OK, I've finally had enough of my driver...

[Rockford35]

Sandy bo bandy,

I to play a r5 type D, and have had the same problem you are haveing.

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8-10 balls later I was hittin them 260 down the pipe with a slight cut.

This is exactly why i don't beleive in draw bias or fade bias drivers. It's all a mental thing. You can fade or draw any driver if you put the right swing on it.

Good show, TCG.

R35

 

[Pullmeister]

From what I've read it sounds like you should try a lower lofted driver. My guess is you're over rotating your hands to bring the flight down

 

[warbirdlover]

How does this sound for a plan then:

1) Finally get a lesson or two to get the technical aspect sorted out
2) Work on what I learn for a few weeks to get someway towards working it out (I *love* going down to the range no matter what the weather!)
3) Work on things until all the new super-drivers are out, pushing down the prices of what's around at the moment, then go and get a fitting to see what can be done to the ball flight

How does that sound?

And if the weather gets to a level where I can go out and sneak a round or two in, drop the driver and start with the 19* hyrid - there nothing at the only course here that'll be open that I can lay up to with that anyway.

Sandy

Sounds like a good plan to me!!

 

[ThatCanadianGuy]

This is exactly why i don't beleive in draw bias or fade bias drivers. It's all a mental thing. You can fade or draw any driver if you put the right swing on it.

Good show, TCG.

R35

I agree, but you can be damn sure the next driver I buy will have a square or open face without all the crap weight in the heel. My natural swing produces a draw with every club and I dont need any help from closed faces and internal weighting to close the face.

I can hit little cuts with my r5, but I have to hold the face open at address and have a little "forward press".

 

[ezra76]

Face and weighting play a huge role in my ability to hit a club. I almost always leave my R5TP slighty right or pushed right, it is slightly open. R510TP I hit pretty much straight from a slightly closed stance, 3-5yd. fade from square and then as much I want from open. Closed faces, I pull the crap out of. Even my old 360XD 10.5*, I hit massive long high draws with it but I can't play it because I pull it hard every now and then and it's an automatic 3stroke miss. I can't fade that club so it's useless, at least 75% of my shots are fades.

The move to square in all clubs was a decision based mostly on how well I played with the Miura's. I want the same swing from short irons to driver. The swing that hit the no offset iron straight hit a closed driver dead left hard. Just as a slight fade swing with my R510 produced a quacker with the Hibore.

 

[Rockford35]

I agree, but you can be damn sure the next driver I buy will have a square or open face without all the crap weight in the heel. My natural swing produces a draw with every club and I dont need any help from closed faces and internal weighting to close the face.

I can hit little cuts with my r5, but I have to hold the face open at address and have a little "forward press".

Hence my gravity towards the Tour version the the HiBore. I definitely don't fight a slice, even with a neutral grip.

R35

 

[offthegrid]

Golf Pro told me the following-

"Golf is a very simple game that boils down to just 4 things":

1 - For a right hander your ball will go left if the face is closed at impact

2 - The ball will hook if you swing inside out

3 - The ball will go right if the club face is open at impact

4 - The ball will slice if you swing outside in

"He said these are the only 4 things on earth that make the ball go left or right and hook or slice"

This particular Club Pro who is retired and a friend of mine that I play with often then asked me the following:

"Your not to friggen dumb to learn 4 simple things are you and if you only hook and go left as I do the list is only 2 things instead of 4"

Sadly I must be to dumb because I can not master the 2 simple things, which pleases him greatly and he gets to tell me how dumb I am each time we play.