The new age of Hybrids

I have a full set of Impreza Hybrid clubs and I love them. I hit more greens and can hit them just as long and the guy next to me useing cave back iron. Thus, this brings me to my question: Who on the tour (if anyone) has started to lean to hybrid clubs? And why haven't they had a bigger effect on the tour?

These hybrids are designed for a high handicaper who has dificulty getting the ball high with distance from trouble lies, or even the fairway. They have a low center of gravity helping the ball up quickly, where a pro who has no problem hitting down on the ball steeply getting the ball up will hit the hybrids way too high.

Just another take on this topic, why do we call them hybrids? Theyre just smaller headed woods that we were all told were on the way out a few years ago, calling them by a new name just means people will get suckered into buying them instead of throwing a shorter $30 replacement shaft on to their old titleist 975F and Taylor Made burner fairways (the old plain steel ones with the dimples on them).....oh wait I get it now......how silly of me....

Yours, ever the cynic......

D.

p.s. I think hybrids are great by the way, I dont have one but they have changed the game for a lot of players.

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Longniddry Golf Club Champ 2005.

In the Taylor Made Bag:

Titleist 905T 8.5 Degree

Callaway Steelhead 3 Wood

Callaway Steelhead 5 Wood

Callaway X-16 3-PW

MacGregor Tourney 52 Degree

Cobra Phil Rodgers 59 Degree Rusty

Odyssey DFX 2-Ball

Callaway Tour iX

They were called hybrids for the man's man. So that macho men didn't have to carry any wood beyond a 5.

I read a great comment in one of the newsletters I get:

"Most pros don't use hybrids for the same reason they don't
use high lofted drivers, cavity back "game improvement" irons,
alien sand wedges and 11 woods."

That is like me...........the only reason i was just about to buy a hybrid is because i could not hit my 3 iron worth a lick. Then today im in burnt weed rough, it is rainy and windy, and looking towards the flag about 220 yards away there are trees lining a water hazard that is lined by evergreens on the otherside right before the green. We are just practicing and i see a small gap so i decide to shoot for it. The result was the best shot i have ever hit, a 225 yard lace through the gap, over the hazard, over the evergreens and 2 yds behind the green, 10 yds from the hole. Forget course management, take a risk!

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Thats the spirit, i've started using the driver off the deck, and I haven't messed up much surprisingly! Sure beats a five iron then lay-up if you pull it off.

YES!!Someone has my philosopy finally on hazard tee shots....

I say if i can potentially make then i will go for it because i can always hit 3 close as long as it plays as a lateral hazard!

If it plays stroke and distance.......i still rip.......just not as risky.....like a low draw to pull it across

I love the risk

I dont use hybirds myself but i cant see how they could be as accurate as irons. They just seem so inconsistent. Not that id ever use them anyway.

Ya, I can see that all the pros who are now switching to hybrids over long irons find them innacurate and inconsistant, but still keep them in their bag because they are the new rage. Come on - if it is helping all handicaps from 36 to the PGA level, how can you argue theat they aren't better than a long iron?? ESPECIALLY when you don't use them yourself?????

When one of the leaders in clubhead design figures it's a good idea to make a hybrid SET, maybe they're good for something.

I just have a mental block with the damn things, I want to like them and really desperately want them to be the club I can take out in the rough from 220 into the wind and produce a shot to the green, but they just arent. In the main they are overpriced (1 and 2 irons are 40-60 bucks,new, guys) and cumbersome, can someone tell me how they managed to make a club the same size as a 975F 5 wood head look ugly, the Titleist is a smashing looking club.

The same goes for hitting them, at least the main manufacturers have realised that you really need and 85+ gram graphite shaft on them to get the best results but some of the early ones with standard cut down fairway wood shafts are just nasty.

D.

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Longniddry Golf Club Champ 2005.

In the Taylor Made Bag:

Titleist 905T 8.5 Degree

Callaway Steelhead 3 Wood

Callaway Steelhead 5 Wood

Callaway X-16 3-PW

MacGregor Tourney 52 Degree

Cobra Phil Rodgers 59 Degree Rusty

Odyssey DFX 2-Ball

Callaway Tour iX

I don't like them myself. But to everone themselves, give me a cavity back 1 iron or 2 iron anyday. Mind you I have a 15% one which off a tee can be smahed 250 yards.

Most hybrids have a .370" hosel (standard iron) rather than a .335" hosel (standard wood). What that tells me is that you should be matching the shafts up to what you are hitting in your irons, but that is just my opinion.

Because the fact that i can hit the green in two even after a **** drive with the equptment i have