Recently my driver has been mis-behaving, going left or right with me seemingly doing anything differently. So today I started playing a round and decided on the 3rd to to compare drives with different club. First my driver, reasonable distance but with a bit of a slice, next up 5 iron dead straight, finally a 3 wood again pretty straight. The landing area was out of sight from the tee so I was interested to see the respective distances. When I reached the balls, the shortest drive was the 3 wood, about 5 yard longer was the 5 iron, and the driver was slightly longer than that although with the slice was very close to the rough. So bearing in mind that the slice from the driver was not as bad as it often is and barely longer than the 5 iron, I decided to place the rest of the round driving with the 5 iron.
I am happy to report that I hit every fairway with the 5 iron, granted the drives were not as long as they would have been if I had hit as straight with my driver but definitely as long if not longer than a sliced drice or one of the heel. It was pleasing too to see that as I was hitting every 2nd shot from the fairway I hit only a couple of false shots. The only draw back was that as i wasn't hitting as far as a good drive and good second, I found myself hitting my shots to the green from a bit further out than I nornally would do, however I could still reach most of the par 5s in regulation.
I played the front nine in 44 and the back in 49, I had a run of double bogeys on the back nine after I caught up a 3 ball and was waiting on every shot as they wouldnt let me through, i got around the problem by palayin the last few holes in the wrong order to keep moving.
So I shot below my handicap despite only using my driver on the 2nd and 3rd holes, should I leave it in the locker in future?
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