trombettista_vecchio Tue Jun 27, 2017 10:54 am
The conventional driver makes you play the ball forward in your stance, tee it up high, and essentially hit it on the upswing.
I FUCKING HATED DOING THAT WHEN I PLAYED GOLF.
I WOULDN'T HAVE PLAYED GOLF IF I HAD TO DO THAT.
I eventually stopped using the driver.
I always pushed my tee, usually a broken one that I found on the ground, down to its cup, and I used a higher lofted club so that I could hit down on it with a normal golf swing.
The GX7 is the first driver designed explicitly to do that.
I have always thought badly of most modern golf clubs. All the ideas that I would have implemented often did show up in infomercial clubs, but they were for the most part, cheap, low quality clubs with other bad attributes. I could give lots of examples.
You might remember my saying that the only way I'd ever get an ideal set of clubs is if I was involved in designing the tooling. The GX7 driver, although I don't know the lie angle, incorporates many features that I've spoken about. Even so, it's probably too upright. Almost all modern metalwoods are too upright for my satisfaction. The wooden woods got the lie angles right. You didn't see the old timers addressing the ball with the toe of the clubhead up in the air.
Anyway, in over fifty years of playing golf, being down to an eight for most of my prime and even maintaining an eleven when I'd become a physical wreck, I NEVER owned a set of clubs that I could not have improved upon with my own foundry. I just never owned a goddamned foundry!