Using a legitimate club head or even a photograph as a model, rapid-prototyping technology can spit out CAD files and create a master for a driver or iron head quickly and inexpensively.

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Some of these are then fed into a prototyping machine, made by Objet of Israel, that can produce a 3-D model in lightweight plastic in minutes.

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