5 Things To Consider When Buying A Hybrid Online
Shopping online gives golfers a huge range of choice compared to visiting your local pro shop or waiting for a custom fit order to arrive from a manufacturer. If you’re looking to buy a hybrid quickly and want to take delivery within a week, then shopping online is convenient and can save you time and money if you know what you’re looking for.
In this piece, we list five pieces of buying advice to help you buy the best hybrid golf clubs (opens in new tab) online.
Loft Gapping
Hybrids are the most versatile clubs in golf and were originally designed to combine the best qualities of long irons and fairway woods (opens in new tab) in a single club. More forgiving, easier to launch high and stop quickly into greens, hybrids were an ideal solution for golfers who’d started to struggle with longer irons.
They are designed to replace their equivalent irons, so a 3H replaced a 3-iron and a 5H hybrid could swap easily for a 5-iron. However, the most important thing to consider is the optimal loft hybrid you need to fit with your current set.
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If you carry a strong three wood and are looking for a hybrid to replace the 2-3 iron slot in your bag, then you need to choose a suitable loft to fill the distance gap between three wood and 4-iron.
Think about your home course and the shots you face regularly and try to work out which hybrid loft will work best for you. It sounds simple but pay close attention to the loft and numbering format of each manufacturer, as they can differ slightly between brands.
Generally, hybrid lofts range from 17° to 32° and it will come down to your personal preference as to whether you need a lower lofted hybrid or a high loft hybrid to use instead of a mid-iron.
Head Shape
Hybrids typically fall into two camps. The compact iron-like heads are usually aimed at lower handicap golfers who value workability versus larger headed hybrids that resemble mini fairway woods and offer greater forgiveness, higher launch and more stopping power.
You may have an instinctive preference, based on your ability and previous models you’ve used in the past but, as a general rule, if you want to be able to hit a variety of trajectories and shot shapes, from low to high and fade to draw, then you will want to choose an iron-like hybrid with a higher toe and deeper face design, like the Titleist TSi3 (opens in new tab) or the TaylorMade Stealth Plus rescue (opens in new tab).
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