October shot analysis vs. today: I picked up a set of clubs in September and played about 6 rounds of 9 before my first sim practice.
I’m working on hitting my driver better since it was the last club I tackled, so I hope to get more real distance with it. Is my consistency too overlapped, aside from that? What other clubs should I consider adding? And why are my 5 and 6 irons almost identical—is that common?
In the second picture, you’ll also notice two slightly different shades of red.
Looks pretty good for a few months
Shawn said:
Looks pretty good for a few months
Unrealistic you might even say.
But then again when you’re deleting what you think are outliers it looks good pretty fast.
Shawn said:
Looks pretty good for a few months
Unrealistic you might even say.
But then again when you’re deleting what you think are outliers it looks good pretty fast.
If you’re achieving those distances with any consistency and accuracy, you’re probably better than 90% of golfers.
But to your point, easy to look good if you selectively edit the data.
Shawn said:
Looks pretty good for a few months
Agree fully. Short time playing and hitting the ball pretty damn good
If you just started and you can keep the ball in play you are doing really well IMO.
I agree with working on driver the most. Once you can get off the tee you can decide to really hone in on your ability to get up and down and putt or hitting your mid irons and wedges with more accuracy in terms of distance control and dispersion.
Looks good for where you’re at. Keep grinding.
It’s up to you how you want to play, but if I had it to do over again (presently a 5 hcp), I wouldn’t break out those longer clubs until dispersion/consistency of contract gets closer to that of mid-irons. If I had done that, I’d have saved hundreds on golf balls.
Most people who have golfed their whole life don’t have consistent distances, hit the ball straight, don’t mess up wedge shots, and 2 putt and you are better than 99% of golfers. Both my friends who picked up golf this year can barely get off the tee box and can’t hit more than 2 of the 14 clubs in their bag
Lose the 5i for now and try and find a hybrid you like to hit to help fill that top of the bag gap
Brook said:
Lose the 5i for now and try and find a hybrid you like to hit to help fill that top of the bag gap
Based on the chart, you only need Driver, 5i, and putter to cover 50-150 yards! 
Brook said:
Lose the 5i for now and try and find a hybrid you like to hit to help fill that top of the bag gap
Yeah, I find an 8H much more consistent for me
You have a distance inversion with your 5i and probably not enough of a distance gap with your driver - but you’re still learning and those clubs are hard to hit well compared to clubs with more loft.
I’d recommend a hybrid instead of a 5i starting out, but not too shabby for a beginner
Looks like good progress to me. The added distance on the left is likely your pull shots and is common. As you improve you should work on this and that will help both the lateral and distance dispersion.
The overlap is expected. Club gapping is designed to be around 10 yards or so but distance dispersion for a high handicapper is way higher than that.
On the course play your misses. For example, you are 130 to the pin approaching a green with trouble in front…don’t hit the one that averages 130 because 1/3 of the shots will end in the trouble. Hit the club that most of the misses still carry the trouble. Your game is a shotgun pattern you see here, play the odds with what you have and keep working on the pattern.
I’m 4 months in and my numbers are eerily similar, save for my driver which is around 175-180. Keep it up!
What equipment are you using to measure your distances? I’m looking into radars/etc.
Branley said:
What equipment are you using to measure your distances? I’m looking into radars/etc.
I’m super lucky and a mutual friend set up a trackman sim in his shop 10 minutes away from me. Letting me play for $25/hr but if no one is booked it’s $25 for however long I want. Definitely helping progress faster with all the data
If you haven’t done so already, take your clubs to a local clubmaker to check the lofts and ensure they are in spec.
Quincy said:
If you haven’t done so already, take your clubs to a local clubmaker to check the lofts and ensure they are in spec.
I definitely need to do this, especially with grips. Kept chunking my PW and realized it’s 2 inches longer than my 9
I had the same issue with the 5i. I got myself a 9 wood to fill the gap.
