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In 2025, you’re going to want a driver with adjustability. Adjustable loft sleeves make it easier to fine-tune your ball flight and ensure your club matches your game’s specific needs. But unless you’re a club fitter, understanding how these adjustments work can be confusing. Every day, golfers often underutilize loft sleeves. Let’s look at how adjustable loft sleeves function and what they can and can’t change.

What does an adjustable loft sleeve do?

A loft sleeve connects your club shaft to the clubhead, allowing you to modify three critical performance factors:

Loft: Controls how high or low the ball launches.Face Angle: Influences your shot shape (draw or fade).Lie Angle: Impacts your initial ball direction (left or right).

These adjustments can help:

Correct common swing faults like slicing or hooking.Adapt to weather conditions (e.g., windy days).Optimize launch and spin for maximum distance and accuracy.

How adjustments to the loft sleeve impact your shots

When you change the setting on a loft sleeve, you do more than just alter the loft number stamped on the club. These adjustments change how the club sits at address, how the face points at impact, and how the ball launches off the face.

While these adjustments are not a fix for a flawed swing, the loft sleeve is a way to adjust your starting direction, shot shape, and launch height to better fit your natural tendencies or the conditions you’re playing in. Here’s a simple breakdown of what each change typically does:

If you belong to a golf club or league with some friendly competition, chances are you have played in a best ball format. Best Ball is one of amateur and recreational golf’s most popular team formats. However, it’s often misunderstood and referred to as a scramble. I’ll go through what the best ball tournament is, how to play it, and what the USGA has to say about playing in a best ball event.

What is best ball?

In a best ball format, each player on a team (typically 2–4 golfers) plays their own ball for the entire round. After each hole, only the lowest individual score among the teammates counts as the team score for that hole.

If all players on the team had a five but one had a four, then the team score for the hole is a four. Only one score is recorded per hole, and the team with the lowest total score after 18 holes wins.

Best ball tournaments can be played as gross or net.

How to play best ball

The great thing about the best ball format is that you play your golf ball. You’re still playing in a team format, but you get to complete your typical round of golf.

Every year, the debate around distance in golf heats up, fueled by governing bodies, pro tours, and pundits convinced that golfers are hitting the ball too far.

 It’s gotta be the ball (or some such nonsense).

Data collected by Arccos tells a different story.

About the Arccos annual driving distance report

Now in its seventh year, the just-released annual Arccos Driving Distance Report draws from more than 6.5 million driver shots captured across 4 million rounds played in 2024. This year’s report offers the most detailed look yet at how real golfers perform off the tee. The findings? They cut straight through the noise, challenging assumptions, exposing trends, and reminding us that distance isn’t the villain some have made it out to be.

So with that said, let’s look at six key insights from the most recent report.

Stop letting your ball flight control your game and start taking control of it. If you’re the golfer who hits 35 slices in a row on the range, it is time to change that. Learning to hit a hook on purpose can teach you exactly what you need to fix a slice. If you are ready to take control of your golf shots, here is what you need to know about the hook vs slice and how to hit both.

Hook vs. slice: What’s the difference?

To start out, let’s look at the difference between the hook and the slice.

Hook: A shot that curves hard from right to left for a right-handed golfer (left to right for a left-handed golfer).Slice: A shot that curves hard from left to right for a right-handed golfer (right to left for a left-handed golfer).

Both shots happen because of a mismatch between your clubface angle and your swing path at impact.

How to hit a slice on purpose

Most of the time, golfers research how to fix a slice or how to stop hitting a slice. This is a bit of a different approach that teaches you how to hit a slice so that if you run into an issue with a slice on the course, you should understand the fundamentals of how to fix it.

To hit a slice for right-handed golfers):

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