Hatchman
16th October 2012, 01:44 AM
I'm having issues with not putting enough drives into play. I'm hitting way too many dead drives during a round, any where from 5 -8 a round where I don't have a full swing and have to manufacture a recovery shot (luckily 1/3 to 1/2 of these I'm managing to convert to pars still).
For an experiment I took the shaft out of my R11's 3 wood and put it in my R11's Driver to see if I would get more control with a shorter shaft. I wasn't playing on my home course so I wasn't able to tell if I suffered any distance loss but don't think I did as I was playing from the areas where I would expect to. I thought I had stumbled onto something for a while as with three to go I had only hit 3 dead drives and one of them was a straight hit down the left into the first cut before it took a big bounce left into the tree line. The last three resulted in a bad cut , a block and a big pull to put me on the same average as when before. Up until that point I was feeling a lot more confident about pointing it up the middle and holding the line.
Must say it did look a bit funny and almost looked like a kids cut down club with the three wood shaft in it. It didn't feel any different to swing. My impacts on the face were in the same spots as normal (middle or towards toe off middle). Ball trajectory was about the same or maybe slightly higher. My usual driver shaft is the standard RIP Phenom 60 Stiff and the 3 wood shaft is a RIP Phenom 70 Stiff. I do think I need to find a better shaft suited to me thou and think I will play it a little shorter than the std R11 length. My stock shot is a fade. My bad misses are block cuts and I hit the odd pull.
Who else out there has gone to and are using a much shorter than std length shaft in their driver?
For an experiment I took the shaft out of my R11's 3 wood and put it in my R11's Driver to see if I would get more control with a shorter shaft. I wasn't playing on my home course so I wasn't able to tell if I suffered any distance loss but don't think I did as I was playing from the areas where I would expect to. I thought I had stumbled onto something for a while as with three to go I had only hit 3 dead drives and one of them was a straight hit down the left into the first cut before it took a big bounce left into the tree line. The last three resulted in a bad cut , a block and a big pull to put me on the same average as when before. Up until that point I was feeling a lot more confident about pointing it up the middle and holding the line.
Must say it did look a bit funny and almost looked like a kids cut down club with the three wood shaft in it. It didn't feel any different to swing. My impacts on the face were in the same spots as normal (middle or towards toe off middle). Ball trajectory was about the same or maybe slightly higher. My usual driver shaft is the standard RIP Phenom 60 Stiff and the 3 wood shaft is a RIP Phenom 70 Stiff. I do think I need to find a better shaft suited to me thou and think I will play it a little shorter than the std R11 length. My stock shot is a fade. My bad misses are block cuts and I hit the odd pull.
Who else out there has gone to and are using a much shorter than std length shaft in their driver?