Start at Your Equipment if You want to Hit Long Golf Drives
Author: Mark Walters | Category: Golf, Golf Clubs, Golf EquipmentThe tee is where every golf hole begins. If you’re having problems getting off the tee, then you’re opening every single hole playing catch up. You might save a bunch of pars with a great putt, but you could well be putting for birdies if your drive had found the fairway.
For nearly all players, being consistent with the driver and hitting long golf drives are far from being impossible. Being consistent from the tee is easier than most players appreciate.
Modern golf equipment means golf balls today get the best distance higher launch angles and a shallower angle of descent. It isn’t about low carrying drives any longer. Long drives come from high piercing trajectories, with most of the distance being carry.
With their high swing speeds and dependable ball strike, pros can still get height on the ball, even with low lofts on their drivers. For the majority of club players though, using a higher lofted driver will encourage both carry and consistency. The majority of club golfers would For the majority of club golfers, drivers with with a loft of between 11 to 14 degrees will give the best results.
Playing the right shaft is vital when it comes to being long off the tee. The shaft plays a crucial function in all the clubs in your set, but the effects of playing the wrong shaft in your driver are magnified.
The majority of golfers play drivers with graphite shafts. Regrettably, many golfers use driver shafts that are too boardy for their swings. That probably accounts in part for the most common miss amongst club golfers, the slice. Use a shaft that is excessively stiff and you’ll in all probability suffer from a slice.
In part, that has to do with the commonly held belief that graphite shafts are too whippy, too soft. That could well have been true 10 years ago, but advanced graphite shaft fiber patterns have given us first-rate models with very consistent playing profiles.
A medium torque, light-weight driver shaft would give the best results for the majority of golfers. Lighter shafts develop your swing speed and you’ll be able to load a medium torque shaft better during your swing, delivering your driver into the ball with the most energy. Greater carries come from this energy.
The stiffness of the shaft’s tip will also affect the trajectories. Use a shaft that is overly tip stiff and your drives will suffer. The launch angle is where a long golf drive comes from. Take into account, we’re looking for a soaring arc, not a low worm burner.
To hit long golf drives you have to select a driver / shaft combo to match your swing speed. Your driver need to match your game, not work against you.
We could all do with some extra yards and the easiest place to start is at our Clone Golf Clubs site.
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