Ball speed and Launch angle

[Joeadams92]

Good afternoon all
Been looking at the forum for ages but never posted so hopefully I'll ask something reasonable.

What distances would I be losing due to launch angle? I believe 19degrees is fairly poor so I'm opening my club face on impact ( driver is 9 degrees) , any advice to try and get it down and if so what should it be?

Thanks in advance

 

[duncan mackie]

Without the AOA and spin rates it's hard to determine.

You could be hitting +9 with low spin and losing nothing.

Basically your carry number is actually quite high for your ball speed...

 

[Lump]

Pretty useless numbers. Don’t know AoA, spin or smash.
For all we know you could be maxing your numbers.

 

[Joeadams92]

Thanks for the replies, I shall get more numbers next week and work from there

 

[clubchamp98]

I have a - angle of attack with 99mph driver speed.
My mate has a + angle of attack with 95mph driver speed.
He hits it miles past me because of the launch and spin being more efficient.
I have tried to change my aoa but it’s not easy to do.
You need to maximise these and you golf will improve but 19 launch is a bit high ,think 12 is optimal.

 

[duncan mackie]

I have a - angle of attack with 99mph driver speed.
My mate has a + angle of attack with 95mph driver speed.
He hits it miles past me because of the launch and spin being more efficient.
I have tried to change my aoa but it’s not easy to do.
You need to maximise these and you golf will improve but 19 launch is a bit high ,think 12 is optimal.

It varies according to ball speed and, to a degree spin. At 145 and 2400 my optimum is 14.5 for carry. Slower will benefit from more and faster can be less but 12 is pretty low (more a links running driver stroke 🤔)

 

[clubchamp98]

It varies according to ball speed and, to a degree spin. At 145 and 2400 my optimum is 14.5 for carry. Slower will benefit from more and faster can be less but 12 is pretty low (more a links running driver stroke 🤔)

Yes I do have quite a low ball flight .
At my age now I am not going to try and change it.

 

[Scozzy]

Ok so I’m nearly a full bottle of red down so forgive me but if I was hitting drives out past 300 yds I wouldn’t consider it an issue🍷🤪

 

[Parsaregood]

19 is pretty high launch for a driver, your not losing too much in terms of carry relative to ballspeed so your spinrate can't be too high. I'd be more concerned with bringing launch down to reduce peak height so it's a more playable flight, especially in wind etc.
Also would be working on technique to increase smash and maximise ballspeed relative to club speed.
The top tracers are ok on the ranges but they can be a touch off at times, I live pretty close to one and have access to a gc2 quite a bit. Yes they are ok and will give you a general idea but with launch angle etc I wouldn't be trusting all that much