How to change your attack angle and swing direction youtube. As technology has shifted, driver lofts have increased significantly, with many tour pros using 10. David toms was the most efficient driver on the pgatour in 2012 and at 100 mph he would have averaged 278 yards per drive very good for an average. The low loft of a golf driver is very surprising from the perspective of physics. To maximize distance with your driver, hitting up on the ball positive attack angle is a must. How to change your attack angle and swing direction. Stroker angle of attack has nothing to do with the loft of the driver. The difference in attack angle and dynamic loft in a 3d relationship is compression now known as spin loft. Optimal driver numbers august 24, 2015 andrew rice. Improve your angle of attack with golf drivers video by. Id suggest you see a pga professional to get help with your swing to improve your angle of attack. This is often impactwe by the launch angle from the angle of attack that is created.
The ball goes up due to the angle loft of the face. The up or down movement of the club head at the time of maximum compression. But the same club can produce very different launch angles in the hands of different golfers based on the other factors. One of the best and most telling pieces of technology at. You can use clubhubs angle of attack parameter to achieve your optimum launch angle and greatest distance. Theres a completely different approach to evaluating your attack angle with your irons compared with your driver. Optimize driver loft for more distance true fit clubs. Attack angle, dynamic loft and how they affect your game. Loft deg spin rate rpm launch angle deg carry yards club speed mph 75 80 85 90 95 166 178 187 176 187 197 199 211 223 215 228 239 243 244 256 total yards driver fitting chart. Driver loft is the angle in degrees between a plane that touches the center of the striking face and a vertical plane that is perpendicular to the sole line.
For all the differing recommendations you might hear, there is one thing we can say for sure. Having a positive attack angle does not guarantee maximum distance. The loft of the golf club itself is the single biggest factor, of course. Launch angle is determined by the clubs loft angle and the angle of attack at impact. Michael johnson at the wgchsbc champions, dustin johnson took the title using a taylormade sldr driver with 10. Driver loft helps determine this angle, but so does your angle of attack when you swing.
Now we need to learn how to hit up on the ball with our driver. When the ball is hit on the upswing, the shots launch angle is greater than the driver s measured loft because the heads loft is tilted upward by the swing. Too many other variables to simply make a blanket optimal distance based solely on swing speed. Driver optimal launch condition table club speed ball speed optimum launch angle range. As i understand it, spin loft is dynamic actual loft at impact less the angle of attack. If possible, go to a pro shop and have a professional club fitter determine the best loft for your driver.
You can add all of the loft in the world to a driver, but you wont be changing the angle of attack. Although most players buy drivers with 9 to 10 degrees of loft, they will probably get a better launch. So if your attack angle is downward significantly, the chances are your spin loft is quite high and you create high levels of backspin. Launch angle has a drastic impact on driving distance correcting a poor one will get you more distance today. Another thing that spin loft has cleared up for us is that a flatter faced club, such as a driver, has a smaller spin loft than a more lofted club like a wedge. Fitting drivers for attack angle dlance golfdlance golf. The below diagram shows trackmans driver optimiser. How to create an upward angle of attack for more driver distance. It is not uncommon for national long drive competitors to generate launch angles of 12 to 15 degrees with driver heads featuring real loft angles of five to six degrees.
The website doesnt differentiate between angle of attack, loft and speed. You have probably already heard that hitting up on the ball with your driver, will increase your. We have been told for years to hit down on the ball with irons. Ive posted several articles about driving the ball more effectively, some of which are linked at the bottom of this post. It refers to the angle the clubhead approaches the ball, looking at a swing face onwards. In this article, i will explain some concepts regarding increasing your angle of attack, or aoa. The distance estimations with 10 degree loft and blanket optimal loft recommendations for a given swing speed without knowing a golfers angle of attack also makes those estimates inaccurate. When it comes to trying to calculate the active loft, there are many factors other than just the static loft plus or minus whether the shaft is leaning backward or forward at impact. More driver distance through angle of attack youtube. This angle will generally change and become less steep or downward the longer the club we play.
Dustin johnsons driver is a reminder that optimal launch. Our average golfer will have around a 93 mph swing speed, 5 mph ball speed and a launch angle of. If you hit down on the ball, it comes off the face lower and requires more driver loft. How to determine which loft you should get on your driver. Optimize driver loft for more distance dlance golfd. Dynamic loft, angle of attack and your launch angle golfwrx.
