Equipment

Confidence with your driver


Kevin Caplehorn

06 September 2021

You might think that you’re worried about hitting your driver because you’re worried about making a mistake. But what you’re actually afraid of is the consequence of that mistake, which is why minimising the risk lets you be confident, not cautious, with driver in hand.

Don't miss right!
Don't miss right!

You can do this by eliminating misses to one side. For example, in the above illustration, eliminating that right-side miss will take away the danger of a water hazard and any penalty strokes. Suddenly you’re looking at missing to the left, which isn’t the end of the world, or striping one down the runway.

Cobra Radspeed ladies' drivers
Cobra Radspeed ladies' drivers

Taking a look at Cobra’s Radspeed ladies’ driver range gives us a perfect example as the Radspeed XD is designed with a draw bias to prevent you missing to the right; making it ideal for the hole shown above. You could give it a good old whack and get further down the fairway without being scared of losing balls in the water and totting up the score.

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But hey, you might find that theRadspeed XB – which is made for maximum forgiveness – is more up your street. There’s no wrong answer and the video above should help you figure that out.

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