Michelle Wie Testing

This morning we had Nike out at the golf course for most of the day doing testing on some new balls. Tigers ball engineer, Rock, was there. And we talked a little while about why they had come out. They were there to do some testing on a new Nike One Black and then the had a special lady coming out to do some club testing...

We all new already that it was Michelle Wie. He just didn't want it to spread to much. After we did our ball testing he told us that she had the same ball speed as one of our top professionals Steve Burch. They both have a ball launch speed of about 175 mph, I was in the 165 range. Rock said with a better matched setup I could probably get up to around 170. That's the plan next month when I go down to Tigard and get fully set up at Nike!

Later on Michelle pulled up into the west end driving range area that was closed of for Nike in a nice big limo. I was at the other end of the driving range and saw her warm up and proceed to hit drivers. She was hitting them almost to the red flag green, which from the west end is almost 300 yards, and she had a slight breeze into her. It was amazing. They had like 20 people down there for her, just to test some new things out.

If I get on as an engineer I hope that I will be able to be at some of these testings for professionals, it just would be awesome to be that close to these guys as they do there thing.

NATER