acer XK irons were easy to hit, just wait until you hit these!
The reason why titanium is used in drivers is not only for weight savings, but more importantly for performance. Acer have captured this in an iron to help you to hit the ball longer and straighter with the same amount of effort.
Well if this head is so good, then why aren’t all irons made this way? The reason you don’t see more companies doing this is the much higher costs in raw materials, tooling and fabrication, cost that is ultimately passed onto you. But Acer, part of one of the biggest club head manufacturers in the world have found the way to cost effectively utilize this technology to produce superior professional golf equipment for a lot less than the major manufacturers sell their standard run-of-the-mill models.
Acer XK Ti-Ceptional irons available from Golf Clubs Down Under
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