3 wood for driving

[Soudog 1]

Have a 10.5 degree driver and a 17.5 degree 4/5 wood that I use from the fairway.

Looking for a bigger-headed 3 wood for driving on short par 4s and on tight holes. Any recommendations? Have mostly Ping in my bag now but have always loved Cobra. Looking for forgiveness and confidence standing over the ball. Thanks.

[SmoothG 179]

I'd look at the Ping G400 or Cobra LTD. 

[Kaplack 50]

I would first try to, grip down on the Driver about 1.5 to 2.5 inches and shorten the swing slightly.

The result may well be a longer straighter shot than a 3 Wood would give.

Drivers have far bigger sweet spots and have far better technology than 3 woods.

[Tsmithjr9 1,168]

One of the toughest shots is a backed off driver. Great thinking getting a 3W to fill the gap. Callaway used to make exactly what your looking for in the X line. Maybe find something with them.

Take Dead Aim

[Kaplack 50]

The backed off Driver one of the toughest shots?

Nicklaus, Woods, Snead, Hogan, Norman, Nelson ( Byron ) and about every Dude on TV hit the backed off Driver as their "go to Fairway Finder Shot".

And ask most good players,  "What is the hardest club to get comfortable/fit for"?

They will say a 3 Wood.

[TeeBrain 19]

A chip/bunt driver is absolutely my go-to fairway finder shot off the tee. For me, it's just easier and I much prefer this to a 3w, which I reserve pretty much exclusively for the fairway.

[aerospace_ray 435]

On 7/28/2020 at 1:06 PM, Soudog said:

Have a 10.5 degree driver and a 17.5 degree 4/5 wood that I use from the fairway.

Looking for a bigger-headed 3 wood for driving on short par 4s and on tight holes. Any recommendations? Have mostly Ping in my bag now but have always loved Cobra. Looking for forgiveness and confidence standing over the ball. Thanks.

Tour Edge Exotics EXS 220 13.5 degrees is suppose to be a good option off the tee vs a driver. I know you like Ping/Cobra but this one might be worth testing... 

[revkev 20,370]

I’d second the Tour exotics suggestion


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[analyticandrew 133]

The EXS 220 is what I recently got fit into. I was hitting it 245-255 with about 12 total yards of dispersion. I don’t hit my 8 iron that straight most of the time...

[beelzeberto 120]

17 hours ago, Tsmithjr9 said:

One of the toughest shots is a backed off driver. Great thinking getting a 3W to fill the gap. Callaway used to make exactly what your looking for in the X line. Maybe find something with them.

Take Dead Aim
 

I think I saw a whole rack of X Line callaway stuff at my local Academy Sports, not sure if OP has one around but it's worth a gander. They also had a lot of TM M2 drivers, 3W, 5W, and hybrids.

[Soudog 1]

Thanks, everyone. I'll look into the Tour Edge and Callaway options. 

[Kansas King 41]

I think the above suggestions are good. I would suggest trying to get a driver cut down to like 43" with maybe a little higher loft or get a strong 3-wood cut down to 41" or 42". Driver heads are the most forgiving heads in golf. Control is going to be largely dictated by length if you're swing isn't great (like most of us). If you want to toy around with some ideas and not spend too much you can get new Maltby woods built to you're specs for $50 to $90. They're high quality and won't break the bank when trying new things.