Driver advice

[davemc1]

The feel of a low spinning driver v non low spin

I've got a sldr, which on occasion goes an absolute mile (relative terms for me) the longest I've measured is 278. But I never feel like I flush it, it always feels dead. Also the same when I tried out the ping g30.

i used to own a g20 which I think isn't a low spinner. Now when I hit this it felt great, albeit it wasn't often. The slices became too much and I got rid.

is there a stock answer to why this is, such as Aoa?

Thanks

 

[davemc1]

I've had a little read up, it's something like swing speed v side spin? Getting the optimum spin for your ss.

If this is right, iirc I've a modest ss with a driver of low to mid 90's.

sell me a driver that fits...:thup:




please say g25, it's rather taken my eye

 

[the_coach]

think you may have provided the answer to your question ..... as a major criteria always is - a club has to fit the eye first off, then still has to fit the eye when back of the ball

as a general consideration a higher index player is often times more suited to a more 'stable' driver with a good MOI which will provide some help, within reasonable swing motion parameters, in them finding the sweet-spot if head combined with a shaft that's suited to SS & how they 'load' a shaft - G25 head would fit that description - though a G30 (not the low spin version) is a better reiteration of the G25 - so would try that out given the results of the G30 you tried out

- but maybes overall it begs the question where out of the face the tendency is in the contact you most often times get (think would be best to look into this before you spend any more $'s) if it is a 'dead feel' pattern that repeats, as that would be down to how the clubhead & face is being delivered

(side-spin though doesn't really exist)

the outcomes of ball flight trajectory, so carry & distance are very dependent on SS being efficiently transferred to ball speed, limiting the 'spin rate rpm's' (backspin) is real important to this

would say the biggest 'stock answer' to the both shot results & 'feel' at impact is largely where the 'location of contact on the face' is (the sound at impact too plays a big part in folks reactions of how a strike 'feels')

but there's a bunch of other ingredients that also have to be in a good ballpark area such as AoA, path relationship to face angle, dynamic loft, spin loft so spin rate, SF, LA

but with a driver one thing for sure folks have to strive for is 'location of contact at the sweet-spot' (vertical & horizontal face axis)
& to be able to find & repeat that certainly you gotta have a shallower swing arc into the ball - steep is goin hurt the outcomes everytime - & what plays into to this is set-up at address & technique

real good practice is learning to time a driver with a sweet-spot strike, only ways to do that is with rhythm & balanced swing motion - best ways to see if you getting that good strike result is using either 'foot' or 'dry shampoo' spray & check the evidence marks

in practice start out at 60% swing motion, when you get 9 of 10 pretty close to 'sweet' at 60% do the same at 70%, then 80% results start falling off any as you up the ante drop back down to lower % & repeat until you work up to getting repeatable good results at 80%

often times when folks try upping from 80% smooth motion, getting a good repeatable location of strike deteriorates some

& then it's a case of being disciplined out in play with sticking to the 80% smooth motion, 80% smooth doesn't have to mean the club is traveling slow any as with a good sequence it can be moving well up of say 95mph but with a good reliable strike location

sadly no instant answer to which particular driver

best answer to that would be to find a good PGA Pro who also has a good rep with club fits, not all Pro's are heavy into the 'fit' side many prefer to major on the instruction side - though there's usually a small bunch who've gone down the 'fitting' side in a more specialist ways -

would advise staying aways from the big golf store chains as many of them don't employ Pro's (who would really understand the golf swing)
- just folks who have had some period of training on very tenuous generalizations regarding static fit measurements to launch monitor results but don't really understand the real relevance to all of that in someone's address set-up, posture & individual swing motion

- for example that's why a good bunch of tall folks come out of a fit with 1/2" to an 1" longer shafts when really they didn't need this, but the feed-back from the strike location (off the toe) would give these guys a stock answer to the fit - lengthen the shafts
- but really what they needed was someone to tell them not too have so much bend in their knees, so much forwards spine lean & arms stretched out away from the body to a ball too far aways
they'd go off real pleased with the new irons, but then set-up at address in the ways they always had & then be real down as they kept getting the same 'toe' strike patterns