A regular shafted club will flex more during a swing. These shafts are better suited for golfers who have a slower swing speed. These shafts have additional flex that gives a bit extra power and more accuracy. They are light weight shafts that make it easier to bend. Compared to regular shafted clubs, the stiff shaft clubs tend to flex less when you swing.
These shafts are an ideal pick for players who swing harder. The stiff shaft flex provides the player with more control and offers the power you require to hit better strikes. These shafts are harder to bend and usually heavier in weight as well. As a result, even a well-struck shot would fall short of both the distance covered and the flight of the shot.
Neither would it benefit you on a dry course as with the low runner, you would be clueless about where the ball will come to a stop. As without correct shaft flex, the clubhead would not release, and the clubface would be open at impact. This would result in an inconsistent release point. Sign me up for the newsletter! It will be your reference guide for years to come! Join more than 30, golfers and receive email updates when new articles post. We'll also send you a free copy of our bestselling eBook on course strategy.
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Subscribe To The Newsletter Join more than 30, golfers and receive email updates when new articles post. My preconceptions would be the same as many other golfers - notably, that the softer the shaft, the higher the ball flies, the more it spins and the more to the left it misses for the faster swinger. Conversely, a shaft that is too firm for me will fly too low and miss right. Interestingly, with my swing speed hovering around the mark the difference in performance was very small indeed.
It did give me a lower launch and flight but the differences were definitely not as big as I was expecting! A lower swing speed tester did see bigger differences in the numbers, but the dispersion shocked us — the x-stiff HZRDUS Smoke actually missed more to the left.
This flies against the theory that a club with a softer shaft is easier to square up through impact and should ultimately go more to the left than a stiffer shaft. With minimal differences experienced across the board, getting the right shaft, it seems, is part of the fine-tuning process. Perhaps more importantly, this experience has taught me never to go into a fitting with any preconceptions about which shaft might be right.
There will be nothing to stop you for splitting your set, you can go for accuracy upon the shorter clubs and you need to have less flex for scoring clubs then more flex for longer clubs.
This is the beauty for custom fitting. The last set of mine consisted of half-blades and half cavity backs, why not be bold and inventive. It is not easy to figure out these viral statistics about your golf swinging.
For this purpose you need to go to a Pro or to a shop which is offering custom fitting. They will have some kind of instruments that will give you the number. Think about this as from your starting point. It is really important to mention that at this point, even you have a better swinging speed that should perform in a stiff shaft, or a regular shaft so try some and figure out some numbers.
You need to be open minded. Like almost anything while playing golf, there are no hard, strict and fast rules. So some of certain regular shafts can perform much higher swing speeds as we were thinking.
The main thing is your tempo and how you are loading has a major effect on what flex you need so for the sake of this you can contact someone Pro. Due to more stiffness your driver will effect as in ball flight which is already mentioned. Also the ball will tend to be lower and left. With this you will feel as if the club has no life to it, and so you need to work very hard to get solid contact.
Generally due to this it will not feel good. Also mainly, you will not get the clubhead speed which you deserve and you will miss fairways. As far as you get older, there will come a point when you will lose some athleticism and you would need to get a bit more flex in your shaft. This will give additional rise in your swinging skills and you will feel great when you will do this.
If you have a driver shaft with too much flex, this will tend you to hit high slices. In the end we can say that Golf is really a complicated mistress. Hare can be said as that for the majority of golf players suggest that a beginner should be using a regular shaft as compared to others. Sometimes a beginner who is starting golf from another sport like hockey or baseball hitting games will take up golf fastly as compared to others. Also they will have a fast swinging speed which needs to be repurposed for golf, so these people may require a stiffer shaft.
Yes absolutely you can and many of you should. Now for example, we had put the same question to a golf pro player. He said, i have my driver with extra stiff shaft from Obran but my three wood has loaded with stiff shaft from Mitsubishi. Also he said that this mixture really helps him and he had tried May options on launch monitor before he had committed to add it up in his bag. For making a proper golf gear-heads, shafts plays and important roles. And also are a great subject for excitement. There are so many shafts you can try out and select the best one which suits you.
Do not be committed with only one flex through your whole bag. Before moving on to question, the most important thing is that you should not cut down a shaft before you have knowledge about what you are doing.
After this you also need to balance it out after the cut! This can ruin your whole performance and waste the club. Hare one more question arises that many top golfers are using shorter driver shafts, so why do they do this at all?
Just a sec think for your golf club as a lever, the longer the lever will go the more power you can generate with less effort. For listening or reading it this looks good but also remember that this means that you will tend to lose some accuracy.
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