Should I change the loft of my driver?

[jfrain2004]

Hi,
In the local golf store the simulator is telling me that my swing speed is 102mph and ball velocity of 151, launch angle of 14.5 and the resulant drive carries over 270yrds. Now from experience I know I only hit it 240 at best so this leads me to believe the monitor is over clocking me ( I tested with my own driver for reference ) of course the assistant keeps telling me that the new driver should I buy it will give me 270 upwards .... no chance. This virtual monitor http://www.sonicboomgolf.com/virtual...h_monitor2.php seems to be spot on. With 151 ball speed, a launch of 15Deg the ball carries for 240 which is exactly what I see in practice. Now if I increase my launch angle to 16 I get 5 more yrds and if I decrease it to 13 I lose 5 yrds.
So with my stats of 102mph stiff flex ( Hibore XL ) would I gain any distance in going down to 9.5? And I keep going back to the "how far do people hit the ball" Anika Sorenson has apparently very similar launch stats to mine and hits the ball 40 yrds further, so where am I losing all the distance as 102 is not a slow swing speed and approx 1.5 is a good power transfer ratio which indicates I'm hitting her near enough the sweet spot most of the time?

[glebert]

Sounds like they have the monitor jacked up. I know there was a store near me that seemed like they had the altitude set at 5000 feet rather than 500 (which is our altitude). If you put in your numbers to the VLM with the city as Denver you get about 270 carry.

[glebert]

Oh, and LPGA.com has Annika's driving average as 251 yards, and that would be total, not just carry, so I think you are pretty close.