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I don’t hear many people talking about the Lynx Black Cat Titanium Driver. I am a 6 handicap and "test drove" all the major models! The best feel was the Lynx due to the increased diameter of the shaft at the bottom giving it a real solid feel. Carleton
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The longest drives are the ones you hit while you’re just trying out one of your playing partner’s new Super-Duper Kryptonite Megasized clubs that his brother-in-law built him and now you want one…of course. — Patrick Inglis
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – But, just in case you want to know the best driver, it is the one in my bag – a 1989 Taylor Made Burner Plus 9.5 degree with a Aldila graphite shaft. Doesn’t get any better than that!!! Richard I used to use a steel bubble and hit about 330yds. Now I use KING COBRA TI and am hitting about 365!!!! GOLF ANYONE? No sweat!!! My 700cc Boron-Berylium-Lithium alloy "Jupiter" 7.0 degree driver with its 52" teflon-graphite shaft yields consistent 165 mph swing speeds and 410 yd average drives w/ 2 piece balls. {The old slogan used to be, "The woods is full of long drivers". Now the slogan is, "The internet is full of long drivers". :-) BDW
Ah, but you nedent leave out my 2cc tour size "super shot" driver with 92′ popcorn-renforced plastic shaft with 2 gram plastic-wrap grips. This supperior club gives me a 2000 mph swing speed and can easily produce 50" drives with my special "super man" 42 piece carbon-basd titanium alloy. I put this club together for on 5 bucks from a great custom clubmaker named super gag, hope you can find one too!
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But, just in case you want to know the best driver, it is the one in my bag – a 1989 Taylor Made Burner Plus 9.5 degree with a Aldila graphite shaft. Doesn’t get any better than that!!! Richard I used to use a steel bubble and hit about 330yds. Now I use KING COBRA TI and am hitting about 365!!!! GOLF ANYONE?
No sweat!!! My 700cc Boron-Berylium-Lithium alloy "Jupiter" 7.0 degree driver with its 52" teflon-graphite shaft yields consistent 165 mph swing speeds and 410 yd average drives w/ 2 piece balls. {The old slogan used to be, "The woods is full of long drivers". Now the slogan is, "The internet is full of long drivers". :-) BDW
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Scott DeCandia has won National Long Drive Champion twice and is in the Guiness Book of World Records. He just developed a new swing trainer called the Power Max that my company is marketing. There’s not another one on the market that does what the Power Max does. Check it out. I think you’ll be glad you did! The driver makes a big difference, but if you don’t have the correct swing process down, what’s the use? http://www.neosoft.com/~swingit Rex – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – (Linda Lega) writes: The reigning Longest Drive Champion is a pharmacist [name of Zuback] from Drayton Valley, Alberta. He hit a 351 yd shot to win the contest, which doesn’t sound that long until you take into account that one has to land the ball in a fairway that is about 26 yards wide. His name is Jason Zuback, and he was using a R.L. Zeider "Classic" titanium driver, made by R.L. Zeider Inc. of Camarillo, CA. Here’s what he had to say: "R.L. Zeider was able to custom make a clubhead for me that helped me win the North American National Long Drive Championship. No other club provided me the superior craftsmanship, the exact loft, lie and face angle and the superior clubhead strength to go the extra distance that I needed to win. This driver has a very solid feel and a more optimum trajectory that you don’t get in other titanium drivers. It gave me confidence and it let me concentrate on what I had to do, instead of worrying about whether or not my equipment was up to par. It’s the finest driver that I’ve ever hit." —- Jason Zuback 1996 RE/MAX North American Long Drive Champion
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I saved the post above knowing it would come in handy in the future. It had previously been posted by: A C If you don’t get it, find an Italian friend and get it translated. I think you will find it very amusing. Nick MERDENIUM DRIVER-Worth $3200??? I got an E-mail from an ex-patriate friend of mine living in Italy about a new driver about to come on the market this fall. He heard it from one of his titled neighbors who can!t keep his mouth shut. It seems that this was developed by moonlighting [ goofing-off is probably more like it ] engineers at a Franco-Italian aerospace corporation. The head is an alloy, or perhaps an amalgam, of Melamine epoxy and Iridium. I have no idea what the properties are. But it!s the shaft that you get with the club that!s the story. The tentative market name for the material is STRONZITE and it!s an alloy of Strontium and Zinc among other elements. And the thing that supposedly makes this club worth the money [ I think I!ll wait and see on this ] is that the shaft is PROGRAMMABLE. The idea is that you take this club to the driving range, and start hitting a bucket of balls. When you get a drive that you think is perfect-say 320-360 yards- you immediately grasp the club by the grip and rub vigorously up and down the metallic part about two dozen times with the other hand. This is supposed to set the frequency that was in force at the time of the maximum drive. The prototypes were tested by a well known Italian pro, Giacomo Cacavecchio, who according to the informant was very skeptical at first, but who said after trying it out [ loose translation ] Che puzzone voi. !This club is so sweet you can practically smell it!. But, just in case you want to know the best driver, it is the one in my bag – a 1989 Taylor Made Burner Plus 9.5 degree with a Aldila graphite shaft. Doesn’t get any better than that!!! Richard I used to use a steel bubble and hit about 330yds. Now I use KING COBRA TI and am hitting about 365!!!! GOLF ANYONE?
