It feels like everyone in the recreational game is always looking for a lower spider.
But that is not always the best idea.
In this week’s episode of the fully equipped podcast of Golf, Co-Hosts Johnny Wunder and Jake Morrow have tackled the trendy goal of recent years and why it should not be the all and end of so many golfers.
“The purpose of your life is not to touch the lowest spider that you could find. I don’t know when that was something,” said Morrow. “It has been around for ten years, probably more, but I wish we could find a way to get rid of it.”
Morrow references ping’s optimum launch conditions graph that you can find when fitting bays or on them Proving Grounds blog. The graph explains which optimum launch conditions must be based on their perspective and ball rate for a player.
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On the graph, the absolute fastest person can ride a golf ball is 375 meters in the air with 200 mph ball speed. But that includes a perspective of 10 degrees up, a launch angle of 17 degrees and a spider speed of 1750 rpm.
“People don’t understand how high 17 degrees launch is,” Morrow explained. “That is not going to work for you.”
About 10 years ago there seemed to be a movement to get an arrangement from the driver who produced spin speeds for players who were Sub-20000 RPMS, Wunder even admitted that he fell into the trap.
“The number of people who go to the forums and talk about their experience about how far they got the golf ball was visceral,” he said. “And I just touched this absolute Tomahawk. And it is probably 15 meters away than I have ever worn something in my life. And I remember that I went back to the forums and went:” Oh my God, I just did it. “”
But unless a player like Wunder, who is in the mid-19ss 160s for the bullet rate, launches a ball at 17 degrees or higher, he does not optimize his ball flight for a sub-2000 spinnummer, and he sacrifices control.
It is getting even more extreme with lower balloonness figures. A player who is 140 in the ball rate of the years must launch a ball at 20 degrees when their ball runs below 2000. From a realistic point of view, that player is much better off to get a launch corner in the reach of 10-12 and a spider north of 2500, which will not only optimize their distance, but it will also give them more control.
For more information from Wunder and Morrow Listen to the full episode of Golf’s Fully equipped here, or view it below.
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