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By Dan Bennett
A few major club making companies are making very good hybrid
clubs. The ones Dennis talks about in his article (Callaway,
Sonartec and TaylorMade) produce excellent hybrid clubs. Very
high priced but very good clubs.
However, you must be extremely careful and know what you are looking at in a hybrid. Too many companies merely took their existing fairway woods and re-modeled them into what they wanted to call a hybrid.
They took their existing five wood face for example, and then just reshaped the rear side to be shorter like all hybrids.
Sure, that gets a club to the market fast and cheap but it is all wrong!
The reason true hybrids are so easy to hit is the face has been completely reengineered.
There is much less bulge and roll on the face of a hybrid than there is on a fairway wood. Bulge and roll is the curvature on the face of drivers and fairway woods (bulge is the curvature from side to side, roll the curvature top to bottom). A true hybrid has bulge and roll but to amuch lesser degreethan fairway woods.
Because of the distance you will get with a true hybrid, to get the accuracy of an iron – there must be considerably less face curvature, or less bulge and roll as club designers call it.
Only by decreasing the face curvature do you get the accuracy you need but still with more distance than an iron.