Your current set up

Cutter66 · 2024-02-26T03:28:31+00:00

You don’t have to put your set out, club by club (meaning WITB), but what you have in the bag and maybe a little why. Then maybe state something about your g...

Sparky

Nothing that interesting for me. Only dilemma is going 54-58 or 52-56-60 on wedges. There doesn't seem to be a significant difference between my 3h and 4h, so I could drop one of those. My short game has been the problem child lately, so going to try the 3 wedge approach again.

Recently added a PXG Gen 5 3 wood. Amazing off the tee, but I hit my old Tommy Armour Atomic better off the grass, and I don't hit 3w off the tee much, so the Atomic returns to the bag this week.

Oh wait, I did go back to steel iron shafts after 10+ years in graphite. About 4 months in and no elbow pain. Cue the dancing bananas.

sdandrea1

My game is:

Play at or around 5000 yards (driver distance about 180).
Find the fairway
Advance the ball on or near (mostly) the green
Use strong (some days) short game skills to make pars and bogeys
no stupid risks, very few double bogeys or worse
GHIN index runs 12 to 14.

Driver, high lofted FW, a few mid hybrids, 8 - W, Gw, SW, putter. Usually carry 10 or fewer clubs.

If ball striking is on, I'll make some regulation pars, ocassional birdie. If it's off, I bunt my way around with whatever is working. Scores run usually from 77 to 84.

brownmoose13

I need a definition of current since what I play on Monday will be much different on Wednesday unless I play on Tuesday

Weirfan

Play tees of 6200-6600 usually

driver 9*
3 wood 15*
Utility/driving iron 20*
Hybrid 24*
Irons 5-pw
GW 48*
GW 52*
SW 57.5 *
Putter

sdandrea1

Weirfan

Showoff 🤬

😉👍

johnnydoom

I usually play from tees that are between 5700 - 6200 yards. 10.5 degree Ping G400 driver usually goes about 225 yards, but some days I loosen up and can get to 250. 5 wood and 7 wood that I hit around 190 and 170. I still carry a 4 iron which I hit about the same as the 7 wood or a little longer because some days I'm hitting my irons well and when I am it's more accurate. 5i - gap wedge. 54 and 58 degree wedges. Putter. In recent years I'm a very accurate driver. Irons which used to be the bedrock of my game are now very inconsistent. Pretty decent wedge player. Perhaps the worst putter that hasn't quit playing. Scores are anywhere between 85 - 100, but rarely in the 80's these days due to the putting. Probably have only averaged about half-dozen rounds per year since about 2010 and only played 27 holes last year. Hoping for better this year.

DonM

Driver swing speed 84. 5800 yards.

10.5° driver turned to 12. Committed relationship level 4 of 5.
17° 4 wood, CRL 5
21° 7 wood, CRL 5
25° 9 wood, CRL 4
5 hybrid, CRL 2
6 hybrid, CRL 5 (Twins but one doesn’t really like me)
7-GW, CRL 1
54, CRL 2
58, CRL 3
Putter, CRL 3

Irons, it’s me, not them.
Same for putter.

sdandrea1

DonM Irons, it’s me, not them.

I'm beginning to hate irons because they hate me.

DonM

I play with a wide cross section of handicaps. Generalizing about their equipment habits:

A Players: Rarely change. Especially the putter.
B Players: (I’m one.) Many of them change fairly often. As in every year or two. A few are hopeless ho’s.
C Players: About the same as B, but no real ho’s.
D Players: Rarely change. Maybe putters.

I ought to be able to learn something from this. But what?
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Par4QC

DonM Where's the 'E' category, for guys like me and Steve?🤣

I could (seriously) change my entire bag out every day and still shoot the same. (not bragging at all, just a crazy & proven factoid).
I've never had any lesson, but "aged well" in the game, I guess.

ode

I strangle the club, yep....no light pressure for me and interlock on all full swings and overlap on chips and pitches. 10 finger with the putter as reverse overlap does not feel right. Sub 100ss with a good smooth swing.

