It is such a great head, everything I want and need for a 3 wood.
Let us know how it goes. I love the 5 wood. So easy to hit off the tee or the deck.
My plan has been to try the 3-wood first knowing that I have 90 days to exchange it for a 5-wood. If after a few rounds of golf I find the 3-wood just produces low bullet shots and, or is not especially accurate, I will send the 3-wood back to TGW and request a 5-wood.
Wait, and this is a sincere question, weren’t you advocating that people should be hitting 3 wood off the tee in another thread and while doing that, you haven’t actually been carrying a 3 wood? That having been said, I hope it works for you. I absolutely love mine. It is one of the very best 3 woods that I have ever owned.
I advocate less than driver from many tee boxes. Most people want to hit driver from every par 4 and par 5 tee box, and as such they don't want to hit a 3-wood, so suggesting less than 3-wood is not a welcome message. Without a 3-wood in the bag I use a 5-wood, sometimes a 3-hybrid.
Today I was able to visit a driving range and give my new ST-D 440 3-wood some swings. For tee boxes I tee up a fairway wood very low, similar to the height one might use for a par-3 iron club tee shot. Unfortunately for the driving range synthetic mats I did not have any super low rubber tees, nor did the range provide them, so I did not hit any 3-wood shots from a tee. I did strike 6 or 7 balls from the worn synthetic mats and all were consistently straight, low trajectory, and landing with hot bounce and roll.
Today for the first time I had the ST-G 3-wood out on the course and played it from six par 4 tee boxes. The final two tee box shots were the best, which I attribute to gaining familiarity with the new club. Strong positives were the dense-muted impact sound-feel. Also I like the head size and shape for tee box play.
Today I played my second round with the ST-G 400 3-wood. I swung it from 3 tee boxes and 4 fairway lies. Off the tee all three of the shots were solid-square strikes with a medium height trajectory. From the fairway lies all shots went straight with a low trajectory. For the total of 7 shots, I liked the impact sound-feel very much.
Are you seeing the distances that you would be hoping for, both off the tee and the fairway?
In recent weeks Northern California has had lots of rain, and the courses are saturated, so no bounce and roll. My guess is that once the ground is dry the STG 3-wood shots will produce a bit more bounce and roll for me than a normal 3-wood. For carry distance I've seen no increase versus a normal 3-wood, but that is probably because the ST-G was designed for a higher swing speed player than myself.
When I purchased mine, it was kind of hit and miss until I put a different shaft in it and the club then came alive for me. It now generates tremendous ball speed, relative to my swing speed. I love the club.
I like the 3-wood's LIN Q M40X 6 weight shaft because it's smooth enough without being too loose, and it's also not too stout-rigid feeling. I like it enough to seek out a 5 weight version of the same shaft to try in my ST-Z 220 driver.
