wull
Tour Rookie
i finally went for the trackman session today and i thoroughly enjoyed it.the experience itself was good and the information you find out is unbelievable,everything from swing/ball speed to attack angle and much more.
the main issue i had with my current driver was the flight i was getting.i believed the height i was getting was too high and that i was getting far too much spin because i was getting not very much run on the ball at all.even on firm fairways,i would get some but not what you would expect.
i went to scott gourlay at craigmillar golf club and he is very good and knows his stuff.because of what i told him he brought another driver along which had a stiffer shaft,he believed that the stiff shaft fitted to mine was too soft at the tip for me and causing the clubface to come into the ball with more loft.the other driver was a callaway ft(i think) 8.5* fitted with a matrix ozik x-con 6 shaft and my driver is a titleist 905r 7.5* fitted with a grafalloy blue stiff shaft.
the drives with my own driver were as expected quite high and the spin rate and launch angle were also high.the landing angle was soemthing like 40+ degree's with my own driver so roll out was not that much.
immediately with the callaway driver the numbers were much better,spin rate was down below 2500rpm with the average being around 2200rpm,my ball speed was up aswell averaging about 160mph with my swing speed being around the 110mph mark on average.
i hit quite a few bad shots with both drivers but with the callaway there were fewer bad shots but when they were bad they were left,but i felt like they were good.what was happening was at impact the clubface was lsightly closed and this was due to the matrix shaft being slightly soft for me so scott belives a slightly stiffer shatf will improve my numbers even more because with my titleist i couldn't get the ball speed upto what i could achieve with the callaway,i was losing about 4mph on average with the titleist.
my best swing with the callaway had me at 114mph ss but i only managed 165mph ball speed because i caught it off the toe.....good thing about that was it had reduced spin rate and ran for ever.
i'm not entirely sure what all my numbers were because i'll have to wait for scott to email them through but my average carry distance was in and around 265-270 yrds with total distance being 309 yrds average.
i was teeing it lower than usual but i reckon this may help with getting more roll out,my attack angle is good though at 4 degree's so i'm also striking up on the ball which should create a lower spin rate....
scott's going to get a few shafts in for me to try then we're going to take it from there,i'm in no rush but the plan will be to have a new shaft fitted before the start of next season.
the main issue i had with my current driver was the flight i was getting.i believed the height i was getting was too high and that i was getting far too much spin because i was getting not very much run on the ball at all.even on firm fairways,i would get some but not what you would expect.
i went to scott gourlay at craigmillar golf club and he is very good and knows his stuff.because of what i told him he brought another driver along which had a stiffer shaft,he believed that the stiff shaft fitted to mine was too soft at the tip for me and causing the clubface to come into the ball with more loft.the other driver was a callaway ft(i think) 8.5* fitted with a matrix ozik x-con 6 shaft and my driver is a titleist 905r 7.5* fitted with a grafalloy blue stiff shaft.
the drives with my own driver were as expected quite high and the spin rate and launch angle were also high.the landing angle was soemthing like 40+ degree's with my own driver so roll out was not that much.
immediately with the callaway driver the numbers were much better,spin rate was down below 2500rpm with the average being around 2200rpm,my ball speed was up aswell averaging about 160mph with my swing speed being around the 110mph mark on average.
i hit quite a few bad shots with both drivers but with the callaway there were fewer bad shots but when they were bad they were left,but i felt like they were good.what was happening was at impact the clubface was lsightly closed and this was due to the matrix shaft being slightly soft for me so scott belives a slightly stiffer shatf will improve my numbers even more because with my titleist i couldn't get the ball speed upto what i could achieve with the callaway,i was losing about 4mph on average with the titleist.
my best swing with the callaway had me at 114mph ss but i only managed 165mph ball speed because i caught it off the toe.....good thing about that was it had reduced spin rate and ran for ever.
i'm not entirely sure what all my numbers were because i'll have to wait for scott to email them through but my average carry distance was in and around 265-270 yrds with total distance being 309 yrds average.
i was teeing it lower than usual but i reckon this may help with getting more roll out,my attack angle is good though at 4 degree's so i'm also striking up on the ball which should create a lower spin rate....
scott's going to get a few shafts in for me to try then we're going to take it from there,i'm in no rush but the plan will be to have a new shaft fitted before the start of next season.
