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Less loft leads to more side spin. Either if is a good side spin (draw or a fade) or a bad side spin (hooks and slices) you have to have great skills to work the ball with this a 8.5.

In order to minimize the margin of error, some pros on the tour are backing off from this kind of reduced loft. They are moving to higher lofted drivers such as 10 degrees which helps them to "bomb" the ball on a more controlled manner.

If you have a excessive high ball flight, it has little to do with your driver loft and more to do with an open clubface, not transfering your weight to the front on the downswing, or a weak, rather than strong grip.

Hold the club up in front of your chest, now make some practice swings.

#1 as you swing the club back the left hand should be on top of the right
#2 as soon as you start the downswing the right hand rolls over the left.
#3 some people like to think of the left hand and others think of the right hand.

What part of the club (iron) should make contact with the ball?
As the golf club swing down the LEADING EDGE of the golf club makes contact with the bottom of the golf ball, the golf ball hits the face in the middle and then due to the speed your body is moving the leading edge enters the turf a little bit in front of the golf ball.

Very easy to describe, very difficult to do.

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