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RE: Hireko's new Acer XDS React hybrids - 02/14/12 8:35:54 AM
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jrsharp21
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I'm 100% against the fairway-wood-sized-hybrid head. Why? Because a hybrid is designed with the same loft, head weight, lie angle and shaft length as the corresponding # iron, and as such it is meant to be swing like an iron rather than a fairway wood. When you put a large FW wood sized head on the end of a shaft, when you look down at the club at address your mind is likely to think "fairway wood" and thus you are more likely to swing it like a FW wood rather than an iron. And in my experience, most of the people who I have met who can't hit a hybrid to save their life, tend to swing it more like a FW wood rather than an iron. Golf is a very mental game, and looking down at a fairway wood sized head and telling yourself "this is a hybrid, not a wood", and then telling yourself "swing it like an iron, not a fairway wood", isn't an easy thing to do. Your subconscious is likely to take over and cause you to swing it incorrectly, much like it already does for a lot of people with regular hybrid heads.
Didn't mean for that to sound like a rant, but reading it back it kinda does. 
Rant or not, I think it's a good point. The size and shape of a head doesn't dictate your swing, but I think it certainly can influence it. An iron head with a lot of offset won't make you hook the ball, but it can get in your head at address and alter your swing and it's very hard to convince yourself otherwise. Of course every golfer is different and there are some that may make a better swing with an overly large hybrid head so there are no rules to what works for you.
I am one who has more confidence with a larger hybrid head. I have been gaming the Acer XDS widesole hybrids for a long time now. They are the one club in my bag never replaced....until maybe now.
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RE: Hireko's new Acer XDS React hybrids - 02/14/12 1:11:56 PM
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Cannot tell you how many of the XDS wide sole hybrids I have built--a lot of them--never had anyone not like them or like the way they hit. Am going to have to get some of the new style in and see for myself but they do look interesting. Sorry to see the originals go tho, still have about 15 on my shelf--still build some almost on a weekly basis.
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RE: Hireko's new Acer XDS React hybrids - 02/15/12 1:06:51 PM
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Definitely on my list to try when they become available. Especially the 18* machete model.
The 18* Machete is one of the new fairway woods, it's not a hybrid. And that's simply a clubhead that has the loft of a 5 wood but the weight of a 7 wood, and is meant to be built to a 7 wood length. It's basically the same thing they did with the Raw Power 3 wood which they designed to be built like a 5 wood but with the loft of a 3 wood. But the one thing they screwed up on, both with the Raw Power and this new Machete, is that they left the lie angle the same as a 5 wood rather than making it that of a 7 wood. And you can achieve the same thing by taking any 5 wood head on the market and adding 8-10g of weight to the hosel and making it to the length of a 7 wood. So I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but there's nothing too earth shattering there. Should still be a nice easy to hit club though with the shallow 32mm face height.
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Cannot tell you how many of the XDS wide sole hybrids I have built--a lot of them--never had anyone not like them or like the way they hit. Am going to have to get some of the new style in and see for myself but they do look interesting. Sorry to see the originals go tho, still have about 15 on my shelf--still build some almost on a weekly basis.
These are much larger than the XDS Wide Sole hybrids, they are basically fairway-wood-sized heads with hybrid lofts and head weights. Don't get me wrong, I'll still try them when they come out and I'll still carry them in my shop if people want them, but I'm personally not a fan of the design.
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RE: Hireko's new Acer XDS React hybrids - 02/15/12 2:58:12 PM
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The volume on the XDS react appear to be around 30cc less than the XDS widesole. For instance the volumen on the XDS widesole 19* hybrid is 168cc. The 20* hybrid in the XDS React is 139cc. The breadth on the XDS widesole hybri is 70.5mm while the XDS react is 73mm. For headweight comparison, the 19* XDS widesole is 237g. The 20* XDS React is 242g.
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RE: Hireko's new Acer XDS React hybrids - 02/16/12 8:18:29 AM
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Per Jeff Summitt:
We had a lot of success with the original XDS Wide Sole hybrid so we took the basic size and maintained it throughout the set, but vastly improved (IMHO) the looks and performance in many other areas.
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RE: Hireko's new Acer XDS React hybrids - 02/17/12 11:28:09 AM
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Jeff just posted that all thew new Hireko products will be in stock on March 9th!
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RE: Hireko's new Acer XDS React hybrids - 02/17/12 6:28:47 PM
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Yep, but waiting for DTG to see what they will have out this year also.
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RE: Hireko's new Acer XDS React hybrids - 03/08/12 6:01:34 PM
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New Hireko products out tomorrow!
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RE: Hireko's new Acer XDS React hybrids - 03/08/12 6:03:58 PM
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New Hireko products out tomorrow!
Not all will be out, but some for sure. Exciting. 
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RE: Hireko's new Acer XDS React hybrids - 03/08/12 6:10:45 PM
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Here's what will be in tomorrow:
P986 – Spot putter
AMJR1007-260- Pal Joey Driver
AMJR742 – Pal Joey FW
AIWJR742 – Pal Joey Hy
ZI001- pal joey irons
TM1006 – Caiman X2 drivers
M2066 – Caiman X2 # 3 & 5 FW
P991 & PL991– Acer iSight Santa Barbara
P992 – Acer iSight Anacapa
P993 – Acer iSight San Miguel
P995- Acer iSight Santa Cruz
PL994 – LH Acer iSight Santa Rosa
APGSH2 – Apollo Shadow graphite
APGSH2FL – Apollo shadow graphite FL
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RE: Hireko's new Acer XDS React hybrids - 03/08/12 6:22:44 PM
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Aaron will you have those in tomorrow as well?
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RE: Hireko's new Acer XDS React hybrids - 03/08/12 6:22:59 PM
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Also the React FW and Hybrids... drivers are not in yet.
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