Use 3 Wood As Driver Instead

Sun, 01/09/2011 - 13:32 -- Don Trahan
All right. Golf pros seem to have an abundance of clubs. It comes with the territory. Yesterday I suggested a higher lofted driver for wet and cold conditions. Well, a few of my friends suggested not everyone would want to run out and spend a few hundred bucks on another driver. O.K. Understood. The alternative?

Your 3 wood! I think everyone has a '€œfavorite club'€ in his or her bag. Mine happens to be my 3 wood. I consider it my gold standard. All my other clubs must match its performance. Your 3 wood will also give you the air time I talked about yesterday.

So you don'€™t need to go out and buy another driver if that'€™s not an option. You already have the club you'€™ll need in your bag.

The Surge!

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Submitted by Davemann (not verified) on

Leave the driver home! This is not television golf. I hit the 3 wood straighter and with less effort into the fairway 8 times out of 10. The driver, I hit in the fairway only 5 or 6 out of ten and it's only 20 yards longer.
So I have to club up for my second shot? So what? Who can't hit a 6 iron as good as their 7 or 8 iron.
When I stopped using my driver, I eliminated most, if not all penalty shots and started consistently shooting in the high 80's on ANY course. I think there may be a play from the golf club industry to sell drivers. Look at some of the new ones.
They look like clown clubs...or a shoebox at the end of a shaft.
Try the Cleveland Launcher, Taylormade Burner 2.0 or for tight fairways, even a Mashie 15 degree loft hybrid off the tee. You will be there before the big drives and the other boys will wonder what happened.

Dave Mancilla