Initial results with new driver

Had been playing with an old 10* Hippo driver for the last 3 months. Usual drive was 230-260, 270 -280 if I SS it. I had hit my friends Covert on last hole one day and flat out crushed it. I knew then that I must own one. My 1st outing with it, I played my hippo and used that as my play ball and just hit the covert for practice and then picked it up. I had the buyers remorse. Was only getting about 5 yds extra with the covert. I did seem to gain 2 seconds of hangtime however. I tinkered with it and wound up with closed head and 8.5* loft. After a week of practice I felt I could actually play with it although I still need another week or two to get things centered in the fairway like the hippo. Here are the results: Hole 1: 200 yds. Pop up, Hit right side rough by 6 yds. Hit a berm next to sandtrap, and it rolled backwards and back into the fairway. Hole 2: 240 yds. Silght pull,slight pop-up, hit left side berm next to the sandtrap, hung in the thick grass. 99% carry. Hole 3: 290 yds. Slight pull, missed all the berms 10 yds left of fairway Hole 4: 290 yds. Dead center fairway. Hole 5: par 3 Hole 6: 260 yds. Went off of toe, but wound up dead center of fairway thanks to slope. Hit 2 ft on rough and rolled back in. Hole 7: 260 yds. Went off heel and had a fade tail on it. In fairway left side. Hole 8: Par 3. Hole 9: 255 yds. See hole 7. Mishits finding fairway or are real close. Anything close to a centered hit is a monster.

Having mis-hits still find the fairway is a great bonus. Being a little shorter but still on the short grass is much better than being longer and in long grass or shorter AND in the long grass.

True, but I think it is all adjustments and confidence. Was much straighter this week, but not quite there.  Will be even better when I get it straightened out and am longer in the short grass. Or even get a tail wind and end up on the super, super short grass !  Oh my !