Looking for recent feedback on Shorter Length Drivers

toraider · 2022-09-12T15:58:01+00:00

Not sure what took so long, but I just started experimenting with Shorter Drivers. I played a round with a Taylormade 300 Mini with a 5W shaft 42.5 and prob...

Walterjn

sdandrea1 screw that, cruise down to CA and play some golf...

sdandrea1

Walterjn screw that, cruise down to CA and play some golf...

Love that idea👍

colej

DC300

Cause I suck with my irons 😂 especially the short irons.

garyt1957

colej Yea that formula never worked for me even when I was younger and hitting it 260, I always hit my irons short, maybe 120 PW tops. It's pretty close now though PW 105 driver 200-220.

DC300

colej I used to be similar, I hit down too much and the ball went too high w too much spin. I literally used to use distance balls to cut my spin down 😂. Now that I “stopped” leading w my hands and not being so steep, I’m getting much better distance from the irons. I also get to use real golf balls now, so I don’t have to hit a chip and run at everything around the greens. YMMV, but that’s what I had to get away from.

johnnydoom

Typhoon FYI you driver distance should be 2x your PW (45-48 degree) carry distance.

Almost exactly for me. Unfortunately, my driver only goes 220 or so 😦

sdandrea1

johnnydoom Unfortunately, my driver only goes 220 or so

Trade ya?!

KCee

colej No I haven't. I was struggling with the longer lighter stuff so I threw an old Saga 70 in at 44.5" and was doing well, but now I'm hot and cold with that too. It's just me swinging poorly; I can't even hit a GW consistently these days and wedges used to be a strong part of my game.

colej

KCee

Sadly I feel the same pain 🙁

Luc_Van_Daele

Typhoon you driver distance should be 2x your PW (45-48 degree) carry distance.

Seems to be spot on with my 44"1/2 driver. That's what I prefer: a mid-low trajectory shaft in 65-70gr range at 44"1./2 and D0 swingweight. I seem to loose control going lighter and longer.

Typhoon

Luc_Van_Daele Heavier weight is the answer to keeping the height down. My pro has a Cobra Rad Speed driver that he hits too high. It has a HZRDUS Blue in it at 60 grams and he wanted me to tip trim it an inch. I told him no, not wrecking the shaft by doing that. It’s already a low spin shaft and his spin is fine. He just hits it 34 yards high. I told him he needed a heavier shaft. I applied strips of lead tape to the middle of the shaft, 10 grams 14” down from the grip. It brought his height down to 27 yards…. Right where he wanted it.

johnnydoom

sdandrea1 Trade ya?!

If you give me a piece of your short game, yes!

sdandrea1

johnnydoom If you give me a piece of your short game, yes!

I'll sacrifice the driver distance to keep the short game. Maybe we can play in a scramble? 👍

Taki27

DC300 I have boxes of Pro Vs and Maxfli Tour X balls that I can’t use because I spin them too much. Carry my driver 275 for a total distance of 274. My PW goes 135 and ends up at 125. I don’t get to play much so the fact it’s straight is good enough for me. It is funny though because you watch my drives explode off the club and fly though the air and after all the wows I get the 3500 plus rpms of spin only make it go 10 yards past the guys I play with.

Par4QC

I just built me a short driver, 44". Not for driving holes, but for those pesky 175 yd. Par 3 holes. Used an old Power Play 3000, 10.5 driver head; only about 350cc it looks like. Heavier (for me) shaft @ 67gr., plus added 7 gr. to head.
Should be interesting IF I can hit it straight enough. Details after next round.

DC300

Taki27 I feel your pain, I finally got my spin and LA under control and it’s nice to be able to use a good golf ball. My driver swing was +6* at one point, got that leveled out, and I don’t know how bad the irons were, but all I have to do is go to what feels normal to stomp a ball over the tallest trees on any course 😂. I battle a game of extremes in all facets in life it seems.

KCee

DonM Same for me. I can bunt a PW 125 without trouble, but some days the driver only goes 210. Some days it goes 260-270. That's what makes golf interesting right?

sdandrea1

KCee Some days it goes 260-270.

That's driver, PW for me.

wishbone

I often find my drive with the ball behind the pitch mark. Very little run out compared to other I play with in firm conditions. Sigh

Par4QC

wishbone The course I mainly play has been like that ever since I opened my big mouth. It has always been a somewhat soft track, but 1 day I noticed the balls were really bouncing/rolling out, which I loved; iirc, shot Par that day. When I returned the cart, I said something to the guy about how nice it was to finally not have the course so soft. Been nothing but mud balls ever since, and that is with no rain for several days at times. I've been 'doing the rounds' at other courses now. But, with all the rain we've been getting lately, they are all the same. Not good for a short knocker.

DonM

Par4QC Soon you will have that glorious two week period when the Illinois courses dry out and your drives actually run. 🙂
Just before the season ends. 🙁

Par4QC

DonM Soon you will have that glorious two week period when the Illinois courses dry out and your drives actually run.

Won't happen in this part of the state. Actually, not in any part of the state. Farmers may say different, but it's been wet all season. Rain coming again early next week for 3-4 days.
I play 1 course that typically has the hardest greens around. Last time there they were some of the slowest I've played this summer. And they are not flat, at all.

DonM

Par4QC I always found that in mid October, they were able to stop watering the fairways, and so we'd get a lot of run. Of course if it keeps raining, that's different.

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