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Do giant driver golf club heads hit the ball further?
Right now I’m using a pretty small driver. My friends have big golf woods and drivers, and my driver is just a little smaller than their 3 woods. They are pretty cheap clubs, around 10 years old or so.
I am hitting them out there on average a little over 200 yards. A great drive for me would be like 230-235.
Would it really make a difference in my driving distance if I got one of these new giant drivers?
If you hit the sweet spot 90% of the time or more, you’d never notice the difference if your driver was 300cc or 460cc. Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman and even Bobby Jones were all perfectly capable of hitting 300+ yard drives in their prime. Tiger Woods, who averages 295 yards off the tee, plays a 380cc Nike DyMo.
The only real sticking point is the materials that make up your driver. If the face is made of aluminum, it won’t be as “hot” as a face made of titanium (or even made of persimmon) and will likely not hold up too well.
The big-headed drivers are more about keeping your mis-hits in play. They offer more forgiveness in the form of MOI (Moment Of Inertia- or the ability to resist twisting around its vertical axis on toe and heel hits) and lower CG (Center of Gravity- it helps launch the ball higher).
Assuming a driver with a healthy face, and a swing that finds the sweet spot fairly consistently, you can increase your distance by strengthening your core, and gaining flexibility. If you want to bomb it close to 300 yards, your swing speed needs to be near 110 mph.
All that said, golf is 90% mental, 50% physical and 20% everything else. If it bothers you that much, it’ll pervade into your subconscious every time you step onto the tee box, hurting your chances of making a good drive. If that happens, maybe a new driver will reinvigorate your swing, but if nothing ever bothers you, you can literally game your current driver until it falls apart at the seams.
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