Driver advice please...

[groundskeeperwilly]

Hi folks

Had the opportunity to look at the distances for all the clubs in my bag tonight.

Was pretty happy with irons-nice 10ish yard gaps all the way up the bag but was a little disappointed with 250yards average for the driver.

Now I know 250 is not terrible or anything like that but I was catching it well and thought it might push up to 280ish.

I am using a 10.5* Titleist 910 D2 with a stock Stiff shaft. Ball flight is quite high but I tend to get a high flight with irons too. Could this be loosing me distance? Would a lower loft be worth a look? Or a specific shaft that launches lower?

Thanks for any advice or opinion offered.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

250 and straight beats 280 and in the rough. If you are hitting it straight with most clubs on a regular basis I wouldn't be too stressed. Have a chat with your pro but to me I don't think it will be the loft and more likely to be the shaft that maybe isn't quite right

 

[duncan mackie]

don't understand the question

what was the basis of the distances?
carry or total?
what were the distances of the 6i and 3i/3h?

 

[groundskeeperwilly]

Sorry should have said distances were 180 for 6 iron and 210 for 3 iron....
Distances were total including carry and roll. Driver seemed to have particularly little roll out.

 

[pbrown7582]

Oh dear only 250 that's a 7 iron on here! :rofl:



No seriously without checking your swing path speeds etc on a launch monitor you could spend a lot of time trying lots of different things to know effect. 250 regular in middle of fairway would do me!

 

[pbrown7582]

Sorry should have said distances were 200 for 4 iron and 210 for 3 iron....
Distances were total including carry and roll. Driver seemed to have particularly little roll out.

3 iron ??? your sig says 4-PW ??? :lol:

 

[groundskeeperwilly]

Picked up a 3 iron on gumtree from a guy who has switched all his long irons to hybrids. Just haven't added to sig yet. Will do now...

 

[duncan mackie]

Sorry should have said distances were 180 for 6 iron and 210 for 3 iron....
Distances were total including carry and roll. Driver seemed to have particularly little roll out.

measured real life or ....?

180 carry for a 6i suggests you should be carrying your driver beyond the total distance you indicate

 

[Foxholer]

Driver does seem a little short compared to irons - but still reasonably satisfactory if on the fairway. I'm getting just short of 250 with Driver but only 150 with 6 iron.

Launch Monitor will show the reason in numbers. Pro should be able to tell from the flight on a Range.

 

[groundskeeperwilly]

measured real life or ....?

180 carry for a 6i suggests you should be carrying your driver beyond the total distance you indicate

That's what I was thinking. 180 yards in real life not a monitor/tracker. It was 180 with roll-I would guess carry was 170ish.

 

[Khamelion]

Oh dear only 250 that's a 7 iron on here! :rofl:

:clap::thup::clap:

And some would have you believe an 8 or 9 on one of their good days.

If you're hitting it straight and keeping it on the short stuff 250 is going to keep your scores down, well, as long as you can pitch and putt of course.

However, if you are hell bent on trying a new driver, Kraxx on here changed from his Titleist 910 D2 to the new Callaway X-Hot and the ball really flies of the club face. Could be he's getting better could be the club, my money is on the club making him look good.

I can get away with the mickey take as he's rarely on here, unless he just lurks.:mmm:

 

[davidg2010uk]

250 is a good distance. I wouldn't worry about it if you are consistently hitting fairways. You could de-loft/change shaft to gain some extra yards but if you can't keep in straight they you won't be any better off. Here is the average driving distances for top 200 European Tour players - http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/stats/genworthfs/season=2013/categoryid=3/index.html

 

[groundskeeperwilly]

Khamelion-thanks. I have seen some posts/reviews of the XHot, RBZ etc and wondered how much distance an average Joe could add to their drive distance!

davidg2010uk-thanks for that, really interesting actually! Had no idea that Louis OOSTHUIZEN hit it so far although I am an infrequent TV viewer and only really see results etc rather than players 'live'.

 

[Khamelion]

I think for my mate (Kraxx), he's added, no, not think, I have seen that he has added probably 25+yds to his drives, the 2nd at Whickham is 340yds and he's got the front edge of the green, granted it is down hill, but its still a long way.

 

[groundskeeperwilly]

25yard addition would be amazing for anyone I think! I am talking it that he is no more or less erratic in terms of hitting fairways etc too?

 

[Khamelion]

I would estimate 90% of his drives end up on the short stuff, the other 10% are either in the cabbage or lost OOB

 

[groundskeeperwilly]

Thanks for all the feedback. Went to the range today and tried a few clubs off the second hand rack. TM R11s stiff driver and 3 wood, callaway x hot stiff shaft 3 wood, 910fairway wood with stiff shaft.
The 910f was the best of the bunch-putting it out almost as far as my current 910 driver. The shaft although stiff flex is different to my driver though(green vs blue- don't have exact names to hand!) which might have helped.
I got good distances from time to time with the R11 driver but less consistent than either titleist club.
Callaway x hot wasn't for me-shaft felt much softer than the others and I wasn't very consistent with it.
So will aim to try the callaway x hot driver, maybe with x stiff shaft and possibly look at other shafts for current driver.

 

[sydney greenstreet]

It never ceases to amaze me when someone posts they only get 250 yds, Whats wrong with that ?

 

[Khamelion]

250 is a good distance. I wouldn't worry about it if you are consistently hitting fairways. You could de-loft/change shaft to gain some extra yards but if you can't keep in straight they you won't be any better off. Here is the average driving distances for top 200 European Tour players - http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/stats/genworthfs/season=2013/categoryid=3/index.html

Good Stats, yet 250yds doesn't make the top 205 players,

 

[groundskeeperwilly]

Hi Sydney-nothing particularly wrong with it but when comparing it to my long iron distances it wasn't much further that's all.