I find the square drivers confusing,i read a review in magazine of them tried out by amateurs,the reviews were good,but how much is a club a sales gimmick as opposed to a real fix,as some of you have said ,choi has had success,but i am wondering what the ratio will be,professionals using a club that will do a job,or amatuers buying a club that they will hope to do a job for them.
Mickelson has also worked with the technicians at Callaway to design a driver that will eliminate his tendency to hit the ball left. He'll use the FT5 this week in Palm Springs but has been testing a longer version of the FT1 that could be in his bag for Mickelson's Masters title defense.
"I think that the FTI, the square headed driver, is not just an evolutionary driver," he said. "I think it's more of a revolutionary driver. Because it's such a drastic change, because the moment of inertia is so high, because the ball goes so straight it doesn't want to curve, I think it's actually going to take a little bit more time on the PGA TOUR.
"There will be guys that love it. Guys that don't like to work shots and want to aim it down the middle of the fairway and rip it, this will be perfect for them because it goes so straight but some guys like to hit little draws, hit a fade, hit high shots, low shots; and the design from my manufacturer, the FT5 is a much better fit to hit those variety of shots.
"But if I just wanted to hit it straight, I'll go to the FTI which is why I'm leaning towards that driver for Augusta when I tried to hit it a lot longer. I'm not really trying to maneuver it or curve it; I'm just trying to hit high bombs."
^^ i dont know if players are gonna hop on this fad, they like to work the ball with their driver, this club doesnt allow them so much to hit their favorite draws or their power fades, i really dont know, time will tell
I have seen photos of Tiger using one, in a long drive down an aiport runway demonstration. He reckons it could help his erratic driving, so I wouldn't be surprised if he gave it a go.
If going to a square headed driver increases the number of fairways Tiger hits he's going to be totally dominant. It's really the only part of his game right now that he doesn't have total control of yet. In fact, his father once told him the driver would be the last club he masters.
Yea, but given the doglegs, do the PGA pro's really want to hit it 'straight'? Can you hit it over the trees on the turn and straight into the fairway?....or can you hit it straight through a fairway into the rough on the dogleg? Can you go 300 yrds straight on most of the holes they play? I guess you can't grow trees fast enough to protect going over the corner to require a draw/fade (unless you're Augusta, you can transplate full grown trees, lol).
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Originally Posted by ce_me_golf
If going to a square headed driver increases the number of fairways Tiger hits he's going to be totally dominant. It's really the only part of his game right now that he doesn't have total control of yet. In fact, his father once told him the driver would be the last club he masters.
Yea, but given the doglegs, do the PGA pro's really want to hit it 'straight'? Can you hit it over the trees on the turn and straight into the fairway?....or can you hit it straight through a fairway into the rough on the dogleg? Can you go 300 yrds straight on most of the holes they play? I guess you can't grow trees fast enough to protect going over the corner to require a draw/fade (unless you're Augusta, you can transplate full grown trees, lol).
Considering there are a lot of holes that Tiger uses his three wood to attack doglegs and the length of a lot of the course on tour, there are lot of opporutnities to hit it long and straight.
January 16th, 2007, 01:38 PM
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