4 Hybrid vs 7 Wood Battle: Which One Dominates?

🏌️‍♂️ The video compares the performance of a four hybrid and a seven wood using the same shaft to isolate club differences.

📊 Key data points analyzed are descent angle and carry distance, revealing the seven wood consistently outperforms the hybrid in both.

⚡ Both testers experienced higher ball speed and greater carry distance with the seven wood compared to the hybrid.

🎯 The seven wood provided a better descent angle, offering more stopping power for shots landing on the green.

🤔 Confidence at address varied, with some players feeling more comfortable looking down at the hybrid than the wood.

🧑‍🔬 An expert confirmed the data, recommending the seven wood for both testers based on the numbers and performance.

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00:00:00 - Hey everyone, welcome back to the SkyRack YouTube channel. We've got a very fun and exciting video for you today where we're going to be putting the four hybrid and the sevenwood up against each other. >> Yeah. So, we are using the Elite series for both of them and we are using the exact same flex um and weight shaft. So, really the only thing that we're changing is the type of club that we're using. Um and we are going to look at two different data points today. We are

00:00:26 - going to do descent angle and carry distance. >> Yeah. And we might even bring an expert in at the end to see if our assumptions are correct. >> Yeah, let's get into it.

00:00:43>> Okay, Lexi, you go first. >> Sounds good. >> We're going to hit 10 shots total. Five starting with the four hybrid and then five with the sevenwood. >> Oh, that sounded good, Lexi. >> That did sound good. I like that ball flight. >> Happy with that. >> Coming back to the right a little bit. >> Not going to lie, it has a bit lower of a descent angle than I was expecting. I >> don't hit with a lot of hybrids, so this is kind of a first for me. Not a first, but >> Right.

00:01:12>> It's an interesting test.

00:01:18>> That was kind of two pretty consistent shots there. >> Yeah, pretty much the same shot shape.

00:01:32 - You played that one. What is that? A sand. What is What just happened there? >> I don't know. That's my miss. It happens. You know, no one's perfect, Cody. Sometimes you miss shots and that's okay. Not this one, though. There we go. That one sounded great. >> Interesting shot shape for me because I typically start it right of the target and then either keep going right at the target >> or I cut back left. And >> it's interesting that this one is >> not that. >> Okay. Up next, seven wood.

00:02:27 -So right away you could see that uh >> the angles just lower >> the angle a little higher. Yeah,

00:02:42>> there we go. Sounded great. >> Yeah, that one might come back to the left a little bit. Okay, >> bit of a draw. Yeah.

00:02:53>> So, what what do you prefer to hit with, Cody? Do you like a hybrid or wood? >> Uh, I've been gaming the sevenwood pretty much all season long. >> Um, I've never really been a hybrid club player. That sounded great. Like, >> good. >> Really good contact. I mean, face was a little open, but >> yeah, I'll take that though. Pretty good shot. Um, yeah, I my first time using sevenwood was this year and I love the sevenwood. I've also never had a hybrid in my bag, but >> yeah,

00:03:27>> but a lot of people like them.

00:03:42>> That one sounded great. I mean, this is these are pretty shots. Let's go. One more. Good one.

00:03:54>> Yeah, a little different. I hit a little lower on the face, so probably not as much distance, but pretty similar. Okay. All right. So, I've done five of the hybrid and five of the woods. So, Cody, you want to take a shot? >> Yeah, let's do this. See >> what it looks like for you? Nice. Sounding good.

00:04:38 - Oh my lanta. >> It sounded good. I wouldn't have guessed that that would have been like so far left.

00:04:57>> That was good. >> Gee, Willickers. Yeah, I mean distance-wise, but I don't know why I just don't I don't really feel like I have a lot of control over the face with this for some reason.

00:05:14 - Okay. So, walk me through what you're saying about that. You say like you don't really have much feel down there. What do you mean by that? >> Um, I'd say on that one there was one shot, maybe the very first shot that it just went more to the left than I like at impact would have thought. >> Yeah. >> It just I I don't necessarily have as much Yeah. just feel at contact with uh with what the club face is doing. >> Okay. >> So, and with the sevenwood, I I know

00:05:45 - that I have pretty good feel there with that club. So, maybe I'm just comparing it to this. >> Yeah,

00:05:57>> that should be straighter. But, see, even then, like it's definitely my best contact that I've had. And I thought that would have been a bit straighter, but guess not. Yeah. I mean, I'm just shutting that club face down. It's definitely not the club's fault. It's old Cody's fault. It's the old user's fault. I tried to Gosh, made it worse. >> Okay, five shots down. Yeah. Test out the sevenwood down. >> Yeah, let's do it. I'll >> switch you. >> That's kind of a terrible swing, too.

