WHY!

[needmoreclub]

Why is it that you spend time at the range testing new drivers and decide your hitting one really well, go purchase it, take it to the course and guess what? You couldn't hit it if your life depended on it. I'll be heading back today to try and exchange it for one that works as it can't be me surely.
One Mizuno JPX driver going cheap, sweet spot unmarked.

 

[trevor]

Don't worry, there are a lot of faulty ones out there.

 

[chrisd]

Such shoddy sales service!


Chris

 

[MashieNiblick]

Happened to me years back when I bought a Mizuno T-Zoid. Hit the demo club like a dream, but the one I bought was a nightmare. I never really got on with it. I think it just didn't like me. Persevered for a season or 2 (it's the player not the club, right?) but was relieved when I finally replaced it with a Callaway HawkEye. Had Callaways ever since.

 

[bobmac]

You dont think we waste the "good"drivers on the likes of you lot do you?

We keep all the drivers that work for ourselves and also the balls that listen

 

[USER1999]

Because on the range you swing without a care In the world. Out on the course, you swing with all the worries in the world.

Relax, then whack it like you don't care.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Not a problem I have. Crap swing on the range and crap swing on the course. At least I know the ball will go left and right before I hand over my credit card

 

[Snelly]

I would say the main reason is because that on a driving range, you have a square mat to stand on and lots of straight lines on the swing path to get you properly set up. This is not the case on the course and you suffer with poor alignment as a result.

Secondly, the power of positive thinking comes in when you have a brand new driver in your hands that the marketeers have told you is a panacea for all tee shot ills. I think this has an effect as you believe you are going to hit a good shot and invariably you do.

Snelly.

 

[coolhand]

Didn't you notice the clubhead remote control device in the PRO's hand:lol:

 

[MadAdey]

I would say the main reason is because that on a driving range, you have a square mat to stand on and lots of straight lines on the swing path to get you properly set up. This is not the case on the course and you suffer with poor alignment as a result.

Secondly, the power of positive thinking comes in when you have a brand new driver in your hands that the marketeers have told you is a panacea for all tee shot ills. I think this has an effect as you believe you are going to hit a good shot and invariably you do.

Snelly.

Absolutely spot on Snelly. So many people always comment on how well they hit the ball on the range but can't do it on the course, but it is like you said you have all those things setting you up square and you really just open up the body and let the club head go. After all who cares what happens to the ball on the range not like it is gonna wreck a card or you have to go find it from the rough.

I always take the club I am looking to replace with me to the range when getting a replacement. Hit some shots with my club to get something for comparison on the new club I am looking at. Once I find the one I want I then hit mine again to getting an accurate comparison on the new one.

 

[Hobbit]

Buy the roll of tape that the pro uses to protect the face of clubs that you're trying. I always find the ball flies better with the tape on the clubface

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Because it's not the club that's the problem

 

[harvey4banger]

Try the reverse, the one you cant hit on the range, buy that one and it might work on the course :lol:

 

[needmoreclub]

Because it's not the club that's the problem

Hawkeye, what do you mean, that my swing could be at fault, no never, us sad men that are attracted to all things shiny have a swing like 'Big Ernie', until we take it to the course.

 

[Iaing]

Buy the roll of tape that the pro uses to protect the face of clubs that you're trying. I always find the ball flies better with the tape on the clubface

It does fly better taped up.
That's why you can't use tape on the face in competition.

 

[HotDogAssassin]

That's why you can't use tape on the face in competition.

Wouldn't that make it difficult to see the flag anyway?

 

[Oddsocks]

the problem is you bond with a demo unit, not the one you actually buy. go back and buy the demo...

 

[GB72]

Stick with the JPX, it is a great driver and certainly the most forgiving that I have hit. I have been an habitual driver changer but this one is here for the long run.

 

[needmoreclub]

Cheers GB, i intend to stick with it, had similar issues when i got my irons but they came through in the end, good thing i don't make my living from golf, i'd be starving.

 

[daymond]

How often do you hit a belter at the range when it is the last ball in the bucket. Every shot on the course is a 'must do shot'. At the range it does'nt matter.