Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
One of the considerations you might have if you are not hitting the golf ball as far as you would like particularly with the driver is the club itself. We often say that a bad work man blames his tools, but I think quite often golfers don't consider their tools quite often enough. Particularly if you feel like you're hitting the ball quite a long way with irons. Maybe you keep it with your mates when it's in the irons when you get to the drive you're locking distance particularly if you're locking it because the ball flight is too low rather than making big fundamental changes to your swing trying to hold the ball up in the air it might be a consideration that the club you're using isn't quite suitable for the task. Now modern technology radar tracking devices club fitting days adjustable drivers there's no excuse really you know you'll find a club fits they'll be able to get a decent golf club in your hands within an hour and hopefully be able to see the improvements in your game and actually track those numbers and quantify how much higher how much further it's going.
So it's not all just salesman spiel anymore it's actually checking the numbers to see if there's a difference. One of the 1st things we look for is going to be the club head speed the generating and therefore matching the shaft. So the club head speed but also matching the transition you make. So if you got a fast transition or slow transition we can look at the bend profile of the shaft how fast the club traveling is you get the impact to make sure the shaft is suitable for you again. Next consideration is going to be the amount of loft on the club face adding loft will subtracting loft to make sure that the apex point in the back spin point of the shot is going to be perfect launch conditions are right but overall height is OK and it still has enough to roll out down the fairway as well. Then we can also look at the makeup of the club where the weight is within the golf club what type of club head it is also making sure that when you set it behind the ball it looks quite appealing as well. You'd be surprised how important that is to a golf and when we look down we've got to have a driver that fills us with a bit of confidence. If we can get all those things right the correct shaft the correct loft and a nice driver that looks comfortable behind the golf ball for the golfer most people will see significant improvements in how far they hit the ball and also the satisfaction with hitting those shots and in their overall enjoyment of the game should increase to.
2017-05-03 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
One of the considerations you might have if you are not hitting the golf ball as far as you would like particularly with the driver is the club itself. We often say that a bad work man blames his tools, but I think quite often golfers don't consider their tools quite often enough. Particularly if you feel like you're hitting the ball quite a long way with irons. Maybe you keep it with your mates when it's in the irons when you get to the drive you're locking distance particularly if you're locking it because the ball flight is too low rather than making big fundamental changes to your swing trying to hold the ball up in the air it might be a consideration that the club you're using isn't quite suitable for the task. Now modern technology radar tracking devices club fitting days adjustable drivers there's no excuse really you know you'll find a club fits they'll be able to get a decent golf club in your hands within an hour and hopefully be able to see the improvements in your game and actually track those numbers and quantify how much higher how much further it's going.
So it's not all just salesman spiel anymore it's actually checking the numbers to see if there's a difference. One of the 1st things we look for is going to be the club head speed the generating and therefore matching the shaft. So the club head speed but also matching the transition you make. So if you got a fast transition or slow transition we can look at the bend profile of the shaft how fast the club traveling is you get the impact to make sure the shaft is suitable for you again. Next consideration is going to be the amount of loft on the club face adding loft will subtracting loft to make sure that the apex point in the back spin point of the shot is going to be perfect launch conditions are right but overall height is OK and it still has enough to roll out down the fairway as well. Then we can also look at the makeup of the club where the weight is within the golf club what type of club head it is also making sure that when you set it behind the ball it looks quite appealing as well. You'd be surprised how important that is to a golf and when we look down we've got to have a driver that fills us with a bit of confidence. If we can get all those things right the correct shaft the correct loft and a nice driver that looks comfortable behind the golf ball for the golfer most people will see significant improvements in how far they hit the ball and also the satisfaction with hitting those shots and in their overall enjoyment of the game should increase to.
