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Soooo.... I am into winter and doing way too much internet reading versus outside playing golf or cycling, and come across this video from the PGA:

http://www.pga.com/golf-instruction/why-you-should-have-hybrid-video

Does anyone else find this a bit revisionist?  The hybrid was invented for the new design golf ball?

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Interesting view of the hybrid "invention" ... perhaps this shows a good example of the industry creating demand ... build a new ball that needs clubs with different characteristics in order for the average player to get the best performance from them .... so I'd say it's more like Capitalism at work rather than revisionist ...

Sort of like breeding a generation of bigger mice so you can sell bigger/better mousetraps .. It's a school of marketing where the goal is to create a demand in a line where the demand has hit a virtual "dead-end" ...

Too much thinking for a Saturday morning - now I have a headache ...

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I don't get it. The ball changed from high-spin to high-launch and low spin, and traditional low irons couldn't get the ball up well enough? If the ball became naturally a higher-launching entity, why would it be harder for a low iron to launch it. Did they just not have enough weight at the bottom of the club to *pop* it up? Boyder, I wouldn't look at it that way. The higher launch is helpful for less-skilled players, particularly those who haven't mastered the art of hitting down on the ball, and that was probably the motivation for going that direction. It helped with all the mid and high irons, and probably helped with the driver and woods as well, the only clubs adversely affected were the low irons. To compensate for this unfortunate hiccup in better golf ball technology, manufacturers blended two characteristics of clubs and made a hybrid, which had the benefit of negating the effect of new ball technology and replacing a club that most people couldn't hit anyway with a club that was easier to hit. You can still get low-launch, high spin balls, they're just not the standard any more.

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