Closed face angle drivers

 · For those who have a moderate release and tend to hit the ball fairly straight, try a neutral setting, and if you release aggressively and/or struggle with Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins.  · Been shopping for drivers recently and I've noticed that many drivers that are listed as having a square club face angle look closed to me. Most recent one I can think of is the Cleveland Classic It's listed as square and looks quite closed to me. Even looking at a picture of a Maltby KE4 St.  · The 7-degree closed face on this driver was basically engineered for the golfer who is consistently slicing. It starts your ball at the correct line so you can almost let this driver do the work for you. Basically, just swing how you normally would, and the driver will do the rest.

Golf drivers from 2 years ago and before were manufactured with closed face angles from ranging from - 2 degrees. A closed golf driver face was thought to help control a slice. But a closed face angle merely points your club left of target and doesn't solve the problem of hitting a slice. The fix: For typical adjustable drivers, you can close the clubface, alter the hosel to a more upright position and/or shift the movable weighting toward the heel. Obviously, a closed face will. The face angle on a driver is basically defined as the clubface angle when the driver is soled on a hard surface with the shaft held perfectly at a 90 degree angle to the line of flight. So, the face angle can be perfectly square (0 degrees) to the line of flight, open to the line of flight (called slice face) or closed to the line of flight (called hook face).

Clubs used in the testing were all commercially available drivers, irons and wedges from PING,. Inc. Each player was given a driver and 7-iron. If you increase the loft on a club, you will open the face angle on the club. This applies when you are adjusting loft on the driver as well as irons or. Some draw drivers come with fixed face angles that are 1 to 2 degrees closed at address, and some even offer adjustable face angles -- though those cannot.