Driver off the deck

[patricks148]

Played with a guy on Saturday who didn’t carry a 3 wood and just used his driver off the deck.

It was a Ping G2 so not a small headed driver, he managed to hit it pretty well. He said it stopped him going for silly shots with a 3 wood out of the rough as he only could use the driver off a descent ish lie.

So was out last night playing a few holes and thought I’d give it a try as it was just a bounce game with a couple of mates! Pretty tough with at least a 4 club wind on the par 5 7th. I hit a descent drive and found my ball to be lying well on a slight upslope with about 270 to go.
Hit my 3 wood first and caught it well, dropped another ball and let rip. Lively low fade that rolled and rolled and almost made the green and ended on the fringe.

Has anybody else ever tried using the driver off the deck and what were the results like?

Have to wait till the weekend to try it in a competition

 

[elliottlale]

Played with a guy on Saturday who didn’t carry a 3 wood and just used his driver off the deck.

It was a Ping G2 so not a small headed driver, he managed to hit it pretty well. He said it stopped him going for silly shots with a 3 wood out of the rough as he only could use the driver off a descent ish lie.

So was out last night playing a few holes and thought I’d give it a try as it was just a bounce game with a couple of mates! Pretty tough with at least a 4 club wind on the par 5 7th. I hit a descent drive and found my ball to be lying well on a slight upslope with about 270 to go.
Hit my 3 wood first and caught it well, dropped another ball and let rip. Lively low fade that rolled and rolled and almost made the green and ended on the fringe.

Has anybody else ever tried using the driver off the deck and what were the results like?

Have to wait till the weekend to try it in a competition

see a few pros like monty and poults doing it off a bare lie. seems almost impossible. never tried it and never would! although have thought abut it when the ball has been settled up in the 2nd cut, never had the guts to try it though.

 

[fundy]

Have hit mine off the floor when practising, hard to hit anything other than a low shot with a small cut for me, never tried it in competition though and not sure I have the faith too either

 

[heronsghyll]

Tried it many times, need a good lie. In truth I have had varying success rates.

I believe it is worth a go if you have a wide open golf course with large margin for error, a great shot to have in your armoury if you need to hit a second shot a long way.

I think the secret is to forget it is a driver, and just play the same shot as you would with a fairway wood.

 

[Bacardibatman]

i used to when i was alot younger

not many occasions id need to use it now

 

[CallawayKid]

Only used it when the ball is sitting on top of thick rough, that way I know I can't sky it with the driver whereas I can and have done with other bats

CK

 

[StrangelyBrown]

Check out you tube for Bubba Watson hitting driver off the deck at the 18th at Kappalua this year.

Unreal.

 

[GB72]

Saw Bobmac hit a driver off the deck at Belton on Saturday. Good shot too. If I remember it was out of the rough and needed to keep it under some branches.

 

[Redwood]

I hit mine off the deck at the Beau Desert meet.

Jammydodger was there to witness; not a bad hit actually!!

 

[CMAC]

if you ever need a fade/slice over 200yds then driver off the deck is pretty much guaranteed to take the left side out of play.

If you have OB on the left from the tee, then tee a very low ball and forget about the OB

 

[brendy]

G15 off the deck goes really well, Superfast 2.0 doesnt, though only tried it in practice once where the g15 got it every couple of rounds into the wind on the par 5's.

 

[USER1999]

I have tried it, but found it doesn't go as far or straight as a well hit 4w.

 

[brendy]

Murph, grip it slightly open face and open stance and it will go, as mentioned above very hard to make one go left so straight or a little fade is going to get it away and at a decent height. They have more chance of skipping back out of bunkers should they hit one too.

 

[richart]

I hit mine off the deck, great when you want a low fade with plenty of run, especially into the wind. I do need a good lie though, preferably not a downslope.

 

[Region3]

I've tried it with good results at the range, but only ever once on the course which wasn't a competition.

Not got the nads to do it in a comp, plus I can't think of anywhere on my course where you'd not have disastrous results with a bad one.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I tend to hit it only in the winter when we can pick and place so I can make sure of the best lie possible on the fairway. It tends to cut a bit so aim left swing smooth and enjoy it. Like Gary I'd do it in a roll up but never in a comp

 

[DaveM]

Never tried it. Find it hard enough off the tee to be honest.

 

[bobmac]

Saw Bobmac hit a driver off the deck at Belton on Saturday. Good shot too. If I remember it was out of the rough and needed to keep it under some branches.

Yeup. It was a par 5 and needed to fade one round a tree but keep it low under the branches.
3W would have hit the tree, so driver was perfect.

 

[ScienceBoy]

I do it on the range for fun or to show off but only ever hit one in anger.

Long par 4 uphill into a belting wind. Hit a beauty of a drive and still had over 200 left. Lie was perfect and nailed it to pin high, missed the birdie and tapped in for par

 

[StrangelyBrown]

Forgot to say in my post that I've done it in a Texas Scramble, I was hitting last and my mate had cracked a pretty good 3w up the fairway and the only way I was going to hit it further was to hit driver.