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[iacas]

12 minutes ago, Nels55 said:

Sigh, you lose the bet once and your original statement is wrong.

 

Nope. It's OT, so I'll DM you.

[Shilgy]

22 hours ago, Nels55 said:

Sigh, you lose the bet once and your original statement is wrong. 

Original statement: "This is not remotely true, no."

 

Bobby Jones hit 300 yard drives with hickory as did Ted Ray and some number of other other players.  Jones reached some par fives in two that nobody else reached for many years if I remember correctly.  Give a Rory a perfectly setup set of hickories and some serious practice and he could shoot par or better no problem.

Also it is not the hickory shafts but the old time clubheads that make it difficult.  A properly fitted hickory shaft in a modern driver head would work great until it broke.

That’s like saying Jack won the long drive event hitting it 343 or whatever and Arnie driving the first green at Cherry Hills.  
From the Scioto CC website…..

The fairway opens up on the left and hits a downslope where the ball could chase 20-30 yards. 

 

Just because they drove it over 300 on that hole doesn’t mean they did so “routinely”.  There have been quite a few 350 plus drives at Augusta this week.  Doesn’t meany anyone is doing so routinely.

 

Back to the OP…sorry to participate in this OT fluff…. I would find an instructor to start.  No reason to start with poor posture/fundamentals.

 

Not a swing instruction book really but I found help in “The Inner Game of Golf” by Timothy Galwey.