~ 6400 typically, I won't drive off if the tips are less than that 😜

D-10.5
3w
19, 22 hybrids
26 driving iron
7-PW, GW (30-48)
GW² 51
SW

Still looking for the right fairway wood set up and am experimenting with 4w/16-17 ... As well as the 26/5i/5h and 30/7i spot in the bag as that is the transition of loft from iron to hybrid where I need to get situated. I am a low ball hitter and a 30/7i is not the best set up for me....looking for a driving iron style around that loft to try!

VigilanteTrail

ode Still looking for the right fairway & hybrid set up and am experimenting with 4w/16-17 ... As well as the 26/5i/5h

Ditto here 👍

DonM

sdandrea1
One of our A players, who shot under his age of 73 last week, carries a 9 iron and wedges. And he uses the 8 hybrid for a lot of distances where I think he would take the 9 or PW. If Callaway or some other OEM made a 9 hybrid, he'd probably bag it.

sdandrea1

Par4QC I could (seriously) change my entire bag out every day and still shoot the same. (not bragging at all, just a crazy & proven factoid).

BTDT.

azgreg

Par4QC I could (seriously) change my entire bag out every day and still shoot the same.

I've changed out the entire bag including the bag at the turn before.

fatshot

My current set up:
Driver 12* Ping (soon to change when I get the new Cobra head shafted up)
Fairways: 5w, 7w, 9w (19-23-26 degrees, covering 180 to 160 yards)
Hybrids: They're all currently in "Time Out"!!!
Irons: 6-pw
Wedges: gap, SW, LW. (49, 54, 58*)

The big gap in my bag is around 150 yards, where I can't seem to find a club to fit....I've always had a love/hate relationship with hybrids, so when I banished the latest hybrid, I threw my wife's old 11 wood in the bag for the hell of it. It's a 30* Nancy Lopez model (with lead tape conveniently covering up Nancy's name!!! 😉). We'll see how that goes next time I play......

DonM

fatshot The big gap in my bag is around 150 yards, where I can't seem to find a club to fit

That has been true for me forever. Years ago I used to say I'd rather be 180, which was my 24 degree 7 wood.
Now I'm shorter and it's still true. Maybe if I play long enough it, 150 will be my 7 wood!

FauxAmish

The only thing that I do that is different than anybody else is how I play a fairway bunker shot. I was taught this shot about 50 years ago by my best college friend, and have not seen anyone else play it this way.
I make sure that my feet are firmly planted in the sand and I hover the club directly over the middle of the ball and just swing away. It produces solid ball first contact and works for me. I use the technigue for any club up to a 5 wood.

sdandrea1

FauxAmish

Fortunately, I can't reach the fairway bunkers from the tee box, so I've got that going for me.😉

VigilanteTrail

Home course is a par 72 that is 71.4/131 and 6,600’ish yards from the whites. My course handicap is a 15 (index 13.3) and I play twice per week (during the season), occasionally more sometimes if the schedule allows.

My normal setup is one driver (usually 9 or 9.5 cranked up .5 or 1); one FW (16-18* range); 2 or 3 hybrids; 5-PW, 2 or 3 wedges & obviously a putter.

Nothing really out of the ordinary for me other than I do rotate between my FW and a #2 hybrid based on wind conditions…I hit my 2 hybrid with a lower trajectory than any woods I hit.

mulegolf

I usually play best at 5000 to 5500 yards. I have a XXIO Prime 9 Driver, 11.5° r-flex shaft. I hit it around
180-200 yards. I also carry a XXIO 11 4 wood, Callaway Heaven Wood, XXIO 11 4-6 hybrids, XXIO Prime
7 hybrid and an 8 hybrid I made with an XXIO 11 ladies 7 hybrid head and XXIO men's shaft, XXIO 11
9 iron, XXIO 11 PW & AW, Cleveland CBX Full Face SW & LW. I'm still coming to terms with loosing
more distance each year. I play at least half of my rounds by myself. I go to the course when I feel like it
and it's become more about the surroundings sometimes than it is about golf.