No sweat!!! My 700cc Boron-Berylium-Lithium alloy "Jupiter" 7.0 degree driver with its 52" teflon-graphite shaft yields consistent 165 mph swing speeds and 410 yd average drives w/ 2 piece balls. {The old slogan used to be, "The woods is full of long drivers". Now the slogan is, "The internet is full of long drivers". :-) BDW
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(Linda Lega) writes: The reigning Longest Drive Champion is a pharmacist [name of Zuback] from Drayton Valley, Alberta. He hit a 351 yd shot to win the contest, which doesn’t sound that long until you take into account that one has to land the ball in a fairway that is about 26 yards wide.
His name is Jason Zuback, and he was using a R.L. Zeider "Classic" titanium driver, made by R.L. Zeider Inc. of Camarillo, CA. Here’s what he had to say: "R.L. Zeider was able to custom make a clubhead for me that helped me win the North American National Long Drive Championship. No other club provided me the superior craftsmanship, the exact loft, lie and face angle and the superior clubhead strength to go the extra distance that I needed to win. This driver has a very solid feel and a more optimum trajectory that you don’t get in other titanium drivers. It gave me confidence and it let me concentrate on what I had to do, instead of worrying about whether or not my equipment was up to par. It’s the finest driver that I’ve ever hit." —- Jason Zuback 1996 RE/MAX North American Long Drive Champion
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is a trick question, right? That was my thought too! By the way, the best way to add 10-20 yards to your drives is still by taking lessons and spending time at the practice tee. Only after you have learned how to properly hit the ball can you buy yourself longer drives by purchasing new clubs. I tell everyone I know how to get a good swing, get low scores, hit it far. LESSONS and PRACTICE! There is no shortcut. But, just in case you want to know the best driver, it is the one in my bag – a 1989 Taylor Made Burner Plus 9.5 degree with a Aldila graphite shaft. Doesn’t get any better than that!!! Richard I used to use a steel bubble and hit about 330yds. Now I use KING COBRA TI and am hitting about 365!!!! GOLF ANYONE?
I love my Aldila shaft too. I’m on my second HM40 with a Golfsmith head and I’m just killing it. Loved my old one too. It also had a Golfsmith head (not the same model). I don’t believe the head is as important as the shaft. Regards, Scott
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I’m curious to know which driver out there can deliver the farthest drives. I’ve tried the Big Bertha Warbird Titanium and I think that is pretty good …
I play to a 2 handicap on a 128.something course. I average about 260 – 280 yards and can hit it 300 yards when the adrenalin is pumping. I recently replaced my 1974 Wilson Staff driver with a burner bubble (S90+, 9.5 degree loft). Before choosing this driver, the golf vendor (a discount golf outlet at a driving range) let me hit all the practice balls I wanted with a series of equivalent drivers, including both of the drivers mentioned above. I chose the burner bubble for the following reasons. In priority order they are: 1) The BB seemed less forgiving and I am trying to improve my accuracy off the tee. I want my accuracy to be determined by my swing, not my club, so this was very important to me. 2) To me, the BB seemed to feel the best. By this I mean that when I hit it pure, it felt great, but when I missed I could tell without having to look up that the shot had been less than perfect. I could detect no discernible difference between any of the top-of-the-line clubs I tested with respect to distance. At least with my swing, all of the clubs put the ball out there (caveat: These were low-compression range balls, of course). Hope this helps. /mtp P.S. Many years ago, I worked as an assistant pro and sold a lot of golf clubs to the members of the club where I worked. My head pro believed (and I have come to agree with him) that all things being equal, most golfers should select club(s) within their price range on the basis of feel, not necessarily performance.
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This is a trick question, right?
That was my thought too! By the way, the best way to add 10-20 yards to your drives is still by taking lessons and spending time at the practice tee. Only after you have learned how to properly hit the ball can you buy yourself longer drives by purchasing new clubs.
I tell everyone I know how to get a good swing, get low scores, hit it far. LESSONS and PRACTICE! There is no shortcut. But, just in case you want to know the best driver, it is the one in my bag – a 1989 Taylor Made Burner Plus 9.5 degree with a Aldila graphite shaft. Doesn’t get any better than that!!! Richard
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is a trick question, right? That was my thought too! By the way, the best way to add 10-20 yards to your drives is still by taking lessons and spending time at the practice tee. Only after you have learned how to properly hit the ball can you buy yourself longer drives by purchasing new clubs. I tell everyone I know how to get a good swing, get low scores, hit it far. LESSONS and PRACTICE! There is no shortcut. But, just in case you want to know the best driver, it is the one in my bag – a 1989 Taylor Made Burner Plus 9.5 degree with a Aldila graphite shaft. Doesn’t get any better than that!!! Richard I used to use a steel bubble and hit about 330yds. Now I use KING COBRA TI and am hitting about 365!!!! GOLF ANYONE?
