Driver: Offset vs No Offset advice

[TPO77]

Hi all,

I've got a Wilson Staff DXI 12 degree driver in the bag at the moment. It has a slight off-set and I hit it well albeit fairly high. Since I had a lesson with the driver and hitting up my striking is more consistent but I'm fairly sure I'm losing distance to height. I managed to pick up a brand new 10.5 degree version of the DXI for £20 the other day but haven't had a chance to hit it at the range yet. From my understanding the differences between the 2 drivers aside from the loft are the weights in the head and the 10.5 has no offset. Can anyone advise on what effect the lack of offset may have? and also what set-up changes (if any) I should be looking to make? Obviously I'm hoping for a touch of new driver magic where I cream every drive on the range (and then top, shank and duff everyone on the course thereafter :ears. I've no spare pennies for another lesson atm and looking up offset on google hasn't enlightened me any further either (it's just confused me more) so I'm calling on you more clued up people for answers. Over to you :swing:

 

[lyden]

Not sure about the offset but you would be surprised how little height affects overall distance. If anything if you hit it lower you will lose distance.

 

[virtuocity]

Offset is there to help those who struggle to close the club face before it hits the ball, generally causing a slice (depending on your club path) but it's still super-easy to slice the hell out of an offset club.

As for loft, as Lyden says, if you can't get the ball in the air then it's not going to go far. Lots of people talk about loft vs swing speed- I don't really buy into this as it's a very individual thing and shafts and heads tend to be very different from one club to the next.

At the end of the day though- 2 degrees isn't going to make HUGE differences unless you're a very good golfer.

 

[SGC001]

http://golf.about.com/od/faqs/f/offset.htm

Wishon would argue it would depend on your release pattern as to whether the more time to square the clubface would help you or not.

 

[JustOne]

Wishon would argue it would depend on your release pattern as to whether the more time to square the clubface would help you or not.

I love the line... "the more time the golfer has on the downswing to rotate the face of the clubhead back around in order to arrive at impact closer to being square"... hardly likely seeing as the downswing lasts about .2 of a second... it makes it sound like there's time for a coffee break in there

 

[Yosser]

I love the line... "the more time the golfer has on the downswing to rotate the face of the clubhead back around in order to arrive at impact closer to being square"... hardly likely seeing as the downswing lasts about .2 of a second... it makes it sound like there's time for a coffee break in there

Was thinking the same. oo:

 

[SGC001]

I love the line... "the more time the golfer has on the downswing to rotate the face of the clubhead back around in order to arrive at impact closer to being square"... seeing as the downswing lasts about .2 of a second it makes it sound like there's time for a coffee break in there

I think it's a fairly simplified answer given and it does mention a split-second later further on in the paragraph. It seems to be from Wishon according to the website and he seems to be well respected in the industry.

 

[USER1999]

Off set doesn't give you time to square the face.

Off set moves the centre of gravity relative to the shaft axis, which helps to square the club face through mechanics. it twists the shaft, squaring the face.