00:06:35 - Oh, good ball fight. Hey, online. That's way too low for my liking. Oh, that one looks good. Nice. Right on the line, up in the air. Is that your typical carry distance for your 71? >> Yeah, I maybe uh maybe a little bit longer than that. Um, >> swing's just been all over the place a little bit for the past two weeks. So, >> as long as it goes straight. >> Yeah, >> that's all we've been caring about. >> Feel that.

00:07:23>> But with that swing, I knew that was going left. Yeah, >> I had >> an inkling. >> Yeah, more of an idea just based on the impact than I did with the hybrid. >> Okay, >> that should be a draw coming back to the >> Yeah, that did a great job.

00:07:46>> That last swing is why I love the seven woods. I'm I'm like totally just giving away that I love the seven. >> Yeah, I know. We both know like Sav is so awesome >> cuz that that right there is like pretty much my standard >> mis hit off of the face like a little towy but club path is kind of how I want it with a bit of an open face and I like to see the ball with this club go from right to left. Um so so yeah that I mean that's that's why I love this club. Yeah,

00:08:20 -I will say something that I can appreciate about the hybrid is that when you're hitting off the fairway, like off the deck, sometimes it's intimidating for me holding a wood cuz it's so small. The face is so like skinny. >> And just like purely looking down at the hybrid, I feel more confident >> actually making contact with the ball than sometimes I do with the wood.

00:08:44 - Something that's cool about um Callaway's elite fairway woods too is that they have the steps. So you can see like it's pretty skinny. >> Mhm. >> And sometimes I feel like when I'm hitting with wood off the deck too that I'm going to hit it super low on the face or even top it. And that steps so sle makes it so it's a little easier to get it closer to the ground. >> Yeah. >> Maybe make better contact with the ball. >> That's a good point. So, right now we are looking at the club comparison

00:09:11 - feature on Skyrack, which is one of my personal favorite features. Um, but Cody, should we take a look at the data? >> Yeah, I mean, based on these numbers, I think I definitely know what club that I want to put in my bag, but what do you say we bring in an expert to maybe help us out? >> Yeah, I know a guy. >> Hey, Nick, come on over. >> Yeah. What do we got going on here? >> So, we both just hit the four hybrid and the sevenwood. Uh, five shots each. And you can see our averages up on the

00:09:39 - screen. Clearly for both of us, we had four carry distance for the sevenwood, but we were wondering your opinion on these numbers and which club we should put in our bags. >> Yeah. Uh so Lexi, you were the top two right there. >> On the top two. Yeah. >> Yeah. So you definitely got more ball speed out of that 7wood. 7 mph extra. Uh even more backspin as well. 22 yds more carry. And that gave you a better descent angle of 6°. If you're looking to hit that ball onto the greens and

00:10:05 - have some stopping power, I would go with the sevenwood for you. >> And then Cody, you're the second one. >> Yeah. >> Also really good numbers. We're seeing some of the same stuff. You had a higher ball speed there. Your backspin was actually pretty similar, which is totally normal for those two clubs. Uh but you also got about 20 extra yards of distance as well. Plus, uh descent angle 38 versus 32. So six more degrees of descent angle. >> Wow. you start putting all that

00:10:30 - together, especially for somebody like you trying to probably hit into some par fives with that club, you're going to want that stopping power. So, that's going to be a lot better for you as well. So, looks like both of you guys hit that seven wood a little bit better. >> Yeah, >> ultimately it's it's always your decision and kind of the number you're looking for distance-wise, but if I had to choose between those two, I'd say 7wood for both of you. >> All right, so that is four hybrid verse

00:10:527 - wood. Let us know in the comments what you guys want us to compare next. Yeah, and if you want to learn more about Skyrack launch monitors and simulators, head over to skitrackgolf.com. We'll see you in the next video.

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