Adjusting the Lie on a PING G410 Driver Through Hybrid — Thoughts?

[snow bird]

I changed out the the bag this year going over to Ping from primarily Tayormade clubs.

Driver: Ping G-410   12 degree

Ping G-410  5wood

Ping G-410. 7 wood

Ping G410. 5 hybrid

Ping G410 5 iron to PW

 

I was fitted to play Orange dot which is 2 degrees flat for my irons. Playing around with the adjustable driver and metal woods. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[Adam C]

Check them with a sharpie line test and see what your dynamic lie is with those clubs. Then you can decide if you want to adjust them flat or are happy with the ball flight from them.

[ChetlovesMer]

4 hours ago, Adam C said:

Check them with a sharpie line test and see what your dynamic lie is with those clubs. Then you can decide if you want to adjust them flat or are happy with the ball flight from them.

Adam, you always give great advice. May I make one suggestion? Use a dry erase marker rather than a sharpie. Much much easier to clean off the club face. 🙂

[Vinsk]

1 hour ago, ChetlovesMer said:

Much much easier to clean off the club face.

And the hosel. 

[billchao]

1 hour ago, ChetlovesMer said:

Adam, you always give great advice. May I make one suggestion? Use a dry erase marker rather than a sharpie. Much much easier to clean off the club face. 🙂

Rubbing alcohol cleans sharpie pretty easily.

[ChetlovesMer]

1 minute ago, billchao said:

Rubbing alcohol cleans sharpie pretty easily.

any golf towel or just your thumb will clean dry erase marker....😃

[billchao]

7 minutes ago, ChetlovesMer said:

any golf towel or just your thumb will clean dry erase marker....😃

Does dry erase marker transfer from the ball to the club well? I’ve drawn on my clubface with dry erase marker and I don’t recall it ending up on the ball.

I’m not trying to be a smartass, I’m asking because I don’t know. I’ve always done lie angle tests with a sharpie.

[ChetlovesMer]

2 minutes ago, billchao said:

Does dry erase marker transfer from the ball to the club well? I’ve drawn on my clubface with dry erase marker and I don’t recall it ending up on the ball.

I’m not trying to be a smartass, I’m asking because I don’t know. I’ve always done lie angle tests with a sharpie.

I use it all the time. I have two a purple dry erase markers in my bag at all times. (Not sure why I chose purple?) It also helps with strike location and it's a lot less sloppy than spraying foot spray on your club face. I use it on range balls too. By the time the ball stops rolling the dry erase has rubbed off, so the range guys don't mind at all. 

[snow bird]

3 hours ago, ChetlovesMer said:

I use it all the time. I have two a purple dry erase markers in my bag at all times. (Not sure why I chose purple?) It also helps with strike location and it's a lot less sloppy than spraying foot spray on your club face. I use it on range balls too. By the time the ball stops rolling the dry erase has rubbed off, so the range guys don't mind at all. 

Great Idea looking forward to getting the sharpie out. Club championship this weekend need all the help I can get.

[boogielicious]

15 hours ago, billchao said:

I’ve drawn on my clubface with dry erase marker and I don’t recall it ending up on the ball.

The guys at my range must wonder where the green or blue marks come from on the balls! 

15 hours ago, ChetlovesMer said:

I have two a purple dry erase markers in my bag at all times. (Not sure why I chose purple?)

Royal fetish.

I think sharpies or dry erase work well on irons, but I have trouble doing these tests on grass with short irons. The grass seems to wipe the mark off. Woods no problem except the faces of my woods and hybrids are black. You have to check very closely. 

I would suggest doing the testing off mats.

[ChetlovesMer]

15 hours ago, billchao said:

 I’ve drawn on my clubface with dry erase marker and I don’t recall it ending up on the ball.

It doesn't work that way. The dry erase will rub off the ball as it rolls in the grass. However, if you put the dry erase on the ball, it easily transfers to the clubface. Again, I do it all the time.

23 minutes ago, boogielicious said:

The guys at my range must wonder where the green or blue marks come from on the balls! 

Dry erase rubs off as the balls roll in the grass. The guys at the range will never know, nor care that you've drawn lines on the range balls. 

 

24 minutes ago, boogielicious said:

I think sharpies or dry erase work well on irons, but I have trouble doing these tests on grass with short irons. The grass seems to wipe the mark off. Woods no problem except the faces of my woods and hybrids are black. You have to check very closely. 

I've done the dry erase things literally hundreds of times on grass, no issues at all. Works every time. 

The face of my woods are also black, I can tell you for sure that purple dry erase shows up really well and rubs off really easily. You can always spray foot powder, but foot powder won't give you the vertical (ideally) line that the dry erase marker will give you. 

Trust me, get a dry erase marker for doing lie angle tests and strike location tests. You won't be sorry. Then you can save your sharpies for marking your golf ball to identify it from all the other folks playing PROV-1's. 

[Sandy Divot]

How do you hit them? If you hit them where you want them, I’d leave them alone. I’m assuming a big change like that came with a fitting, so I’d ask the fitter to take a look, and make recommendations.

[boogielicious]

28 minutes ago, ChetlovesMer said:

It doesn't work that way. The dry erase will rub off the ball as it rolls in the grass. However, if you put the dry erase on the ball, it easily transfers to the clubface. Again, I do it all the time.

Dry erase rubs off as the balls roll in the grass. The guys at the range will never know, nor care that you've drawn lines on the range balls. 

 

I've done the dry erase things literally hundreds of times on grass, no issues at all. Works every time. 

The face of my woods are also black, I can tell you for sure that purple dry erase shows up really well and rubs off really easily. You can always spray foot powder, but foot powder won't give you the vertical (ideally) line that the dry erase marker will give you. 

Trust me, get a dry erase marker for doing lie angle tests and strike location tests. You won't be sorry. Then you can save your sharpies for marking your golf ball to identify it from all the other folks playing PROV-1's. 

I have a blue dry erase in my bag. I will try it again next time at a grass range. 

[billchao]

1 hour ago, ChetlovesMer said:

It doesn't work that way. The dry erase will rub off the ball as it rolls in the grass. However, if you put the dry erase on the ball, it easily transfers to the clubface. Again, I do it all the time.

I hit into a net. Probably the same thing happening, though.

[Adam C]

Wow. I was not expecting dry erase vs permanent to be the idealogical battle of the day!!

Lots of good ideas here.

Personally I will use whatever I have on hand. Either one works. If hitting short irons or you are more of a digger, the permanent seems to hold on the face better, but as mentioned above you can also hit off mats and not have those issues.

If you have a darker finish face that is hard to see, you can masking tape the face to do the test.