Sacrifice your driver? I have.

[ColinR]

and my 3-wood.

Longest club in my bag is a 2Hybrid which I hit 230. Part of me thinks that golf has lost a little magic, but my game has improved so much. I'm so much straighter with this club which is really needed at my club. My iron play has always been my strength, so now I have much more chance of GIR when I am on the fairways more often than not.

Tough decision, but it is more than paying off.

Anyone else made similar sacrifices ?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I've dropped the 3 wood to accommodate an extra wedge and will keep the bag the same until the winter when I'll need the 3 wood more off some tees and the fairway. Then I'll drp the 56 and 60 and put the 58 back in the bag. Until them I'm dependant on the driver at my course on a lot of holes and its kind of behaving for me at the moment. Yours is an intersting idea but not sure I could be that brave and ditch all the woods.

 

[haplesshacker]

The drivers been out of my bag for most of this season. My 20 degree hybrid gets most of the tee work now. However I would like to find the 'magic' I used to have with my 3 wood, so it stays in the bag to make up the numbers.

 

[Imurg]

Can't. My course has too many long holes . If I use 3 wood or less then I have little chance of getting to the green on some.
Fortuately it seems to be behaving itself (ish) at the moment.

 

[haplesshacker]

Ah. The advantage of me being a high h'capper. Par 4's in 3 for the longer ones.

 

[ColinR]

Can't. My course has too many long holes . If I use 3 wood or less then I have little chance of getting to the green on some.
Fortuately it seems to be behaving itself (ish) at the moment.

You sure about that ? If you can hit a hybrid straighter and more consistent than a driver and still make 230yards, even on a long par 4 that will leave you 170-200 yards which is anything from a 7i to a 4i to get on the green.

I dare you to play a round without your driver !!

 

[ball_basher]

good choice sir !!! i have also dropped my driver for this season and it looks like the 3 wood is gonna be redundant as well , for this year at least , the track im a member of at the moment is only a par 64 which sounds like a pitch and put , however it has some really tight fairways and is a good challenge and it really makes you think about your course management, im off 14 and my old track i could blaze away with the big fella without too many worries and play to my h/c .. at the start of the year i was was using my driver and wondering why i could not shoot to my h/c . then the penny dropped and as a result my iron play is better than ever .... so for now the big dog is a gonna . although i still practice with it at the range and that is also slowly becoming straiter ,

regards

 

[JustOne]

and my 3-wood.

Longest club in my bag is a 2Hybrid which I hit 230.

Fingers crossed your 2hybrid doesn't also go off the boil

If you can't hit a club you should consider getting a pro to look at your swing.... or the club.

 

[Doh]

Good thing about equipment these days is there is so much to choose from if one club stops working for us, although it can work out expensive. Where as £20 or so for a lesson should be the better option???

 

[minigolfer]

my woods are essential to me as i am a shotr hitter of the tee os i need them to get to the hole

 

[PeterPumpkinEater]

My driver has always been a problem for me, but I have had specific lessons with the driver and continued with it and am now starting to hit the centre of the fairway with more distance too.

My friends told me to do what they do and pull my right foot back so my stance is right of the target, but to me that was artifical and only masking the problem.

Actually I used to be scared of flying! But the more I faced my fear full on (by continuing to fly) the better it became. Moral of the story, by putting things on the 'back burner' you're never going to overcome the original problem.

Well done on hitting your 2Hybrid 230yrds btw, thats my 3-wood distance!!

 

[Atticus_Finch]

I would have no chance on my course without my driver, but when I visit other courses, I often leave it in the car.
It's horses for courses I suppose.

 

[viscount17]

no driver! - not for me.
OK it misbehaves, it's moody and cantankerous but I have to have it.

I've gone round once or twice with no woods/hybrids at all, and while I can do it (and not done too badly) I'd rather not.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I only have a 3hybrid and hit it around 190 yards and so the driver is essential. As I mentioned I've already sacrificed the 3 wood for an extra wedge and so the driver is essential

 

[sasquatch]

I ditched my driver a few months ago,1st round i went out without it i hit my best score so its never been out since!
I use my 3 wood(230ish)-5 wood(215ish) or my 4 rescue(190ish) off the tee.I can smack my driver a long way but im too inconsistant with it,my fault not the driver!! One day i will start using it again after i get my head round it!.
I tend to plot my way round a little more now instead of just grabbing the biggest club in my bag as i used to.
I'm lucky in a way because i get good distance with my 7/8/9+pw so dont feel i need massive distance from the tee.

 

[RGDave]

Tough decision, but it is more than paying off.

Anyone else made similar sacrifices ?

No way.....Jose.....

Depends on standard, of course...
and possible distance with less club, of course
and width of fairways, of course



I LOVE my driver....we are on a journey to permanent residence on the centre-cut of life. Last two games 100% fairways, and long (for me!) too.

Don't get we wrong, I still use my 3 wood on 3 tees and my 5 on at least one, so I still play the same game as ever.

 

[MizunoMan]

I dont hit my driver far enough to ditch it.

 

[AliB]

Re: Sacrifice your driver? I have.

wish I had left mine behinid today. Have rarely used it recently - hitting consistently with 3-wood far enough to do the job.
Took a travel bag and 7 clubs on holiday - still didn't miss it.
Today took trolley and full kit. couldn't resist getting driver out on an open course - hit it well a couple of times but off line. Put it back in bag. After very respectable round that temptation was still there. Despite all logic I took it out on 18th, scuffed it into deep rough - don't ask about the rest. Driver was once my favourite club but think I'll put it back into retirement and concentrate on short game/putting.

AliB

 

[level5s]

Re: Sacrifice your driver? I have.

I have only taken her out of the bag early on in our relationship when we visited a tree-lined narrow fairway course a few weekends in a row.
She is ever present now but I dont pull her out every hole.

 

[ColinR]

Re: Sacrifice your driver? I have.

I have only taken her out of the bag early on in our relationship when we visited a tree-lined narrow fairway course a few weekends in a row.
She is ever present now but I dont pull her out every hole.

They say knowing when to love her and when to leave her is the best attribute you can have. I've left my baby, but dont yet have the blues !!!