At Golf, you’ll hear us talking about why Loft can be your friend in many different ways, but one of the best examples (and least obvious) could be bad weather.
When professionals or anyone are playing some great link courses in the UK and Ireland overseas, like this week’s Open Championship at Royal Shortrus, they’ll likely experience some less star weather at some point, especially like what the pros see on Saturday afternoon in Prothush.
In this week’s golf episode, Johnny Wunder explains how to add lofts to the club, whether it’s a driver, fairway woods, hybrid or iron, it’s actually a great move when playing in rough conditions.
“The best way to hit bad weather, for anyone playing in the Northwest and Northeast, you play golf, one of the biggest ways to hit bad golf is to add lofts to many of your clubs,” Wunder said. “The reason is obviously the face, the face and the element of that element, and the swing speed. You are not that fast.”
While you might think you want to keep the ball down in bad weather and winds, add that the loft will help you put the ball in the air more easily because you have a slower swing. Whether it’s because your raincoat or your body doesn’t move in time in the colder air, rough conditions can affect your swing speed.
“The basic idea is just more forgiveness. It’s easier to play the ball,” Wunder said. “The weather is cold. The element is bad for you. Well, what about spinning and launching and if you want to be able to keep the attitude of the ball and all of that stuff? Honestly, on the element, if you add the loft after all the statements and finishing, a lot of things are still apples of apples. It can touch your range more easily, and you don’t really spin it up, if you can work hard, and you can do it, because it can give a lot of interest, because it can make you excited, and you can do it, because it can make you excited, and you can do it, because it can appreciate the rise of it, because it can do it, because it can do it, because it can do it in time. Weather, you are adjusting the element.”
By adding a loft, you can still catch the ball despite the slow swing.
Adding the loft to the club can also help the grooves shift more water and debris off the golf ball, giving you more control.
Wunder said many wagons have seen players add lofts to drivers of the open championship this week. In theory, you can do this with an iron, but bending back and forth can be a bit boring depending on the weather, but you can do it based on the time of year knowing that you will slow down in the fall or spring.
For good players, even with an extra loft, they will still find a way to get the golf ball out of wind energy.
“Believe me, they know how to take the attic away from the club,” Wood said. “They know how to tilt the shaft. They know how to knock it out. It’s not really a problem.”
For more information about Wunder, including a preview of his new brand Agile Witb, listen to the full episode of the full gear here or watch it below.
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