October 23, 2011 At 09:44 PM By michael s
michael stampa, FL
Cath D.Carlsbad, CA
Lou GSan Diego, CA
David BrowningOhio
October 24, 2011 At 11:45 AM
Neat! I currently carry a 13 deg draw driver, 21 deg 7 wood and 26 deg 5H.
You should ALWAYS get fitted for your clubs, but...rather than using your 13* draw driver, you should look in to the new 12* D2. Instead of having a draw bias, you'll have 16 different settings to fine tune to your swing. Just make sure you visit an authorized Titleist rep.
The 13 degree draw driver has been working like a charm. It has the right shaft length (45") and it does what I want it to do (down the center of the fairway with a reasonable trajectory). It also performed much better in a side-by-side comparison vs three different 10.5 degree R11 drivers (and it has a lower trajectory). I actually have been averaging 230-240 yards per drive (with a max of 270 on one round); not bad for a so-called "old man" driver. Yeah, when I have the $400 or so to drop on a driver I may visit Titleist because their drivers are 45" already. In the meantime, if it ain't broke don't fix it. To make a long story short, all the golf clubs I own fit perfectly. I got into clubmaking as a hobby in 2009 (built a set of irons, a couple fairway woods, a couple approach hybrids and a lob wedge and used them until the end of 2010). I currently have a set of Eye 2 yellow dot 6-PW (reshafted to TT Lite XL regular) and DCI 981 4-GW (set 1/2 deg upright and that closely matches yellow dot) and both have the exact same shaft length, same grips (Excel RF midsize). All my wedges are upright 1*. I also found that the ideal hybrid is 38-38.5" with 60.5-61 lie angle and the ideal fairway wood is 41.5-42" with a lie angle of 58-58.5. Also, my putter is 35" with 2* upright lie angle. I have everything charted on an Excel spreadsheet.
Vancliff JGreen Cove Springs, FL
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