The Easiest Driver to Hit in Golf (And It Works)

Golf is a tough game and for most of us it's not about hitting 300 yards or shaping a perfect draw. It's about enjoying the round, hitting more fairways and building confidence shot after shot. This series is all about you, the average golfer, and helping you build the most forgiving golf bag in 2025. One that makes golf easier, more consistent, and way more fun. So, be honest. How many times have you stood on that first tea, driver in hand, and all you can think of is please just keep that ball in play? Well, that's what this series is all about. Building a bag that works for you, not against you. And we're going to kick this thing off episode one with the driver. Trying to find a driver that finds fairways more often than not. You see, I hear from plenty of golfers who say they want to get better at golf. lower scores, lower handicap, but do they really? I take one glance in the bag and I sometimes wonder, are the clubs they choosing and their ego getting in the way? So, the big problem we have as average golfers is that we watch the TV and we see the drivers that the pros use and we tend to follow suit. Them drivers are are set up for people with incredibly high swing speeds, probably very different to yours and to mine. They want to shape the ball. They want to do many things that we just don't have the ability to do. We want the opposite to that. We want stability. We want high launch. And we want forgiveness. And those things will not be found in the drivers that you see on tour. So, we need to look in a different direction. And that's what I'm going to tell you about in today's video. Now, in all honesty, that probably wasn't the best of drives, but I got away with it. And the reason I got away with it was because of what this driver is built, how this driver rather is built in terms of forgiveness and for allowing for my frailties on the tea, which have just been hugely exposed there. Perfect timing. Now, the difference between the tour drivers, if you like, is they're not interested so much in MOI. And MOI means just how much a club twists through impact. The higher the MOI, the greater the forgiveness. The other thing that will favor us significantly is the loft and the spin of our driver. If we can get that ball launching high, spinning perhaps a tad higher than those torros, that will help again keep that ball straighter. And that's what I consider to be forgiveness. So, the first thing I want to concentrate on is for you to consider what loft you have on your current driver and what you perhaps should be looking at. All products in this series are from Vice Golf. The driver featured is available from only £289, which shows golf can be affordable if you look in the right places. Vice Golf aims to make golf more accessible, injecting tour quality golf gear into every golfer's game. If you visit the Vice Golf website now, you can sign up and be the first in line for exclusive access to Black Friday deals. Well, the good news is we still managed to find a fairway. Although, like I said, it it wasn't my best. So, this driver I'm using in today's video is from Vice. It's the VGD01. It's extremely well priced and I've got to say I'm super impressed with how it's performed, but that's not really what I'm here to talk about. It's the type of driver that I've chosen in terms of building the most forgiving golf back for average golfers. The first thing to note is this driver has 12 degrees of loft. So, forget all that nine degree, that 10, 10 and a half. Get them out your bag. Just have a look at ball flight, have a look at spin, have a look at launch. How long is that st that ball staying up in the air for? Because particularly with that slower swing speed, we need some help. That 12 1/2° is going to be massive. Don't forget the first thing I said in this video, toughest club in a bag to use is driver. One of the main reasons for that is because of the loft that's on it. So, we've gone from a potential 90°, which a lot of golfers will use, 3 1/2° weaker, which is going to be a massive help. So, the first thing to consider when choosing your next driver is that loft. Get your ego out the way and pay close attention to that loft and ask your fitter to make sure he gives you a go at something in and around 12 12°. That's so good. That's so good. I mean, I'm super impressed, like I say, with the performance of this club. I also love the look of it, but I'm not necessarily reviewing this today. Like I said, just the type of driver. And the next thing I wanted you to consider if you really truly want to lower scores, if you want to get some control of your driver, if you want to find more fairways, and you got to pay some careful consideration to what shaft you put in that 12° head, first of all, really consider the weight. A lighter weight shaft is going to allow you to swing that little bit easier. It's going to help you cope with your slower swing speed. And that combination of that shaft and loft on head will help hugely. One thing out here this morning, I've been able to swing within sort of 80% I would say of where I would like to be in terms or what I where I can get to if you like, not where I want to be, where I'm often at 100% too fast, too trying too hard because of the shaft choice that I've made. This is super light. I think the other thing that needs to happen is manufacturers need to drop labels like senior shafts. There's no such thing. Just base it on weight and also consider what that flexes as well. The model that Vice have put together this VG DO1 as standard is a 45 uh inch length shaft. There is an option to go a bit shorter and as you know I'm also an advocate of that. This is all about control. It's all about losing the ego and getting that lighter weight shaft, the flex being perhaps a little bit different than you're familiar with. Couple it with that loft on the head and you're starting to find a whole more fairways. And you'll also see your score start to tumble. So, I think what we've learned in today's video, at least I have, is that ego is really the thing that gets in the way of you lowering your scores. And if you really want to do so, then you've got to pay some serious attention to how that bag looks. And what I'm going to do in the next uh week or so is going to release a number of videos within this series that breaks down the whole bag. Next up, we're going to look at irons and again highlight the problems that you're perhaps creating for yourself due to your ego and perhaps not looking at the options and how they might help you lower scores. Enjoy the game a little bit more. Have more fun. Just drop that ego in the meantime. I've got one last drive to hit with this driver. I've enjoyed every bit of it. It looks fantastic and credit to Vice Golf for making such a decent product available at such an affordable price. Love that. I will see you all in a couple of days time where we look at the irons and again look to build the most forgiving golf bag for average golfers. Subscribe and hit that like button and I'll see you in a few days