Compare the feel of drivers within the loft range that fits your club head speed at the practice facility at your local golf equipment store or pro shop. Ping anser, ping g25 the loft angle is adjustable by about 1. Jul 08, 2015 in this installment of fried eggs we explain how to make necessary loft adjustments to the ping g30 driver. If it is between 105 and 115 mph, a loft between 7 and 9 degrees should be considered. However, our trajectory tuning technology minimizes face angle. So once you get custom fit to one of these shafts, then you can tweak your face angle by. By twisting it changing the face angle, however, you are taking what was a 10 degree driver with a square face and making it a 10 degree driver that is, for example, 2 degrees closed. Aug 25, 2015 heres the simple version of the loftface angle relationship. But it turns out that flatstick is really a misnomer. The ping g400 max is one of the most forgiving drivers available in the market. Michael johnson at the wgchsbc champions, dustin johnson took the title using a taylormade sldr driver with 10.
Set the driver to the highest loft and youll see a closed face. How to measure and shorten golf driver shaft length. More loft and the more it is closed and conversely less loft will make the face angle open up. I myself hit a high ball and use a low lofted driver 9sldr 430 with 1. It is possible to exactly measure the face angle of a driver in a lieloft measurement gauge. The anser driver is pings first adjustable driver offering you the ability to finetune the trajectory through a combination of loft adjustment and. Golf monthly looks at the different elements of a golf swing that affect the loft you should play on your driver. Hit drivers with several different lofts and see which club produces the best result. This is counterintuitive, but if you experiment with your own adjustable driver youll see that its correct. For all the differing recommendations you might hear, there is one thing we can say for sure. The anser driver is a 460cc titanium head with a blackmatte finish that is adjustable for loft plus or minus 12 degree. The ping anser driver comes available with 4 stock shafts, which i think is. It vary because vcog vary from driver head to driver head, and trackman adds a bit confusion in their own term, since they normally talk center of the face club speed measurements, while on.
His main concerns with his current driver were not. Nov 08, 2012 for our test of the ping anser driver we collected detailed performance data from 4 testers who were asked to hit a series of shots on our 3track equipped simulators from aboutgolf. The degree of launch angle that you want with a swing speed less than 110 mph, is a lot. The anser driver with adjustable loft offers you the ability to finetune your trajectory through a combination of loft adjustment and shaft selection. Whatever loft is written on the sole of your driver is probably wrong. The ark is dimenished quite a bit compared to a forward pressed shaft angle. With the driver adjusted to 11 degrees of loft, my shot had 3415 rpm of spin. To get the most distance from your driver, you must optimize the launch angle and spin rate of the ball by selecting the proper loft and shaft flex for your swing speed. How adjusting your driver loft changes your ball flight golfwrx. So when you are getting fit for your next driver, you need to know the actual loft of your driver, your club speed, launch angle and attack angle. Trajectory tuning technologyping has added adjustable to the hosel without adding weight or bulk to to the design. The reason ping reduced the size of the g400 driver is aerodynamics.
Ping anser driver shop worn discount prices for golf equipment. By adding loft, the face angle closes, when subtracting loft, the face angle opens. Scott was playing the g ls tec driver with 9 degrees of loft set at standard, with a graphite design tour ad di 6x shaft. The most notable feature of the new ping anser driver is its trajectory tuning technology. All else being equal, the more lofted your driver, the higher and straighter your shots will fly. A dualdurometer pebax face insert engineered with tr face technology provides a soft layer for precision and improved impact feel and a firmer layer for control improves. Determining optimal driver loft can be confusing, angle of attack, swing speed, all come into play read how to determine your optimal driver loft. Standard lie angle for a driver the standard lie angle of a driver can range anywhere between 50 to 60 degrees. T he face angle of a driver is the direction that the face points when the driver is sitting flat on the ground and the shaft is straight up and down. How to measure and adjust driver lie angle flat vs. Dec 11, 2018 the loft on your driver is a key factor that helps determine the success of your tee shots on longer holes.
