The perfect club driver is shorter than a conventional driver. For the past few months, ive knowingly been flouting the 14club rule by carrying two drivers. Mar 14, 2018 callaway rogue driver shaft length control and distance 45. This raises the immediate question, why is a relatively tall, obviously highly skilled player using a shorter than standard driver. The argument for playing a shorter driver has never been about distance.
The importance of shaft weight in fitting golf clubs cannot be overstated. Stiff shafts will allow you to better control your irons without sacrificing much distance. Taylormade drivers allow players to tune the driver s loft for a game that matches their technique. For now i have moved almost down to the shaft on the grip, which seems to have taken approx.
If you prefer a short but straight shot, go up a stiffness in shaft flex. So i decided to not only experiment with a shorter driver, but also heavier and stiffer. Time after time players see the ball start near the target line but then arc and swerve. Advanced ball striking view topic shorter driver shaft. We also found that this driver is better with a shorter shaft length so we would recommend it be kept at 45. We also found that this driver is better with a shorter shaft length so we. Aftermarket driver shafts for sale custom golf clubs. This may seem short to you but with their amazing club head speed and sweet spot accuracy the pros are still able to crush the ball a country mile, even with the shorter shaft.
Feb 25, 2015 shaft weight on its own has no relationship to launch angle or trajectory or spin. I am 6ft 4 tall, what length shafts do i need for my golf. When discussing the manner of fitting the shaft weight and total weight of a golf club, the conversation should also include fitting the swing weight, or better stated, the head weight feel of the golf club at the same time. Surprised more manufacturers dont offer shorter driver shaft options. What is gained though is the ability to hit the ball on the screws a higher percentage of the time, and the more often you can do that, the better you will drive the ball. Lastly, that rogue shaft is typically low launchspin. Aug 21, 2012 in all this time i did go to golftec2 yrs ago to have my swing looked at. Best driver specs for those who slice their shots golf tip. Oct, 2017 maintaining swing weight on shorter clubs hi, i am pretty new to fitting but i big fan of the fitting room podcast and just got a fitting at the performance center yesterday. Thanks for your detailed article of 2009 about are your golf clubs too long. This is the easy and quick solution, but just looking for anyone that has made the move to a much shorter driver. And the fact that i could get it out there farther than the driver.
The best 2019 driver and shaft combinations dlance. However with the introduction of larger heads and the competitive pressure to be the longest driver in the marketplace, the average driver shaft today has increased to 46 inches. Is it ok to cut down a 46 inch driver shaft to 43 inches waylandmy current 3wd is 42. Jds clubs offers hot deals on aftermarket driver shafts, for sale. How long should a golf driver shaft be if you are 56 tall. So not a lot, strenght has a lot to do with distance, i. Also remember that there are positions or clicks as we call them inbetween the standard, lower and higher positions so you can tweak the settings half way. The taylor made r15 driver and how to get the best from it. Can a shorter driver shafts say from 44 to 42 help or aid in driving the.
Better consistency hitting the center of the face longer. Jan 12, 2012 the argument for playing a shorter driver has never been about distance. Is the intent of the higher balance point so that you can use a heavier head or add more weight to the head achieving a heavier club weight without a high swing weight. Pick a lighter shaft and youll hit it farther, they claim, and stronger players should play heavier shafts. Players with a slower swing speed should utilize a driver with a more flexible shaft. The other alternative is the new royal collection trc driving spoon or ds as they call it. The other 3 times it cost me strokes and time looking in the woods. Best and worst cars for tall and short drivers consumer. There is no question i have been an advocate for driver shaft length to be shorter than the current standard driver shaft lengths as offered by the various golf equipment companies.
Mar 12, 2014 i have a launch angle that is very low, whether the loft is 9. I did much better with my standard 44 12inch driver, simply swinging a little harder. Like the prgr egg spoon, its made for big distance with the difference that the ds is. But as i noted drivers have also gotten lighter and longer than ever and for me, i cant swing these clubs consistently. Shaft length is only one factor and the gx7 has a 43 shaft length for better accuracy. Maintaining swing weight on shorter clubs callaway community. Trying a longer shaft is a popular suggestion these days, but most players should, if anything, try a shaft half an inch shorter than whats in their driver. These vehicles make the most sense for short drivers. I know demo days are really hard on reps but he should have at least counciled with you once the demo period was over or given you his bussiness card so you good talk to him later. Selecting the right shaft flex maximizes distance and accuracy. Feb 11, 2014 fair warning to long driver guys out there, if 350 yards into a 20mph wind was obtained using a 9. I have a titleist 910d2 with a stock ahina shaft that is 58g.
Shorter shaft if it would enable you to make center face contact more. Went to a clubfitter and lo and behold, a standard length driver, with the right shaft, was the answer. Even though, when swung correctly, a longer shaft will give you more distance, they can be harder to hit. The united states golf teachers federation states that a player with a fast swing tempo andor a short backswing will play better with stiff shafts. Shorter driver, higher loft if you can read this, click here to learn how to become a full member. The perfect club driver 370 vft perfect driver golf club. Can a shorter driver shafts say from 44 to 42 help or aid in driving the ball more consistent as opposed to longer shafts. Driver shaft length are you shorting yourself using a 46. If the driver is properly fit there should be no appreciable loss of distance. Choosing the best shaft for your game the golfworks. There are so many variables, that club fitters and players alike almost have to have a 6th sense to determine what is the best shaft for their game. Struggled with it for a week or so and then it seemed great.
