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randall Member

randall

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Can anyone help me out here? I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but i am topping my hybrids way too much ~30% of the time. If I top it it will go straight but obviously not very far. I have tried moving the ball back in my stance, forward off the left heel, etc. If I make good contact they just take off but those flubs are really killing my scores.

I don't have a problem topping my driver off the tee or my irons.

uttexas Great Member

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Hit down on the ball with a hybrid, as you would a seven iron. If you haven't had your hybrids fit to you, might consider that.

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HSip Well Established Member

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Hit down on the ball with a hybrid

Really, really important with hybrids. Good advice


uppi Member

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Sounds like your doing what I was doing when I first got my hybrid. My guess is your probably treating it like a wood rather than an iron. To me hybrids (at least the one I have) look more like woods than irons, so naturally you want to hit it like one and try and sweep it. Once I started swinging down on it and swinging easy now I can finally hit 225 yard stingers with it. Took me a few weeks to get used to it though.

Clubs:

Driver: Ping G10 10.5 UST Mamiya Proforce V2 Stiff
Fairway: Ping G10 15.5 UST Mamiya Proforce V2 stiff
Hybrid: Ping G10 18.0 UST Mamiya Proforce V2 H stiffIrons:  Ping S56 3-PW KBS tour StiffWedges:  Ping Tour S 56, 60 degree KBS tour stiffPutter:  Ping scottsdale anser 2 34"


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Sounds like your doing what I was doing when I first got my hybrid. My guess is your probably treating it like a wood rather than an iron. To me hybrids (at least the one I have) look more like woods than irons, so naturally you want to hit it like one and try and sweep it. Once I started swinging down on it and

Yeah, I agree, but the even bigger key to me is the bolded part, swinging easy. You NEED to swing smooth with hybrids, they actually became tough to hit (for me at least) when I'm overswinging, trying to "crush it." When I swing it similar to a 5 or 7 iron, swinging smooth, and with a little divot, is when I seemingly get my best result.

Driver Ping G10 10.5*
Hybrids Ping G5 (3) 19* Bridgestone J36 (4) 22*
Irons Mizuno MP-57 5-PW
Wedges Srixon WG-504 52.08 Bridgestone WC Copper 56.13
Putter 33" Scotty Cameron Studio Select #2


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Yeah, I agree, but the even bigger key to me is the bolded part, swinging easy. You NEED to swing smooth with hybrids, they actually became tough to hit (for me at least) when I'm overswinging, trying to "crush it." When I swing it similar to a 5 or 7 iron, swinging smooth, and with a little divot, is when I seemingly get my best result.

100% agree with this and the previous advice to hit it like a 7-iron.

In my bag:

Driver: SQ 9.5, Graphite Stiff Shaft
3 Wood: Diablo 13 degree, Stiff Shaft
2 Hybrid: SQ 18 degree, Steel Stiff ShaftIrons: MP-30, 3-PWSW: 56* Vokey Copper spin-milledFW 52* VokeyFlat Stick Zing 2Ball: Pro V1x


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