Mark: If you look at Max Duplica's trajectory program it is very easy to see why you are getting more distance with the 15* head. i don't have the address for this program but I am sure others will be happy to "publish" it for you. It's a wonderful program. HStill ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark A. Patton Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 8:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ShopTalk:Now Traj was SRV-II Update Thanks for the review. Some of your comments as well as others from other
threads leads me to this:
I see many references to people wanting to keep trajectory down (for the
driver). I know this is desired as while I play, I know I hear it enough. My
question is, has anyone done any testing/demos regarding this?
Most any customer I solicit has this desire, but many times what they want is
their own destruction (I guess). For my feeble game right now, my best "driver"
is a 15* 3 wood with a 45" shaft. While certainly no monster on the swingspeed,
last weekend it allowed me to out drive my competitor 4X, but also hit 7X more
fairways. On average we are talking 250 yds on the fly. Before I racked my spine
(snap crackle pop for those of the ST Open) I had a 7 hcp (with 32 putts avg :(
) and a avg driver distance of 275.
In a nutshell, there are advantages of a higher lofted club when accuracy is
needed (please review earlier post regarding tests on distance vs accuracy off
the tee as well as any major book regarding loft and fitting). How many have
tested a longer and higher lofted "driver". I know as time/money allows, a 12*
Bang may become a test subject.
Sad part is, evidently testosterone wins occasionally. I had a customer a couple
months ago who wanted a driver. I observed and demoed him. Though not needing a
lower trajectory driver, he wanted one. I built it for him cash on the barrel)
as well as allowed him to demo a higher lofted driver. Even though he posted a 5
stroke lower score with the "high" lofted driver, the "lower" was it. He
accredited this to, "bad swing" (hmm only with the lower driver) as well as
other astronomical anomalies. My practical "test"did not succeed here as
planned.
Fact of the matter is: We as club fitters CAN build a better club. We CAN (at
times) build a better game. We CAN build what the customer needs. We CAN build
what the customer wants. We CAN have a satisfied customer, it just takes us
realizing that w/o the help of a shrink, these items will not always align.
Mark
David Rees wrote:
> Summary:
> I love my SRV-II!
>
> The long story:
> If you all remember I was inspired to build a high loft SRV-II after
> hearing Dan Neubecker's results with it hitting high straight consistent
> bombs with it. I ended up building a 12* SRV-II on a Rifle 5.5 steel shaft,
> no tip-trim, shaft inserted to the plug, butt-trimmed to 44" and spine at 12
> oclock. Swingweight is D2-3.
>
> I cut the day short at work yesterday to head out to Encinitas Ranch with a
> few other guys who work in the building around here in San Diego for as many
> holes as light would allow. I hit 4/5 fairways when I used driver on the
> front 9 and a few more on the back (didn't finish the back). I was
> consistently getting about 255-275 yards carry+roll. On the 18th hole (470
> yard par 5) I hit a 300 yard bomb right down the middle with a little help
> from a small downhill roll about 40 yards past everyone else. Shots which
> didn't end up in the fairway where two slight pulls which landed one in a
> fairway bunker (only about 20 yards to squeeze through) and the other ended
> up about 3-4 yards into the rough. Had one high push/fade which landed
> about 10 yards into the rough on the right (and under a damn bush!) but that
> was definately the swing's fault. All afternoon I was either matching or
> out driving the guys I was with using longer drivers than me (9.5* TM 320,
> another new R500 series driver, another guy using a Cobra 350).
>
> I was worried initially that the high loft would rob me of distance but that
> certainly doesn't seem to be the case. The best part about the driver is
> that it doesn't seem to matter where you hit it on the face, it's especially
> forgiving low and off the heel where my mis-swings tend to go.
>
> Whew! I've got a 10* Bang 450 arriving shortly that I'm going to shaft up
> with either a DGS300 I have or a FGS Ultralite, I haven't decided yet. I
> don't expect this one to outperform the SRV-II in terms of accuracy, but I'd
> like to be able to pull out a club that will get me over 300 yards without
> too much trouble for those wide open par 5s. I keep on telling myself that
> fairways are the key to scoring, but distance is addicting!
>
> -Dave
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