He has tons of drivers lol, he's just ordered a new Ping as well. I think it would otherwise be sat in his car!Make him an offer you can afford.
At worst he will say “no”
If he’s letting people borrow it ,it can’t be his no 1 shaft.
Yes just don’t offer a stupid amount.
I've no idea what my swingweights are, or what any of it means.I’ve always tinkered, especially with drivers and shafts.
In a quiet hour this morning I used the digital kitchen scales, tape measure and AI to check the swing weights of my usual set-ups.
These are the results:
1. TM Stealth 2 with stock shaft = C8
2. TM Stealth 2 with Tensei shaft = D0
3. Ping G400Max with stock shaft = D4.5
4. Ping G400Max with steel shaft = D9
AI assessed them as follows…
Your Driver Spectrum
You now have the full range of feels to choose from:
• The "Feather": C7.7 (330g total)
• The "Standard/Neutral": C9.7/D0 (330g total)
• The "Heavy Pro": D4.4 (330g total - G400 Max)
• The "Sledgehammer": D9.3 (390g total)
Which of these feels best when you actually pull the trigger? Most people find their "Goldilocks" zone is only about 2-3 swing weight points wide. Jumping from C7 to D9 is like switching sports!
I’ve been mostly using #3 for the last couple of years with the odd few weeks on #4 when the swing was getting wild and it has worked well.
Because it was cold and wet yesterday and we had to carry I took #1 out. Predictably it was disastrous; like swinging a pencil.
I’ll be on #2 tomorrow, looking for a happy medium that doesn’t exhaust me.
I checked my usual iron set too. They were all over the place from C8 to D5 and not necessarily in the order you’d hope.
Further update on current tinkerage.
This is the one I useI've no idea what my swingweights are, or what any of it means.
If I Google the specs of the G430 SFT driver, it says the standard swingweight is C9, but with my Hzrdus shaft, it's "1 point higher than standard" - whatever that takes it to. C10? D0?
My 3 wood is apparently D0. 7 wood is D1.
My irons are supposed to be D2 and so is the matching 5 hybrid.
That all seems to be in order... maybe?
www.hirekogolf.com
Further update on current tinkerage.
On the weekend, our greens had grown up a bit with the Friday rain and improved temperatures, so they were as slow as they've ever been, which made the pencil grip a real struggle. That is really the only downside I can see, it can be hard to give it some welly when you need to. I stuck with it though, as one of the problems I had with normal grip was getting too right-wristy when trying to add speed... but it was frustrating, I had at least three putts bang on line stopping 4 inches short. At least I am still hitting the lines with it. The face feels so square, and normally when the greens aren't deathly slow, I actually find pace control is better as it forces me to lengthen the stroke rather than just whack it harder with the wrists getting involved. Did some practice last night, it's still a little fiddly figuring out how far round the grip I want my fingers to go and things like that - just need to hit enough putts that it starts to feel comfortable and I stop thinking about that stuff, then hopefully by the time the greens speed up, I'll be happy with it.
The 3 wood is back at 16° now. 15° was good off the tee, but off the deck, I don't know, I just feel a little more confident with that 1 degree of extra loft sitting behind the ball. 7 wood is getting better every time, I'm now used to the fact that it has a consistent fade shape and doesn't occasionally draw randomly like the old 7W.
My latest bit of tinkering is changing the driver from 9° to 9.5°. All the way back in my fitting, he did fit me to it in 9°, but I recall him saying "you might end up playing it at 9.5" so I guess there wasn't loads in it between the two. I think when I'm driving well, the 9° is fine because I launch it well when I strike it near the middle. The issue comes when I hit a few low on the face and was only getting 11-12° launch angle. And viewing a recent Crossfield vid where he keeps saying amateurs aren't using enough loft gave me food for thought. So it's 9.5° for now, just gives me a little bit more help on those low strikes. And again, just a little bit more confidence behind the ball maybe. Sometimes with 9° I felt like I really had to close the face to ensure I didn't slice it, but in fact my most frequent bad shot became a left pull as a result.
Last one is chipping, although more technique-based than actual tinkering. Got a bit of practice in and decided I was gripping down too much - I tended to go almost down the bottom of the grip, but I feel like I'm better off just halfway down the grip so I can stand up a bit taller. Obviously with the mud around chipping is a crap-shoot anyway, but we'll see.
I got mine from here in the end: https://www.snaintongolf.co.uk/ping-g430-max-golf-fairway-wood
Be sure to check your email for old codes they may have sent you - I found one from my birthday last September that said it would only work for 7 days - they were wrong, it still worked.Yeah that’s what I’ve just bumped a thread for
Be sure to check your email for old codes they may have sent you - I found one from my birthday last September that said it would only work for 7 days - they were wrong, it still worked.
Be sure to check your email for old codes they may have sent you - I found one from my birthday last September that said it would only work for 7 days - they were wrong, it still worked.
they’ve emailed saying for extra £30 I can have g440 and that will be here in 10 days
Damn, I got mine in January and it only took around 3 weeks. That's a good deal they're giving you on the new one though isn't it?Delay on them till June
