Hit it perfect on the range but not the course?

The soles of your irons could be to blame. Game improvement clubs are one of the worst culprits.  Pros know this, and really customise their soles.  Learn more.

 

If you've been killing it on the range, but you're topping it on the course, chances are you're playing game improvement clubs, and those are literally killing your game.

  

Recently, we’ve been seeing lots of players come in with “game improvement” or even “super game improvement” clubs, and leave with “players’ clubs”, and with an improved game.

 

Seems counterintuitive?

 

Let me explain.

 

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The more “game improvement” a club is, the thicker the sole is likely to be.

 

This is because that lowers the center of gravity, helping the ball get in the air.  Helping the slightly thinned shot.  Thicker soles also don’t dig, helping the slightly heavy shot.

 

Sounds like the perfect club right?

 

Yes, it is the perfect club for the driving range, since range mats are completely flat... 

 

... The problem is that grass isn’t.

 

And you play golf on grass, not on a range mat.

 

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And the taller the grass and the worse the lie, the bigger the problem this is.

 

Ironically, most golfers who use game improvement clubs are also the same ones who are rarely on the nice lies in the middle of the fairway.

 

And by far the biggest problem we see with game improvement clubs, are thinned, or topped shots.  Exactly the opposite of what the club is supposed to achieve – getting the ball up!

 

If you’re on a downhill lie, the back of the thick sole bounces off the grass causing you to thin it.

 

If you’re in the rough, the thick sole bounces off the grass before the ball on a heavy shot, causing a thinned shot.  And thinned shots aren’t helped either since the thick sole won’t let you get steep enough to effectively “pick” the ball. 

 

So whether it’s the lie or the swing, game improvement clubs just aren’t designed to improve your golf anywhere other than the range.

 

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This is generalizing of course, and one of the things that we do really well is adjust soles for golfers, and the course conditions they play in.

 

We’ve done this for numerous top pros coming to play the Singapore Open, such as Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, Angel Cabrera to name a few.

 

And recently Collin Morikawa changed half his iron set specifically for the soles!

 

We’ll get into that a lot more next week.

 

But in the meantime, if you’ve been thinning your shots on the course, but hit it perfectly on the range, come down for a free assessment, it’s very likely the soles of your clubs.

 

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