The problem with being impatient.....

harpo_72

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I have been requiring a driver fitting, my present situation has left me wondering whether I was getting the most out of my driver. It started when I bought my 5 wood, this club was hideously easy to hit straight and offered accuracy and distance in ample measure. My driver was only 5 yards longer on carry and less predictable. I have been reading on here about the SLDR and was going to look at the cleveland classic xl. Unfortunately the cleveland fitting centre was 1 hour drive away and due to my responsibilities and my wife's work load, I could not devote 2 1/2 hrs. I had also postponed once as getting days when my wife can sit down for 2-3hrs with our son are few and far between.
Anyway I checked out a shop near me, about 10 mins drive and he had the SLDR in stock, so I thought I would check it out. I tried it, I tried the stage 2 as well, the stage 2 worked better for me. I had taken my 5 wood and said, I wanted something that felt like this. So he selected a number of clubs with similar shaft specs. They did feel roughly like my 5 wood but he bought out this Yonex thingy and this really felt like my 5 wood. It also was the longest of all of them and straightest as well. So in true impatient fashion, I bought it and then drove home thinking have I made a huge error...
Well I took it down the range last night and warmed up and hit a few 5 woods erratically at first and then just got into my stride. Changed to this new driver and blocked one immediately right, but after that I just started to hit it nice and straight, it seemed to just hang in the air ... I think this yonex I-ezone jobbie might have a future.
 
So the moral to your story is the problem with being inpatient is you end up buying a club that yields results and works?
 
I'll be completely honest mate. That's not a fable I'm going to be telling my kids. I'm not sure exactly what the moral is, but it sure ain't up there with Aesop's finest...:D

Well done on finding a Driver that works. I had the same result with an Adams Driver I picked up off fleabay a few weeks ago...:thup:
 
doesn't seem like a problem to me either but give it time.
I replaced my driver (was using a callaway something or other I bought 3 years ago) to a taylormade rbz stage 2. Loved it at first. Now put it in the cupboard under the stairs and swapped in my callaway.... oh dear. eBay!
 
Your right, I just had a bit of a worry about it and did not come to a nasty end ... In fact it was a feel good relieved post. This is the problem when no one in your family plays golf let alone understands golf. My wife just said could you just not hit one of your other ones harder ... My little boy just spat out the spoon of baby food after swilling it about for all of 3 seconds.
 
Its like going into a car dealership thinking of buying a BMW and driving out in a Scoda.
The Scoda a nice car,but its not a BMW.
However it works.
Yes I was intending to get sorted out for something else my preconceptions were set and then I went "off piste" and had a mild panic / dilemma...
 
I have been requiring a driver fitting, my present situation has left me wondering whether I was getting the most out of my driver. It started when I bought my 5 wood, this club was hideously easy to hit straight and offered accuracy and distance in ample measure. My driver was only 5 yards longer on carry and less predictable. I have been reading on here about the SLDR and was going to look at the cleveland classic xl. Unfortunately the cleveland fitting centre was 1 hour drive away and due to my responsibilities and my wife's work load, I could not devote 2 1/2 hrs. I had also postponed once as getting days when my wife can sit down for 2-3hrs with our son are few and far between.
Anyway I checked out a shop near me, about 10 mins drive and he had the SLDR in stock, so I thought I would check it out. I tried it, I tried the stage 2 as well, the stage 2 worked better for me. I had taken my 5 wood and said, I wanted something that felt like this. So he selected a number of clubs with similar shaft specs. They did feel roughly like my 5 wood but he bought out this Yonex thingy and this really felt like my 5 wood. It also was the longest of all of them and straightest as well. So in true impatient fashion, I bought it and then drove home thinking have I made a huge error...
Well I took it down the range last night and warmed up and hit a few 5 woods erratically at first and then just got into my stride. Changed to this new driver and blocked one immediately right, but after that I just started to hit it nice and straight, it seemed to just hang in the air ... I think this yonex I-ezone jobbie might have a future.

Or could it simply be that you'd warmed up hitting a few 5 woods and we're already 'loose' when you came to hit your driver?

Do you warm up in the same fashon before playing a round of golf?
 
Yes when I get the time, Sunday I was shifted up 20 minutes ... But I started par par and then the putting went :(
 
Harpo - what is the Del Mar California like?
nice looking putter.
Really depends on the type of greens you play on. It's a real feel putter, so on slow greens you have to thump it and its not worth having. On lighteningly quick greens its sublime, distance putting is easy, touching a ball down hill is easy. The lining up for a straight back straight through swing is easy. I have a jumbo ionic grip on mine and its 34" long it's really nice.
so if your greens are rapid get one, you won't regret it, if you do let me have first dibs! By the way I think all SC's are toe weighted but this is the closest to face balanced, apart from the Adam Scott head one.
 
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