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New Nike Covert driver on USGA conforming list

November 05, 2012

Nike Golf has been showing sneak peeks and videos about a new driver in the last week, but the U.S. Golf Association offered the big reveal in its weekly update of the list of conforming driver heads this morning.

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In that listing are six separate entries for a Nike Covert and Covert Tour driver.Of note, the listings refer to several terms labeled on the driver, including "high speed cavity back technology," "NexCor" (NexCor is a Nike term for its variable face thickness technology) and "FlexLoft." Typically, the USGA listing details a driver loft, but none of the Nike entries mention a specific loft.

The individual listings indicate Nike's logo will appear somewhere on the crown of each driver, and the photographs that accompany each listing show a cavity in the rear portion of the sole.