Recently, golf trainer Joe Mayo (twitter.Com/TrackmanMaestro) said that he felt that Driver lie angles have been too upright.
I think that is an thrilling insight. We realize from Trackman that the 'general' vertical swing aircraft with irons is at 60 stages. Typically, 5-irons are made with a 60 diploma lie angle. Then the lie angles become more upright as the membership will become shorter.
Why?
The lie attitude changes as the club is shorter or longer. As the membership receives shorter the lie attitude is effectively flatter. Therefore, the lie angle is designed more upright to counter than shorter duration.
With the driver, the 'general' vertical swing plane is set at 45 ranges (15 tiers flatter than the same old VSP for irons). It's a miles longer membership and consequently the VSP is swung on a flatter 'aircraft.'
However, the everyday driving force lie attitude is only at fifty eight levels. The standard 5-iron is set at 38" lengthy (with grip) and the standard motive force is about at 45.5" lengthy. So we have a 7.5 inch difference in shaft duration, but best a 2 diploma difference?
According to Tom Wishon, ever half" in shaft distinction equates to one-diploma of lie angle. Now have nation that it is much less than that, however for now I'll take Tom's word for it. So in case you have been to use that common sense at 7.Five inch distinction, that could equate to a 15 diploma in lie angle (fits proper in step with the variations in Vertical Swing Plane).
The handiest issues are:
1. We are teeing the ball up
2. We must account for shaft slump.
So, it is no longer going to be a lie perspective of forty five tiers. It has to be extra upright to account for those factors.
As we should recognize by means of now...OEM's normally make gadget for higher handicap gamers in thoughts. Not simplest do higher handicaps tend to have the take care of better at effect which results in greater toe pictures, however they tend to have softer shafts that may cause more shaft hunch. That could result in OEM's designing a motive force with upright lie angles. But a golfer that is less than a five handicap and plays with stiffer shafts and shafts which have less shaft stoop, may additionally want a lot flatter lie attitude with the driving force.
This may also provide an explanation for part of the problem that golfers have with hitting longer drivers. It might also make the club too upright for them as the club is already too upright. And they become going to a shorter driving force and hitting it better due to the fact the lie attitude effectively flattens more.
So that could be a precise statement from Joe Mayo. Here's a video from Tom Wishon discussing bending the hosel to healthy the specifications.
3JACK
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