The Best GOLF Bag set up to lower your handicap

in today's video i'm going to help you answer one of golf's eternal dilemmas what is the best bag setup to help you play the best golf because now more than ever there seems to be more options to choose from and it's important that you understand the difference between certain clubs and these two are very popular right now so should it be a four hybrid or a 7 wood pretty much identical in terms of loft but trust me they perform very very differently and in today's video i'm going to explain those differences yeah one of my favorite clubs in the bag right now but it doesn't necessarily mean it is going to be yours and whilst the loft of these two clubs is like i said only separated by one degree the performance is very very different and you've got to understand those differences before you decide which is potentially the best option for you i want another point for discussion and perhaps the most important bit is my well succumbing to the idea of wearing a microphone on my cap as opposed to on my chest i think it looks stupid but at least it avoids the rustling of the jacket let me know what you think yep different club pretty much a similar result loads of confidence in both a four hybrid and a seven wood four hybrid 22 degrees seven wood 21 degrees what's the other major difference well i think there's two one is the length of the shaft seven wood being a little bit longer and one degree in stronger loft meaning we're probably going to see it go a little bit further but who knows let's wait and see and the other thing is the size of the head meaning for me the profile itself allows cg to go further back on the 7 wood meaning potentially a higher ball flight again we'll see flight scope will be on the ground very soon and i'll look at some numbers some data in a real situation out on the golf course and see exactly what is the difference between these two golf clubs and those differences well they're hugely important get down ball because you've got to decide do you prefer the shorter shaft of the hybrid potentially more control or do you prefer the bigger head profile of the seven wood does that give you a little bit more confidence at address then again which would you prefer in terms of versatility for off the tee for off the fairway and for off the rough all serious considerations irrelevant of what data tells us and it could well be that even though these two clubs are just one degree apart there could be a situation where both clubs will actually work as a gap in within your bag setup that's quite decent isn't it so I hear what you're saying and quit the waffle hit the shots give us the data and let's see what the difference is between these two clubs eh start with the seven wood there's a reason this is my favorite club in the bag nice easy swing what is it 180 carry bang down the middle yeah 182 i mean if you haven't got a seven wood in the bag right now then you're uh you're pretty crazy ah this is getting boring and stop it as soon as i go into the hybrid the first thing that personally that i'm asking myself is like do which do i prefer at address and for me when i'm off the tee i think it's just a mentality thing i'd rather have the seven wood it just seems to resonate with a club that you know i'm going to hit further just because the bigger mass in terms of the head that's a mental thing a personal thing it's obviously not reality but that's how it makes me feel at least anyway but i do feel like i've got more control with a very noticeably shorter shot yeah i'm in the ball decent today anyway 167 carry just as a matter of interest we're playing into the breeze here today and what we get from flight scope is real-time numbers based on what i'm playing in right now if we switch this down breeze we'd obviously see a whole difference in terms of carry distance and that's really important to understand the numbers you see on this channel are very much what's happening in reality out on the golf course okay so we've got an idea of what these two clubs do in terms of performance when it's when we're sat on a tee peg what happens when we're well we're on a tight lie from the fairway how does ball flight differ because for me that's the key difference i want to see i'm now playing from a tight lie what kind of launch angle are we looking at how much impact does it have on that carry distance well we'll soon find out because like i said we've got some real conditions we've got a hanging lie i'm not sure why i've set up here but that's a really good strike just sat down on the on the green as well um yeah initial glance that's a super impressive first ball while we've got the camera on let's just switch up straight into a hybrid it's an incredible piece of kit you know i'm positive about it but i'm also very fond of a hybrid right let's see what this does can we get a similar result you just know there's nowhere near I've just turned it over a tad to the left um let's have a look yeah really interesting there's for me at least anyway there's a significant difference in the distance between these two now we know the shaft length is going to mean that we're not going to generate the clubhead speed in the shorter shaft of the hybrid so it's definitely a reason we've also got one degree weaker loft that's another reason but it's been quite surprising I'm gonna hit one more and give this um another crack on the hybrid and see what happens but a little bit disappointed with the performance on that one let's see if we can do a bit better yeah not a bit better that's lot better yeah much more like it decent number in terms of carry now again we're back into the realms of not too different than when I teed it up much as what we've seen with the seven wood but you'll start to see differences in launch angle ball flight spin number all those kind of things so I'll maybe a few more from this position seven wood and four hybrid and then the final test for me is to stick the ball in the rough and then see what happens well let's just shift on down into here I don't want to nestle this ball down we don't need to go crazy and let's just make sure we've got that in line let's go with the hybrid again the main difference for me first and foremost suppose to mention throughout this video would have been that either of these two options for me personally are a far healthier alternative than using perhaps a four iron so I'm in this situation now in the rough and yeah I don't want to be playing um I don't want to be playing an iron i want either this hybrid or the seven wood in my hand you can see it's dug it out but i got got stuck a little bit there yeah that wasn't the best let's give it another go that's a bit worrying definitely got a little bit too much ground there let's see how we can get on this time yeah much better still found that i sort of grabbed a little bit yeah not the best results in either of those but we're going with it camera's rolling this is reality let's see if we can do similar sort of lie seven wood in hand now and let's see what happens okay i mean there's a winner out there without doubt i mean we've lost a little bit of distance which you would expect but what we haven't done is uh for me the wider sole slides through that kind of situation just that little bit better but then when you start to see what that cg element does in terms of ball flight that's when this thing again becomes a no-brainer uh one more to see if that wasn't a bit of a fluke but it's a totally different situation sit that down a bit yeah i mean whether or not whether or not we're in the realms of i'm just a little bit more confident with this uh i don't know maybe a swing a little bit freer with this i don't know what i do know is that when I look at ball flight before the data tells me anything and you can probably tell the way it's making contact through the ground here in the rough in particular there's been a huge winner in this situation at least so I think that's as far as I can go in terms of my own testing and a little bit of a confession really is that I felt throughout the test in every situation I probably hit the ball pretty poorly as poorly as I have done with any club for quite some time and it almost thought well you know should I carry on and start wait until I'm swinging better but no that's not reality is it so you know the numbers that I've posted are exactly what I had with my game this morning much like when you turn up on a Saturday it's not always perfect but I think there's a good enough differential between the two to highlight the difference when you're not doing so well either and maybe that's the more important message in this video both give assistance both for me are preferable than an iron alternative in certain situations there is a significant yardage difference for me maybe at least one club maybe a little bit more as well and there are different ball flight characteristics so without going into every piece that we hit there were similar things that we've seen consistently the ball flight launch lower with the four hybrid considerably higher uh visually at least anyway even launch angle but peak height we'll maybe have a look at will also tell us that the seven wood comes down from a different position altogether for me um and then you've got the spin number again which is all gonna and descent angle have a look at those numbers and see what you make of it so it really depends the gap that you want to fill in your bag but i think the video for me just highlights that you choose a club based on overall performance and not based on loft because if we'd have stuck an iron into this equation namely probably a four iron at around 21 to 22 degrees we'd have seen different performance again so loft is only one part of the equation i've said that for a long long time you've got to look at the mass of the club that cg placement is hugely important length of shaft will also play its part so i hope that it's at least identified to you that you need to have a careful look at your bag setup see what works see how a club fits in the bag fills those gaps and make sure they're all working for you that's me done i've got someone about to come up on this fairway behind me so i'll call it quits thanks for watching i'll see you all soon