I'll second the hook tendancy with the Rescue - I have an 18 deg 'store bought' Rescue that I quickly shelved due to the left-to-left ballflight. A friend in the Taylor Made tour van gave me a tour-issue rescue (it has no offset, and only the loft stamped on the sole), which I can hit draws and fades with. It was really amazing to me how ~1/2" of offset makes such a HUGE difference in performance.
Pat Kelley -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Tutelman Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Rescue clubs. At 10:34 AM 12/4/03 -0500, Jeremy Ingle wrote: >Nedbank winner and runner up --Sergio and Retief were both using these >clubs last week and already I have been asked if I can build some thing >similar i.e.: Taylor Made . Anyone have any recommendations where I can >get good quality heads? After some personal experience, I am convinced that the offset on these clubs is a big deal. For over a year, I had a genuine Taylor Made 18* Rescue in my bag. (Of course, I use very few clubs that I didn't make myself.) It was, among other things, the club to use when I absolutely, positively didn't want to go to the right. I tended to hit it more or less straight, frequently with a draw, never with a slice (my bad-swing shot shape), and occasionally with a duck hook. Over the past year, I have changed my swing somewhat, improving my shotmaking for all the clubs except the Rescue. As my swing got better, I developed an uncontrollable hook with the Rescue; it got to the point where I was afraid to take it out of the bag. Interestingly, I got better with my 22* hybrid (sorta shaped like the Rescue, but with no offset); the head on that is a Dynacraft Hypersteel. So I tried out a 19* Hypersteel as an alternative to the 18* Rescue (thanks, Charlie). Love it! The Rescue has been in the garage and the Hypersteel in the bag since June. The moral of the story: A Rescue-like head may be a hook problem. If so, consider a similar head with less or no offset, like the Hypersteel. Hope this helps, DaveT
