Shaft Stiffness and Irons
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From: Dave Lee on 6 Feb 2007 07:02 "Tom K" <tkanitra(a)optonline.net> wrote in message news:STSxh.54$Ry2.41(a)newsfe10.lga... > Are you anywhere near a Golfsmith or similar place where you can go on a > golf monitor for some swings for free? Golfsmith also has a very good club > making course Saturday mornings and afternoons. > > --Tom > > No Golfsmith's near where I am. Certainly are some monitors around, although not typically for free. I've thought about actually doing a side-by-side comparison on a monitor where you could probably detect small dispersion (or whatever) differences might result from different shafts. dave
From: Howard Brazee on 6 Feb 2007 10:35 On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:08:47 -0500, "Martin Levac" <vac3(a)REMOVEvideotron.ca> wrote: >The best equipment with regards to golf is the one that will allow me to >produce the most accurate shots. There's no question about that. Since the >golf club is a lever and since levers are used to transmit power from one >end to the other and since I need to be as accurate as possible in golf and >since a very rigid shaft will allow me to do that, I'll take the stiffest >shaft available and it will suit me just fine. It is possible to make much more rigid shafts than are available in golf clubs. But manufacturers don't make them because nobody would buy them. Sure, some players have a shorter swing that fits with stiffer shafts than other players - but they all want some flex. Maybe they are all wrong and you are right. Or maybe they are right and you are unique - so you also are right.
From: Howard Brazee on 6 Feb 2007 10:36 On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:50:28 -0500, "Martin Levac" <vac3(a)REMOVEvideotron.ca> wrote: >Euh, because if they were to make and sell only one shaft, it would mean to >admit to everybody that they were lying to us all this time. Why should we >then believe them about this one shaft being the only thing we needed? Euh, >because they must satisfy the demand that they themselves created with their >lies to make a profit? New companies come into existence all the time. They *love* to tell us that the old companies didn't "get" it.
From: Martin Levac on 6 Feb 2007 10:42 "Howard Brazee" <howard(a)brazee.net> wrote in message news:so7hs254ev0tc1qbvial74o0rbmaqsidq8(a)4ax.com... > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:08:47 -0500, "Martin Levac" > <vac3(a)REMOVEvideotron.ca> wrote: > >>The best equipment with regards to golf is the one that will allow me to >>produce the most accurate shots. There's no question about that. Since the >>golf club is a lever and since levers are used to transmit power from one >>end to the other and since I need to be as accurate as possible in golf >>and >>since a very rigid shaft will allow me to do that, I'll take the stiffest >>shaft available and it will suit me just fine. > > It is possible to make much more rigid shafts than are available in > golf clubs. But manufacturers don't make them because nobody would > buy them. > > Sure, some players have a shorter swing that fits with stiffer shafts > than other players - but they all want some flex. > > Maybe they are all wrong and you are right. Or maybe they are right > and you are unique - so you also are right. That's reasonable. I agree.
From: Howard Brazee on 6 Feb 2007 10:42
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 18:33:06 -0500, "Martin Levac" <vac3(a)REMOVEvideotron.ca> wrote: > >What is strange is that you prefer a supple shaft in the driver and rigid >shaft in the irons. That's fairly common. Most people can hit a ball farther with a flexible shaft. Drivers are designed to hit the long ball. But when we hit a 9I, we want consistency more than length. Also, we are much more likely to take half swings with our irons than with our drivers. |