 Okay so in today's video I'm going to show you why as an average golfer you should definitely have either a seven wood or a hybrid of similar loft in your bag but I'm also going to find out what is the difference between the two and why you might choose one over the other. You see if you have both clubs of exactly the same loft then what is the difference between the two and why they'd be swayed towards one over the other. Well the first major difference and it is a key factor is the length of shaft. The length of shaft in a seven wood is always longer than that of a hybrid so there's two things to consider there. One is the longest shaft should in fact produce greater clubbed speed and therefore longer distance but then in favour of the hybrid there's greater control from that shorter shaft so already there's a decision to be made on what you're looking for. So the next consideration is the size and profile of the head because obviously they're very very different again. The hybrid being that more smaller and compact and the seven wood will essentially it's a fairway wood it's obviously going to contain that bit more of mass but the question you've got to ask yourself is what do you prefer to see at a dress and not just from the tee but from the fairway maybe playing from the roof which would give you the more confidence to execute those shots so is it going to be that smaller more compact profile of the hybrid or do you get more confidence from the bigger and maybe suggesting in my head at least that least work is need to be done in terms of the swing the more power is built into that bigger club head but your mind might be completely different to how I potentially see these two clubs sat at a dress and then of course it's maybe an obvious question that you've got to ask is but what do you want that club in the bag to do? How do you want it to perform? You just want it to be a fairway finder off the tee and for me the seven wood is just a perfect sort of 200 yard plus club that gives you a lot of confidence to get down there but does it have the versatility that the hybrid offers or maybe the hybrid you want to play it from the tee you want to play it from the fairway you want to play it from the roof you might even want to play it round the greens in terms of a chip and run so the next question you've got to ask in a big differential between the two clubs again is what do you want the club for and for me in terms of versatility that one you'd sway towards the hybrid. Now it goes without saying that both of these clubs are I think just easy to use they're really user-friendly and like I said from an average golfers perspective I have no understanding as to why you wouldn't carry one of these two clubs. What they do really well is you get the ball up and out there extremely high ball flight as you can see this one being the hybrid in hand that short shaft gives me plenty of control and as I said it does one thing very very easily and that's get that ball up and out there that's a lot different than trying to play an iron at sort of 18 degrees when you consider that 21 degrees sorry these are set up as that's a huge huge difference and takes a lot of the difficult elements of golf out of the equation. So I've been spouting on about hybrid seven woods for well for a long long time now on the channel what I want to know is how many of you have actually got them in the bag and how many of each type have you got in the bag and what I mean by that you carry in seven woods five woods three woods and likewise in hybrids and a lot of you right now are taking the opportunity to simplify the game a lot by choosing sort of six hybrids five hybrid sevens all the way down maybe into that three hybrid as well and moving generally moving irons out of the bag to try and make that game as easy as possible. So let me know in a comment section below what are you or how are you taking advantage of the kind of benefits of both hybrids and the likes of seven woods and five woods right now. So what we're going to look at next is ultimately perhaps what I suggested we do in the beginning of the video which is trying to find out what separates these two in terms of performance. So what I'm considering us what I want to know is sort of I want to know launch angle I want to know descent angle I want to know peak height and yes I want to know the overall distance but in theory there shouldn't be a lot to separate them in terms of their overall carry. I'd expect the seven would to be a little bit longer due to the length of shaft but it's those other elements of data that interests me because again that'll really determine why I put either of these in the bag. I feel they'll do those things differently. So I want to hit some balls will carry on hitting a little bit heavy there but again how high am I looking in the sky right now and how far has that ball gone out there with a ball. It was effectively just a little bit fat off the map there and that just shows you the benefit again of the hybrid and then switching into the seven wood whilst it's a longer shaft it's nothing that you don't feel any sort of control of. So again you see plenty of loft on the face and that big mass all of those things add up to giving plenty of confidence and you don't feel I mean that ball is just I mean it's a much cleaner ball than I hit with the hybrid that's absolutely flowing out there and for me what I keep on seeing with both of these clubs a relevance of brand or who they come from is just how good they are and versatile they are and ease of use is key but like I said we now need to find out what are the differences in terms of data that split these two clubs up. Now I felt this was very much a data led experiment because whilst you can take these clubs out into the golf course and maybe get a visual idea of what the differences are I think if you're considering buying either of these two products it's important that you go and get custom fit and see in terms of the data those key numbers that I suggested earlier and the only way to do that like I said is use something like Trackban to try and really see what those differences are. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put the averages for both clubs up on the screen now and the full data will come right at the very end but I only at eight or nine shots with each club because it soon became very apparent as to what the differences were. The first one we'll see is the yardage difference it was 10 yards difference in yardage and that really is down to the length of shaft for the seven wood we discussed earlier the same can be said that the clubhead speed that couple of mile an hour difference will be that inch or so long the shaft but the big surprise or the first big surprise for me was the launch angle. The hybrid launched on average at 11.5 and the seven wood at 13.4 and on a number of occasions if you look at the data at the very end you'll see the seven would launch considerably higher on a number of shots that are hit and that does surprise me because my preconception would have been that the hybrid would launch the ball higher I was wrong. The spin number on both of these clubs is very very similar and again a good spin number I think if you compare it to the iron replacement that you'd be considering then that's exactly where you'd hope it to be so that's a good number there and then you look at the land angle and again it's going to be relative to this peak height that we're going to look at or maybe we do them both together peak height 87 peak height 68 on the hybrid huge huge difference and that could be seen in the land angle of 34.9 as opposed to 40.5 on the seven wood. Now those key numbers are like I said real the surprise beat um I'd have got all of them wrong if I'm honest with you I would have thought that the land angle and the height of the hybrid the peak height of the hybrid would have been higher than that of the seven wood so that was the biggest surprise that I got out of the uh sort of experiment carried out this morning and all it goes to show is that you should not have the preconceived ideas is the first thing and you definitely need to get custom fit and have a look at this kind of data before you choose which one you put in the bag but in terms of I've asked a number of questions of what your considerations are throughout the video and ultimately I think that's the key to this where do you want what gap are you trying to fill what club are you trying to replace because that really is key to how you determine whether or not that data that you just looked at does the job that you're looking for this club to do right that's me done I enjoyed that one I hope you did too I think it was a clear I it sort of identified the differences quite well and I thought those differences might be a little bit closer than they actually were so like I said a bit of a surprise there right your feedback down below I asked you earlier question about your sort of um which way you've gone with these two sort of clubs but have you agreed with the data in terms of your findings as well which is also interesting to see whether or not it's to do with the way I deliver a club or whether in general that's something you're finding as well right as ever thanks for watching put those comments down below with that like button if you enjoyed the video and as ever subscribe if you don't already thanks for watching