You can also leave a comment below with your driver numbers club speed, attack angle, and what you would like to. The influence of face angle and club path on the resultant. Optimum driver loft calculator instruction and playing. At one time in the golf equipment industry, there existed a series of loft angles that were considered to be standard. Increase distance by changing your angle of attack wed oct 2, 20 by dave phillips e very week on the pga tour, players use technology to monitor their performance and maximize their distance. Cl coefficient of lift, which is determined by the type of airfoil and angle of attack. Put simply, vertical spin loft is the difference between the angle of attack whether the club is moving up or down at impact and how steeply and the dynamic loft of the club the loft of the club at impact. I can get them an extra 1015 yards just by putting them in the right head, loft, and shaft combination. The general rule is that shots hit off the ground should have a negative attack angle, and shots hit with your driver should have a positive attack angle in order to maximize distance. The reason for this belief is that when hitting optimal drives with a downward angle of attack, we also have to deliver a higher dynamic loft loft at impact. However, this is not the case, as any change in aoa is accompanied, almost degree for degree, by a change in dynamic loft. For an upward angle of attack consider a lower loft and conversely for a downward angle of attack consider a higher loft. Aoa is which way the club, as a whole, is moving at impact.
With the driver, if your current shot trajectory is lower to much lower than the majority of other golfers using the same driver loft, you likely have a downward angle of attack. Face angle largely determines the launch direction while shot curvatureshape is mostly determined by the club path relative to the face angle. Great drivers of the ball will present a shallower angle of attack, maximising the amount of loft presented to the ball. See how the golfers loft compares with hisher launch angle for this youll. A negative angle of attack with your irons is positive. Many factors affect launch angle, including swing speed, the angle of attack how the clubface approaches the golf ball and clubface position at impact. If you know your club speed, you can determine what loft driver optimizes. With your driver, you want to positive angle of attack hitting up creating less spin on the ball. A shallower attack angle will launch the ball higher with a lower spin rate, both of which will help maximise distance. The attack angle, a measurement of how steep or shallow the clubhead is moving relative to the ground through impact, plays a vital role in how much distance youre able to generate off the tee. Driver loft does make a difference, but your angle of attack is critical hitting down on the ball is devastating to the average golfers distance. Setting up a goofy spreadsheet like that based on the angle of the initial velocity is easy, and id bet the nerd that created it confused loft for launch angle in completing. Given a choice between a longer ball flight and a longer roll, remember that the roll is less predictable.
Angle of attack the descending or ascending path of the clubhead measured in degrees. Understanding that dynamic loft is 85 percent of your balls launch angle and angle of attack is 15 percent of your balls launch angle, we now see that the dynamic loft of this shot hit was a touch too low. The optimum launch parameters for your driver are probably a higher launch. Optimizing a drivers launch parameters dave tutelman. This provides numbers somewhere between 1,000 and 11,000. Hit the golf ball farther by improving spin loft adam.
In the below picture, the yellow gap between the angle of attack pink arrow and loft of the club blue arrow is small. The club fitter will analyze your swing speed and angle of attack to help determine the optimal loft for your driver. If you want to find out how to hit the ball farther than ever, listen up. Dynamic loft is represented by the red arrow and angle of attack is represented by the yellow arrow in the figures below. How to increase your angle of attack adam young golf. You will also see the professionals hitting irons lower than the loft on the club and driver higher than the loft on the club. If you have a negative attack angle, you may be launching the ball too high if you are hitting the ball off the top of the face. In the meantime, you can get a driver which has more loft so that you can get a higher launch angle and more distance. Causes and fixes for negative attack angle trackman golf. You want a negative angle of attack hitting down with more spin with your irons. If you swing over the top with an outside in path, it is likely you would have a downward angle of attack.
The wrist of the robot was rotated so that shots hit from the centre of the face flew straight. Improve your angle of attack with golf drivers video by pete styles so if we now understand that skying the ball up or popping the ball up off the top hedge and the leading hedge of a driver is a pretty depressing shot to hit on the golf course and it can. Everyone in freshman physics learns that the optimal launch angle for a projectile the angle that makes a ball. This can make a 10 degree driver launch lower than 7 degrees not optimal. Attack angle is the angle between the ground and clubhead at impact. The angle of attack and cl are related and can be found using a velocity relationship curve graph see chart b below. Golf monthly looks at the different elements of a golf swing that affect the loft you should play on your driver. So, if we take the flat hits 0 degree aoa in the chart, then. Increase distance by changing your angle of attack. The driver s loft should be chosen so that it complements the golfers attack angle. But the golfer who can increase their launch angle with a positive angle of attack will always optimize their launch parameters to a greater extent.