Instead of being able to fire right shoulder er to stop from coming over the top, she instead restricts her shoulder turn and arrives at impact with closed shoulders she does lateral bend while losing lordosis. This weeks dp world tour championship in dubai marks the end of the 2014 european tour season, or the year of rory mcilroy. The players championship, wgcaccenture match play championship, the world cup, the tour. Nicolas colsaerts 14 november 1982 is a belgian professional golfer currently playing on the. His driver, which was 45 inches in length, featured 5 grams of weight in the toe and 3 grams in the heel. Driver length, the number of inches from the sole of the clubhead to the top end of the grip, can be a mysterious subject. How this fits you depends entirely on our personal dimensions arm length, height as well as how you approach the ball standing taller, more crouched over, etc. What is more important driver clubhead or the golf shaft. I have pretty good results, but am not as accurate as i would like.
Nicknamed the belgian bomber for his length off the tee, he comes from a. Or is the measurement taken from the base of the driver head the part touching the ground to the tip of the grip. Nicolas colsaerts, luke list and andres gonzales participated in a longdrive competition to celebrate the. Do struggle with balance or feel like you almost fall over during the golf swing. Can a shorter driver shafts say from 44 to 42 help or aid in driving the ball more consistent as opposed to longer shafts. Nicolas colsaerts bio, stats, and results olympics at.
Represented belgium when golf returned to the olympics for the first time since 1904 in the rio 2016 olympic games. Open at the olympic club and made the cut for the first time in a major. We all know how important shaft length is for an iron. With the shorter 44 shaft you have greater confidence and can cut loose with your swing. Nicolas colsaerts official world golf ranking home. Drivers fairway woods hybrids ironscombo sets wedges odyssey putters toulon design putters juniorscomplete sets womens clearance view all golf clubs back to previous navigation menu balls close navigation menu. Titleist pro v1x click here to see what golfwrx members are saying about colsaerts bag in our forum. When they say 45 is the standard length for mens drivers is that measurement of the shaft before it goes into the head. A recent golf test i dont remember where, showed amateurs hitting the longer shafts 45.
Playing on the challenge tour for the next two years, colsaerts regained confidence in his game. Configure and embed the worlds top 10 widget into your website, it will always be up to date and its free. Nicolas colsaerts pga tour profile news, stats, and videos. Lee westwood won in indonesia while wearing footjoy synrg shoes, and nicolas colsaerts took the volvo china open with footjoy icon shoes. He became a new zealand citizen on 2 september 2008 at rotorua, where he attended rotorua boys high school. Using trackman my idea was to test the same golfer, clubhead and golf ball, but change the shaft length. My length off the tee, the eagle on my 36th hole and my 2 cards of 67 are the good. Most of the top name drivers in the shops this year have shafts measuring between 45 and 46 inches and there are even a few longer than that. If the driver shaft is so long that you are not able to make consistent sweet spot contact, all of the potential distance gained from the shaft length goes out the window. Callaways new fairway woods gaining tours attention. First year staffer nicolas colsaerts leads in driving distance at a nice little 309. He is the first male swedish and first male nordic major champion, having won the 2016 open championship at royal troon with a major championship record score of 264. In this tip, nicolas colsaerts tells you how to master both the long range bunker shot and the short splash do you struggle knowing which shot. Nicolas colsaerts rolls back the years with 66 in battle to keep tour.
Miles of golf feels one of the very important parts of fitting a customer for a driver is the length of the driver. Chrome soft supersoft superhot erc soft warbird strata womens clearance view all balls. However the average shaft length on the european and pga tours is 44 inches with some of the very best players having even shorter shafts. Furyk 2nd with ft optiforce, odyssey sweeps major putter. Mickelsons driver shaft was a mitsubishi rayon fubuki kseries 70x. Those who lost distance experienced a decrease of 6 percent on average.
The driver left photo will promote a flatter plane. Sk finnish challenge op linna golf club, dutch futures op houtrak. The top 10 longest drivers on tour bleacher report. Piercy might not be a household name, but he is an excellent player, and long driver. Thanks callaway for making the perfect light weight driver. Phil mickelson uses an updated x2 hot 2deep this season which is part of callaways new fairway woods lineup. Altitude has always been my enemy and combined with the hard grass that causes. Trademarks featured or referred to on this website are the property of their respective trademark holders and not sports reference llc or. For his 3wood, mickelson used a fubuki kseries 80x. Footjoy had two worldwide shoe victories last week.
