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Old September 15th, 2007, 01:37 AM
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Re: Effective FW Wood Loft Gaps

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Originally Posted by Love4LPGA View Post
Generally effective FW wood loft gaps

(~ 10 - 12 yards distance delta on 8 out of 10 hits)

using your 80% swing ?

3* loft gaps ?

4* loft gaps ?

5* loft gaps ?

6* loft gaps ?
OK, this was pretty confusing, so I'm going to assume that you asked what gaps we have in our fairway woods. In general, 4 degrees of loft and an extra half inch of length equals about 10 yards, with the loft difference being 8 yards of that gap and the length being the other 2. These are only generalities, however, and don't really say much about anyone's individual swing. Swing speed has a lot to do with it too, since if you have a low swing speed you're going to need larger degree gaps to keep 10 yard increments. Typical bag makeups would have 3 to 5 degree gaps in the fairway woods. I play a 15 degree 3w, a 20 degree hybrid, and a 24 degree iron at the top of my bag. You can probably just look at a lot of forum memebrs' signatures to see what lofts they are playing at the top of their bags.
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