What would a Fitter do ?

[cape cod beachfront golfer]

I have worked a great deal this year using the impact tape on the face of my 3 wood and drivers. Quickly learned I center 9 out of every 10 3 wood shots. But the driver(s) is a totally different story. Cleveland Classic 270 is currently out of the bag... too inconsistent. That leaves me with a Super Tri that I fan to the right. Impact tape shows the hits to be okay vertically but an inch out toward the toe. 8 out of 10 shots show this same strike point. I have already shortened the shaft on the SuperTri by an 1.25 inches. The shortened shaft definitely was a wise decision as shots are very consistent. What can I do to move the impact from toward the toe to the center?  My choices:  1/  Move setting from current neutral to upright neutral?  2/ Open club by 1 degree? or should I Close club by 1 degree (confused) ???   Currently have weights  10g heel-1g rear-1g toe? ???  3/ Have considered setting up over the ball with heel aligned rather than center of face?   Anyone see something that might work to get the impact  point moved away from the toe and back to the center???  BTW If you have not used impact tape before I recommend it during a practice round as a a real confidence builder/

[Club Rat]

Have you tried various placements of ball position and teeing the ball at different heights?

Club Rat

[billchao]

@cape cod beachfront golfer , you should try switching the heel and tie weights. Since you're hitting out towards the toe pretty consistently, moving the heavier weight out there shifts the CoG out towards the toe, effectively making your hits "closer" to the sweetspot.

[cape cod beachfront golfer]

Sometimes the logic of adjustments escape me... Moving the weight from heel to toe basically 'slows' the toe down and would straighten the shot if I follow the logic of your suggestion. I will not be playing on Mother's Day but will give it a try early next week. If I wanted to go a bit more extreme... would I OPEN or CLOSE the face adjustment one click to get the same effect?  From early experiments with the SuperTri I never felt comfortable with the club totally closed. Looked totally wrong to my eye and I think I unconsciously altered my swing to account for it.

[billchao]

Sometimes the logic of adjustments escape me... Moving the weight from heel to toe basically 'slows' the toe down and would straighten the shot if I follow the logic of your suggestion.

No, you're just shifting more mass more towards the toe which basically shifts the sweetspot out towards the toe more. Your 1" toe miss will play more like a 1/2" toe miss or so.

If I wanted to go a bit more extreme... would I OPEN or CLOSE the face adjustment one click to get the same effect?  From early experiments with the SuperTri I never felt comfortable with the club totally closed. Looked totally wrong to my eye and I think I unconsciously altered my swing to account for it.

That's pretty much the problem with altering the clubface open or closed. If you think it doesn't look right, chances are you are going to do something to compensate for that.

The long term solution is to fix what's going on in your swing that makes you miss out towards the toe. Adjusting your driver (and clubfitting, in general) is meant to optimize your ball flight and minimize the damage from your misses. It's not going to fix your swing flaws, so tweaking around a couple of things on your driver is not going to have you go from spraying the ball right to striping it dead straight. Just try a couple of things and stick with whatever gives you the best results.

[cape cod beachfront golfer]

I DO stripe the Cleveland Launcher down the middle and it is currently in my bag. Old style 330 cc head looks & feels like a 3wood and I confidently swing the shorter shafted club That was one of the reasons I shorten the SuperTri.  I will definitely try the weight move to the toe. Any comment re: Neutral vs UpRight Neutral??? Thank you for the explanations.