Hitting a rescue club

Shakey_jake

Hi Guys,

Any tips for hitting a rescue club? Particularly a RBZ rktballz?

I seem to miss hit this thing more often not leading to bad shots, when i do hit it right the thing fly's and feels effortless.

Slowing up by back swing seems to help and i seem to do fairly ok at the driving range with it.

Just under a year playing and love it but feel if i could hit this thing consistently id drop a few strokes.

Cheers

GreeBo

What is your mi****?
Is it consistent?

Oilbeefhooked!

Shakey_jake wrote: »

Hi Guys,

Any tips for hitting a rescue club? Particularly a RBZ rktballz?

I seem to miss hit this thing more often not leading to bad shots, when i do hit it right the thing fly's and feels effortless.

Slowing up by back swing seems to help and i seem to do fairly ok at the driving range with it.

Just under a year playing and love it but feel if i could hit this thing consistently id drop a few strokes.

Cheers

You should not think of a rescue / hybrid club as being any different from a long iron.
Therefore same set up / ball position as say a 4/5 iron ( ie ball not too far forward)
Point being that some people tend to see rescues/ hybrids in the same bracket as a fairway wood , where you want ball forward, a nice wide swing and a sweeping the ball off the turf type contact.
With a hybrid you should still be trying to hit down on the ball , trapping it and taking a small divot after the ball as you would do with a long iron. Hope that helps , stick at it and you will be flushing it in no time :0)

John Divney

Is it a shallow or deep face hybrid?

You should play the ball in your stance like an low iron, not as near the left foot like a wood.

Do not try and knock the daylights out of it, they are designed to be hit easily,so don't make it harder.

For me, I play a shallow hybrid from the fairway and first cut if it's tight enough, and a deep face from the rough.

Senna

GreeBo wrote: »

mi****?

That's a dirty word in the golf forum:D


I have to play hybrids off the ground with a fade, my usual shot is a draw but a hybrid can turn into a pull hook very easily. So I normally play it closer to the front foot, sweeping it with barely a divot and allow for a fade.

lorenzo87

Play a hybrid in between a fairway wood and an iron in your stance, the key is to keep your head down on the shot and not to hit it too hard, rotation of the hips hugely important.

simon0brien

Shakey_jake wrote: »

Hi Guys,

Any tips for hitting a rescue club? Particularly a RBZ rktballz?

I seem to miss hit this thing more often not leading to bad shots, when i do hit it right the thing fly's and feels effortless.

Slowing up by back swing seems to help and i seem to do fairly ok at the driving range with it.

Just under a year playing and love it but feel if i could hit this thing consistently id drop a few strokes.

Cheers

I play between half stance and 3/4 forward.. Sweep It if you can focusing on at least getting the ball airborne down the fairway then It's low trajectory will carry It.. If you haven't the best tech. at first focus on punching It down and then trying to refine into a decent stroke gaining distance

Oilbeefhooked!

Shakey_jake wrote: »

Hi Guys,

Any tips for hitting a rescue club? Particularly a RBZ rktballz?

I seem to miss hit this thing more often not leading to bad shots, when i do hit it right the thing fly's and feels effortless.

Slowing up by back swing seems to help and i seem to do fairly ok at the driving range with it.

Just under a year playing and love it but feel if i could hit this thing consistently id drop a few strokes.

Cheers

Your obviously going to recieve a full spectrum of advice on here , which is always the danger of sourcing tips from such a large no. of golfers , so really a quick lesson would be your best option.
But it is however a fact - that rescue clubs are designed to be hit down - and are an iron replacement club - so your setup should not change from if you were hitting a long iron.

For Paws

Oilbeefhooked! wrote: »

Your obviously going to recieve a full spectrum of advice on here , which is always the danger of sourcing tips from such a large no. of golfers , so really a quick lesson would be your best option.
But it is however a fact - that rescue clubs are designed to be hit down - and are an iron replacement club - so your setup should not change from if you were hitting a long iron.

+1

Try to think of your Rescue as the club it replaced.
What club did you leave out ?
If it was a 4 or 5 iron, then there's your answer.
The rescue replaces an iron, so try and hit like an iron.
To get the 'feel' of it, try imagining that it's a 7 iron, so take a 7 iron stance and ball position and swing it like a 7 iron.
The club's loft will do the rest.
Don't give up on the rescue, they are generally well worth having in the bag.

spacecoyote

GreeBo wrote: »

What is your mi****?
Is it consistent?

Heh, yeah always have a giggle when I see someone type that in a thread.

As mentioned previously my offhits would also be a pull hook with the rbz hybrid.

Generally its a low draw for me, ball slightly forward in stance like a long iron, and swung like a long iron too

Daithio12

Oilbeefhooked! wrote: »

Your obviously going to recieve a full spectrum of advice on here , which is always the danger of sourcing tips from such a large no. of golfers , so really a quick lesson would be your best option.
But it is however a fact - that rescue clubs are designed to be hit down - and are an iron replacement club - so your setup should not change from if you were hitting a long iron.

+1 to this.

I've been playing hybrids/rescues for years and was always fighting a hook especially off the tee, I know now it was because I was trying to play it with a sweeping action like a fairway wood.
Only recently I read an article saying that a hybrid should be played like an iron with a decending hit and so far the results have been a really solid strike and penetrating ball flight.

GreeBo

I think a hybrid is versatile enough that you can hit down or "up" on them, depending on what you are trying to do with the ball.

I have a shallow faced TM burner 19* that I can hit high and soft or more of a low stinger, depending on where it is in my stance and my angle of attack. Obviously you have to match the ball position to the angle of attack, if you have it forward and are trying to hit down on it its going to be hard to keep it from going straight left.

gorfield

Treat it as a 6iron, and to practice using it, go hit balls and alternate between 6iron and rescue trying to replicate your angle of attack with both. Works for me!

Shakey_jake

Cheers for all the advice guys, have bitten the bullet and booked some much needed lessons with Anthony Martin in kinsealy grange.

Will try put into practice whats been said here when I'm out at the weekend :cool: