MadAdey
Money List Winner
If I see you at a forum meet you can. I am using a 16 degree rescue to do that. It goes like a 3-wood but with a 5 iron control.
Never thought I'd say this - Hybrids are ace
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If I see you at a forum meet you can. I am using a 16 degree rescue to do that. It goes like a 3-wood but with a 5 iron control.
Dave B
Q-School Graduate
My old set of Taylormade R7's came in a 5-SW with an aproach wedge rather than a 4 iron so I was short of clubs to fill the 3 & 4 iron slot. Following a friends recommendation I bought a set of Lynx Back Cat Tour Hybrids in 20 and 23 degrees and I never looked back. I was so taken with the ease that I could hit the ball and the workability the clubs offered that I also bought the 26 degree club and took the 5 and 6 iron out of my bag.
My wife bought me a set of TM Tour Preferred CB's for Xmas so I now have made a decision to stick with the irons and improve my long iron play.
Hydrids definitely make the game easier and I will still use a hybrid rather than a 2/3 iron and my advise to anybody who struggles with long irons or a 5 wood off the deck is to try hybrids as they can genuinely lower your handicap.
If anybody is interested in a quality set I'll be putting the Black Cat Tours up on ebay but would accept £100 for the 3 including postage from forum members, (RRP £89 each). They are in excellent condition and are very easy to hit. They look like mini woods and are more compact than the TM burners
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...sqW1AQ&usg=AFQjCNHBQyaa3tC-F6ZJt6jkBQOszrHmCQ
My wife bought me a set of TM Tour Preferred CB's for Xmas so I now have made a decision to stick with the irons and improve my long iron play.
Hydrids definitely make the game easier and I will still use a hybrid rather than a 2/3 iron and my advise to anybody who struggles with long irons or a 5 wood off the deck is to try hybrids as they can genuinely lower your handicap.
If anybody is interested in a quality set I'll be putting the Black Cat Tours up on ebay but would accept £100 for the 3 including postage from forum members, (RRP £89 each). They are in excellent condition and are very easy to hit. They look like mini woods and are more compact than the TM burners
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...sqW1AQ&usg=AFQjCNHBQyaa3tC-F6ZJt6jkBQOszrHmCQ
Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
I've not long bought the Combos. I felt like I wanted the feel of blades but don't really need them all through the set. I think the Nike blades look nicer than Titleist MB's and MP-69's too, but that's probably just me.
I've not had what I'd call a good score with them yet but that's me not the clubs.
richart
Major Champion
Mine goes like a 5 iron with the control of a 3 wood.
collins
Club Champion
I've replaced my 4 and 5 iron in my bag with Wilson fybrid 4h and 5h and find them so much more versatile and easier to hit. I play on a hilly course and the fairways are usually cut pretty tightly so l was finding it hard consistantly hit the shot I wanted with my irons. The hybrids pick the ball up easier and give softer landing shots so distance control has become easier too, let alone being easier to use from fairway bunkers and rough. I would recommend these clubs to all but really good long iron players as they definately make the game a bit easier!
MashieNiblick
Tour Winner
Another hybrid convert here.
Tried a Callaway 3H Heavenwood from the demo bin at the local AG a couple of years ago and nailed it every time. Thought I couldn't go wrong for under £50 and it has now become a bit of "go to" club, especially when the course is playing long.
Can't really understand why some people should be against them any more than 460cc drivers or putters like space ship antennae. I know some people think they aren't traditional but they actually remind me a bit of the old wooden "play clubs" that were used in the 19th Century (I was just a lad then of course)
Tried a Callaway 3H Heavenwood from the demo bin at the local AG a couple of years ago and nailed it every time. Thought I couldn't go wrong for under £50 and it has now become a bit of "go to" club, especially when the course is playing long.
Can't really understand why some people should be against them any more than 460cc drivers or putters like space ship antennae. I know some people think they aren't traditional but they actually remind me a bit of the old wooden "play clubs" that were used in the 19th Century (I was just a lad then of course)
NiNjAdUdE
Newbie
I have a 19 degree Titleist hybrid, and the thing is... I like my hybrid from the fairway. If I have to whack it straight from the teebox I still prefer my 2-iron... but it definitly is better for mishits
Tommo21
Tour Winner
My Hybrid is two and a half inches shorter than my 3 wood, no way can it go the same. If there is a club that goes the same with 5 iron control, someone is onto a fortune.
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
I can't bring myself to use a hybrid after Todd Hamilton used one to beat Ernie at the Open. Just makes me feel all dirty. I prefer the skillful thin of the 2 iron any day. Bearing in mind I have only hit a hybrid 2 or 3 times in my life, I might just be cutting my nose off to spite my face.
fat-tiger
Challenge Tour Pro
which 1 you hitting???, i have a nike 16 degree 1 but very hit and miss with it ended up taking it out my bag
MadAdey
Money List Winner
Well I got news for you mate that is how far it goes when I hit it. Maybe would not go the same for other people. It has got 3-wood type loft on it being 16 degree and it is shorter but not that much more. What I find with it compared to my 3-wood is I hit it with much more confidence. So what is happening is I am not swinging it conservatively like my 3-wood trying to keep control of it, so generating more club head speed so getting some crazy distances.
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chris661
Money List Winner
Anyway hybrids are for people that can't hit irons 
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Snelly
Guest
Same for me. I could not get on with them at all until I gor the one I have now. Lovely ball flight with the stiff shafted Callaway 2 iron lofted FT.
fat-tiger
Challenge Tour Pro
cobras all day long for me , tried a few but just find so easy to hit ,and most of the time go were your actually aiming
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thecraw
Guest
Nail, the, head, hit, on, the! Bang, rearrange.
To be fair there are some big hitters out there, people like timgolfy. I'm not going to get into a debate about the distances involved however I would suggest you've either got the completely wrong shaft in your 3 wood or your scared of it!
Having read on I think even you now know why you believe the 16 degree hybrid goes as far. The basic laws of physics tell you it shouldn't go as far, less head mass, shorter shaft etc.
(hope I've edited this in time before Stevie the dictionary comes along!)
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Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Fairway woods and hybrids are very different in construction. The size of the head is the obvious difference but the weighting inside the head isn't.
In general, fairways will put more spin on the ball as their Centre of Gravity is lower and further back in the head than a hybrid. If you have a decent swingspeed this can cost you yards. The ball spins too much and it doesn't penetrate. The hybrid, generally, puts less spin on the ball - combine this with a shorter shaft and you may find that you make a better overall connection than with the fairway.
One of the US mags did a test with a 19 degree hybrid and fairway. Slow swingers got lots more distance from the fairway because the extra spin kept the ball in the air for longer.
The faster swingers saw virtually no difference in carry between hybrid and fairway. Many were more consistent with the hybrid - mainly due to the shorter shaft.
So it's not beyond the realms of possibility that a similar lofted hybrid can carry as far as a similarly lofted fairway.
In general, fairways will put more spin on the ball as their Centre of Gravity is lower and further back in the head than a hybrid. If you have a decent swingspeed this can cost you yards. The ball spins too much and it doesn't penetrate. The hybrid, generally, puts less spin on the ball - combine this with a shorter shaft and you may find that you make a better overall connection than with the fairway.
One of the US mags did a test with a 19 degree hybrid and fairway. Slow swingers got lots more distance from the fairway because the extra spin kept the ball in the air for longer.
The faster swingers saw virtually no difference in carry between hybrid and fairway. Many were more consistent with the hybrid - mainly due to the shorter shaft.
So it's not beyond the realms of possibility that a similar lofted hybrid can carry as far as a similarly lofted fairway.
NWJocko
Tour Winner
Whilst not involved in the science of it all this is what happened to me.
Got the 17* Mizuno hybrid and was hittting it, consistently, the same distance as my 15* 3 wood. I suspect I probably didn't have the "optimum" shaft in the 3 wood though, am trying to get a 15* MP 3 wood to compare alongside my hybrid.
MadAdey
Money List Winner
OK then lets look at it another way then. 8th hole at my course Par 5 510 from the yellow tees, elevated green that you can't run one up onto unless you thin one. Any wind on that hole is always into your face. Driver and a 16 degree rescue and I can hit the green. So either I hit the ball over 300 yards with the driver. Or I can hit a rescue around 240 from the deck. I know I do not hit a driver over 300 yards.
Cheers Imurg at least someone looks into something before trying to make a comment that you can't hit a rescue as far a the same lofted fairway.
Why is it always the same on here. If you dare to say you hit it further than the normal golfer then they must be talking out of their arse. A 150 shot is a smooth 9 iron for me. I am not saying I am the best golfer on here, to be honest I am not a great golfer but a good hitter of golf balls.
Cheers Imurg at least someone looks into something before trying to make a comment that you can't hit a rescue as far a the same lofted fairway.
Why is it always the same on here. If you dare to say you hit it further than the normal golfer then they must be talking out of their arse. A 150 shot is a smooth 9 iron for me. I am not saying I am the best golfer on here, to be honest I am not a great golfer but a good hitter of golf balls.
wrighty1874
Journeyman Pro
i can't get on with them.
Robobum
Money List Winner
Hmmm, this has made me ask myself a question.......
Do I want to be hitting lovely 2 & 3irons and signing for an 80......or......chopping it round with a hybrid for a 70????
Such a difficult one.....
Do I want to be hitting lovely 2 & 3irons and signing for an 80......or......chopping it round with a hybrid for a 70????
Such a difficult one.....
