For More Distance, Don't Hit Big Draws

[saevel25]

I stumbled upon this (see above). To me this just makes sense. 

If you keep ball speed, vertical launch, and spin all the same, but just change face angle (curvature of flight) then obviously that shot will come up shorter. The ball has the same kinetic energy (speed), it is wasting distance X distance for Y curvature. Also, a more out or in swing path will cause a more glancing blow, which can reduce ball speed and increase spin rate. 

Also, PGA Tour players do not curve the ball that much for how far they hit it. In the same twitter thread, they curve it 11 yards on average over a 290 yards of distance. Which is not much at all. 

Yeah, for the most distance, keep the ball flight neutral. 

[iacas]

Spin = loss of ball speed from a less oblique hit.

[billchao]

I thought it was pretty obvious that the ball only has so much energy to begin with and more time moving sideways meant less time moving forward.

I guess it might have just been more obvious to me as a person who has spent a lot of time hitting balls sideways.

[Darkfrog]

Day 4:

Mirror work on backswing, a bit of indoor putting. 

[colin007]

1 hour ago, Darkfrog said:

Day 4:

Mirror work on backswing, a bit of indoor putting. 

You're losing distance on your putts if you hit big draws

 

Anyways, this is just my theory, but I think hacks like us think draws go farther because they accidentally once came over the top on a dogleg left with a slammed shut face that was even more left and hit a nuked pull hook instead of the glancing slice that goes 75 yards laterally

[saevel25]

10 hours ago, billchao said:

I thought it was pretty obvious that the ball only has so much energy to begin with and more time moving sideways meant less time moving forward.

I guess it might have just been more obvious to me as a person who has spent a lot of time hitting balls sideways.

I think it comes from the old adage that a draw goes farther than a fade because it "draw spin". Then that went into people thinking it had overspin, which would make it go stupidly short. 🤣

[Carl3]

On 8/13/2024 at 9:35 AM, saevel25 said:

I think it comes from the old adage that a draw goes farther than a fade because it "draw spin". Then that went into people thinking it had overspin, which would make it go stupidly short. 🤣

Or the adage that the club face is less lofted for a draw than a fade and it will "run" out farther