[O.B.Left]

That's the point ! Hell knows why aren't there face balanced clubs, but IMO not because someone wanted to make golfer's life harder.
I would risk to say that because of tradition. Backing to the middleages when golfers played with wooden stick bent at one end (looking similarily to a walking stick for elderly people)...and it was much easier to manyfacture it instead manufacturing a center shafted club.
Sir Winston Ch. could be right - we are playing with tools that are wrongly designed to this goal...

Cheers

Maybe but I tend to think that there is a very good reason that manufacturers dont make clubs that way. I think. They would never lie to us would they? No need for an answer. Remember titanium centered golf balls?

Perhaps trying a center shafted, face balanced putter at full speed vs a heel shafted, toe drop one would answer this question but maybe ruin some putters. Im thinking that with the face balanced one it would be harder to control the initial direction of the ball (face angle) and less powerful. Just a guess though.

I do know that Homer thought the old school 1930's longer nosed irons enabled CF to "have more control over the alignment of the club face, more powerful, more difficult to disturb".

Here is the link to the Croker sites audio tape. Its mainly about hip motion, action, Hula Hula etc but about 5 minutes in there is some stuff relevant to this discussion.

http://www.crokergolfsystem.com/Home...n_2-64kbps.mp3


Cheers

OB