Tips To Improve Your Game From Las Playitas Golf Course Professional
Murdo McCorquodale is the Professional at Las Playitas Golf Course, close to Gran Tarajal on Fuerteventura and has supplied the following tip to help you improve your Game.
I thought I would touch on something to start that might surprise some of my fellow golfers out there; on the topic of golf equipment.
It’s a known fact that almost every club golfer and many pros use clubs that are not suited to their game. So much research has been done into the swing and into club technology yet the average handicap has remained almost exactly where it was in 1980.
Modern clubs are marketed with slogans like ‘Hit it longer than ever’, ‘biggest ever sweet spot’, ‘anti-slice’ etc and then they become illegal!!
The average 7 iron in 1980 had 38 degrees of loft but that would now be equivalent to an 8 iron in our bag today so it’s just trickery from the big brands to outdo one another in an aggressive market. Drivers have to be longer in length, have bigger heads and steeper face angles to hit the ball further – RUBBISH!! You would all (handicap 5 and above) benefit from a 12 or 13 degree driver with a 43 inch shaft if you would like straighter and longer shots.
Fairway woods nowadays have bigger heads and longer shafts which make ball control from tight fairways extremely complicated for Joe Punter.
Putters sold on shop shelves are also in general far too long for the job required, again short means control and on the greens we’re looking for the perfect stroke with a tool that must be just right for the job. Get club fitted to suit you.
On a positive note one of the greatest modern discoveries to golf has to be the rescue/hybrid club which everyone seems to have these days and now they are being produced at iron length which shows maybe at last the Big Brand names are seeing sense.
More information on Golf Courses on Fuerteventura and Golf Property
I thought I would touch on something to start that might surprise some of my fellow golfers out there; on the topic of golf equipment.
It’s a known fact that almost every club golfer and many pros use clubs that are not suited to their game. So much research has been done into the swing and into club technology yet the average handicap has remained almost exactly where it was in 1980.
Modern clubs are marketed with slogans like ‘Hit it longer than ever’, ‘biggest ever sweet spot’, ‘anti-slice’ etc and then they become illegal!!
The average 7 iron in 1980 had 38 degrees of loft but that would now be equivalent to an 8 iron in our bag today so it’s just trickery from the big brands to outdo one another in an aggressive market. Drivers have to be longer in length, have bigger heads and steeper face angles to hit the ball further – RUBBISH!! You would all (handicap 5 and above) benefit from a 12 or 13 degree driver with a 43 inch shaft if you would like straighter and longer shots.
Fairway woods nowadays have bigger heads and longer shafts which make ball control from tight fairways extremely complicated for Joe Punter.
Putters sold on shop shelves are also in general far too long for the job required, again short means control and on the greens we’re looking for the perfect stroke with a tool that must be just right for the job. Get club fitted to suit you.
On a positive note one of the greatest modern discoveries to golf has to be the rescue/hybrid club which everyone seems to have these days and now they are being produced at iron length which shows maybe at last the Big Brand names are seeing sense.
More information on Golf Courses on Fuerteventura and Golf Property
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