I am sick and tired of people who claim superficial drive distances. If are so damn good that you can hit 365 yards consistantly, I should be seeing you holding trophies on television. Since this bragging ego-filled jock isn’t good enough to be on any mini-tours, I bet I can beat him, gross, match, or otherwise, because he probably stands at the golf range showing off. Not only that, he probably brags that he can hit a pitching iron 150 yards. No, I can’t hit a driver 250 yards, but inside 100 yards, I can hit my pitching wedge any distance any trajectory any spin anywhere. No, I am not good enough to play any tour, but i can beat most of those flakes who go bragging their driving distance at the golf range.
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I’m curious to know which driver out there can deliver the farthest drives. I’ve tried the Big Bertha Warbird Titanium and I think that is pretty good. *"Go to Heaven, ski like Hell!"**
It’s not the matter of which club that delivers the most distance. The swing pattern and style of the golfer is what makes the shot. I’m a small guy with a nice fluid swing. I out distance my friends most of the time and they are all a lot bigger than I. My average drive 225-240 yards. They all wonder how I do it.
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The reigning Longest Drive Champion is a pharmacist [name of Zuback] from Drayton Valley, Alberta. He hit a 351 yd shot to win the contest, which doesn’t sound that long until you take into account that one has to land the ball in a fairway that is about 26 yards wide. Mr Zuback’s personal record, with wind assistance, is 511 yards, which is 4 yards short of the world record set in 1974. . . which had a considerable wind behind it. His current driver is a custom-made smoothe-faced head, powered by an extra stiff Harrison shaft. It’s 47 inches long. The owner stands 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs in at 214 lbs. He does weight training to keep his drive in shape. Hjalmar Gerber, recalling details from a recent article.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This is a trick question, right? That was my thought too! By the way, the best way to add 10-20 yards to your drives is still by taking lessons and spending time at the practice tee. Only after you have learned how to properly hit the ball can you buy yourself longer drives by purchasing new clubs. I tell everyone I know how to get a good swing, get low scores, hit it far. LESSONS and PRACTICE! There is no shortcut. But, just in case you want to know the best driver, it is the one in my bag – a 1989 Taylor Made Burner Plus 9.5 degree with a Aldila graphite shaft. Doesn’t get any better than that!!! Richard I used to use a steel bubble and hit about 330yds. Now I use KING COBRA TI and am hitting about 365!!!! GOLF ANYONE? I am sick and tired of people who claim superficial drive distances. If are so damn good that you can hit 365 yards consistantly, I should be seeing you holding trophies on television. Since this bragging ego-filled jock isn’t good enough to be on any mini-tours, I bet I can beat him, gross, match, or otherwise, because he probably stands at the golf range showing off. Not only that, he probably brags that he can hit a pitching iron 150 yards. No, I can’t hit a driver 250 yards, but inside 100 yards, I can hit my pitching wedge any distance any trajectory any spin anywhere. No, I am not good enough to play any tour, but i can beat most of those flakes who go bragging their driving distance at the golf range.
I think we all have to recall the difference between a pro hitting 250+ and an amateur hitting 250+. To quote Nick Faldo " Hogan had identified for me one of the keys to low scoring: think not in terms of how far but how accurate you place your ball in the fairway". The pros play to tight fast fairways which not only place a premium on direction but distance. People think that playing to high stimp fairways is a big edge, but the pros have to stop the ball on the fairway at the right spot just like on any green. From personal experience I know I can increase my distances 10% if I switch from a TF strata to the Pinnacle Extreme. With the Pinnacle I have better control with direction, but I am out of control distance-wise. The pro’s have a better release which puts tons of backspin on the ball, plus they play a high spin ball, plus (Faldo et al.) play a slight fade for control. At their best, they can spot their drive within a ten yard zone. At the course I normally play at the fairways are wide and the rough while not penal, stops the ball from running off the fairway, all things which help keeping the drive in play.
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This is a trick question, right? You don’t actually believe there is "a" driver out there that every golfer will be able to use to drive the ball longer than with any other driver, right? You are really after a full mailbox, right? Just in case….. the longest drives come with a very individual combination of club head, shaft (including length, composition, flex, and other factors), ball, and course conditions (wind, altitude, grass, etc). The best combination for one golfer will not be the best for all golfers. By the way, the best way to add 10-20 yards to your drives is still by taking lessons and spending time at the practice tee. Only after you have learned how to properly hit the ball can you buy yourself longer drives by purchasing new clubs. swing easy, play hard
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Its the driver my playing partners are using. — Mike Yap Independent LN Contract Worker AppDev/SysAdm/ProjMgt
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I’m curious to know which driver out there can deliver the farthest drives. I’ve tried the Big Bertha Warbird Titanium and I think that is pretty good. *"Go to Heaven, ski like Hell!"**