Finding Your Perfect Driver Loft
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.6 • 489 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
If you're listening to this episode, you probably have a driver with adjustable loft. How do you know where it should be set? How would you know whether you need a different head with much higher or lower loft? In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg talk about the lofts they play, why those are the best for their games, and how you should determine the best loft to optimize your tee shots.
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| 0:00.0 | driver loft let's talk about driver loft what loft's on your driver Lou do you know |
| 0:05.4 | three what lofts on your driver's thing you got you got a long drive so it's nine and you've |
| 0:13.1 | not twisted the neck or anything it's set at nine is it yeah it's set at nine yeah and um |
| 0:17.8 | it's because I got speed yeah we'll come to that yeah yeah, Greg, what, you moved around about a lot of this week. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.9 | No, I'm at nine and I've got it twisted down to 8.25 on a tight list. |
| 0:28.9 | So, but I do carry a second driver that's got eight that I can move around as well. |
| 0:34.3 | So I kind of messing with spin rates, check on lofts a lot, trying to |
| 0:38.9 | figure out what I need for that week. Both heads seem to work pretty nicely at certain |
| 0:44.5 | points. So yeah, I do goof around a little bit with it. Cool. So for me, I'm quite interesting. |
| 0:49.9 | If I'm my, I would float between seven and nine, depending on what action I'm feeling at the moment. |
| 0:58.5 | I'm because I don't play much, I'm constantly tinkering with delivery and swing. |
| 1:03.4 | So I have to filter between seven to nine. |
| 1:07.2 | And I, but I'm someone who adds loft to a driver at impact. Most people do. So if you've got a 10 |
| 1:14.1 | degree driver, most people when they hit the more impact, they're not hitting with 10 degrees |
| 1:17.9 | or less. They're actually hitting with more loft generally. Like they'll be kept 12s and 13s and |
| 1:23.4 | so if I have a 7 degree driver, which is I had a few times, that's the low end of my limit. |
| 1:30.3 | I'll still be delivering 13 to 15 degrees of loft with that 7 degree. |
| 1:35.4 | That's a lot. |
| 1:36.2 | Yeah, so if I go up to 9 loft, which is where I am at the minute, if I don't make a certain action, if I don't do the swing, |
| 1:46.0 | how I want it to go, |
| 1:49.0 | I end up hitting with like 18 degrees of loft, |
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