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Originally Posted by LyleG  I disagree entirely. The ball you choose will have a tremendous impact on your ball flight with all clubs including the driver.
Spin rates can change huge amounts with different ball. I have seen 1000 rpm changes with no other changes that the ball. |
Thanks Lyle - this is the info I'm looking for - do you have any data on different balls you can share? I figure even if it's based on someone else's swing, it'll probably give me a sufficient data point
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Originally Posted by Andy299 RickinMA,
I have three questions:
1) when you were fitted using the launch monitor, were you indoors or outdoors?
2) were you using your preferred ball to get fitted for the driver?
3) if not, do you know what ball was used? |
The fitting was inside (a dome with about 100 yrds for the ball to fly)
and the fitting was done with the Srixon range balls they had at the dome - they weren't in bad shape, but they're still range balls
I have to imagine range balls spin a whole lot less than a proV or B330 and probably significantly less than say a Bridgestone e5 or other similar balls
I think I have two options if I want to maximize my driver distance
1) play a lower spin ball (which I'm not thrilled about because I like some spin around the green)
or
2) buy a new driver that will give me a similar launch angle but lower spin rate to try to create a lower angle of decent with my preferred ball or balls so I can get some roll out of my drives (currently all carry)
being a member of this forum, we all know I'll be buying a new driver... but the question is, which one and with what specs - say I were to pick up another driver similar to the r5, I would think I'd need to decrease loft slightly - I know I got the highest ball speed with the ProLaunch shaft so I wouldn't want to mess with that, but I also know that loft will have the largest effect on launch angle and distance- so how much loft to I drop? .5*?
Or - if I went with a different design - Say the Geek DCT or Wishon 919 for example. I've read the DCT is low launching for it's loft. So would I look for a 10.5*? The 919 is said to launch higher than it's stated loft by up to 2* compared to the Wishon 525 because of it's center of gravity (similar to the hi-bore I guess) so would I go with something around 9*?
Sorry about the long post - just hoping to figure this out without returning to the fitter
Thanks for any input