Driver Sessions
A driver comparison outdoors is at the mercy of whatever the wind is doing that afternoon. Indoors, the only variable left is the club.
Why a Bay Beats a Range for This Club
Of every club in the bag, the driver is the most exposed to wind on an outdoor range — the ball is in the air longest and travels the farthest, so even a light crosswind can shift a carry number by fifteen or twenty yards without your swing changing at all. That makes back-to-back comparisons between two heads or shafts unreliable unless conditions hold perfectly still, which they rarely do for an entire session.
Inside a sealed bay, that variable disappears. Every driver you test hits into the same still air, so a five-yard difference on the readout is five yards the equipment actually produced.
Levers We Pull During a Driver Session
Adjustable Loft
Hosel adjustments let us step through loft in half-degree increments while every other variable stays fixed.
Head Design
Center-of-gravity placement changes launch independently of loft — we test more than one head shape per session.
Shaft Profile
Weight and bend point shift release timing, which changes the effective loft you deliver at impact.
Why We Run Radar and Camera Together
Radar alone can lose a shot's true spin axis on mishits; camera alone can struggle in low light. Running both systems on every swing and reconciling the two gives us a driver carry number we trust to within a yard, indoors, every single time.
| Miss Pattern | Likely Cause | What We Adjust First |
|---|---|---|
| Low, spinny, short | Steep attack, high dynamic loft | Head CG + shaft kick point |
| Ballooning, losing distance | Excess spin from a light or reactive shaft | Shaft weight + static loft |
| Inconsistent dispersion | Face angle drifting between swings | Lie angle + grip size |
Find Your Real Driver Numbers
A driver session runs 45–60 minutes and includes a written spec report.