Hybrids, the new chipper?

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.
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So YE Yangs hybrid into the 18th to deny Woods didn't have sufficient control for you?
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He chickened out of hitting an iron in case he bladed it into the munchies. One shot, for that one shot he will be remembered... Until someone else does it. Imagine being famous for controlling the wild horses of a hybrid to land a ball on a green. Personally I'd rather be a ball striker than a surrender monkey.(not talking about yang here).
There are more options out there, woods for example, strong 3's, 4's, 5's etc. Then there is good old 'learn to hit the bloody clubs' in the first place.
I have never seen anyone take hybrids to a driving range, easy to hit yes, but with as much direction as a bunch of 5 year olds in a playground.
 
If hybrids are "gay" because they make the long iron shot easier, maybe we should all go back to 250cc wooden drivers, bladed irons the size of a match box and balls made of elastic bands.
 
I don't understand your gripe Brendy....hybrids are easy to manouvre and easy to hit,in a word versatile.1,2,& 3 irons are in comparison alot harder to control and hit.........why make a hard game even harder if there is something there to help you.

You sound like Freddielong,tell you what get back to your Persimmon and Balata next time your out.

Is it just that you fancy removing something other than posts/threads?
 
I don't possess a Hybrid but doesn't mean I would never get one. I think the manufacturers are more to blame than anyone.
When I bought my MX23's about 3-4 years ago the message then from the fitting centre in Surrey was to replace the 3 iron with a hybrid - "It's what most golfers are doing now", they said. But I refused this and said that I wanted the full set of irons. Probably, in hinsight, a wrong move by me as the 3 iron is sitting in my garage having only been hit just a few times.

Correct me if I'm wrong but is a hybrid necessary with all the rescue woods available?

Golfmmad.
 
I have never seen anyone take hybrids to a driving range,

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I've seen loads! maybe me and my mates are the strange ones for doing so but I think I prefer the company of someone at the range who isn't worried about my clubs than someone who hates them and seems to look down on me for using what I want, and if they started banging on about how long irons are the "proper" clubs to use I recon I would probably cry from boredom! Before you know it they'd probably start boring me with how stiff their shafts are and I would just want to knock their teeth out with my "toy" hybrid and scream "there's accuracy for ya, you t#@t!! :D :D :D ;)
 
I can hit far more shots with my 3H than a 3 iron. With the iron I'm limited to the fat, top, thin or slice.

At least with my hybrid I have all of those plus the snap hook the skyer (off the tee) a draw/fade whether I want it or not and every so often a straight one (usually when I'm playing for any of the above)
 
How is a hybrid markedly different from an old 5 or 7 persimmon wood? Small heads, longish shafts and designed to get the ball airborne and out of rough.

Long-handled putters, high-degree wedges and the ball are all far more deserving of opprobrium than a hybrid.

I choose not to use a 3 iron not because I can't, but because a hybrid gives me more options, including around the green.
 
If anybody thinks that the hybrid is a new invention, likewise the 60 lob and strange shaped sand wedges you should do a bit of google imaging.
In the 1800s and early 1900s a vast number of golf manufacturers touting for business were inventing alsorts of clubs to make the game easier for the players of the time. :rolleyes:

like all aspects of life, nothings new ;)

and I do take my hybrids to the range but seldom hit a driver. ;)
 
Exactly Golfmmad, Its a financial cash cow. Pros will carry what their sponsors tell them to (debatable but hard to argue that they dont)
People complain when they think things are being dumbed down in other aspects of life, hybrids are a pet hate and really do not see the point of them beyond getting a ball into the air hopefully in the right general direction.
given than the average handicap of American club golfers (cant find the stat for UK golfers but cant see it being much different) has not moved by even a tenth of a shot in 15 years, hybrids, in their current form,have been around for approx 10 years.
 
Used not to be keen on them, then tried a Callaway 20# heavenwood which I hit really well. Nice flight and I feel I have more control than say a 5 wood but not as much control as an iron (not that I have much (any!) control over my 3 iron) :o .

Although they are a "modern" development, to my eye some do actually bear a resemblance to the old wooden "play clubs" which had long narrow wooden heads, so I think there is something about them that is in the tradition of proper golf clubs.

By the way Brendy, love that picture of Hogan, thanks for posting it. One of the iconic images in golf.
 
not the next chipper but not something i could take a liking to

some playing partners use hybrids, others of us use long irons or 3/5 woods.

personally i dont like the look of hybrids at address and i dont think that will change anytime soon

at the end of the day its what you are comfy with and what gets the ball in the hole with the least amount of shots.
 
Lol guys, I am not being elitest about this, I have not mentioned anything about shafts etc either.

The main difference between hybrids and persimmon clubs of olde is that the lie angle of a hybrid is modelled on an iron with the intention of it being like an iron but easier to hit.

Regarding the driving range, I honestly have never noticed anyone using them, this is obviously not definitive and all encompassing.

The game of golf is a fairly traditional game, some aspects have been widely updated and accepted, hybrids being one of them. Does this make them better than irons and learning how to play the game that Hogan, Nicklaus, Seve, even more recently Woods etc thrived at without the need for hybrids, rescues etc.

Ultimately I accept guys needing one hybrid maybe, a collection I can even bite my tongue, you will never see me carry one though.
Just dont get me started on chippers, the hybrid short game instrument.
 
Tail end of last year, Leftie and I were having a great game against Pieman and JustOne at Copthorne. It was a tight match and I was playing reasonably well.
18th hole at Copthorne is an average length par 4, but climbs uphill slightly from about 200 yards out. I had hit a "reasonable" drive but still had a fair way to go to the green and the pin was cut behind a bunker (from where I was standing on the fairway at least). James had hit a great drive up there and was not going to be hitting much in. Lefite was out of it ( ;)) I don't normally par the last at Copthorne, but to stand any chance of coming away with anything in this particular game I knew that a par was needed at worst.
The "proper" shot for me (from where I was) would have been a sweetly struck 5 iron. But I pulled out my hybrid, and hit an easy shot up that stayed low, drew around and finished up middle of the green. I didn't make the birdie but secured a safe par for a halved match.
I can almost guarantee that if I had hit the "proper shot" 5 iron I wouldn't have hit the green I'd have most probably swung too fast, taken a fecking great divot and seen the ball bobble about 80 yards up the fairway.
Using the hybrid in that situation took all the pressure off.
And on a long par 3? My 4 iron doesn't even get a cursory feel. Hybrid all the way. ;)
 
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