Eric Briggs 👍

Agreed i am also watching this in 2021 because I just purchased a Callaway mavrik driver 9 degree head and I wanted to make sure i purchased the correct loft

Oh by the way i play golf one handed and have a angle of attack of 3.5 and a swing speed of between 75 and 85 mph

how’d the course go? you never updated us lol

@@andrewwolf4963 legend has it that he hasn’t finished that round yet. He’s been looking for his lost balls off the tee for over 3 years. I heard he’s just left the 16th tee

You mean we're not famous enough yet?? ;) Thanks for watching Jon!

Jon Gee and what be like all the other boring channels?! cough me and my golf

A Scofield that’s awesome!!! Delighted to hear you got some amazing results. There are lots of great club fitters out there and if others follow your lead and approach the process with an open mind they can get great results aswell.

TXG Tour Experience Golf I asked this on another video, can you build me a driver and fairway metal if I can provide enough data? What would you need data wise? There are no good fitters in Las Vegas to my knowledge and you built my clubs, I would accept the final product.

Ping fitters told me I needed a 13.5 and soft regular flex. Some AHole in the background yelled out, “ That’s a girl’s driver!” So I stuck with my 10 degree for 2 more years hitting my very straight low drive. Finally relented and have been hitting a 12 degree for 5 years.

Good idea! We'll add it to our list.

Thanks Heinrich! Just to clarify for everyone, what you're referring to is when we mentioned the 12º driver having a less efficient energy transfer (or less ball compression) than the 10.5º driver which produced a bit more ball speed with about the same club head speed.

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TXG Tour Experience Golf if its less efficient energy transfer where does that energy go to?

Spin...lol.

What is your angle of attack?

Just filmed a video on that this morning! Stay tuned.

If you don’t live near these guys, you might try to find a driving range or a place that will allow you to use a GC Quad monitor by the hour. This will allow you to check your numbers while you make adjustments to your driver.

Check out our latest video Jose! Lots of good info on balancing spin numbers for distance versus accuracy.

My OpenMind 4 degrees up means you have a lot of potential for distance but your main concern when swinging up that amount is what your dynamic loft is. If you’re leaning back on that thing or have it way to far forward in your stance and your dynamic loft is high 20s you’re losing distance. Your problem would be a ball that’s to high with to much spin and your miss would be a top shot. Good dynamic loft for your attack angle would be 15-16.

Garrett Nobles I drive the ball 250 carry but can hit occasional drives 280-300. My spin rate when I last checked it was still 3500. To me that is too high.

If we were to continue the fitting to dial it in, the 9.5 may have ended up giving us that slight spin reduction we were looking for - or we might have tried a shaft change as well. For the purposes of this video though we just wanted to illustrate the differences in ball flight numbers when the only variable changed was the loft of the driver head.

I'm pretty certain he was throttling back his swing to create the 150mph sample. However Matty's swing has gotten so much tighter and efficient over the last year. It's cool to see.

Agree. Tom Wishon has done an excellent video on adjustable lofts explaining the open/closed heads.

Ya, if a player needed 10 degrees I would guarantee if they cherry picked a head that was measured 10 and neutral or maybe a little open FA that would have better numbers than a head that was artificially "wrenched" to a certain loft. I know from experience I had best results with adapter neutral or a slight adjustment....If you get wrench happy it gets goofey spin and not as consistent

Heating World if you have this knowledge though, wouldn't this help if you can find your optimal for the weekend golfer for a longer period of time? And adjust accordingly as your swing changes or speed changes. Or if you don't adjust the face angle at address, the closed or open face could help shape your shot to where you need it. I just think it's a matter of explaining the adjustable hosel to the consumer. You're right, I don't like it explained as adding loft. Most golfers won't square the face angle. But with the knowledge of how it works I think it's extremely beneficial and helpful to adjust along with your shot.

Ya, having the info is no doubt the key......bc it gives people flexibility....if they hook or slice they can realize close or open the face to help. I just know that most people are clueless and if they have a 10.5 head and think it goes too high they just jack it down thinking oh great now my head is 9* but they also just opened the face like 2 or 3 degrees. It is much like when the hosels have a standard or draw mode....all that does to draw is make the club more upright lie when you go to draw mode. Overly upright likely causes toe misses.....The hosel thing is fine if you realize EVERYTHING you are doing.....it is just that when you attempt to change 1 variable you are always changing 2 or 3 things rather than 1. Every click of wrench you are changing face angle and lie angle....multiple variables. That is why Tour Issued Heads are measured for exact loft, lie, and FA.....they cherry pick the specs they want.....

Heating World n7

What is your angle of attack?

I haven't a clue, never used a swing tracer. But since posting this I have gotten a 6.5 degree driver and am getting a much better launch and distance. And now I can put it back in my stance and keep it low and out of the wind when I need to, before when I tried that it would still go high.

At that swing speed it is likely you'd benefit from a higher loft of 11º+, assuming you aren't creating excess launch/spin in your swing in other ways. More backspin should stabilize the ball flight for you as well - as you saw in this video the low lofted driver produced the most curvature and widest dispersion.

