Hybrids

[Laka]

Did fetch my old hybrid from the attic this afternoon, havent use it for many years. So this video was o good reminder how to play with an hybrid, i will need it tomorrow when playing on a really narrow course with a lot of short doglegs and trees along the holes, so one cant hot shortcuts ,,,,,

 

[JohnnyLarge]

I've just gone from having 2 hybrids to one. Instead of a 19 and a 24, I've now got a 4 iron in the bag and got a TM Stage 2 22 degree hybrid. It goes for bloomin' miles! The trajectory sets off nice, peaks high then drops lovely and soft.
I'm loving it.

 

[Oddsocks]

Mine was sitting with a question mark over its head, but after today it's staying

 

[SteveBonners]

As someone with a slow swing speed I have always struggled to hit a 4 iron even with a custom fitted shaft. My current set starts at a 5 iron and I have had various hybrid/fairway wood options since then.

For some time I carried a 5 wood and 7 wood rather than a hybrid. However in the last few weeks I have purchased the Mizuno JPX EX 19 deg hybrid. At the moment it can do nothing wrong. So easy to hit both from fairway and semi rough and off the tee when needed. This has stepped in and replaced both fairway woods.

 

[Hacker Khan]

I'm just not good enough to hit a 4 iron with any level of consistency or distance, talk about a 3 iron. My 5 iron comes and goes out of my bag depending on how it has been performing. But usually I play 2 hybrids to replace my 4 and 5 irons, plus a Wilson Fybrid to replace a 3 iron.

For me it's whatever gets the ball on the green in as fewer shots as possible, and with my game that means hybrids over low irons every day of the week.

 

[Scrindle]

I would also rather use my long irons than various hybrids. I struggle to use woods and, for me at least, hybrids are too 'wood like' for me to use.

It is probably all in my mind and a mental block thing, but there we go; my swing breaks down when I have a driver/3 wood/hybrid in hand.

 

[Snelly]

The Ping i25 hybrid I have is fantastic. In hindsight, I wish I had listened to the fitter and got a second one instead of a 3 iron. It is so easy to hit and goes for miles.

I appreciate that they can be easy to hook but if you swing easy and don't try and belt them then this tendency is negated in my experience. And I also know that a lot of them can fly too high to be practical for a links course but there are models from manufacturers that are less prone to balloon and I would offer the Callaway Fusion and Ping i25 as good examples of this.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

I have a 3 and 4 hybrid - great clubs and certainly hit them better than 3 and 4 irons

 

[Alex1975]

I use one hybrid but I think if I could match them to my irons I would have more. I find that they always go longer than the same numbered or lofted iron.

Was stuck under a tree branch this weekend on the left side of the fairway, managed to hit my hybrid under the tree branch, draw it round a bunker and run it up into the green, that would have been pretty hard with an iron as I just could not hit it hard or it would have been in the tree!

 

[shewy]

Got to say a well struck 4 iron for me goes further, but it's not all about distance,I can't hit my 4iron from the rough but I can get a rescue on the back of it,if it's distance your after then surely a fairway wood (it's in the name) will be the correct choice, a rescue (clue,it's in the name again) from the fairway works ok but it comes into it's own from the cabbage. Well thats how I play it.

 

[Captainron]

Hybrids are dirty horrible things. I can't bring myself to even try them (even if they would help) and stick with my 2,3 & 4 irons.