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Will a driver/iron/putter have same meter speed if all are 4.5?

• GolfDaddy96 4 Posts

  Fri, Jun 29 2018 1:26 PM

  I want my meter speed to be the same for every club.

• lonniescott711 4,207 Posts

  Fri, Jun 29 2018 3:03 PM

  GolfDaddy96:

  I want my meter speed to be the same for every club.

  Welcome to the club and so do many other players . However that wont be happening . You will get pretty close but not exact for every club . But the answer to your thread title would be yes .

  4.5 meter speed is the same or would be the same no matter the club . You may be able to match up club speeds at the lower level clubs but not the high level clubs . For some unknown reason WGT wont program the clubs that way .

   

• SlickHunter 1,034 Posts

  Fri, Jun 29 2018 3:03 PM

  GolfDaddy96:

  I want my meter speed to be the same for every club.

  Should be, yes.

• 777999 2,111 Posts

  Fri, Jun 29 2018 3:16 PM

  It's not just the clubs that contribute to what I assume, is your goal of a slower meter. A slow meter ball also has a significant impact toward this end!

  Phil

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Fri, Jun 29 2018 4:28 PM

  lonniescott711:

  Welcome to the club and so do many other players . However that wont be happening

  My 3W is 4.0. The driver and everything else is 3.5. I could get the 3W with a 3.5 speed but the performance drops. For the number of times I use a 3W in a round, I can live with that.  :-)

• jacktrade51 11,209 Posts

  Fri, Jun 29 2018 7:34 PM

  777999:

  It's not just the clubs that contribute to what I assume, is your goal of a slower meter. A slow meter ball also has a significant impact toward this end!

  Ditto.  3.5 club speed and 4.0 ball equal reverse.

  2 other thoughts.

  1.  The meter tends to speed up as it moves along.  So meter speed for many can be much less important on clubs one is frequently not using at full or near full power.  (Think putter, wedges.)

  2. Forgiveness.  More forgiveness can be really helpful.  See Cleveland 100 yard wedge versus MacDaddy.  Level 89 or 96 BB 3w versus various other models.  And putters.

  Most important place to be comfortable is irons and wedges, and driver to the extent you need to keep it in fairway.

  Tom.

• 11BC2 555 Posts

  Sat, Jun 30 2018 7:49 PM

  GolfDaddy96:

  I want my meter speed to be the same for every club.

  The answer is an Emphatic and resounding No (zero doubt).  Unfortunately everyone else is mistaken.

  Just as a very small example, my TM Wedges and Cleveland Wedges are both rated at 3.5 meter speed.  I can tell you with 100% certainty that the Cleveland wedges have a significantly slower meter.  The same holds true when you're playing tournaments with Set-of-the-week.  The random putter might be listed as the same meter speed as your current/normal one but they are quite different.

  The same holds true when playing with different types of balls, more specifically the lower rated ones such as WGT brands. My L95 Nike irons seem to be a pretty close match to my TM Wedges,but again, this isn't universally true across the board.

  My suggestion, buy whatever you want and in time muscle memory will be your best friend.  Don't don't go switching clubs/wedges/balls all the time.  Purchase> into muscle memory> into better scoring.

   

• HackWilson1930 1,437 Posts

  Sun, Jul 1 2018 4:13 AM

  As noted above, when you strike a ball at less than 100% power the meter is a bit slower. This is especially noticeable with the putter. Hit an 8 putt at 60% power  on a 10 foot scale. Now strike that same putt at 30% power on the 20 foot scale. (Lower power % will mean a higher ding rate.)

  You might notice this difference with your other clubs, but yes, there is a difference. Because you seldom hit clubs, other than a putter, at such low power percentages, you don't discern the difference. But it works on the same principle. Less power, slower meter.

  This is also the reason hitting a 100 yard wedge shot at 80% power will not get 80 yards distance. Slow swing speed means less power. The same applies in real life.

• 11BC2 555 Posts

  Sun, Jul 1 2018 6:33 AM

  100% power 3.5m TM wedges vs 100% power 3.5m Cleveland wedges has the Cleveland wedges meter accelerating much slower (80% vs 80% would have the Cleveland's even slower still).  Again, while some identical meter speeds may be equal or close, it does not hold true for all.  I.e., if you have a 4.5 meter iron set with a 2.0 meter speed ball vs. a 2.5 meter iron set with a 4.0 meter ball in a lot of cases the acceleration of the meter will still be quite different.

  HackWilson1930:

  But it works on the same principle. Less power, slower meter.

  For all clubs except putters this is correct. 

  HackWilson1930:

  This is especially noticeable with the putter. Hit an 8 putt at 60% power  on a 10 foot scale. Now strike that same putt at 30% power on the 20 foot scale. (Lower power % will mean a higher ding rate.)

  This is incorrect  See below.

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  WGTadmin2:

  The meter accelerating (racing) is built into all the clubs on purpose, except the putters which we removed this affect a long time ago.  The club's meter speed attribute affects how fast the meter will speed up as it approaches the "ding".  So from the moment you let go and start the down swing the meter accelerates as it approaches the "ding"  You should not expect the clubs (other than putters) to be a constant speed the whole down swing.