Fairway woods ., old Vs new

[supo]

Before my last game of golf in japan this year on sunday gone. i was rumbling around my clubs sat night and for a change i decided to bring the"oldies" out for a run instead of my "ball mash machine " pr-gr eggs, just to see how they fair after not using them for a few months and how much technology had progressed.

I decided on my old all ltime favourites, the Royal collection bbd type h 2 15* + 17* coupled with diamana blue 73 s in the 17* and X in the 15*.

initially after not hinning these off the deck in a long time i was perfified to hit them offf the short stuff. they looked big! and comapred to the eggs they look like tiny shoe boxes on a string. obviously there anrt the are actually small but the sleekness of prgr is daunting.

At this course i have to hit a ton of 3woods, my driver runs out thru the fairway into utterly impossible psoitions a lot if ur not dead centre so the 3 wood is a perfect foil.

i hit 7 , 3 woods of the tees. same pretty most of the time , hence my massive deisre to find nirvana in FWS this yr.

Im here to say, these "old things " played absolutly sensationally.

i know why Tiger uses the blue board in his fw now ,the shot is pure its the gold standard of shafts in my book, it hasnt gt the best feel or the longest but its just so reliable. perfect flight kinda mid ish bit of carry bit of rollout.

So as a comparrison n betwixt my armoury of woods how did they go?

bloody well!

ill use the eggs as a comparison , bec that what ive gravitated to this season.

the Roycolls arnt as long off the tee but not a much as id thought. the ball flight is lower for sure the run out prob similar. i def swing slower and my tempo is better with the roy colls. and i hit the ball better than the eggs form a tee box. i feel supremly confident of putting it pretty close to where i want . def more so than the eggs.

the roy colls have a small compact head. but a lovely sharp base edge that just say hit me where ever u like with any kind of shape. of the tee these are great .however....................,

Off the deck the new technology comes into its own. the sleekness of the eggs on the short stuff. makes the ball look so easy to hit off the fairway so much better visually than traditional head (imo of course!) and id guestimate the eggs are like 20ish yards longer of the fairway than the roy colls. somwhere like that.

i left the course after playing pretty well and hitting the fairway woods beautifully . wondeing what fate awaits these fantastic clubs.

the feel of them is so good. the set up is so good, my confidence with them is soo good. they aint going anywhere.!

IF i need to play a fw off the fairway 600+ to par 5s then the egss get the nod 100% of the time , but if my day requires a little more plotting, and moving the ball a bit the more traditional heads get bagged.

the technology has made the new ones a lot longer no denying this. they are light and u can swing a little faster, get a higher shot and get near that long green more often

but , if u need to think a little more than bang massive bombs, then the traditional heads are still right at the very top.

ive basteredised my eggs so much this yr putting all and sundry in them , eventually going for heavy, low spin, low launch shafts into a club that was designed to fligh high , it took a long time to get that feeling i wanted and i think prob Gocchin or perhaps I-drive first go it right all that time ago with the old eggs and the crazy 80 fw. easily the BEST fw wood shaft bar NONE. uttelry amazing if u turn it over all the time results are stunning.

If one requires a cheaper safe shaft then the diamana blue really hasnt lost anything over time. . simplicity at its most glaring. just not a long.

both sets of these woods will be staying with me for the foreseeable future. oh and ive still got yamaha V 14.5- quadra fw . to consider...

nice thoughts to consider each week .

[ant]

nice post supo! somehow i think that if you practiced full time with RC heads you would hit them just as far, all other things being equal and as long as you are making solid contact.

Before my last game of golf in japan this year on sunday gone. i was rumbling around my clubs sat night and for a change i decided to bring the"oldies" out for a run instead of my "ball mash machine " pr-gr eggs, just to see how they fair after not using them for a few months and how much technology had progressed.

I decided on my old all ltime favourites, the Royal collection bbd type h 2 15* + 17* coupled with diamana blue 73 s in the 17* and X in the 15*.

initially after not hinning these off the deck in a long time i was perfified to hit them offf the short stuff. they looked big! and comapred to the eggs they look like tiny shoe boxes on a string. obviously there anrt the are actually small but the sleekness of prgr is daunting.

