The items range from manufacturers increasing respect for female players to longer shafts and shorter. For example, a 43 12 pullout will build a 45 club driver length, and a 41 12 pullout would build 43 club 3 wood length. Fred funk and annika sorenstam use this type of swing, and not surprisingly, both are extremely accurate and consistent. As well as improving upper body flexibility and swing tempo if you will. Available to tour pros since march, the burner superfast tp has been put in play by retief goosen, y. I miss the clack sound of the alltitanium drivers, but even with the muted thump sound of the mx500, its still the best driver ive played. Notice that this swing trainer club is not designed for hitting golf balls, so it is ideal as a training aid when you have no access to a driving range or golf coursee.
If youve installed your shaft uncut then youve built something approaching long drive competitor length although cobra are going to be releasing a 48 gamer driver soon. The standard length of a mens driver is roughly 43. Vijay singh, for example, decided to challenge bethpage black with three hybrids, four wedges and no iron longer than a 6iron. Spend 20 minutes hitting balls with the power hitter driver during your next practice session and add 20 yards to your tee shots. He then has three milled grind 2 wedges with 52, 56 and 60 degrees of loft. If anybody on here says that they dont want to hit it longer, you would be lying through your teeth. During a past golf digest hot list summit, we conducted a test with a multipletime winner on the pga tour who hit tee shots with drivers measuring 44, 46 and 48 inches. If you can read this, click here to learn how to become a full member. The initial ball direction falls between the club face angle and club path yet it greatly. I have always used shafts under 70grams after a launch session today i found my avg swing is at the top of stiff and my peak swings were well into x. Fred funk cannot hit a driver 280 yards in the air unless the wind is at his.
I crossed paths with fred funk smiling his way along to. These are fitted with true temper x100 shafts a shaft he has used in his irons ever since his junior days. Yang, rory sabbatini, mike weir, pat perez, jason day, fred funk, justin rose and vaughn taylor. Have you any idea how far jack was hitting it in 19623. Fred funk, who is a manytime pga tour winner, drove only 270 on average even accounting for the roll on those the crazyhard and fast fairways. Frederick funk born june 14, 1956 is an american professional golfer who plays on the pga tour and pga tour champions.
But to answer your original question i think fred funk said in golf digest to hit the driver vs. As fred funk says, there are no shortcrooked drivers on tour. He tried several sports, and even boxed for eight years for a junior boys club. Using the momentus indoor driver is like having a driving range in your home. Fred funk on hitting longer drives video im posting this older gca clip with fred funk because he has a very different take on getting extra distance from your drive. Driver length about two inches longer on average shaft weights decreased by as much 50 percent typical steel shaft was 125 grams, now 6065 grams is common iron lofts two to six degrees. A trackman comparison between a persimmon woodbalata ball and a. Miscrandombs golf chatter thread page 503 golf and. Shop from the worlds largest selection and best deals for other golf training aids. I took my current driver, which is the titleist d3 8. If i go to a heavier shaft it should slow my swing down so i dont peak into x. Poor fred funk was used as the laughing stock of golf.
Although he was never one of the longest hitters on tour in fact, he was routinely one of the shortest hitters fred funk managed to carve out a highly successful career in professional golf. Taylor made raylor rescue club discount golf world. The aldila rip started out with a debut in test mode at the john deere classic in july of 2009 and proved to be a pivotal marketing point for the shaft. Nowadays, with seemingly never ending race to claim longer drives, driver manufacturers have even been selling standard shafts as long as 45 inches. Tuesday scenes from the waste management phoenix open. How much difference in length is there between the driver shafts.
How to calculate golf yardages at altitude golfweek. Getting the proper shaft flex often requires taking a little off the bottom. Nike vr pro limited edition 3 wood 15 degree hybrid. Open champion retief goosen played with a shorter driver.
Fred funk, worried about long par 3s at congressional, played with a new taylormade burner superfast 2. Tiger, phil, john daly, bubba watson, fred funk, jeff maggert. When it comes to driving distance fred funk is currently 62nd on the. May 18, 2010 taylormade golf is launching a tp version of its popular burner superfast driver. The air is less dense, so there is less friction to slow the orbs forward motion. I dont know if youve ever visited this site or know that it exists, but this is what the big. Driving it lonnngggg clubs, grips, shafts, fitting the. An increase of 1 in the length of a club will typically only increase the. This is another golf qna golf video from askgolfguru mark crossfield pga professional. Fred funk talks about his success from practicing with the momentus golf indoor driver. The gear, coupled with my new compact swing, immediately led to unholy for me yardages 260, 270, 280, and straighter than fred funk. Any folks here care to extol or demerit their experiences with shortening their driver shafts. That means metal woods with borethrough hosels such as some callaway and older titleist.
Senior open in 2006 at the broadmoor in colorado springs about 6,500 feet above sea level great players found themselves perplexed. Driver shaft length are you shorting yourself using a 46. What driver shaft length might help you hit straighter and longer drives. On the pga tour the average length cut off the tip on drivers is about an. Players added hybrids to deal with the thick rough at bethpage. Each talks out loud his shot ideas, club selection, swing keys. Find the right driver shaft length for your game golficity. The standard length of a shaft for a wood is 46 inches. Trying a longer shaft is a popular suggestion these days, but most players should, if anything, try a shaft half an inch shorter than whats in their driver. I messed around with a 3 wood shaft in a driver and it was surprisingly decent 09272018, 11. I guess organizers were hoping that annika sorenstam outdriving the. Equipment is accurate as of the wgcmexico championship 3 517. Club, outside toronto, on the last day, and i hit a terrible 3iron really low. Funk is still using the r7 425 tour his shaft is a reax tp although i think it is a 65 model, his fw is a degree tour 200 smoothie, hybrid is a rescue mid 16 and he carries an r7 cgb 3 iron, posted.
Drivers have gone through a 3 plus increase in length over the past three decades simply as a way for golf companies to sell more drivers via the marketing promise of longer distance. By adam barr3 3 06 a menu of thoughts, news and miscellania from a crowded business desk. When the best players in the world have trouble calculating yardages at altitude, you know its not easy. I would suggest you are going to be looking at butt trimming your shaft. For three hours on the day before the show started, he demonstrated and talked about the driver. Garcia also finished 26th in driving accuracy in 2000, tying for third in total driving. Taylor made raylor rescue club vshaped sole cuts through rough and difficult lies, allowing the club to float instead of sticking or twisting mens clubs equipment home. Daly agreed to an endorsement deal with vertical groove golf and. The career of fred funk is a perfect illustration of this point. There are also a lot of expert players who utilize the arc swing, which features a relatively steep backswing and then a return to the plane in the downswing. Daly hopes for better results with new driver pga tour. For some, a shorter driver shaft might lead to more confidence, more control, and with that, finding the center of the clubface more often.
He has a total of 29 professional wins to his credit, including 8 on the pga tour. Bear in mind that fred isnt the longest hitter to begin with, so this tip may surprise you. Funk, whos 51 years old and eligible for the champions tour but is still excelling on the pga tour, shot an openinground 3 underpar 67 to trail jim furyk, joe ogilvie, stuart appleby, k. Using trackman my idea was to test the same golfer, clubhead and golf ball, but change the shaft length. At 52, fred funk needs to squeeze as much distance as he can out of his driver.
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