If any of those three elements are illfit to the golfer, no matter how well the shaft, length, total weight, grip or any other factor of the driver are fit to the golfer, the clubs performance will be poor. The top 10 longest drivers on tour 0 of 10 even though you are cognizant of the old golfing credo drive for show, putt for dough, its more fun to. The most important specifications of the driver head for most golfers are the loft, face angle and the head weight. His list of wins also includes some of the other most prestigious tournaments around the world. The blade length isnt quite as long as the utility irons we. His driver of choice is the taylormade sldr, with 10. The perfect club driver is shorter than a conventional driver. Some golfers think that longer driver length automatically means longer driving distance, but this can be a dangerous assumption. The top 10 longest drivers on tour 0 of 10 even though you are cognizant of the old golfing credo drive for show, putt for dough, its more fun to bomb it than it is to sink ten footers all day. Are you finding it hard to make solid, consistent contact with the golf ball.
A simple way to think about accuracy as it relates to shaft length is to compare the way you hit your wedge to the way you hit your driver. Join facebook to connect with nicolas colsaerts and others you may know. Weve gone back through our games history to put together this big list of golfer nicknames, from the sublime to ridiculous. Richard sorell and your team at vidauban golf club, you guys rock. He would lose his card again in 2007 after he struggled with form and ended the season 201st on the money list. Dan answers more question this time talking driver loft and how understanding your delivery and what loft might give you the best numbers for your golf game can help you hit more fairways with the. I have a tm 320 regular version with a prolite stiff. Its probably a good idea for the vast majority of amateurs, but cutting the driver shaft down is not the final word.
He uses a titleist 9 d2 to reach third on the pga tour driving distance statistics. Coming upon a most promising 1100 acres outside rabat, moroccos capital city, the king created a sprawling 45acre golf complex called dar es salam. Qatar lags behind the other emirates somewhat when it comes to golf, particularly in comparison to dubai, but it is starting to make a name for itself with the doha golf club, the countrys first. Some arsenal players felt pressured into wage cuts but club hopeful of. Players nicolas colsaerts kings of golf by optima at royal. My length off the tee, the eagle on my 36th hole and my 2 cards of 67 are the good assets for the following tournaments. Soon after being crowned, king hassan ii developed a passion for golf and began having courses built at every one of his residences. Nicolas colsaerts was instrumental in the design of callaways apex ut driving iron. The perfect club driver 370 vft perfect driver golf club. I thought i was playing with a shortened driver but when. Kings of golf by optima will be held at royal zoute golf club on the 5th of october. The question is which driver of these two do you want. That is why the cluboratory, our fitting center, has drivers of varying length.
Shaft length should be tailored to the individual, not a universal standard. Nicolas colsaerts, aka the pga tours longest driver, opted to leave his driver out of the bag last week and instead used an x hot 3deep at the major. It is also best if the forearms make a straight line with the putter shaft when viewed from the back illustrated by the red solid line below. This paper will describe why shaft length is critically important in fitting a driver. Also does a shorter shafts allow more consistent control. Nicolas colsaerts lines up a putt at le golf national on friday credit. Stance, posture and the length of club will all alter the intended swing plane. Nicolas colsaerts powers way to share of turkey lead. Find the right driver shaft length for your game golficity.
That means you might get a hybrid with a four or fiveiron length shaft but get a three or even twoiron loft head. The golf swing plane is the path that the arms and club take as they swing around the body. Can i shorten my driver shaft or should i just reshaft. Maybe your left hip joint hurts after every round of golf. Over the last week i have experimented with choking down and have found that the distance is the same if not better since i hit the.
The callaway epic driver with the blue shaft is the. I took my current driver, which is the titleist d3 8. Luke list razr fit xtreme driver is 4th on tour with a 304. Lee was born in incheon, south korea, and emigrated to new zealand at the age of eight. The perfect driver lets you play golf the way it was intended to be playedfrom the fairway. Official callaway golf site golf clubs golf equipment. Im 61 and the number of flush strikes are better and my distance has not suffered whatsoever. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. The history of golf is full of players with distinctive, memorable nicknames. Morgan isnt so athletically gifted to be able to recover from such a position and perhaps a different solution to the problem is employed.
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