Recently, a question came from reader Kirby W. If drivers become slower with use:
For several years, perhaps decades, my course friends and their fathers talk about drivers who lose their “pop”. My question is, can a driver lose “pop” or his explosives after years spend similar to a wedge losing grooves? If so, how are those deadlines?
This is an interesting question, partly because it highlights one of the constant golf myths. “My driver just doesn’t bomb it as I used to!” Maybe you are you who lost speed (though I’m generally on board with the equipment blame).
Drivers get faster

Having time and use, many drivers will experience what is called CT Crew. This is essentially your driver’s face becoming more flexible over time. That spring effect that USGA is constantly trying to the police? Actually becomes Springier.
In other words, drivers usually become more quickly used.
Do you need evidence? Don’t look farther than this year’s PGA Championship where USGA considered Taylormade Qi10 Drivers in Rory Mcilroy and Scottie Scheffler bags be non-conform. While there is always a variability between testing equipment and operators, it is completely possible (if not likely) that with all Tour Ball players hit, their drivers became more responsible than the USA allows.
At one point, they were conforming, but eventually, there were plenty of CT delays that were not.
So your driver is probably not losing pop, it is likely to gain the high age speed of dogs like excellent whiskey than the sun dipped in the sun.

Plot twist: Why can your driver sound shorter
Before you start boasting your game partners, there is a wrinkle that can explain why some golf players swear their drivers have lost distance.
Speed is only an ingredient in the distance recipe. Starting the angle and rotation of the rotation, too.
Here’s where things get interesting. While many golf companies have moved to more elastic materials in recent years (Father material found in GT title For example, driver faces), faces can still be flattened with repeated use.
The driver’s faces have “Bulge and Roll”. This is the industry industry for curvature that helps correct hits outside the center. If the rotation (bending from the crown to single) flattened above the center of the center, the balls will not start so high.
In that scenario, even if your face became a little faster, the lower onset may mean that you are actually losing distance. Likes how to have a faster car, but you are stuck by running it uphill in a head.

When faces eventually give up
Another factor to consider is facial failure. Faces are known to fail, but it is rarely a single catastrophic event.
The separation usually begins with microfisia (small cracks). In the short term, these can actually lead to more speed, but, with enough time, you can see speed loss and, eventually, like metallic fatigue, total failure.
Think about it while your driver lives quickly and is dying young. It can be a wild journey, so enjoy it.

Ultimately
So is your pop driver losing? Probably not in the way you think. If anything, it can be gaining illegal amounts of speed, while potentially losing some startup features that help optimize distance.
Unlike your wedges, which eventually lose rotation while grooves wear down, your driver is on another trip – potentially getting faster, but perhaps less optimized in general.
If you are convinced that your driver has lost distance, the culprit is much more likely to be:
- Your oscillation (this happens to all of us)
- Changing Starting Conditions by Facial Deformation
- The ball changes
- A wearing check that affects your ability to give the club efficiently and effectively
- That extra drink on the other hand is affecting both your performance and your perception
So the next time your partner playing blames their fading distance in a head of aging, you can illuminate them with some actual knowledge. Maybe wait until they bought the first round.

What do you think?
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