Low spin Driver alternative

[Moff]

Cleveland Classic XL custom.

I owned one and it was a boomer. I know it was sold as a very low spinner at the time. bet you could get one with a top shaft for well under a ton

Id also back the i25. Looks the buisness and sounds great

I still have one for sale if anyone interested? £60 delivered in great condition. Stiff Miyazaki JDL shaft.

 

[mikejohnchapman]

That surprises me Mike. Very interesting.

A few lads at our club play the XR and they all go miles in the air - am guessing their spin rates are quite high.

What's your ball flight like?

Not that high - mine is 9.5 degrees dialed back to 8.5.

medium launch I would say.

 

[Deleted member 3432]

That surprises me Mike. Very interesting.

A few lads at our club play the XR and they all go miles in the air - am guessing their spin rates are quite high.

What's your ball flight like?

Like any club its what shaft you have in it.

Mine has a Diamana Blueboard in it and is low/mid flight.

 

[the_coach]

Cleveland Classic XL custom.

I owned one and it was a boomer. I know it was sold as a very low spinner at the time. bet you could get one with a top shaft for well under a ton

Id also back the i25. Looks the buisness and sounds great

looking back at some older stuff so pretty reasonable cost would recommend the i25 as for sure worth a trial
did audition it back when it came out was mightily impressed at the time good #'s

the real important stuff is always all down to contact strike location AoA & dynamic loft at impact that governs launch angle & spin loft angle which governs spin rate

CHS though real important as to the spinrate #'s that would be a good ball park #'s for folks individual swing motion

lot spoken about low driver spinrates being real important - it is - if other criteria warrant that

but say a spinrate under 2000 rpm not going to get the best shot results if the club head speed is averaging around the high 80's or just peaking at 90mph

biggest criteria for sure with spinrate is strike location & AoA

shafts for sure will make a tad of difference but this area is more about fine-tuning so more around a real difference of 500 rpms as opposed to dropping the rate by 1000's
the right shaft for folks is more about 'feel' & the ability to help deliver the cg of the club more consistently to the ball for solid strikes

 

[shewy]

My issue is flipping and adding loft, I'm working very hard to shorten my backswing as it's way past parallel, but spin rate with previous driver was 3600, trying to get it a bit lower and all my shots on lower trajectory, hard work but I've hit a plateau with my high flight shots.

 

[the_coach]

My issue is flipping and adding loft, I'm working very hard to shorten my backswing as it's way past parallel, but spin rate with previous driver was 3600, trying to get it a bit lower and all my shots on lower trajectory, hard work but I've hit a plateau with my high flight shots.

yep understand where you are coming from & how frustrating that can be for folks

few thoughts maybes of some help ... or not

often times a lateral move trailside off of the ball at the start of the takeback is a pretty big contributor in this issue

& often times too folks are trying to make changes in the motion they are used too but that never seems to quite take good

common enough reason/s for that difficulty in change have seen is that intuitively through hand-eye coordination/brain a flip release is 'put in' to folks swing motion coming into impact because it's subconsciously been worked out that it simply has to be there in order to get the face anyways near squarer to target line to get ball goin someways near to target

meaning if a more normalized weight pressure transference & staying in posture with the 'wanted' hands slightly leading club face release happened the face angle would still be a good ways open to target line and the end result would just produce shots that were although a good bunch lower in flight they would mostly all be traveling a good ways rightfield of target

realize this is stuff that may already be being worked on in some ways or another

but more often than not in order to lose a 'flip release' that has flight a deal too high it's crucial to sort out the 'statics' at set-up particularly of grip hold on the handle - the posture - & the body alignments to ball/target line - are all stuff that have to be really looked at closely & often times one or all of these will have to be changed & refined in order to begin in the swing motion itself lose the heavy flip release

would be happy to look at dtl & caddy view(face-on) set-ups & swings plus close-up of grip hold on the handle through PM if that was a ways you would wish to take - but if not no problem

 

[shewy]

Thanks coach but early days bedding in my new swing, was also swaying a lot. Hopefully have it set before the season starts

 

[the_coach]

no problem good luck with it all

 

[hovis]

Like any club its what shaft you have in it.

Mine has a Diamana Blueboard in it and is low/mid flight.

i can say with a 100% certainty that this statement is wrong. the head is by far a bigger factor with spin rate than the shaft. it's not even close.

 

[Jacko_G]

Ping i25 or even a Ping Anser are low spin monsters.

 

[drewster]

https://www.discountgolfstore.co.uk/ping-i25-driver.html

The i25 is £120 at the above company !!!! Might be worth a shot for you LS guys.