At this course i have to hit a ton of 3woods, my driver runs out thru the fairway into utterly impossible psoitions a lot if ur not dead centre so the 3 wood is a perfect foil.

i hit 7 , 3 woods of the tees. same pretty most of the time , hence my massive deisre to find nirvana in FWS this yr.

Im here to say, these "old things " played absolutly sensationally.

i know why Tiger uses the blue board in his fw now ,the shot is pure its the gold standard of shafts in my book, it hasnt gt the best feel or the longest but its just so reliable. perfect flight kinda mid ish bit of carry bit of rollout.

So as a comparrison n betwixt my armoury of woods how did they go?

bloody well!

ill use the eggs as a comparison , bec that what ive gravitated to this season.

the Roycolls arnt as long off the tee but not a much as id thought. the ball flight is lower for sure the run out prob similar. i def swing slower and my tempo is better with the roy colls. and i hit the ball better than the eggs form a tee box. i feel supremly confident of putting it pretty close to where i want . def more so than the eggs.

the roy colls have a small compact head. but a lovely sharp base edge that just say hit me where ever u like with any kind of shape. of the tee these are great .however....................,

Off the deck the new technology comes into its own. the sleekness of the eggs on the short stuff. makes the ball look so easy to hit off the fairway so much better visually than traditional head (imo of course!) and id guestimate the eggs are like 20ish yards longer of the fairway than the roy colls. somwhere like that.

i left the course after playing pretty well and hitting the fairway woods beautifully . wondeing what fate awaits these fantastic clubs.

the feel of them is so good. the set up is so good, my confidence with them is soo good. they aint going anywhere.!

IF i need to play a fw off the fairway 600+ to par 5s then the egss get the nod 100% of the time , but if my day requires a little more plotting, and moving the ball a bit the more traditional heads get bagged.

the technology has made the new ones a lot longer no denying this. they are light and u can swing a little faster, get a higher shot and get near that long green more often

but , if u need to think a little more than bang massive bombs, then the traditional heads are still right at the very top.

ive basteredised my eggs so much this yr putting all and sundry in them , eventually going for heavy, low spin, low launch shafts into a club that was designed to fligh high , it took a long time to get that feeling i wanted and i think prob Gocchin or perhaps I-drive first go it right all that time ago with the old eggs and the crazy 80 fw. easily the BEST fw wood shaft bar NONE. uttelry amazing if u turn it over all the time results are stunning.

If one requires a cheaper safe shaft then the diamana blue really hasnt lost anything over time. . simplicity at its most glaring. just not a long.

both sets of these woods will be staying with me for the foreseeable future. oh and ive still got yamaha V 14.5- quadra fw . to consider...

nice thoughts to consider each week .

[gocchin]

Stew, the BBD's Type H is not that old!

And also keep in mind here we are talking about RoyColle which is a premier fairway wood maker... they are known for their FW's especially the for being great feeling, accurate and versatile. I always have at least one RoyColle in the bag at least whether it be an FW or UT, they are superb!

Technology certainly helps when it comes to performance but sometimes technology can mask traditional feel which the RoyColle certainly have.

[supo]

Stew, the BBD's Type H is not that old!

And also keep in mind here we are talking about RoyColle which is a premier fairway wood maker... they are known for their FW's especially the for being great feeling, accurate and versatile. I always have at least one RoyColle in the bag at least whether it be an FW or UT, they are superb!

Technology certainly helps when it comes to performance but sometimes technology can mask traditional feel which the RoyColle certainly have.

yea it was great going back to them, they are a seriosuly great FW .

i just repacked my bag for oz tom night and low and behold they got a spot as well.

ive looked at the new ones but the type h just suit my eye so perfectly

on thus im going to go 2 spoons no driver and give em a proper wallop. on my short course for practice

bring on the chrissy hols , QF 21 me up tom. night .,get me to oz.......!!!!!