Driving Iron / Hybrid or Wood?

[Captain_Black.]

So you are about to tee off on a short (ish) par 4
Danger down both sides, maybe a dog leg.
You need a reliable 200 yard club that you just know will go straight 99% of the time.
What do you use?
A Driving Iron / Wood or a Hybrid?

 

[Curls]

Put your big boy pants on and drive the green. Sure, you might get it wrong and take a 10 but if you get it right you can brag about it for months.

Competition mode.

Driving iron. Every time. Maybe even knock it down a little, keep it arrow straight and let the run out dictate the distance.

 

[Orikoru]

My 200 yard club would be the 5 wood.

Unless it's winter, then it's driver.

 

[SteveW86]

5 iron

 

[Imurg]

I haven't got a club that I can hit straight 99% of the time.....

 

[SteveW86]

I haven't got a club that I can hit straight 99% of the time.....

Even the putter is only 90%

 

[clubchamp98]

That’s our 10th hole.
5 wood every day for me leaves a wedge.

 

[Captain_Black.]

For me it's a 3 or 4 hybrid, but i'm toying with the idea of a driving iron as if i'm not careful, I can hook a Hybrid.

 

[r0wly86]

195 would be a 6i for me

when I played Bearwood Lakes, there is a short part 4 with water down the left side. Though I would play it safe and hit 6i, hooked left into the water, annoyed got the driver out, hit it to 10 feet from the pin and came away with a par

 

[Deleted member 25575]

I can get the majority of my clubs to go straight pulled left 95% of the time. Nothing 99%
I’d take my 2i though. Chances are it could go 220 on a good day or 140 on a bad day but I believe in it more so than 5w which would be the other option and I don’t know why as I hit 5w better.
Maybe I need to have a word with myself after typing that out. That’s honestly my thought process, I’d take 2i but hit 5w better. The hell is wrong with me

 

[jim8flog]

If the hole is that short why do you need 200 yards?

If it is a dogleg I would work out the maximum distance before getting in to trouble and use a club for that on the simple basis that the times I hit a club at my very best distance are few and far between, most times it would be on the short side.

For me 180 yards is a rescue and 220 yards is a 3 wood (except when it is very cold like now).

 

[Bdill93]

3 wood in the winter
3H in the summer

 

[tsped83]

3 wood….. but if I wanted it straight over 200 yards I’d hit PW twice ?

 

[Newtonuti]

3 wood in the winter and 3h in the summer for me as well. Although how hard the fairways were this summer, could probably of gotten away with a 9i

 

[Dando]

I’d probably hit a 6 iron

 

[evemccc]

5 iron all day long

 

[FELL75]

3 wood winter
5 wood summer

 

[Jason.H]

For me my hybrids are fairway finders. I’d like a driving iron but the hybrids are far more versatile, so easy from the rough too.

 

[Jigger]

Given my ability to hit said clubs I’d play 10yards shorter than that and use my utility iron. Did this very example two weeks ago and hit it perfect. Duffed my second, thinned 3rd through the green, chipped on short and 3 putted! ??‍??‍??‍

 

[Captain_Black.]

I am not too sure that I have the swing speed to properly launch a driving iron?
I don't want to waste a lot of money on a new club that won't suit me.
So I have ordered a very nice condition driving iron (Mizuno Hi Fli 3 Iron) from Ebay at a bargain price
I will soon see if it works.