Moveable Weight v Higher MOI head

[justcallmemoses]

If your strike pattern with the driver is consistent towards the toe side. Are you better off with a higher moi head or a driver with a toe weight? It’s probably more path related than driver shaft length. Shorter I go the more I hit it in the toe etc. 45.25 is current length.

Ball speed is about 155-157ish mph on trackman with the toe strike

 

eg

LTDx LS with toe weight v LTDx standard head

 

Edited January 28, 2023 by justcallmemoses

[third-times-a-charm]

Kind of a give and take in regards to all aspects you mentioned and there's no right answer. If you just want to hit the ball straight and high the head with the most weight back and highest MOI will resist twisting the most - but on the other hand the less MOI head but with a moveable weight will allow you to put weight behind where you miss or strike the ball giving you better performance on those strikes if tuned properly AND will allow you to work the ball if you so choose (more so than the first option).

 

You can also play with a shorter shaft and place the additional weight needed to get back up to your preferred SW behind the toe - in the high MOI head for instance - and have the best of both worlds if you wanted to just hit it straight. 

 

And as a side note if going shorter causes toe strikes a shaft change can fix that.

[justcallmemoses]

1 minute ago, third-times-a-charm said:

Kind of a give and take in regards to all aspects you mentioned and there's no right answer. If you just want to hit the ball straight and high the head with the most weight back and highest MOI will resist twisting the most - but on the other hand the less MOI head but with a moveable weight will allow you to put weight behind where you miss or strike the ball giving you better performance on those strikes if tuned properly AND will allow you to work the ball if you so choose (more so than the first option).

 

You can also play with a shorter shaft and place the additional weight needed to get back up to your preferred SW behind the toe - in the high MOI head for instance - and have the best of both worlds if you wanted to just hit it straight. 

 

And as a side note if going shorter causes toe strikes a shaft change can fix that.

thanks for the info! 
 

If going shorter causes toe strikes a shaft change can fix that. Do you mean going shorter with more weight or just general profile change will help change? Or both?

 

I tend to prefer higher balance shafts. Maybe my Tensei white isn’t ideal for me either so. I play $ Taper irons and Hi Rev wedges. Tour AD IZ fairway and KBS Prototype hybrid.

[third-times-a-charm]

14 minutes ago, justcallmemoses said:

thanks for the info! 
 

If going shorter causes toe strikes a shaft change can fix that. Do you mean going shorter with more weight or just general profile change will help change? Or both?

 

I tend to prefer higher balance shafts. Maybe my Tensei white isn’t ideal for me either so. I play $ Taper irons and Hi Rev wedges. Tour AD IZ fairway and KBS Prototype hybrid.

 

I dont know what the exact circumstances of your shorter shaft experiment where you said it caused toe strikes, but assuming you brought the club back up to normal SW the additional weight would have made the club softer in the tip and potentially other changed aspects due to the shorter length.

 

But yes a different shaft whether it be profile or whatever can change strike location - along with stuff like loft/lie/SW/etc.

[Stuart_G]

2 hours ago, justcallmemoses said:

If your strike pattern with the driver is consistent towards the toe side. Are you better off with a higher moi head or a driver with a toe weight? It’s probably more path related than driver shaft length. Shorter I go the more I hit it in the toe etc. 45.25 is current length.

Ball speed is about 155-157ish mph on trackman with the toe strike

 

eg

LTDx LS with toe weight v LTDx standard head

 

 

Side note:  if length doesn't' fix a toe miss - the problem is more likely related to your setup - or just your perception of where the center of the face is.

 

But back to the question - a consistent toe miss will add draw spin.   The real question you have to look at first is does your swing (face/path numbers) result in a situation where that extra draw spin will help or hurt your ball flight results?

 

If it hurts, you might want to have more weight in the toe - but only assuming that the extra weight in the toe doesn't effect your ability to control the face into impact.   Some people finds it makes it harder to close the face with a weighted toe.  Others don't seem to be effected at all by it.

 

Higher MOI will always help reduce the added draw spin - whether that's good or bad goes back to the previous question.

 

e.g.  I loved the low MOI SLDR head because for me the more draw spin I could get, the better.   But for others it could create a hook machine.