So can any clubs be tweaked to any specs? What exactly do you do with a spec sheet that you get from a Trackman fitter?

Going to play Bethpage Black in the morning with the founder of the Golfmatch App (http://golfmatchapp.com/). Does anyone here use it? I'm a 10 hdp, so this should get interesting. Haven't been to the course since the 2002 Open, when I was 11.

Super envious of all you NY residents. $65 to play the Black is a joke. Us out of staters pay $130 weekday.

I'd be really careful bending clubs that aren't forged.

Haven't posted a swing in a while so here is a driver. slight block right carried about 240
It is a little flat on the backswing. No broken ceiling fans this time, sorry.

The spec sheet had some numbers on the shaft that was ideal for me.

Stuff like weight, torque, tip flex, etc.

I went to all the major manufacturers and tried to find one that was close and went from there.

so, as amateurs ppl tend to play the driver off every par 4 or par 5, well not all. the people i golf with, mostly. Thing is, its pry a big mistake to be hitting driver on like 85-90% of holes, opinions? I think i need to be choosing 3 woods and 5 woods way more to ensure fairway accuracy. A lot of the courses I play wont kill you for missing right and left, but it depends. Guess that's what I am getting at to, when not to hit driver and when to hit driver. But generally speaking, i need to be hitting driver less often than 3's and 5's, thoughts?

im pry bogey golfer maybe slightly better. gonna get my handicap finally, using "thegrint" app. last 9 holes i think i only hit 1 fairway. also, the club is flex i believe. i didn't even consider this when buying nor did i look or see if they had both variants. guy at the range brought it up to me, seemed knowledgeable or at least acted it. i dont know my swing speed. I can drive a ball fairly well. Few years back at Golfsmith demoed TM rocketballz and was closing in at 300 pretty consistently. Thats the only time ive tested, on the course though im thinking more of 265 to 285 is generally where im landing(old driver 10.5)

I'm convinced of I went out with nothing but a 3w, 3h, 7I, 56 degree wedge, and a putter, Id probably always shoot a good score. In fact I might try that Sunday.

As long as I am left with a 7 iron or less I will consider going with less than driver.

3 wood and 3h are too close together in my opinion. I'd go driver 5 iron 8 iron.

Distance >>>>>>>>>>> Accuracy off the tee. If you hit the driver relatively straight but are hitting something significantly shorter off the tee for no real reason but to try and hit a few more fairways that is leak.

Obviously if you can't keep driver on the planet that is another issue.

I agree with nxt. If I hit my 3 wood off every tee I would probably average 0-.5 more fairways per round. If I hit my 3 iron off every tee I would probably average like 1.25-1.5 more fairways per round. If I hit my 5 iron off every tee I would probably average 2.5-3 more fairways per round. I don't think any of these improvements is near enough to justify losing the distance.

Distance is king

With my current swing flaw I'm waaaaay better hitting 3w off the tee on any par 4 under 420

Why?

I don't even think a 3 wood is any easier than a driver to hit. Only time I use it off the tee is when I need to get something short of a hazard and maybe on doglegs that are pretty dried out to the point I can't stop a driver in the fairway. If I have the shanks that day or some other disaster then I just use a hybrid off the tee because those are pretty hard to hit poorly

Aside from hybrids compared to long irons, any shorter club is easier to hit than a longer club.

BO

Had a lesson today with Trackman. One thing I've always known is that I spin the driver wayyyyy to much at the expense of distance. Few vitals:

Swing Speed 105 avg
AA a little over the place but I would say between -1 and 1.0. Not consistent and one of the things we are working on.

Spin rate consistently 3400+. Hit a few around 3100 and were def going further.

Carry ~250

Been as low as a +3 but now like a 3 who barely plays.

Club is a Ping i15 legit 8-10 years old from when I was still playing competitively.

Never really been a techie but what should I be thinking about when I go see someone to get fitted? How much can I realistically expect to reduce spin rate with appropriately fitted driver?

Tia

My 3w is the best club in my bag for some reason. Only club I can hit pure, but again it's probably relative because I'm probably not hitting it like I should. I never chunk, thin, slice. Always straight and about 200-220. Irons I hit fat, weak, thin. Just can't pure them like I can my 3w.

I always hate it when I violate Bo's inevitable rules of golf.

I can't hit a fairway wood to save my life. Much much better with driver, to the point where I usually even hit it off the deck rather than pull the 3 wood.

putter tho

otherwise you wouldn't see so many pros chipping when they could putt

in general 3w is easier but if you can barely hit the ball on the club face then a big forgiving driver is probably easier to hit the smaller head 3 wood

In my current stage, there are 4 possible results:

1.) I hit it how I intend. Straight and full distance.

2.) I hit a weak cut that goes 75% distance. I'm really sick of missing greens from 120 and in.

3.) It starts 30 degrees to the right and slices like hell.

4.) It starts 30 degrees to the left and hooks like hell.



I'm not TRYING to swing differently, but my driver falls into the 3 and 4 categories pretty often, while my 3w goes 240-265 down the middle. Why would I hit driver? I mean, I still try to pipe driver on par 5s and sometimes to good results, but the misses are an entire hole left or right.

with full swings, typically yes.

a key part of the discussion about what club to hit from the tee (or second shots on par 5s) depends on the probable resulting distance to the hole. i would guess a majority of higher handicap players (who aren't playing from the tips), would benefit from having their shot from the tee on par 4s and their second shot on par 5s land in a spot that was no closer than 100 to 125 yards to the hole. lots of bad things can happen to us higher handicaps when we're trying to play partial swing shots between 50-100 yards...that's one of the many reasons we have higher handicaps.

I feel like that has to be a myth and that high handicappers just feel significantly worse when they **** the bed from 50 yards as opposed to 150. I'd be shocked if they weren't doing significantly better as they got closer to the green.

Yeah I want to get as close as possible. From 100 and in I feel pretty confident that I will get up and down.