Hi guys this was a recent session with a cobra 3 wood 16 deg loft.my question is my launch angle seems a little low ,interested in your thoughts. Now I may be wrong on some of this, so I’d love to get a true expert’s take. It’s not that a draw swing is any faster/more powerful – it’s simply that fades have more backspin due to the impact geometry/physics involved with that swing. I think this is also the key reason why fades don’t carry as far as draws. So if you’re flying balls over the green with your irons, the culprit could be too little backspin caused by poor contact, cheap balls, a dirty club face, etc. Unless the impact is absolutely terrible, the lack of backspin on poorly struck shots will cause those balls to carry further than a well-struck ball. The key to backspin is crispness of contact – a poorly struck shot simply won’t spin as much. This explains why poorly struck balls will often fly as far, if not further, than a well-hit shot. And with the driver it’s easily 10+ yards of carry lost per 1,000 RPM. Holding club head speed constant, greater backspin reduces carry distance on all clubs.įor mid-irons, I’d estimate that you lose roughly 5-7 yards of carry per 1,000 RPM in additional backspin. I’ve hit thousands of balls on Foresight simulators, and what I’ve found is that backspin significantly influences carry distance. wether it’s length, weight, or feel so your advantage or disadvantage is dependent on how precisely you build your piece of equipment. Being a club builder, i can tell you that in golf equipment there’s a trade-off in everything. I’m a 3.5 index and relatively strong but it allows me to play all out without getting tired on the back 9 from heavy clubs. In fact, i have Fuji PRO 95i shafts in my irons and my iron game is better now than it ever was with steel. Fujikura makes some really nice iron shafts that fuse both steel and graphite technologies called MCI. There are a number of outstanding graphite shafts out there that are super stable and responsive, enabling a lighter club and longer distance without sacrificing accuracy. Material advances and composite technology have nearly rendered steel obsolete. More often than not, the memory in most players’ minds from graphite stems from a very long time ago when graphite was ONLY graphite. Harry, any player of any handicap can benefit from graphite shafts. The more the attack angle is negative, then the higher the spin loft gets => the attack angle should be closer to 0 if anything IF the goal is to carry as long as possible.īut generally, the attack angle for irons should be from -2 – -5 for almost all players, but for drivers you can hit it further with a positive attack angle, no matter the club speed. The optimal numbers are individual based on club speed – and that type of flight can easier be achieved if the spin loft is low together with a high dynamic loft. However, in order to get the longest carry possible, the ball should launch high with low spin. For the average player, the attack angle on drivers varies and in general so should the ball that is hit from the ground always have a negative attack angle in order to get a better margin of error for the impact. The attack angle for the pros varies on woods, but it’s more or less negative when it comes to hybrids and irons.
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