Adjustable Hosels 101 video

darpar

I found this kind of interesting.🤔

garyt1957

Pretty good explanation but he fails to mention that you can't adjust BOTH the loft and the face angle at the same time. In other words if you want to close or open the face for hook/slice correction, you than can't adjust the loft and vice versa

sdandrea1

garyt1957 Pretty good explanation but he fails to mention that you can't adjust BOTH the loft and the face angle at the same time.

Technically you can. When you adjust the loft, the face angle changes. 😉 You just can't adjust them independently. Semantics.....JK!

Tinker

You really can’t move a head horizontally and change the manufactured loft. All adjustable do is move the shaft which a golfer can do with his hands.What this guy is not telling you is that when you set the driver to stronger,the face tilts down and opens. To get the face back to square at the target you need to move your arms forward, shutting the face and visa versa.

Sneakylong

I've always set the adjustable adapter to the highest loft, which as he explains helps in closing the face. I tend to open the face more in my backswing like many high functioning hackers.

Before adjustable hosels I played Cobra woods (think the SZ line circa 2003). They set up closed at address and made it easier to hit the ball straighter and even draw the ball for me.

He didn't get into how moveable or fixed weights help with a draw or fade. Moving the weight towards the heel helps the face want to close more and by moving the center of gravity towards the heel you are essentially making more of the face have more right to left gear effect. Basically making the face have a slightly larger toe area.

Just the opposite by moving the weight to the tow side giving the club more fade bias with the face wanting to open more and more heel side left to right gear effect. And again, making the face have a slightly larger heel area.

Of course all of this can be overridden by the golfer. lol I can hit a draw with an open faced driver by rotating my forearms more thru impact, but having the added help with weight and face angle bias does make it easier.

I always laugh when a hacker who slices the ball says I hate closed face looking drivers. To misquote Jack Nicholson from A Few Good Men: You want that face closed, you need that face closed!!! 🤣 Or Alec Baldwin from Glengarry Glen Ross: Always be Closing!!! 😂

Tinker

To hit a draw you need your stance about 4 degrees closed and the face 1 or 2 degrees open. It is closed in relationship to your swing plane. If you close your stance and close the face, duck hook city.

Sneakylong

Tinker To hit a draw you need your stance about 4 degrees closed and the face 1 or 2 degrees open.

That's one way of doing it. And yes before radar like Trackman came along no one knew you could hit a draw with an open face like your example. Also, stance doesn't necessarily insure path.

Bubba has shown you can hit a draw or a fade with an open stance. Bubba manipulates the club with his hands. You need quick wrists to do what he does.

I actually find it easier to swing down the line or out to the right from a slightly open stance. And as we know most people slice because they have an open face at impact. Fix the face and your on your way to straighter shots.

That’s why a more closed face will help many slicers.

Tinker

When I started playing ( I didn’t start until 89, I was 35 years old) what stopped my slicing was an offset driver. I wonder why offset drivers went out of vogue but offset irons are about all that are
produced.

Sneakylong

Tinker

Yeah, when I got back into golf in 2000 after a 20 year hiatus the first driver I bought was a Cobra SS350 offset. It had a closed face as well. Played Cobra drivers for several years after that.

Cobra still makes an offset driver.

sdandrea1

Sneakylong

I had THE Cobra SS350 offset, the 3 & 5 woods and the Gravity Back irons all in Cobra stand bag. I was all in when those came out. Good stuff!