Driver sparks!!!

Anyone out there technical enough to tell me why a Titanium driver shoots sparks off grass? I have played multiple games at dusk and have observed my driver giving off sparks on practise swings. I have also double checked to see if there were small rocks present---only grass.

I would love to hear why Titanium does this. My steel 3 wood doesn't...

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does it have a grafite shaft, if it has it could be static discharge.
bill

They are yellow sparks rather than white electrical type sparks. It is a graphite shafted club.

I have no idea, but I thought someone on the forum would know why.

I thought it had to do with the dirt and either a static charge or the grinding of the dirt against the club.

is it a nike ignite?

No offer of an explanation from me, only a statement I have seen this too...

A friend of mine has a King Cobra Titanium driver and I have often seen the "sparks fly".....

I too originally thought it may have been static discharge, but agree, as it is a yellowish spark, then that probably isn't the reason.

Feasible perhaps that maybe the minute bits of surleyn cover coming off the ball are igniting with the heat that almost certainly builds up under the enormous pressures of impact...

Who knows.......???

Someone cleverer than me I presume...

Cheers

Most of the stuff I found on the net refer to sand or dirting scuffing off the club head causing the sparks.

I personally think its more static discharge. The yellow could be caused by the gasses present at discharge, or a reaction with the titanium. On a golf course there is probably a pretty high concentration of nitrogen and other gasses at ground level due to heavy fertilization. The titanium could also be part of the reaction causing the yellow light instead of a normal bluish/white light caused by static discharge.

Titanium clubs are made of zirconium titanium glass. When a ball is struck at high speed the impact heats the metallic glass very rapidly, and once it is hot it oxidizes rapidly, which is what causes the sparks. Why it heats so rapidly is not entirely clear, but it appears to be related to a combination of hardness and low thermal conductivity. The hardness enables large stress to build up in the material before any structural failure occurs. When failure does finally occur, the stress buildup is converted into heat. This then combines with the low thermal conductivity of the metallic glass to produce local temperatures that are white hot (~1100 C),

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Brian

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