Use it as much as you like so you can really know what the product will do for your game before you invest in it. If you don't love it, simply put it back in the box it came in, use the included prepaid return shipping label, and send it back to us.
That's it. If you do love it, that's awesome! More Details. Your swing speed plays a major role in choosing your shaft flex. Find out why you could be slicing or drawing the golf ball so much! No matter what you play with, it is important to pair your golf clubs with the right golf shafts. Still Undecided? You want to optimize all these factors for your swing and your ball flight.
Typical Miss: Slice left to right for right-handed golfer If your golf shaft is too stiff and your swing speed is too slow, your well-struck shot will be limited on both carry distance and shot trajectory ; a too-stiff golf shaft will most often lead to weak fades or slices.
Typical Miss: Draw right to left for right-handed golfer with too much spin A golf shaft that is too weak will flex excessively throughout the golf swing, creating an inconsistent release point. Graphite Golf Shafts Graphite shafts can be used in drivers and irons, though they are most commonly found in longer golf clubs. Fujikura Graphite Shaft. True Temper Graphite Shaft. Find out how much it is to reshaft and also find out how much your used set of clubs would sell for.
If you have something more than five or six years old, it may not make sense to put new shafts in the club. Start looking for newer equipment with the proper shaft in place. Always consider the cost of labor in addition to the cost of the shaft. The good news for senior golfers is that there are not steel shaft options to choose from. Senior golf shafts are almost always going to be graphite. The graphite is lighter and helps seniors get the ball flight and distance that they need. For the golfer that is still swinging regular shafts, they will need to consider what their preferences are in their golf game.
Graphite shafts tend to travel further, but they are not entirely as accurate. Steel shafts may cost you a few yards because they are heavier , but they will be easier to control. If you are a player that struggles with distance, go with the graphite shafts. If you are a player that struggles with control, go with steel. When it comes to senior flex drivers, the Mitsubishi Rayon are some of the lightest and most forgiving.
This is a 57gram shaft, which is a perfect weight for a senior golfer. Anything under 60 grams is going to help golfers get more clubhead and ball speed.
Some of the lightest shafts you will see for seniors are around 40grams. Project X makes high-end golf shafts that usually have mid kick points and mid-spin. They have been used in top of the line drivers for many years. This driver comes with an adapter so you can put it directly in the golf club you are already playing, and it has a grip installed as well. There is not much difference at all between ladies and senior flex. Most of the time, the only difference between a senior flex shaft and a ladies flex shaft will be the length of the shaft.
The senior flex shaft can sometimes be a few grams heavier than the ladies, but this all depends on the manufacturer. Yes, a light flex and a senior flex are the same things. Some golf companies will put an A on the golf club to indicate that it is the senior flex. The up or down adjustment in the swing speed rating and tip stiffness recommendation is the same for all other clubhead speeds.
Suitable candidate shafts are chosen by the club fitter from which the test club hitting process begins. Again, because the best club fitters are superb multi-taskers during the test club sessions for flex and bend profile, the club fitter is also testing for shaft weight, swing weight and continually asking the golfer for feedback with each change of head weight or shaft.
Through this process, the club fitter will be able to know what the actual stiffness measurements are for each shaft model feedback opinion from the golfer. Again, with the right database of shaft stiffness measurements, the process of flex and bend profile fitting becomes a very organized, very orderly, and very accurate process.
Without such information, shaft flex and bend profile fitting will forever be a matter of trial and error. Tom Wishon is a year veteran of the golf equipment industry specializing in club head design, shaft performance analysis and club fitting research and development.
He has been responsible for more than 50 different club head design firsts in his design career, including the first adjustable hosel device, as well as the first 0. He continues to teach and share his wealth of knowledge in custom club fitting through his latest book, "Common Sense Clubfitting: The Wishon Method," written for golf professionals and club makers to learn the latest techniques in accurate custom club fitting.
Tom currently heads his own company, Tom Wishon Golf Technology, which specializes in the design of original, high-end custom golf equipment designs and club fitting research for independent custom club makers worldwide Click here to visit his site, wishongolf. Thanks for your articles, really enjoy hearing your perspective! Tom Wishon. If you take a look at the clubhead speed ranges that they advise, you will see that every R flex is rated for the same mph driver speed, every S for the same swing speed and so on.
In doing this they are showing they are not aware of the fact that there is no standard for letter flex as I showed in that bend profile graph in the article. Also, having a mph swing speed range within the same flex is too large. While there are some areas for which I hold high regard for Golfworks, this is not one of them and the information is not very good for helping golfers find the best shaft for their swing characteristics.
That graph you see in the article comes from my Bend Profile software program in which we now have something like 3, different shafts in the data base.
Many of the clubmakers use this as their guide for empirically comparing the full length stiffness design of shafts so they know much more precisely how one shaft compares to the other. We certainly do not have all the shafts in the data base because this is a monumental task to try to get samples of as many shafts as we can.
We certainly cannot buy them all. So we ask the shaft makers to submit samples of their shafts for us to measure and put into the data base. And as happens, some of the shaft makers choose not to participate for whatever reasons. But as it stands now, this software program is the most extensive data base of shaft relative stiffness measurements for clubmakers or golfers to have to be able to make better empirical comparisons.
Thanks for the reply Tom. I was under the impression Golfworks had a bit more sophisticated analysis at play, but as you point out, my impression was false.
Thanks again so much for posting. Incredibly valuable knowledge. It seems from reading your posts, I have been misunderstanding the role of shaft flex and it seems I would not be alone! I have always thought the main consideration in choosing a shaft is the trade-off between distance and accuracy. Want more distance, get a flexible shaft that will bend more and load the club head more like a sling shot catapult. I see mention of stiffness affecting two main areas: 1 trajectory, spin rate, and launch angle for harder swinging, late releasing folks, which I think I would also be ; and 2 an individual preference for the feel of the club either loading or not loading.
Have I been wrong all these years in thinking the main consideration in choosing stiffness is the trade-off of distance and accuracy? Devon: Thanks for asking your question so I could have the chance to answer because this is a very good question since it has been said over the years that stiffer means more accurate and flexible means more distance. This concept has its roots from way back, long before serious research was done to find out precisely what the stiffness design of a shaft really does for golfers with different swing characteristics.
It fooled Karsten because those who remember Ping clubs from the 70s and 80s recall that he always used one very stiff flex in all the clubs Ping made back then, from this belief that going very stiff was better because it offered better accuracy. But once he and his engineers discovered the real performance contribution of flex and bend profile, Ping did move away from this original very stiff philosophy to make their clubs with different flexes to better match to the clubhead speeds of golfers.
Where this stiffer is more accurate and flexible is more distance belief came about was from way back when really good players would use different flex shafts — not from regular golfer testing with different stiffnesses. So these higher speed, late release players would see that they had a tendency to draw or even hook the ball a little more when using a much more flexible shaft.
So from this came the belief that stiffer was more accurate. The concept that more flexible meant more distance came from the fact that when a higher speed, later release player used a more flexible shaft, often times the higher launch resulted in more carry distance, particularly if the player was using too little loft on the driver for his speed and his angle of attack. The shaft flex is a distant and only slight contributor to that.
The easiest is of course the old fashioned way of testing different shaft types side-by-side on a driving range or out on the course. The final, and arguably best, way to find your ideal flex is to go for a custom fitting session.
As a rough rule of thumb, the more speed you generate, the stiffer your shafts should be. The aim of the game is to match your swing with the correct shaft flex to maximise your distance and control.
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