Hacker Khan
Yurt Dwelling, Yoghurt Knitter
My existing Mizuno MX700.......
Turned up for the fitting and fitter said to hit my current driver to get a benchmark. Normally I need to warm up with irons before being able to hit a driver anywhere near properly, but first shot I hit, boom 230 yard carry and roll out to something like 265. I didn't want to tell him that this was possibly the furthest I'd ever hit a driver without assistance from strong tail winds/roll on hard ground.
Anyway hit 4 more which were all very decent for me, very uncharacteristically decent in fact. As I am a lefty there was not a huge choice, but first I tries the G30, which I had my heart set on as I've recently got G30 irons and they are great. But I don't know what it was but I just could not get it in the air for the 1st couple of shots. So then I suspect this started playing on my mind so I went back to my bad habits of duck hooking, too many swing thoughts etc etc. So then I tries the AeroBurner, same thing. R15, same, SLDR, same, G25, same Titliest 915 same. I've had bounces on the green on putts that have got further off the ground then some of the shots I hit with these new drivers. By this stage my swing had kind of collapsed on me so he said try my MX700 again, and of course I managed to hit it quite well and airborne.
So at the end it was pretty obvious that my current one was the best for me and the money would be better spent on lessons (who knew
), which to be fair to the fitter, he said straight away. I then booked some more lessons and he said that if we want he can do a fitting at any time when my swing has been sorted out a bit more.
No real logical explanation why I could hit the MX700 but not the others with all their modern tech, but I suspect confidence plays a bigger part for me than I realised.
Turned up for the fitting and fitter said to hit my current driver to get a benchmark. Normally I need to warm up with irons before being able to hit a driver anywhere near properly, but first shot I hit, boom 230 yard carry and roll out to something like 265. I didn't want to tell him that this was possibly the furthest I'd ever hit a driver without assistance from strong tail winds/roll on hard ground.
Anyway hit 4 more which were all very decent for me, very uncharacteristically decent in fact. As I am a lefty there was not a huge choice, but first I tries the G30, which I had my heart set on as I've recently got G30 irons and they are great. But I don't know what it was but I just could not get it in the air for the 1st couple of shots. So then I suspect this started playing on my mind so I went back to my bad habits of duck hooking, too many swing thoughts etc etc. So then I tries the AeroBurner, same thing. R15, same, SLDR, same, G25, same Titliest 915 same. I've had bounces on the green on putts that have got further off the ground then some of the shots I hit with these new drivers. By this stage my swing had kind of collapsed on me so he said try my MX700 again, and of course I managed to hit it quite well and airborne.
So at the end it was pretty obvious that my current one was the best for me and the money would be better spent on lessons (who knew
), which to be fair to the fitter, he said straight away. I then booked some more lessons and he said that if we want he can do a fitting at any time when my swing has been sorted out a bit more. No real logical explanation why I could hit the MX700 but not the others with all their modern tech, but I suspect confidence plays a bigger part for me than I realised.
