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Originally Posted by Moses
The best round of golf I ever played was in a tournament. Before we started, my partner noticed I had one too many clubs in my bag. He left my driver in his car!
I was bombing irons off the tee all day! Only hit one OB. That's NEVER happened to me. I broke 90 for the first time on a very difficult course. I SWORE I'd never touch my driver again. That oath lasted about a week.
I'm an idiot. I'm addicted to the 300 yard drive and I add at least 10 strokes to each round because of this stupidity.
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I'm a slight man, I've played
a lot of golf in my day. When my dad taught me, he was so worried about my keeping the ball in play so I wouldn't embarrass him I never learned to "grip it and rip it" as a kid. So I don't have great distance. But as I got older and put on some muscle mass, I can eek out a 250 yard drive. That's about it. For many years, I realized that my driver was 250 yards but +/- 40 yards wide, but my 3 wood was 230 yards and +/- 5 yards wide - so I kept the driver in the bag and teed off with a driver for many, many years. Until 2nd generation metal woods and graphite shafts came out.
Different swing styles and swing faults eat distance. For me, it's swinging too fast. I have the attention span of 2 year old with colic. So if I swing really fast, I look down the fairway before my hands get back to shoulder level. My best swing is all about smooth. There's a key trigger routine that unless I get greedy, usually results in a nice pop.
Two thoughts: 1) professional instruction; 2) modern equipment.
I completely agree with Moses that it's not the equipment's fault. But do at least have a five year old driver with a shaft that is matched to your swing speed. For example, if you have stiff shafts (which ego dictates you buy) and 100 compression balls (ditto), but have a slow swing speed, you will get more distance (and less slicing, and more control) by using regular flex shafts and 90 compression balls.
BTW, I famously said after my second day of DE's, "Well, this makes golf suck." And I hardly play any more...
Good luck