What Are the Benefits of a Deep Faced Drivers - Golf Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles
What Are the Benefits of a Deep Faced Drivers - Golf Tip (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now we are all used to seeing modern headed drivers the big dog, the big driver stick. We have got here a 460cc head so it’s a cubic centimeters 460 -- 460cc head, that’s the biggest head the manufacturer’s allowed to make that’s why over the last maybe 10 years we saw every other driver head just get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger but now we don’t see get them any bigger because it’s actually been capped there’s legal limits by the RNA and the US PGA it’s 460cc’s. But within that limited size the manufacturers can do different things to make the head look bigger or smaller or to actually change the benefits of what the golf club could do for you in a shot.

And one of the things we’re going to look at today is going to be the deep-faced driver. So this is a standard driver this is just a Callaway driver normal size head from 460cc’s relatively deep face but not anywhere near as deep as a deep face driver this is a Cleveland driver here and you can see the depth there is much bigger but if that’s bigger the overall head size can't go bigger than 460 so they have to compromise somewhere. So if I can turn the golf clubs upside down here you can see that from the top down view the golfer sees this 460cc head here looks a lot smaller than this 460cc head. But then when we turn them round this way, this 460 looks deeper so they use the depth to get the volume rather than the wider profile but slightly narrower top driver. So what are the benefits of that to a golfer? Well if you are a golfer that occasionally skies the golf ball or tops the golf ball so if you hit too high on top of the ball or too low and dig down underneath it, now you’ll see if you’re skying it because across the roof of your driver you’ll have a lot of scratch marks where the ball started to chip the paint of the top. That could be because you’ve teed the ball too high in the past but more than likely it could be because you’re skying it digging down taking a divot. If that’s the case a deeper face driver might help you out. So when you tee the ball up on the tee-peg; we actually want to have about half the ball above the top of the club. Now this is such a deep face driver that my standard – what’s – this is a 65 millimeter tee, my standard 65 millimeter tee isn’t actually large enough to come over the top of the golf club. This tee-peg would be perfect here for the slightly shallower Callaway driver half the ball above the top gives me a nice opportunity to sweep up. But with the larger Cleveland driver still 460cc head but much deeper that tee peg is not actually high enough I would need to tee this really high play it right off my front foot and sweep it nicely up into the air. You generally see better players prefer the deeper face driver. It gives the player a little more of workability. They don’t necessarily need the big forgiveness toe and heel. The better player like to be able to shape the ball high and low draws and fades so quite often a deeper faced and shallower sort of toe to heel driver like this one as compared to the Callaway would actually work better for a golfer of a better ability. But if you’re toping the ball and skying the ball maybe you could also try out a deeper faced driver. 2014-03-14

Now we are all used to seeing modern headed drivers the big dog, the big driver stick. We have got here a 460cc head so it’s a cubic centimeters 460 — 460cc head, that’s the biggest head the manufacturer’s allowed to make that’s why over the last maybe 10 years we saw every other driver head just get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger but now we don’t see get them any bigger because it’s actually been capped there’s legal limits by the RNA and the US PGA it’s 460cc’s. But within that limited size the manufacturers can do different things to make the head look bigger or smaller or to actually change the benefits of what the golf club could do for you in a shot.

And one of the things we’re going to look at today is going to be the deep-faced driver. So this is a standard driver this is just a Callaway driver normal size head from 460cc’s relatively deep face but not anywhere near as deep as a deep face driver this is a Cleveland driver here and you can see the depth there is much bigger but if that’s bigger the overall head size can't go bigger than 460 so they have to compromise somewhere. So if I can turn the golf clubs upside down here you can see that from the top down view the golfer sees this 460cc head here looks a lot smaller than this 460cc head. But then when we turn them round this way, this 460 looks deeper so they use the depth to get the volume rather than the wider profile but slightly narrower top driver.

So what are the benefits of that to a golfer? Well if you are a golfer that occasionally skies the golf ball or tops the golf ball so if you hit too high on top of the ball or too low and dig down underneath it, now you’ll see if you’re skying it because across the roof of your driver you’ll have a lot of scratch marks where the ball started to chip the paint of the top. That could be because you’ve teed the ball too high in the past but more than likely it could be because you’re skying it digging down taking a divot. If that’s the case a deeper face driver might help you out. So when you tee the ball up on the tee-peg; we actually want to have about half the ball above the top of the club. Now this is such a deep face driver that my standard – what’s – this is a 65 millimeter tee, my standard 65 millimeter tee isn’t actually large enough to come over the top of the golf club.

This tee-peg would be perfect here for the slightly shallower Callaway driver half the ball above the top gives me a nice opportunity to sweep up. But with the larger Cleveland driver still 460cc head but much deeper that tee peg is not actually high enough I would need to tee this really high play it right off my front foot and sweep it nicely up into the air. You generally see better players prefer the deeper face driver. It gives the player a little more of workability. They don’t necessarily need the big forgiveness toe and heel. The better player like to be able to shape the ball high and low draws and fades so quite often a deeper faced and shallower sort of toe to heel driver like this one as compared to the Callaway would actually work better for a golfer of a better ability. But if you’re toping the ball and skying the ball maybe you could also try out a deeper faced driver.