Absolutely, depends on the player and swing conditions!

Was dialing it down for this video

Depends on many factors but any time you have a lower spin head (CG further forward) you're likely to sacrifice some forgiveness. Good head though! Did you see this video we did on it? >> kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kM6WrZVqsdyoYKM.html

For sure William, get some numbers for us we'll do our best!

TXG Tour Experience Golf I would like you make me a driver. When I give you my numbers you can pick model, loft shaft, ( I prefer 44 inches, which I will still choke down) kick point or bend profile. Your video with Lindsay Knowlton caught my attention because my numbers are close to her starting point on that video. I am 78, but play younger. About 13 handicap due to terrible short game. My swing speed with driver is between 88and 94. I could do 94 if I were sure I would not snap hook left. Pretty straight ball flight, maybe soft draw. Accuracy important. Maybe ping g400 max. Don’t know if I want to put 500.00 in a shaft since I may not own it as long as Lindsay will enjoy hers. Angle of attack as high as up 5 or 6 but I can adjust. Right now I am playing 9.5 callaway razr fit. I could hit it fine with the stiff shaft that was in it but needing more height, I put an adila nvs 55 A flex in it. Works ok but maybe want the advantages of latest tech. On track an last year, I had them put a 43.5, 70 gram 3 wood shaft in a club and got the following: 5 to 6 pos. A of a, 18+ dynamic, 16.4 launch, 2200 to 2400 spin, 88 to 90+ sos and carried it 215 to 220. Dispersion is ok with any club I’ve owned, after getting used to it. Anytime I push right it is usually more alignment issue than trouble closing club face. Fast swing produces duck hook. Downcock firm and fast for my age. Want this to be my last investment, at least for a while, so please get me in a setup that is best for me. Make fairway metal 18 degree. I normally carry it about 190ish. I have been hitting tm rocketblz 5 wood at 19 degrees Ozick 55 r shaft. Contact me by phone for credit card info and any additional questions. Bill Johnson. 702 579 5586 or by email at carbilj@gmail.com btw I am 5’ 10 and 190 lbs medium size hand 3and 3 eighths longest finger 7.5 wrist crease to longest finger. I am right handed. Currently playing ping g30 irons with graphite shafts with senior flex. Have golfpride lite 25 gram grips to get more swing wt. they are standard size. Like the wt. don’t like the texture so much. Have always enjoyed win dritech but again I want to know where the club head is. Club heads do not have to match nor do the shafts. You pick. Talk later. I live in Nevada so I will be able to use them ASAP. Anxious to get started. Bill

Ps auto correct got me again on the word trackman. That was a tm m2 head I got those numbers from

Ball speed 132ish

Smash factor on swing caddie 200 is usually over 1.45

Make sure you test lower lofts on a launch monitor Peter, but if you're spinning it over 3000rpm with your 12º then going down in loft would very likely help.

TXG Tour Experience Golf thank you for the reply I tested it at the range tonight and it was at 1900 lowest and 2200 at the highest so lower than I thought with the ball launching at 16 degrees the numbers looked optimal. Keep up the good works guys!

No kidding right. That's insane how much faster he has gotten

Different results possibly, using the loft sleeve to change it would have affected the face angle.

TXG Tour Experience Golf I think you should do a video on adjustable hosels. The benefits, the cons and all of the ways you can use it to shape and adjust your shot.

Pretty sure he was aiming to achieve 150 ball speed for the purpose of this test and therefore wasn't a flat out swing.

If you're trying to reduce a fade or encourage a draw

TXG Tour Experience Golf Thanks for the quick reply. You have great content on this channel, probably the best when it comes to equipment testing and analysis. Keep up the great work.

Adjusting the loft up does close the face a degree generally so that may affect your ball flight pattern. Test it out though, you'd have to see what occurs in real life for your swing.

well, i've tested it out on the course..still trying to understand the twist face technology...Overall , i think my ball dispersion has been great after using m4 :) ..thanks

From our test: 8.5º was too low spin, 9.5º was close, 12º had too high spin. Sure you could knock off the 2MPH of extra ball speed that you're referring to on the 9.5º and maybe then the carry distances would be similar for all three heads - but what about total distance, stability, dispersion, performance in the wind, etc. The point of the video was to make golfers aware of the differences in performance that occur when only changing driver head loft, and that was accomplished.

Unlikely that any shaft will make a significant reduction in your spin numbers Cory, you may find something that helps it a bit but nothing will be as significant an influence as your attack angle. That being said, I think you could look into a lower spin head. If you can, find a location with a launch monitor to demo a 9.5º or even 10.5º Taylormade M3 with both weights moved forward. That is a super low spin head, and the added loft should help you achieve a bit more launch as well for more distance.

TXG Tour Experience Golf Thank you very very much! Keep up the great work!

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That driver head somewhere around 9.5º or 10º would probably have been pretty close to optimal!