Agreed. With apologies to Bernie, I tried just about every reasonable length driver that was popular. Years ago, when I was a pretty good player, I was hitting the so-called "standard" driver length - 43" McGregors, about 250 - 260. Like every golfer I wanted more. So I plugged the driver to 44", pulled the sole plate off (persimimmon head, of course), drilled out a bunch of lead to get the SW down and guess what? I hit it worse! Since then, over the years, I've tried everything from 44" to 50". I even got one of those 47" Cleveland's with the 40 gram shaft. I'm back to "the old days" now. 44" Cleveland Burner, R flex Burner shaft, D2. I don't hit very far these days but I rarely miss a fairway. I consider that a lot more important than playing out of the jungle. Every so often I catch one pure and hit it 230 240 - distances with which I am thrilled. I'll take 220 in the short grass every time, though.
TFlan Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:51:55 -0800 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Lightweight clubhead To: [email protected] I have to admit I am a bit confused here. The whole point of club fitting is to get the length , stiffness and swing weighted club that best fit the player. If you lengthen a club don't you need to flatten your swing? So now you want an average player to have to change his swing plane even more????? So getting long on length just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. I mean why not just have our irons made 2 inches over and flatten them 6 degrees??? >From what I have seen and according to the average handicap of the average >player 45, inches is too long for almost all of them. Why try to push them >into 48 inches for a few more yards of an off line drive. You can put almost >any club in a pros hands and they will figure out how to hit it pretty well even if the shaft is made from rope. So test results using a pro or a machine are pretty irrelavent when it comes to what an average player can handle or can't handle. Sincerely, Robert Devino 14252 Delano St. Van Nuys, Ca. 91401 (818) 908-1691 F _________________________________________________________________ Find the right PC with Windows 7 and Windows Live. http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/pc-scout/laptop-set-criteria.aspx?cbid=wl&filt=200,2400,10,19,1,3,1,7,50,650,2,12,0,1000&cat=1,2,3,4,5,6&brands=5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16&addf=4,5,9&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen2:112009
