Draw / Fade Settings on Adjustable Drivers....

[HawkeyeMS]

Nonsense, they come with a tool and instructions. You change the setting and hit some practice balls. You see what the setting change does and if you don't like it you change it back or try another setting.

You absolutely DO NOT need to go to the expense of a fitter and a monitor solely to adjust a driver to the setting that works best for you.

It's not nonsense at all, how do you how much backspin you are putting on the ball? Reducing the loft can severely change the amount of backspin on the ball as well as the launch angle both of which should be optimised to get the best results. Doing it yourself you have no idea what these numbers are. You might find a setting you think is right but without the numbers you will never know. They come with instructions and tools so that people can think the driver can fix their faults, but it can't.

 

[Five&One]

It's not nonsense at all, how do you how much backspin you are putting on the ball? Reducing the loft can severely change the amount of backspin on the ball as well as the launch angle both of which should be optimised to get the best results. Doing it yourself you have no idea what these numbers are. You might find a setting you think is right but without the numbers you will never know. They come with instructions and tools so that people can think the driver can fix their faults, but it can't.

You don't need to know the science though. I saw your post above with all the figures and degrees of loft and attack and I thought ' who actually cares about the numbers if you twist to a different setting and it fixes your problem'

i said earlier that I am not an advocate of adjustable drivers. I think it's better to get lessons rather than take a screwdriver to a golf club, but if you have an adjustable driver, adjust it yourself and try it. If the adjustment works then the science behind it is totally uninteresting and irrelevant to most people I would say.

i should say I am talking about adjustables with your bog standard 3 settings here. If you have one with multiple settings then yes, I can see a case for optimising your settings using a flight monitor ( although I still wouldn't bother myself, I'd do it on the practice ground and view the results with the naked eye)

i don't need to know how my washing machine works. Just need to know that it does what I want it to do. If my clothes come out too wet I switch a button and they come out drier. I couldn't actually give one about how fast the drum had to go to get them that way.

 

[upsidedown]

Got mine set to s slight draw, have 3 shots with it which hit pretty much most of the time.

Power fade, tee low and off left heel

Soft draw, tee low off middle of stance

Hard draw, tee mid height just in front of middle of stance.

When I was fitted for it it was set on the Neutral position but by trail and error this is what works for me

 

[Foxholer]

trail and error this is what works for me

Here's the way the adjustability should be used!

Find out the setting that works best - either by eye or Launch Monitor, set it, forget it.

Though perhaps have a 'calm day' setting and a 'windy day' setting.

And to answer the question in the OP....it depends but generally closed. Some players actually compensate so work 'backwards'! Using draw bias weighting (heel) works better for them.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

You don't need to know the science though. I saw your post above with all the figures and degrees of loft and attack and I thought ' who actually cares about the numbers if you twist to a different setting and it fixes your problem'

i said earlier that I am not an advocate of adjustable drivers. I think it's better to get lessons rather than take a screwdriver to a golf club, but if you have an adjustable driver, adjust it yourself and try it. If the adjustment works then the science behind it is totally uninteresting and irrelevant to most people I would say.

i should say I am talking about adjustables with your bog standard 3 settings here. If you have one with multiple settings then yes, I can see a case for optimising your settings using a flight monitor ( although I still wouldn't bother myself, I'd do it on the practice ground and view the results with the naked eye)

i don't need to know how my washing machine works. Just need to know that it does what I want it to do. If my clothes come out too wet I switch a button and they come out drier. I couldn't actually give one about how fast the drum had to go to get them that way.

You don't need to know you're right, and incase you hadn't guessed, those figures are made up, I have no idea if they are in anyway representative of real figures and don't much care.

My point was, that you can adjust the driver to a setting you like but how do you know with a slight adjustment you can't get lower spin and 15 yds more runout? You might not care if you already hit a long ball but if you don't 15 yds would be useful.

Personally I think adjustable drivers are for what I said above, ease of fitting, ease of stocking (less heads to stock) and ease of manufacturer\lower manufacturing costs. And at the same time, if you can include a wrench and lure people into thinking they can cure their slice and therefore increasing sales then why not?

But the real truth is, if you give Joe Bloggs a non adjustable driver and a couple of hours "trying" things on the range, they will come away thinking they have fixed their swing fault. Give them an adjustable driver and they can mess with the settings on the range and come away thinking it has fixed their swing fault. I can however almost guarantee come Saturday that they are looking for their ball in the same clag down the right hand side of the course that they were slicing it into the week before.

 

[garyinderry]

i mucked about with every setting on my 910 up until a month ago. ive decided that neutral is the best setting. no more mucking about!

 

[Pin-seeker]

It's not nonsense at all, how do you how much backspin you are putting on the ball? Reducing the loft can severely change the amount of backspin on the ball as well as the launch angle both of which should be optimised to get the best results. Doing it yourself you have no idea what these numbers are. You might find a setting you think is right but without the numbers you will never know. They come with instructions and tools so that people can think the driver can fix their faults, but it can't.

You might not know the numbers but if you've got a set of eyes you can see what gives you the best ball flight.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

You might not know the numbers but if you've got a set of eyes you can see what gives you what you think is the best ball flight.

Fixed that or ya

 

[USER1999]

My cally has three settings, open, neutral and closed. It has two weights, heavy and light. It doesn't take much messing about to find what works best. No help needed.

If I had an R1 with 168 settings, then hawkeye is right, I'd need a launch monitor and some professional help.

 

[Pin-seeker]

Fixed that or ya

Oh dear