I hit my three wood off the deckfarther than my driver.

your probably getting better to a better impact with your three wood. try swinging at 80%

You could always just learn to swing it better.  Depends on whether you prefer the cash, or some added distance (with some work involved).

Brandon

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Should I just sell my driver?

1.) I would go to a club fitter and make sure your driver is fit correctly for your swing.  

2.) Once you have a properly fit driver, get on a launch monitor and compare your driver and your 3W.

I can pretty much guarantee that if you have a properly fit driver, as a 12 Handicap you should be hitting your driver further - off a tee - than a 3W from the deck.  If this is not the case, then you should probably go get a lesson from a professional to determine how to get you into the proper impact area with the driver.

Good luck! 

3-wood has more loft and a shorter shaft. You can easily check to see if you are hitting the driver near the sweat spot (either impact tape, powder, or just range balls). If you are hitting the sweat spot, then it likely mostly about the loft of your driver -- you need more. If you are missing the sweat spot, either swing easier, choke up a bit, leave the driver in your bag for a while.

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Originally Posted by MbolicGolf 

Should I just sell my driver?

Sell your driver and buy Rocketballz. Guarantee your 3wood wont outhit your driver then. 

 used to slice like crazy with my 10.5 degree driver and could always count on my 3 wood off the tee/deck from rough,it was my safety club...i was hitting them roughly about the same distance (when i did hit a decent shot with the big dog that is) so i stayed with the 3 wood..ive recently bought a 13 degree driver which is more forgiving and i hit it about 10/12 yards further than my 3 wood at about 80% swing,maybe a loftier driver might help you like it did me??....good luck

I'm looking at your club setup in your signature, and you have two different shafts.  It could be that you're getting more speed with a lighter shaft in your 3-wood.  It could be that the bend profile is better (I see you're playing X-stiff in your driver).

My personal observations of my game, which certainly won't reflect everyone's experience.  I have the exact same shaft in my driver and 3-wood, except that the 3-wood is 2 inches shorter.  I have basically the same swing with both, so why not the same shaft?  Club manufacturers don't put the same shafts in the drivers and 3-woods as a matter of course, and I had to special order the 3-wood with the shaft I wanted.  I get very similar performance from both clubs, with the exception that the 3-wood is a bit shorter and I can hit it off the deck.  Because of the smaller head, the 3-wood is also easier to work right-to-left, which is one of the advantages of a 3-wood (as a general rule, it's easier to hit a draw with a 3-wood and a fade with a driver).

IMO, performance is all about the shaft.  Find a shaft that gives you the launch characteristics you like, and then work the lofts and lengths in so that the clubs complement one another.

go and hit a tour exotic xgv4 you might be suprised

The 3 things Wishon always mentions about increasing driver distance is club length, loft, and total club weight. 

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I've hit it I don't like it. 

Didn't say you'd like it, said you'd hit it farther.

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There's nothing else I like more than hitting it farther. And when I hit it, I didn't

 

That pretty much sums up "don't like it"! 

I had this exact same issue.  Exact same.  Solving it changed my game.

Search for a thread entitled "Hitting Down with your driver".  It is a fantastic thread.

For me, the reason this happened, is because I was concentrating on hitting "up" with the driver - which produced high, weak slices right.  With the 3 wood off the deck, I really get my hips into it and blast it.  My soution was to tee the driver up much lower (about the height of the driver) and move it back in the stance.  Then I hit it with the driver *Exactly like* a 3 wood off the deck.  After some experimentation with ball position (more forward leads to a slice for me, more back a hook), I found the spot where I could take my 3 wood off the deck swing with driver tee'd up really low and catch it just on the upswing.

Another thing that worked for me is hitting driver off the deck at the range, then slowly raising the tee height until I was crushing it.  Yeah, read that thread "Hitting down with the driver".  Great thread.  Added 50 yards to my driver and sent me from a 13 to a 9 overnight.  Go to the range and play around with teeing it up low and in the middle of your stance and hitting it just like an off-the-deck 3 wood.  it works.

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Originally Posted by MbolicGolf 

Should I just sell my driver?

Absolutely......keeping it defeats it's purpose. 

How far do you hit your 3 wood?  Driver?  What's the loft of each?

I've found it's very helpful for dialing in distances to hit clubs of the same family through the bag as much as possible, i.e. TaylorMade r11 fws/driver,TM burner irons/hybrids, Cleveland cg family wedges, etc...

I was having a similar problem to yours with big gaps in my yardages until after last season I went about trying to get some more consistency through my bag, now I like to think I have pretty much all yardages covered.