PatParent

I have Arccos, and after using it for a little while, my club averages showed that the gap between my 5 and 6 irons was 5 yards. I'm 59 and don't have the speed I used to, so I ditched my 5 iron and replaced it with an hybrid and that restored a proper gap between my 6 iron and my 5 hybrid.

I was fitted for a Maverik Max which had a swignweight of D3. It was checking all the boxes of increased club speed, distance, dispersion. But I wasn't quite as consistent with it as with my old driver, but we attributed it to the driver being new and I just need to get used to it. After all we were using a 10g lighter shaft, the head was also a few grams lighter. So it all made sense. I have a swingweight scale, which I bought from Golfsmith a while ago (I built a few set back in those days). My old driver was a little over D4 (the scale is precise to .5 sw...). I added 2g to the head via the heel port, just to see what would happen, and brought it to the same SW as my old driver. It made a ton of difference. In hindsight, I had trouble feeling the head of the club and wasn't delivering the face square at impact, ball impact area was relatively large (using face sticker... anyone can do that), but the Max was forgiving enough (compared to what I had) where it would help forgive the mis-hits. Since I've added the weight I have a much tighter ball impact pattern with improved distance and accuracy. Swingweight is important. A small chance is noticeable with proper tools to measure it, and I don't means a GC4 or Trackman (impact stickers in my case). The reason I share this story is that new technology forgives mis hits better than before, but hitting the ball in the middle of the club still produces better results than not...