Tweakable drivers & metals. Are you a compulsive fiddler?

Got my 910 D2, 910F and 913H all set to stock A1.

Don't feel the need to change to be honest.

If I were to tinker, it would be on a launch monitor to see what was changing and how the numbers stacked up.
 
Gareth said:
Got my 910 D2, 910F and 913H all set to stock A1.

Don't feel the need to change to be honest.

If I were to tinker, it would be on a launch monitor to see what was changing and how the numbers stacked up.
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It's worthwhile. My fitting session started with me trying a 9.5 deg set to A1, as close as the guy could get to my previous driver set up. At the end of the session i'd gained a touch under 30 yards carry distance over my previous driver, and 25 yards over the 913 with the same shaft in the neutral setting.
 
Adjustable drivers are there so the manufactures don't have to make hundreds of different specs and get left with loads of stock that don't sell. The plus side for us is that as our swing changes we can then adjust the driver to suit. I've just paid out for a new 915 d2 as in the long term this should last me for a very long time. I can adjust as I get better to more or less loft and the face angle if needed.

If you've been fitted and it works why would you need to change it? If after improving or get worse the option is there to adjust. Plus you could also change a shaft easily and quite cheaply if so required rather than having to pull and replace the shaft.
 
Also had a PP who had a R11s who must have had his set at every possible setting at one point or another. Everyone he'd tell us after a range session he's cracked it. Within a few weeks it would be changed again! He's since now got rid and got a vapor pro. So far so good!
 
I adjust mine before every round just because I can. Great fun trying to work out where the ball is going to go.
 
Used the RBZ today and as one of our 4-ball had a short notice family problem we didn't have our planned match playing American Stableford 3 ball.

Mates kindly allowed me to fiddle as it was a friendly non-comp game. Started with 10.5 loft neutral and tweaked it by degrees up to 12. Better ball flight and no mis-hits so quite encouraging. Didn't adjust lie though so far and best hit was better than my King Cobra LD. However real big bonus is the RBZ doesn't sound like a tea tray on a broomstick the way the Cobra does.

Will road test it again this coming week and may well own it by next Sunday.

oh and I took the money as well so that's a big £4 quid into the club fund if I go ahead.
 
The last 5 drivers Ive had have been adjustable, from the TMr7 425, though the Mizuno MP600 and 630, Xhot Pro and Now SLDR. Never done anything with any with the adj apart from the Mizuno 630 fast track in that i had the weights right forward.
 
I have a Titleist 913D3 (thanks GM) set to the standard loft, but one crank open and have left it like that more or less since I got it. Played with a few settings on the range but always taken the open setting to the course.

Likewise the 913 FD 3 wood. Same setting, left more or less as is.Have added or subtracted a bit of loft from time to time but mostly standard loft.
 
I have just purchased a Nike Covert 2.0.
First time out with it I set it at 11 degrees and "neutral". I was blocking everything right.
I came home and adjusted it "closed" but kept the loft the same as the ball flight was good.
Much improvement, hitting a very slight draw with it, good trajectory and distance.
It's not being "tinkered" with again.
 
3565 said:
This post just goes to show that what's the point in buying an adjustable driver that alters loft as most have stated they've not changed them since being fitted and bought. The concept is great for a club fitter and player to find the right head, loft and shaft combo, but after that I can't see the point in changing the loft cos its a windy day (unless all par 4/5s are into wind, highly unlikely). I suppose that new shafts that are coming out and can be put in with out extracting and glueing is also the big advantage with adjustable drivers. So horses for courses but I'm still old school.
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It's the initial adjustment/setting that is the major benefit. So the same head can be produced and the right settings and shaft can be found. Once that is done, then there isn't really much point changing them - except perhaps for particularly windy conditions. You never seem to get the same benefit from a tail wind as you get 'killed' from a headwind though! :mad:
 
Foxholer said:
It's the initial adjustment/setting that is the major benefit. So the same head can be produced and the right settings and shaft can be found. Once that is done, then there isn't really much point changing them - except perhaps for particularly windy conditions. You never seem to get the same benefit from a tail wind as you get 'killed' from a headwind though! :mad:
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Yeah I agree, altho if you got a series of up wind and down wind holes all the time then you could use the driver in its 3ft off the ground mode under the wind mode for into then use the loft and height of a fairway wood for down. :thup:

Ive resisted from the multi changeable drivers as I would tend to tinker and get myself in a mess, altho I liked the Mizuno fast track system which was quick and easy to use and worked.
 
3565 said:
Yeah I agree, altho if you got a series of up wind and down wind holes all the time then you could use the driver in its 3ft off the ground mode under the wind mode for into then use the loft and height of a fairway wood for down. :thup:

Ive resisted from the multi changeable drivers as I would tend to tinker and get myself in a mess, altho I liked the Mizuno fast track system which was quick and easy to use and worked.
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This was my fear too. Set it up all nice and working well then suddenly it goes all skew whiff. Get the wrench out - fiddle fiddle - and working again for another month before more trouble - fiddle fiddle - and so on and so on. Then as you say you get yourself into a bit of a mess and start using the wrench more often than a plumber :confused:
 
Well after saying I wouldn't tweak mine the inevitable happened! I've been pushing a good few out to the right so I've clucked it one notch to close the face. WOW. Booming them straight down the middle. I've never hit a driver so well and consistently! Long live adjustability!
 
Have had and, indeed, still have adjustable drivers but find myself returning to the glued old-school,

Bridgestone j38 seems to still do the job.

After all most of us have more than one quirk in our swing which adjustability may help with but until we are out there we won't know which of those quirks is in need of attention. I have similar doubts over the whole custom-fit issue.
 
If you do turn into a setup fiddler but can't obviously change setup during a round, maybe you'll end up going down the Phil Mickelson route when he put 2 drivers in the bag, one slice bias, one fade bias, to great effect in winning the Masters a few years back!:p
 
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