No flight with driver

[Crowe925]

Borrowing my brothers 10.5 king cobra for my round Sunday. Also an older model might be 220cc. His is a ultra light flex mine is stiff. I'll take it to the range tomorrow. I've witnessed him driving 290 yd greens with it, but he's the gifted one.

 

[Crowe925]

Played 9 today. Used the 10.5 cobra. 6 of 7 fir. One I missed I drove it past the dogleg. Nice deep ball flight. Had 2 pars and 4 other par putts miss by 2". Amazing what a good tee shot does for your game.

 

[emart2173]

Look at it like this, nowadays tour pros are playing more loft in their drivers so why would an amateur not. With 8* you need a swing speed in the 115+ range. Cobra has good drivers to get the ball in the air. Between the Biocell, Cleveland 588 Altitude g25 soon the g30 and SLDR S those are easy to hit drivers and will give added distance and accuracy.

 

[blugold]

Look at it like this, nowadays tour pros are playing more loft in their drivers so why would an amateur not. With 8* you need a swing speed in the 115+ range. Cobra has good drivers to get the ball in the air. Between the Biocell, Cleveland 588 Altitude g25 soon the g30 and SLDR S those are easy to hit drivers and will give added distance and accuracy.

Should be noted that swing speed is not the only factor used to select driver loft.

 

[Evok]

Should be noted that swing speed is not the only factor used to select driver loft.

Sounds like he's looking at the super in depth charts hanging at Dicks haha

 

[blugold]

Sounds like he's looking at the super in depth charts hanging at Dicks haha

It's an old school way of thinking. But modern equipment has rendered that thinking worthless.

 

[Ndfan301]

I used to play a 8.5* driver. However I couldn't hit it to save my life, and therefor went driver less for a couple years. When I decided to buy a new one and found a good deal, I went up to 9.5* (big jump I know) there were other factors as well, but I was hitting it better, and loved the height my drive got. Even with that driver I changed my AoA and only improved. I just recently in the last week bought a 10.5* RBZ Stage 2 and have it currently set to 11* (stamped degrees mind you) and still have gotten even better on drives.

 

[emart2173]

Swing speed/ball speed are factors uses along with launch angle, spin rate, smash factor, descending angle of ball are whats used in a majority of driver fittings.