David Hillman
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- Apr 15, 2008
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This is starting to get frustrating. I've been carrying these two clubs now about a year and a half, and one, I keep getting better with, and the other, continually worse. I don't know why.
My 3 wood is a stock 15* TaylorMade Burner with the 50g regular flex "Superfast" shaft. I kill it. Not necessarily huge distance, up to 250y and usually 230, but almost always straight and where I was aiming. Off the tee, off the deck, I even hit it from a good lie in a fairway trap on a par 5, and put it green-side. I'm actually hitting fewer 1 irons, which is amazing to me, because that has been my favorite club for years. On the other hand, is my driver. It's a stock 10.5* 425cc TaylorMade R7, also with a stock shaft, a 65g regular flex. I have gone through brief, as in a round or two, periods of success with it, but basically, I always hit slices. I can sometimes predict/control/limit them to useful fades, but it gets worse everytime out lately. I realize a growing part of the problem is mental, as I no longer even expect to hit the driver well. Distance/direction/consistency are all heading in opposite directions with each club.
I've experimented lately with the stiff-shafted drivers, and hit them much better than mine. I don't understand why the regular flex doesn't seem to effect my 3 wood, though? Do you all play the same shaft? There shouldn't, IMO, be that much difference between a 3 wood and a medium-sized driver, such that I can hit one, and not the other. Suggestions, explanations, commiserations... all welcome. ( "eBay the R7 and hit 3w off every tee" has already occurred to me, though. )
My 3 wood is a stock 15* TaylorMade Burner with the 50g regular flex "Superfast" shaft. I kill it. Not necessarily huge distance, up to 250y and usually 230, but almost always straight and where I was aiming. Off the tee, off the deck, I even hit it from a good lie in a fairway trap on a par 5, and put it green-side. I'm actually hitting fewer 1 irons, which is amazing to me, because that has been my favorite club for years. On the other hand, is my driver. It's a stock 10.5* 425cc TaylorMade R7, also with a stock shaft, a 65g regular flex. I have gone through brief, as in a round or two, periods of success with it, but basically, I always hit slices. I can sometimes predict/control/limit them to useful fades, but it gets worse everytime out lately. I realize a growing part of the problem is mental, as I no longer even expect to hit the driver well. Distance/direction/consistency are all heading in opposite directions with each club.
I've experimented lately with the stiff-shafted drivers, and hit them much better than mine. I don't understand why the regular flex doesn't seem to effect my 3 wood, though? Do you all play the same shaft? There shouldn't, IMO, be that much difference between a 3 wood and a medium-sized driver, such that I can hit one, and not the other. Suggestions, explanations, commiserations... all welcome. ( "eBay the R7 and hit 3w off every tee" has already occurred to me, though. )