Enhanced feel and forgiveness and a new adjustablelength shaft improve performance and fitting opportunities in the three new g le2 putters anser, shea and echo. The difference of even a degree of loft of a golf club can mean being in the middle of the fairway or woefully behind a tree scratching your head. It is possible to exactly measure the face angle of a driver in a lie loft measurement gauge. You will rarely know the real loft of your driver even if you are reading the loft engraved on the driver head or if you are reading the loft and face angle specifications on a companys internet site. Titleist driver stiff graphite golf clubs, graphite shaft stiff flex golf clubs, nike driver stiff flex golf clubs, ping anser 2 putter golf clubs, ping driver 9 loft golf clubs, graphite design tour stiff flex golf clubs, ping graphite shaft iron set regular flex golf clubs, cleveland driver stiff flex golf clubs. The loft angle is measured in degrees and determines how high the golf ball will be traveling from the club, which is also known as the launch angle. As you can see, landing angle has a great influence on roll out. If it is between 95 and 104 mph, a 10 or 11degree loft will be appropriate. Although taylormade has recently been touting the benefits of. The blade design and medium head weight make this putter proficient from any distance. Ping anser driver shop worn discount prices for golf. I hit the anser at a demo day a while back and was fit into 8. The weighting of the club head optimizes it for a mid to highlaunch, but the adjustable loft allows players to tune their trajectory up or down as the shot dictates. As stated above it depends on aoa and less on swing speed.
Our lowest handicap golfer for this test tends to be a low ball hitter, however. Longest drive comp taylormade r1 vs ping anser driver duration. In addition to loft tuning, shaft fitting is an important step for optimizing launch and ensuring a driver with the correct weightbalance combination, feel, and timing that lead to consistency and comfort. Understanding and fitting driver face angle and loft ralph. The ping anser driver comes available with 4 stock shafts, which i think is awesome, better than other companies offer stock. By adjusting lie angle, loft and shaft length the fitters at 2nd swing will make sure you are getting consistently better performance off the tee. I always thought that adjusting the loft upwards opened the face. The club fitter will analyze your swing speed and angle of attack to help determine the optimal loft for your driver. Ping vault putters are named for our famous gold putter vault, which gleams with goldplated and solidgold replicas of winning ping putters, today numbering close to 3,000. The anser driver allows players to adjust loft by plus or minus a half degree to optimize your launch angle and spin rate. Traditional shaped 460cc clubhead is cast with variable wall thickness from ti 811, a light weight, low density titanium. One of the common complaints from golfers is that when they change the loft angle of the driver, the lie angle seems to have changed. The ping anser driver offers a nice allaround blend of distance, feel and forgiveness, with the added benefit of adjustable loft angles that allow you to finetune your shot trajectory. To be more exact, in our study we found that 92% of the time its wrong.
For speeds of mph and above, try a loft between 4 and 7 degrees. How to determine which loft you should get on your driver. One of the components of launch angle, is the degree of loft in the driver. Second, for a 2 degree putter loft you are essentially almost going flat. A lot of beginners as well as experienced players, prefer using this particular driver.
Aug 21, 2015 but before i convince you that your driver doesnt have enough loft, lets go through the 4 signs that you need more loft on your driver, which ill explain in more detail below. This technology allows for effective loft adjustment 0. The ping anser driver features trajectory tuning technology which allows the player to add or subtract the loft in 12 degree increments. Trajectory tuning technology allows you to hone in your launch angle and spin rate to increase distance. Optimize driver loft for more distance true fit clubs. Technology allows you to hone in your launch angle and spin rate to increase distance. Why lie angle of your golf club is crucial to your golf game. Ping golf club the anser 2 putter, cavity back irons, etc. Golfers with clubhead speeds below 85 mph should use a loft angle between 14 and 20 degrees. For drivers the average gear ratio from dynamic loft to launch angle is 1 dynamic loft 0.
