Slime
Tour Winner
The day had finally arrived and I hurried down to Hoebridge Golf Club full of eager anticipation.
I got there early & explained to their staff that I was there for the Golf Monthly/Cobra driver fitting, at which point they gave me a voucher for 90 balls to use on their range, which was very welcome.
I then bumped into BTatHome and we went to warm up. Whilst doing so we also met Golf Monthly’s Jake, cameraman Kevin and Cobra’s Joe, who proceeded to set up the equipment whilst I continued hitting many & varied shots with my current driver, grateful for the fact that I was hitting the ball pretty much as I normally would ..................... I’d brought my normal swing to the fitting, and that was reassuring.
Sawtooth then joined the party and it was good to meet him too.
All too suddenly the time had arrived and I was put under Joe's spotlight!
Joe first got me to hit some shots with my driver, a TM Burner Superfast with a regular shaft, and the results were recorded on his laptop via TrackMan. Distance was reasonable, apparently, but dispersion was not all that!
The distance I was recording with my driver was an average carry of 219yds, rolling out to 238yds.
Dispersion varied from 20yds right to 50yds left!!!
SHOT NO CLUB ATTACK BALL LAUNCH SPIN CARRY TOTAL
SPEED ANG. SPEED ANG. RATE
[mph] [deg] [mph] [deg] [rpm] [yds] [yds]
1 99.4 -2.8 134.9 9.0 3369 200.2 224.8
2 98.6 -1.4 134.3 19.3 3128 218.2 231.7
3 102.0 -4.1 148.1 13.7 4237 228.4 239.5
4 99.8 -0.8 141.8 11.6 4355 214.1 227.8
5 100.8 -2.7 138.7 13.6 3245 222.1 240.3
6 97.1 -3.8 146.5 10.6 2335 231.0 261.9
Average 99.6 -2.6 140.7 13.0 3445 219.0 237.7
I know ...................... but it was cold and the range balls were soft and squidgy ................. and I'm clinging to that!
Then he put a Bio Cell in my hands, wow, what a difference it was to hold and swing! My Superfast has a long regular flex shaft with a large, ugly head on the end. The cobra was a good inch shorter, the shaft was stiffer and the head just felt heavier. The whole thing felt shorter and stubbier than the club I was used to, and I liked it ..................... it just felt more controllable ......................... I felt that I was in touch with the club head at all times, the difference was massive.
It was like changing from Peter Crouch to Wayne Rooney. One is willowy, unpredictable and only occasionally brilliant, whereas the other is far more reliable, much more aggressive on the ball and performed better virtually all of the time.
As a result my dispersion immediately improved and results were recorded with various loft settings. The one that seemed to work for me was the 9.5° of loft with a draw bias coupled with a stiff shaft as I was typically swinging at around 97mph. We tried various loft/shaft combinations but none were quite as good as that with which we started. (To confirm this we tried that set-up again and, as before, dispersion was much better and that was all I was after. Dispersion beats distance every time for me).
The dispersion with that combo was from 15yds right to 20yds left with an average carry of 232yds, rolling out to 253yds. Still 150yds short of the forum average, but not bad for me!
SHOT NO CLUB ATTACK BALL LAUNCH SPIN CARRY TOTAL
SPEED ANG. SPEED ANG. RATE
[mph] [deg] [mph] [deg] [rpm] [yds] [yds]
1 96.7 -2.1 143.0 15.8 3269 231.3 246.7
2 96.1 -2.1 144.5 13.6 1825 236.9 268.8
3 95.0 -4.0 142.8 14.5 3313 227.1 244.4
Average 95.9 -2.7 143.4 14.6 2802 231.8 253.3
Oh, it also makes the right noise too, just like a good woman, not too loud ……………….. but she lets you know when you’ve found the sweet spot! Can I say that?
The stiff shaft option surprised me as, when I was fitted for my Superfast, the guy at American Golf said I suited a regular shaft and the Superfast was absolutely perfect for me! Weird thing is that my Superfast was the last one they had in stock, they were also able to offer me a few £’s off and the Superfast 2 had just been released ................... weird that!
Anyhow, after the specs were agreed I had to choose the colour, not as easy as I thought. I arrived this morning convinced that I’d go for the red, but, after far too long, I eventually went for the electric blue, which really looks gorgeous, and, after being measured for the correct size of grip, I chose red. Blue head, black & white shaft, red grip .................. perfect.
BY now it was raining pretty constantly so we were very kindly treated to a bit of lunch before taking buggies out onto the course for a photo shoot. Jeez it was cold, but Kevin, Jake, Sawtooth and BTatHome were all good company and made the weather more than bearable.
Photo shoot over, we made our way back, said our goodbyes and set off home.
What a good day it was, what an interesting day it was and what a pleasure it was to meet some new faces and new friends.
With the technology that is now available I cannot stress how invaluable a proper custom fitting can be. Today was all based on facts, facts that were produced by my own golf shots, priceless.
I’d also stress how important it is to be fitted by a competent fitter. I got the impression that Cobra’s Joe was just as enthusiastic as I was about setting me up with the best driver for me rather than the approach I feel I suffered from at American Golf where I’m sure that they fitted me for the driver that they wanted to sell!
Try the new Cobra Bio Cell, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Slime.
Jeez, this took longer to write than the fitting took
.
