Hybrids, the new chipper?

[brendy]

Picture it, Ben Hogan stood on the fairway of the 18th hole at Merion on the Sunday of the 1950 US Open.
He needs a par to book a seat into the playoff Checks the wind and draws out a 15 degree Hybrid. One deliberate practice swing then crack, hits a solid shot, it soars towards the green and bounds through into the crowd behind, bogeys and misses out on the playoff and what would have been a famous win while still having his legs bandaged from his awful car accident only months before. "should have hit the 2 iron" came from the crowd.

Yes they are easier to get up into the air, but I have yet to see anyone being surgically precise with them on tv or in real life on course. Why cant some people hit their longer irons and resort to something toy like? (hence the chipper title)
Am I wrong to love my longer irons and hate the hybrid? After all, isn't that what woods are for?

 

[JT77]

I agree mate, I ditched the hybrid that sat in my bag doing nothing and went back to my old mizzy 3 iron, much better ball flight for me too.

 

[Redwood]

Are you wrong to hate hybrids, no, if that is your preference. I don't use them either, but am not hateful of them.

As they say, 'each to their own'. What works for you may not for the next golfer.

What type of putter do you use? Do you still use steel shafted woods?

Not trying to be funny, but you get what I am saying. Golf technology moves on, and people use what is easiest for them. You may not have seen many people hit accurate shots with a hybrid, but I bet you've seen more people fluff a long iron!!!

 

[StrangelyBrown]

And in other news some people like bananas but I'm not that keen.

Not sure that they are the new chipper, I can't recall any pro using a chipper

 

[fundy]

Having been out of the game for several years took me a while to even try one. Pretty much converted in the benefit of having a hybrid, struggle to give up my long irons though so currently carry both lol

 

[brendy]

Not trying to be funny, but you get what I am saying. Golf technology moves on, and people use what is easiest for them. You may not have seen many people hit accurate shots with a hybrid, but I bet you've seen more people fluff a long iron!!!

Every club in my bag would be considered almost normal half a century ago, materials aside. The hybrid is a nancy club in my opinion (hey! everyone has one!) created for those who cant get it up .
I have occasionally played with a few guys that have 2,3 maybe even 4 hybrids and cannot hit an iron more than 150 yards. This is not because of health or physical limitations, purely lack of imagination and drive to fix it.
I am not calling hybrids cheating, but it certainly makes the game a little easier for the lesser able, but yet they are never seen to be as accurate as irons. I believe they were orginally created to help get the ball in the air....... once its up there then what do you do with it?

 

[Aztecs27]

I agree 100%

I love my 3 and 4 iron and just can't stand at address and feel comfortable hitting a hybrid.

I do want to change my 3 wood and put a 5 wood in my bag though.

 

[robbest3offthetee]

I dont have one!!

 

[freddielong]

Agree 100% golf should be about more than the easiest way

 

[ademac]

I don't really get peoples "beef" with hybrids! Surely its just golf clubs evolving, the same as graphite shafts etc.?
Plus if you can't hit them very accurately then that says something about your golfing ability? I can take or leave hybrids but as I said, I don't really get peoples problem?
Maybe just concentrate on your own game and stop moaning?

 

[freddielong]

Its because we are the hardest most exciteing skillfull shots with big gay floaty hybrids, its no coincidence that Jack Nicklaus favorite shots are all 1 irons, in the future we will not have that

 

[brendy]

LOL then we'll just stop talking about golf then?

New advertising slogan "Hybrid, the choice of the wise hacker"
Look at the degrees of lofts on them though, they are all very similar, same as 3,4 and 5 woods.

Imagine this one then, A mizuno tour pro bag, reads like a dream bag to most aspiring golfers
MP630 Driver
MP titanium fairway 3 wood
MP 68's
MPt-11 wedges
.............except, hang on, the 3 and 4 irons from the silky smooth mp68's are missing and have been replaced with clunky great big toes.

 

[Aztecs27]

LOL then we'll just stop talking about golf then?

New advertising slogan "Hybrid, the choice of the wise hacker"
Look at the degrees of lofts on them though, they are all very similar, same as 3,4 and 5 woods.

Imagine this one then, A mizuno tour pro bag, reads like a dream bag to most aspiring golfers
MP630 Driver
MP titanium fairway 3 wood
MP 68's
MPt-11 wedges
.............except, hang on, the 3 and 4 irons from the silky smooth mp68's are missing and have been replaced with clunky great big toes.

A travesty!

 

[chris661]

When I got my irons last year I really wanted to get a 2 iron but couldn't. Three things were suggested to me get a 2 iron CB get a three iron MB and bend it or get a 17* hybrid.

Surely I was not the only one buying MB's that wanted a 2 iron.

 

[brendy]

When I got my irons last year I really wanted to get a 2 iron but couldn't. Three things were suggested to me get a 2 iron CB get a three iron MB and bend it or get a 17* hybrid.

Surely I was not the only one buying MB's that wanted a 2 iron.

Oh dear Lordy lord, suggesting a ballooning cartoon club instead of a low penetrating weapon of destruction? Did he look a bit strange? Did he drive a silver car? Did he say "I have 4 of them and am thinking of replacing my gap wedge with one too"?

 

[bigslice]

get lost, hogan overclubbed!!!!! nothing wrong with hybrids i have 3. i struggle to hit my 4 iron, so replaced it with a hybrid. the other two i am practising with. one of our par 3's is either a 4, 3, 2 hybrid depending on the wind. some folk think they are ugly but my mizzys are a quality bit of kit.
back off brendy, but each to their own. its the same with ugly sports cars

 

[ademac]

Oh and by the way, those chipper things are so much gayer than a hybrid!!!!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Yes they are easier to get up into the air, but I have yet to see anyone being surgically precise with them on tv or in real life on course.

So YE Yangs hybrid into the 18th to deny Woods didn't have sufficient control for you?

 

[brendy]

You mentioned the car dude, you went too far.
Did I mention it was blue? I reckon Hogan & Snead drove blue cars.

 

[richart]

Yes they are easier to get up into the air, but I have yet to see anyone being surgically precise with them on tv or in real life on course.

So YE Yangs hybrid into the 18th to deny Woods didn't have sufficient control for you?

GMac's not bad with them.