Jim Kobylinski
Super Moderator
I had a significant fitting for the past few days with a guy i really trust and we really "ironed" out a lot of issues lol.
Now what is interesting is that he says that i load the shaft very hard and very early in the swing and it creates a lot of "toe droop" in my swing.
This makes a lot of sense because i was playing irons that were a little too soft for me and i was CONSTANTLY hitting shots off the toe and getting toe deep divots. When we went on the lie board we found out 4 things:
1) Irons were a little upright
2) shafts were too weak from the toe droop thus creating the toe shots
3) all the lie board marks were on the heel of the club
4) Manzella is an amazing teacher because my lie tape marks never varied for even an 1/8" of an inch unless we bent the iron's lie. This is a testament to what Brian has done for my swing and my consistency in my swing, THANKS BRIAN!
So we ended up having to go 2-3* flat in my these irons because of the weaker shafts. He said that if i used a stronger shaft i'd be able to get away with 1* flat from the smaller amount of toe droop and we also confirmed this by using his irons (same as mine just stronger shafts).
So once we bent my irons my lie marks and ball marks were consistently in the center of the face with no deviation. After about 12 balls in a roll there was a consistent pattern on the center of the face about the size of a quarter.
Now my question comes to swing speed, ball speed, and late releases. My swing speed never got that high; its actually down from last year due to being less strong and being a little overweight. It was averaging in the 103-105 range instead of my previous 108-110 from last year.
However i was getting really always efficiency from my driver shots with ball speeds in the the 157-161 range with 250-265 yard carries which is about what i get on the course from bad to good hits. I was curious if having a "late" release (which we witnessed on video) can contribute to some high smash factor #s and awesome ball speeds (distance too) without a high swing speed?
Sorry for the long post
Jim
Now what is interesting is that he says that i load the shaft very hard and very early in the swing and it creates a lot of "toe droop" in my swing.
This makes a lot of sense because i was playing irons that were a little too soft for me and i was CONSTANTLY hitting shots off the toe and getting toe deep divots. When we went on the lie board we found out 4 things:
1) Irons were a little upright
2) shafts were too weak from the toe droop thus creating the toe shots
3) all the lie board marks were on the heel of the club
4) Manzella is an amazing teacher because my lie tape marks never varied for even an 1/8" of an inch unless we bent the iron's lie. This is a testament to what Brian has done for my swing and my consistency in my swing, THANKS BRIAN!
So we ended up having to go 2-3* flat in my these irons because of the weaker shafts. He said that if i used a stronger shaft i'd be able to get away with 1* flat from the smaller amount of toe droop and we also confirmed this by using his irons (same as mine just stronger shafts).
So once we bent my irons my lie marks and ball marks were consistently in the center of the face with no deviation. After about 12 balls in a roll there was a consistent pattern on the center of the face about the size of a quarter.
Now my question comes to swing speed, ball speed, and late releases. My swing speed never got that high; its actually down from last year due to being less strong and being a little overweight. It was averaging in the 103-105 range instead of my previous 108-110 from last year.
However i was getting really always efficiency from my driver shots with ball speeds in the the 157-161 range with 250-265 yard carries which is about what i get on the course from bad to good hits. I was curious if having a "late" release (which we witnessed on video) can contribute to some high smash factor #s and awesome ball speeds (distance too) without a high swing speed?
Sorry for the long post
Jim
I know your busy man...Im just itchin' to get some time in.
