Hybrids, Lots and Lots of Hybrids!

Posted by John

July 6, 2009

Where are all these hybrids you ask? In Tour players’ bags, that’s where.

I was reading Golf Week in the proshop this week where they did a really nice piece on how hybrids have taken off with Tour pros. The previous time the Open was at Bethpage there were only a handful of players carrying a hybrid. At this year’s event, there were only a handful who didn’t have one.

If you still have a hangup about hybrids you are missing one of the best game improvement clubs ever invented. You think they’re for sissies. Don’t even go there. Guess which tour player carried a six iron as his lowest traditional iron at the Open? It was none other than Vijay Singh. The guy didn’t carry them to get more yardage, he carried them to hit the ball higher from the same distances so they would hit and hold the ridiculously fast greens.

Hybrids are not just for the fairway, they’re great from the rough and fairway bunkers. They’re even easy to maneuver left and right. Last year I had one hybrid equivalent of a two iron. This year I threw out my three and four irons and put in two more hybrids. And I never looked back one second. I can make shots this year that I could only dream about last year.

Ladies, hybrids are great equalizers. You’ll be able to hit approach shots to tight pins that were impossible before. I know, because my wife is doing it everytime we play and I’m going to have to adjust her strokes!

Do yourself a favor if you don’t have a hybrid in your bag. Forget the new driver or putter, a hybrid will help your scoring more. What’s even better, they are a joy to swing, much easier than those old irons you’re playing with now.