[Ron Farris]

I demo-ed the SQ Nike driver yesterday.  From the forward tee of the range we have a distance of 300 yards to the end.  Swinging easy I hit it to the end.  Swinging harder I blew it into the trees. Later in the day I was in the clubhouse and a gentleman came in the pro shop and was extremely excited about driving the green on #4 - 395 par 4.  His excitement was fun to see, but as a designer it seems that we need to lengthen things.  I forgot to mention how consistently straight the SQ hit the ball.

Is your range long enough?  If you have a double ended range is it safe?

[redanman]

It's the shaft, not the head, you know.

The 45 gm Mitsubishi rayon shaft on the cobra 454 gives more people more clubhead speed than likely any other club. Depends on how well you can match your driver swing to the rest of your bag.

[Matt_Cohn]

What were the specs on that driver?

[David_Tepper]

With both the US Am & Open coming up in the next several years, the Olympic Club is in the process of lengthening their range and building a large berm at one end to contain balls. Because of this, they have to move the green on the 15th hole of the Ocean Course forward and move the tees on that hole further back.

[Doug Siebert]

There's a local course that was designed in the late 80s and its got a chain link fence about 10' high about 290 out.  You tee off WITH the prevailing wind!  Even back in the late 80s it was possible to hit over the fence, though rarely on the fly back then.  Nowadays the range balls just litter the area over that fence.

Oh, did I forget to mention the part where the teebox for the 2nd is about 15 or 20 yards on the other side of that fence?  Good thing its a par 5, so you have to wait longer to tee off if someone in the group ahead is waiting for the green to clear.  I haven't heard of anyone being hit, but I did have a ball land on the teebox about 15 yards ahead of me at the top of my backswing, which is a distraction that really isn't needed on a hole with OB duck hook left, pull or draw long left and push or fade right!

[Garland Bayley]

It's the shaft, not the head, you know.

The 45 gm Mitsubishi rayon shaft on the cobra 454 gives more people more clubhead speed than likely any other club. Depends on how well you can match your driver swing to the rest of your bag.

So it's the shaft that gives more clubhead speed! Dang, I am going to have to quit lifting weights and swinging a heavy club and get me one of those shafts.

[Sean Remington (SBR)]

  Anyone given thought to using slower range balls? Wouldn't this be less expensinve that moving greens, building berms and installing nets? Who knows, maybe this could become the proving ground of the tournament ball.
 

[redanman]

Garland

Don't worry, keep lifting, but don't forget a useable swing that presupposes all of this other shit. Please ...

All things being equal give a player a Taylor Burner with the right shaft for him/her and it's better than a Sasquatch with a XXX 101gm anything that's wrong.

Keep your perspective.  

[Dan Herrmann]

for what it's worth, even AGNC now has nets so the golfers don't pound cars on Washington Road.

[nandoal]

Go to Bel-Air CC range, you may get killed!

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