Recommendations for a High Launch/Low Spin Driver Shaft???

Hammer4413 · 2019-03-26T02:44:15+00:00

In the 50 gram/60 gram weight range, regular flex. I've been told such an animal doesn't exist but at a driver fitting I won the fitter suggested such??? I'...

pellmell

Tinker The most carry distance will always be the best choice.

Not necessarily. There was a study by a local golf publication which revealed that women golfers with swing speeds above 90 mph were losing distance when using recommended drivers. It sounds counterintuitive, but the best distance was achieved with stiffer shafts and lower lofts than was considered conventional.

JeffTilley

pellmell

I can agree with this because I swing like a woman. Hell, most women swing faster than I do......

garyt1957

pellmell Not necessarily. There was a study by a local golf publication which revealed that women golfers with swing speeds above 90 mph were losing distance when using recommended drivers. It sounds counterintuitive, but the best distance was achieved with stiffer shafts and lower lofts than was considered conventional

That's what I find. I kept going up in loft trying to find distance as I get older and kept getting shorter. Switched to an 8 driver and picked up 20 yuards over my 12 and 14* drivers.

KCee

I think how much carry and roll depends on where you play too. Here in New England I'll take almost all carry because many of our fairways are shaggy or wet or both. In Arizona I'll take more roll.

Sparky

Yep...I spent a lot of time over the last year chasing that magical 16-17 launch and 2200 spin. Best I could get to on a launch monitor was 14 launch. All I got was a high drive that came down soft and didn't roll. Frustrating.

On a whim, I bought a Cobra F9 with a low launch HZRDUS shaft just because I wanted to check out the F9 head. Left it on the 9 degree setting, and played Monday. I had several drives that just rolled and rolled and ended up a good 20-30 yards past what I expected. So I took my gamer F8, tuned loft down from 11 to 9.5, and it was going 20 yards further. Here in SoCal, firm and fast fairways don't need that 16-17 launch.

Tinker

I can’t remember the last time I played on a firm and fast fairway in the Delaware area. I’ll take all the carry I can get and if I stumble on a firm fast day I’ll consider it a bonus.

MidwayJ

I get a lot of roll in Texas. When I played in Vermont a couple summers ago the grass grabbed the ball and stopped it almost immediately. My drives were consistently 20 yards shorter at least. I would definitely switch to a higher loft driver if I played there all the time.

Rickochet

MidwayJ I get a lot of roll in Texas.

Particularly with a 30 mph west wind. 😜

scotts33

Anyone heard more dynamic loft less side spin?

Rickochet

scotts33 Anyone heard more dynamic loft less side spin?

I have heard of, "Mo loft, mo poon." 😛

johnnydoom

scotts33 Anyone heard more dynamic loft less side spin?

That's generally why I grab a 3 wood or 4i on par 4's less than 360 yards if the landing area is tight. Doesn't always work out, but I put those two in play, particularly the 4i, at a higher percentage than the driver.

We do have Jekyll and Hyde fairways around here. The soil is mostly clay and in the winter and spring usually the ground is soft, often to the point of plugged drives and little or no roll. But in the summer and fall those same fairways can bake out so hard that I can sometimes get 30 yards or more of roll out of a low trajectory drive. In past years I've alternated between a 10.5 degree SMT Indio and a 12 degree Bang 401 BOM to get the most out of whatever condition is present. This year I have an adjustable Cobra King LTD.

Rickochet

johnnydoom That's generally why I grab a 3 wood or 4i on par 4's less than 360 yards if the landing area is tight. Doesn't always work out,

When I try to use a "safe" club on a tight par 4 I am in jail more often than if I had just gone on and hit the driver.

therod

Try the Hiskei Wave shaft. You can thank me later😎

Rickochet

therod Try the Hiskei Wave shaft.

Not cheap. http://www.clubmaker-online.com/hiskei.shafts.html

KCee

Rickochet When I try to use a "safe" club on a tight par 4 I am in jail more often than if I had just gone on and hit the driver.

I am starting to feel the same. I really struggled at my new home course last year as almost all the holes are tight. Later in the year I started to look at the hole and decide if it was better to miss left or right. If a left miss is better I hit 3 wood since that draws easily for me and if right is better then I hit driver. I seemed to do a lot better with that reasoning.

johnnydoom

Rickochet For me, the driver is the second weakest part of my game behind chipping and putting. I'm not a horrible driver, but I often cannot predict if its going left or right reliably, or if I force it to one direction or the other, how far it will curve in that direction. I can almost always put a 4 iron about 200 yards off a tee into a fairway. Of course that may then leave me with a 6 or 7 iron into the green instead of a 9 iron or wedge. So although I removed the driver danger, I often put even more pressure on my poor short game. Just depends on whether or not I'm having a decent day with the driver. Was having trouble with the 3 wood I was carrying, but I recently swapped it out for a 4 wood, and at least in my first range visit was getting much better consistency with little change in overall distance.

JeffTilley

Rickochet

Please define cheap........$12?

scotts33

On average PGA pros only hit 50% of fairways. Why would a hacker think they can hit more than that?

But PGA pro's can hit miraculous recovery shots hackers can not. I for one am not a big proponent of distance over accuracy if you want to score. That's just me.

A player gets under 95 mph it's a law of declining averages. Play a shaft/head combo that keeps you in the fairway and play the correct tee box when possible.

JeffTilley

scotts33

The difference is pros hit their drivers farther, increasing their odds of going offline. How many seniors have you seen at your local course bomb their drives right down the middle of the fairway, 150 yards out?

sdandrea1

scotts33 A player gets under 95 mph it's a law of declining averages. Play a shaft/head combo that keeps you in the fairway and play the correct tee box when possible.

This.......

garyt1957

scotts33 On average PGA pros only hit 50% of fairways. Why would a hacker think they can hit more than that?

Another example where nothing the pros do correlates to what the average golfer does. I hit the ball 230 max. If I hit a ball right I might end up in the FW. A guy who hits it 250 hits the exact same shot and is well into the rough/woods. A pro hitting the exact same line at 300 plus yards is off the planet. Not to mention the pros generally play narrower Fw's than your average course. I've had years where I've averaged over 70% FW's hit, not because I'm a great driver of the ball but because I don't hit it that far.

scotts33

JeffTilley The difference is pros hit their drivers farther, increasing their odds of going offline. How many seniors have you seen at your local course bomb their drives right down the middle of the fairway, 150 yards out?

200 yards out in the trees is not good either. 🙂

sdandrea1

Just hit the ball down the fairway, go find it and hit it again. Shaft, schmaft.......

Rickochet

sdandrea1 Just hit the ball down the fairway, go find it and hit it again. Shaft, schmaft.......

Says he who buys new shit every week looking for the Holy Grail. Me too. 😜