When we look at the launch angles produced by the ping anser we find some interesting results. For instance, my ping anser driver is adjustable, but its set at neutral, so theres no need for soling just square the face and swing away. This is the first time ping has engineered an adjustable driver. Thanks for the clarification essentially, dont sole the driver if its an adjustable unless you are actually intending to change the loft through adjustment of face and lie angle. My putter has 2 loft at any shaft angle being adjustable in shaft angles. More loft will not always lead to more spin, due to things such as impact points, spin lofts, facetopath relationships, and the ball you play but it is a good general rule of thumb.
By adding loft, the face angle closes, when subtracting loft, the face. Launch angle is the angle that the ball flies at from initial contact with the driver club face. If you are wondering what the terminologies in regards to lie angle are, ill explain them to you now if you find a golf club with a standard lie angle, it means that you have picked up an offtheshelf golf club. I went with the heaviest weight and lowest launching shaft because ive typically found plenty of launch with previous ping drivers. The anser is the winningest model in pga tour history, and its newest iteration has the traditional heeltoe ballasts that boost moi, plus pleasing contours, a clean top rail and simple alignment line. And the lob wedge is the mostlofted, typically from 60 to 64 degrees. More loft means numerically highera 12degree driver has more loft than a 9degree. Taylor made r1, titleist 9d2, ping anser, and nike covert. The face angle of a driver is the direction that the face points when the driver is sitting flat on the ground and the shaft is straight up and down. Cobra king pro drivers these drivers have a fade setting which can be used to lower the lie angle. Now, to get that face square at impact, you need to open that 10 degree driver a couple degrees, thus adding loft.
Covering the entire hitting surface is an innovative insert combining highly responsive pebax elastomer and a milled aluminum face to provide fullface forgiveness. All questions submitted to qsponge are anonymous, no user information is associated with any question. If you assume that you cannot change your attack angle we will show you how to do that in the next segment, you need to optimize the effective loft. Other than the putter, the driver is leastlofted golf club, for most golfers between nine and degrees of loft. Generally, golfers with slower swing speeds require morelofted drivers and moreflexible shafts to achieve the proper launch conditions. If possible, go to a pro shop and have a professional club fitter determine the best loft for your driver.
The anser driver with adjustable loft offers you the ability to finetune your trajectory. They will also fit your new driver to the specifications that optimize shot trajectory and spin rates for your swing. The variablethickness face helps generate incredible ball velocity, while the external sole weighting positions the cg low and raises the moi providing a midhigh launch that adds to distance and forgiveness. How adjusting your driver loft changes your ball flight. For many players, open face angles are not beneficial. Even rear pressed which is my preferred shaft angle it is still 2 loft. Using a ping wrench to loosen the clubhead and adjust the loft, you can easily add or subtract 12. A midmallet is the predominant putter style among armlock players for its desirable head shape, and this piper relies on the same lowcg, highmoi, heeltoe weighted piper c head. But although we can say for sure that most golfers need more loft than they now use, the exact amount depends on several different aspects of their swings. Dustin johnsons driver is a reminder that optimal launch.
At the same time, balls dont tend to roll as far when theyre hit with a high trajectory. How to measure and adjust driver lie angle flat vs upright. Adjustable anser driver golfwrx has found out that ping will be bringing the anser adjustable driver to tour pros this week. The anser driver is flat black just like the 2012 i20. The weighting of the club head optimizes it for a mid to highlaunch, but the adjustable loft allows players to tune their trajectory up or down as the shot. With the anser driver, ping offers four performance shafts. The sigma g putter family sets new performance standards in feel, stability and touch. Adjustable driver effect on face angle i was trying to explain to my mate whos just got a x2hot driver what effect adjusting the loft had on the face angle. Understanding and fitting driver face angle and loft.