Golf Clean standards still have not been met by competitors!

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Golf Clean Comparison Study

CBW Mfg, Inc. became aware that other club and ball washers were entering the ball and club head scrubber market. CBW Mfg, Inc. manufactures and distributes the Golf Clean unit.  The trademarked Golf Clean unit is the first combination golf ball and club head scrubber on the market.  The Golf Clean unit has been setting the standards in combination ball and club head scrubbinging since 1988.

To protect our customers, CBW Mfg, Inc. contracted with an independent research firm for a comparison study of club and ball washers.  

Methodology:

The research firm subjected both the Golf Clean unit and the competitors club and ball washers to10,000 cycles of use (the estimated number of times that the unit would be approached in a single year on a golf course fleet).  The research firm also conducted other tests to include; sheering, strength and wear tests on the units.  

Findings:

The following summarizes the key findings of this study.

Item One:  The Golf Clean unit does a better job of cleaning balls and clubs without damaging golf equipment than does the competitors.

There are major differences between the brushes in the Golf Clean unit and those used by the competitors.  The Golf Clean unit contains many soft tapered bristles  heat fused into tufts of bristles on the pad.  The competitors brushes are hard extruded plastic bristles that are very abrasive and could actually damage golf balls and clubs.   

1. The Golf Clean unit has significantly more bristles in the brushes than in the competitors brushes. (See appendix A for actual counts and weights

2. The Golf Clean unit ball brushes are 47% heavier and have 1476% more bristles than the competitors ball brushes.

3. The Golf Clean unit club brushes are 27% heavier and have 727% more bristles than the competitors club brushes.

4. After 10,000 approaches, the Golf Clean unit bristles were somewhat rounded and polished when compared to the original shape of the bristles.  The Golf Clean club brushes showed no material patterns of wear or loss of material weight.

5. The competitors unit bristles were sharpened with use and a white residue (material from the golf ball) was evident on the ball brushes! The competitors=s club brushes were also upswept in the center of the brush pads after the wear test!

1. The Golf Clean unit requires 30% more force to pull the ball retainer through the lid on the Golf Clean unit than it does on the competitors unit.

2. The Golf Clean unit ball retainer can be pulled out of the lid with between 162.9 and 165.3 pounds of force, (average of 162.8 pounds), and the Golf Clean unit lid still remains intact.

3. The competitors ball retainer can be pulled out of the lid with a wide range of force and varying pull from 68.8 to 166.1 pounds of force, (average of 125.5 pounds), and the competitors lid broke on each test unit!

1.  The Golf Clean unit requires 50% more force to break the pedestals at the base of the unit than it does on the competitors unit.

2. The Golf Clean unit requires a consistent force between 250 to 293 pounds, (an average of 270 pounds), to pull the pedestal away from the Golf Clean unit.

3. The competitors unit breaks with a wide range of force between 61 to 206 pounds of force, (an average of 180 pounds), to pull the pedestal away from the unit.

Item Four:  The Golf Clean unit ball retainer is far less likely to break than the competitors unit.

1.  The Golf Clean unit requires 12% more pounds of force to shear the ball from the ball retainer handle on the unit than that on competitors unit.

2.  It takes 326 pounds of force to shear the ball from the ball retainer handle on the Golf Clean unit.

3. It takes only 291 pounds of force to shear the ball from the ball retainer handle on the competitors unit.