Thanks for reading, I hope you found it useful :thup:.
I got there early & explained to their staff that I was there for the Golf Monthly/Cobra driver fitting, at which point they gave me a voucher for 90 balls to use on their range, which was very welcome.
I then bumped into BTatHome and we went to warm up. Whilst doing so we also met Golf Monthly’s Jake, cameraman Kevin and Cobra’s Joe, who proceeded to set up the equipment whilst I continued hitting many & varied shots with my current driver, grateful for the fact that I was hitting the ball pretty much as I normally would ..................... I’d brought my normal swing to the fitting, and that was reassuring.
Sawtooth then joined the party and it was good to meet him too.
All too suddenly the time had arrived and I was put under Joe's spotlight!
Joe first got me to hit some shots with my driver, a TM Burner Superfast with a regular shaft, and the results were recorded on his laptop via TrackMan. Distance was reasonable, apparently, but dispersion was not all that!
The distance I was recording with my driver was an average carry of 219yds, rolling out to 238yds.
Dispersion varied from 20yds right to 50yds left!!!
SHOT NO CLUB ATTACK BALL LAUNCH SPIN CARRY TOTAL
SPEED ANG. SPEED ANG. RATE
[mph] [deg] [mph] [deg] [rpm] [yds] [yds]
1 99.4 -2.8 134.9 9.0 3369 200.2 224.8
2 98.6 -1.4 134.3 19.3 3128 218.2 231.7
3 102.0 -4.1 148.1 13.7 4237 228.4 239.5
4 99.8 -0.8 141.8 11.6 4355 214.1 227.8
5 100.8 -2.7 138.7 13.6 3245 222.1 240.3
6 97.1 -3.8 146.5 10.6 2335 231.0 261.9
Average 99.6 -2.6 140.7 13.0 3445 219.0 237.7
I know ...................... but it was cold and the range balls were soft and squidgy ................. and I'm clinging to that!
Then he put a Bio Cell in my hands, wow, what a difference it was to hold and swing! My Superfast has a long regular flex shaft with a large, ugly head on the end. The cobra was a good inch shorter, the shaft was stiffer and the head just felt heavier. The whole thing felt shorter and stubbier than the club I was used to, and I liked it ..................... it just felt more controllable ......................... I felt that I was in touch with the club head at all times, the difference was massive.
It was like changing from Peter Crouch to Wayne Rooney. One is willowy, unpredictable and only occasionally brilliant, whereas the other is far more reliable, much more aggressive on the ball and performed better virtually all of the time.
As a result my dispersion immediately improved and results were recorded with various loft settings. The one that seemed to work for me was the 9.5° of loft with a draw bias coupled with a stiff shaft as I was typically swinging at around 97mph. We tried various loft/shaft combinations but none were quite as good as that with which we started. (To confirm this we tried that set-up again and, as before, dispersion was much better and that was all I was after. Dispersion beats distance every time for me).
The dispersion with that combo was from 15yds right to 20yds left with an average carry of 232yds, rolling out to 253yds. Still 150yds short of the forum average, but not bad for me!
SHOT NO CLUB ATTACK BALL LAUNCH SPIN CARRY TOTAL
SPEED ANG. SPEED ANG. RATE
[mph] [deg] [mph] [deg] [rpm] [yds] [yds]
1 96.7 -2.1 143.0 15.8 3269 231.3 246.7
2 96.1 -2.1 144.5 13.6 1825 236.9 268.8
3 95.0 -4.0 142.8 14.5 3313 227.1 244.4
Average 95.9 -2.7 143.4 14.6 2802 231.8 253.3
Oh, it also makes the right noise too, just like a good woman, not too loud ……………….. but she lets you know when you’ve found the sweet spot! Can I say that?
The stiff shaft option surprised me as, when I was fitted for my Superfast, the guy at American Golf said I suited a regular shaft and the Superfast was absolutely perfect for me! Weird thing is that my Superfast was the last one they had in stock, they were also able to offer me a few £’s off and the Superfast 2 had just been released ................... weird that!
Anyhow, after the specs were agreed I had to choose the colour, not as easy as I thought. I arrived this morning convinced that I’d go for the red, but, after far too long, I eventually went for the electric blue, which really looks gorgeous, and, after being measured for the correct size of grip, I chose red. Blue head, black & white shaft, red grip .................. perfect.
BY now it was raining pretty constantly so we were very kindly treated to a bit of lunch before taking buggies out onto the course for a photo shoot. Jeez it was cold, but Kevin, Jake, Sawtooth and BTatHome were all good company and made the weather more than bearable.
Photo shoot over, we made our way back, said our goodbyes and set off home.
What a good day it was, what an interesting day it was and what a pleasure it was to meet some new faces and new friends.
With the technology that is now available I cannot stress how invaluable a proper custom fitting can be. Today was all based on facts, facts that were produced by my own golf shots, priceless.
I’d also stress how important it is to be fitted by a competent fitter. I got the impression that Cobra’s Joe was just as enthusiastic as I was about setting me up with the best driver for me rather than the approach I feel I suffered from at American Golf where I’m sure that they fitted me for the driver that they wanted to sell!
Try the new Cobra Bio Cell, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Slime.
Jeez, this took longer to write than the fitting took
. Thanks for reading, I hope you found it useful :thup:.
