What Percentage do we spend all this time talking about?

[Alex1975]

Hi all,

We spend a hell of a lot of time talking about golf hardware and don`t get me wrong, I love it! but to what extent is it making a difference to our game? I know we cant know for sure but I would be interested in peoples educated guess as to what extent our clubs help or hinder us.

If you gave a set of blades to a total beginner or a set of fat K15s to a pro what would the outcome be? I have to believe that it would not help or hinder ether player in this example. The beginner just needs a golf club shaped tool to learn to hit the ball and the pro would manage whatever he was given. Now clearly we are not all pros or beginners and physiology and salesman kick in along the way.

If you had a mid handicap player who has a tendency to slice the ball and give him a set of pure blades its accepted that the miss hits would be way short but I am given to think that if a mid handicap miss hits the ball the very best thing that can happen is that it does not go 150 yards long and 40 yards right, better that it goes short and less right no?

I have sort of posted in the past asking how you quantify forgivingness and did not get a good answer, I don`t think we can answer it without a robot and a Trackman but I am interested in educated guesses or hypothesis on really what percentage of our game is down to the clubs we use?

thanks all

Al

 

[ScienceBoy]

I personally think its more about feel and feedback.

You gain forgiveness but you loose feel when going from blades to GI irons.

The feedback from the blades could be the difference between your body subconsciously being able to judge between going 5 yards past/short and going pin high.

With blades your brain will be helped in narrowing in yardages, with GIs it just doesn't have the information it needs.

 

[Alex1975]

I personally think its more about feel and feedback.

You gain forgiveness but you loose feel when going from blades to GI irons.

The feedback from the blades could be the difference between your body subconsciously being able to judge between going 5 yards past/short and going pin high.

With blades your brain will be helped in narrowing in yardages, with GIs it just doesn't have the information it needs.

I like and I want to believe what you say but I have been told that your bat is in contact with the ball for 0.1 of a second or something, I am also informed that feel is actually just the sound the club makes... are our scenes that tuned?


How is it we don`t teach that quality contact on the ball is way more important than swing speed, it would seem to be a good place to start to teach/learn a swing.

 

[daymond]

If you swing a club and thin it,fat it,slice it or hook it, it has nothing to do with the club but all to do with the swing;nothing more nothing less.

 

[Alex1975]

If you swing a club and thin it,fat it,slice it or hook it, it has nothing to do with the club but all to do with the swing;nothing more nothing less.

Yes thanks, thats not what the post is about though.