Figuring out how the looks of a golf club impact how a player swings is a big part of fitting, but some traits are more obvious than others.
While you might not think to give more loft to a player who adds lots of loft at impact — like this writer — being able to see loft can actually make a player lean the shaft more at impact to compensate.
But on this week’s episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped, co-hosts Johnny Wunder and Jake Morrow explained how head shape can also influence how a player will swing.
“So when I was doing the driver testing with Charles Howell III, for example, from the TaylorMade LS to the Callaway Triple Diamond, the deeper the face gets, the steeper he gets, which is a little counterintuitive,” Wunder said. “That sits off the ground, instinctively, he wants to beat down on it, and his angle of attack starts going down, and for him, his launch numbers get all over the place.”
LS heads are typically deeper faced, so they can be shorter from heel-to-toe and front-to-back to move the CG closer to the face, thus lowering spin.
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But if someone reacts to that like Howell does and gets steeper, then it will have the opposite effect, and players will spin the ball more. He also swings slower.
“That’s really, really in the weeds, but again, it’s stuff that matters to every player,” Wunder said. “It’s not just the guys that hit it good, it’s every single player, because the one thing that a 35 handicap can do and a tour player can do, they have relatively the same action.
“If you swipe across it, you’re going to swipe across it a lot.”
For more from Wunder and Morrow, listen to the full episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped here, or watch it below.
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