Or, to give you another alternative, if you find that you can hit your driver better at a shorter than standard length such as 44 or 44 14 inches you may ultimately hit it even better by reshafting it with a heavier weight shaft like an 85 gram or 95 gram shaft. Once again, we feel that the shaft is of critical importance to getting optimum performance out of any club, but especially the driver. If you barely reach the 175 marker, you probably should choose ladies shafts. Id go to 44 but, i like the weight of my current shaft and didnt want to add that much weight to my clubhead.
One thing i came across that i am going to explore in this article was playing with a significantly shorter shaft. Same if not better distance and the ball marks on the face were in the center and more tightly clustered than my longer driver. Shorter driver with higher loft what should i expect. In the march hotlinks, club expert tom wishon wrote that one key to real improvement with the driver comes from a shorter length. Find the right driver shaft length for your game golficity. Families with differentsized drivers might consider the bmw x5, subaru forester, and the toyota highlander. Graphite shafts can be used in drivers and irons, though they are most commonly found in longer golf clubs. We had a sweet driver shaft fitting at club champion in january.
The stock driver length of most manufacturers taylormade, callaway ping, cobra these days is 45. The driver lie angle can make a whole lot of difference in a game. Proper length shorter is better weight and flex can give you more distance, accuracy and consistency. Did you also know that many pga tour players have driver shafts that are much shorter than that. This may not seem like much but weight can dramatically change your. Cutting driver shaft the 19th hole mygolfspy forum. Apr 24, 2019 so the mini is kind of a tweener that cant offer the same amount of moi and forgiveness as a driver but definitely has more than most fairway woods, and with a shorter shaft should be. I have pretty good results, but am not as accurate as i would like. If you must decide which shaft you should have, the best measurement is how far you hit your driver in the air. Over the last week i have experimented with choking down and have found that the distance is the same if not better since i hit the. Did you know that most stock shafts on drivers now are almost 46. For this video, weve used the gc quad launch monitor to gather real world data comparing two identical clubs that only differ in shaft length.
Is it ok to cut down a 46 inch driver shaft to 43 inches. How to measure and adjust driver lie angle flat vs. Now i am wondering if the mini driver and 5 wood shorter shafts are playing any part in this. Driver head on a 5 wood length shaft taylormade says that in the early 90s the average driver shaft was 43 inches. May 11, 2011 i used to play a 48inch driver, used to bomb that thingone out of 4 times. Subscribe to the golftec scramble for the latest on instruction, news, equipment and more. Im hoping to gain a better understanding of the purpose or intended user of a counterbalanced driver shaft.
Subscribe to trugolf academy for more videos for free. I have a decent swing speed 105 mph and dont have much of a problem hitting the shorter driver a good distance with good accuracy. I work hard at the range to catch my driver on a better plane to get a better launch angle. If i shorten my driver shaft will it help with accuracy of. Not only does the shorter shaft help with accuracy, the opti launch shaft aids in launch. One of the most difficult aspects of fitting today is choosing the best shaft for a player. Im the opposite, swing fast and aggressive so have always used heavier clubs so when i build myself 44 inch drivers i need to keep the total weight up so will add weight to the club, that can be through several means heavier shaft, heavier grip, more head weight or a combo of the 3 when i use a 12 driver i will usually jump up to x flex.
From the beginning of the 20th century all the way through to the middle 1980s, the standard mens driver length stood at 43. A professional clubmaker can probably get a shorter, modern driver playing like it should. Call us at 8883407820 or request an appointment online at. Those with already fast swingspeeds are more likely to enjoy the control benefits of shorter shafts while higher. If you have to cut it off, use a hookbladed knife like this one, available in the green lantern golf store. However steel shafts that are long enough to be a driver shaft are very uncommon, this is because they are so heavy. The best 2019 driver and shaft combinations dlance golf. Most people do not lose clubhead speed with a shorter driver, but they make better contact and hit the ball straighterin other words, they hit the ball more accurately and farther with a. Tiger woods at his longest used a relatively short 43. Dec, 2017 the definitive guide to shaft length, what you really need to know to make sure your clubs are fitted to you. How long should a golf driver shaft be if you are 52 tall. Manufacturers have been gradually moving towards shorter lengths over recent years. Over the past decade, there has been a shift to give longer shafts to consumers.
I gave up no real distance and gained more consistency with the shorter shaft and higher loft. You may just be able to add a different heavier shaft you can play shorter with better results. We immediately set out to fix that and discover whether golfers are helped or harmed by longer driver shafts. A handful of cars are especially versatile and are rated very highly by both tall and short testers. Im 61 and the number of flush strikes are better and my distance has not suffered whatsoever. When we realized that we had never tested the concept of shorter driver shafts being more accurate. But whats mostly likely to be happening and its just a guess but a. Senior pros tom watson and lanny wadkins are examples of players with such swings. This has worked ok for now, but just feels funny not to be at the end of the club. If you start down this road, id suggest a really smart and qualified fitter to help, or call tm customer service.
The driver will be better aligned on impact for improved consistency and control which ultimately results in greater distance and better results. Lincoln if you had every companys driver head off the shaft to do a balance on the face check of the approximate cg location you would find that pretty much the only way vcog varies by more than a couple of mm is when you have one driver with a shorter face height vs another with a taller face height. Can i shorten my driver shaft or should i just reshaft. The perfect driver lets you play golf the way it was intended to be playedfrom the fairway. That said, it makes sense to use, for example, a 70 gram shaft as a starting point for a player who prefers a 60 gram driver shaft because, when its cut shorter, the shaft will feel similar in terms of weight. The suggestion as ive always interpreted it is that a shorter driver will be more accurate, and because youre better able to control the club, and find the sweet spot, more often, average total distance could actually increase. With all the reporting this week about rickie fowler sporting a driver with a shorter shaft, i started hunting for more info that might be of help for any of you curious to try it. Shorter driver length means better and more consistent contact which leads to better and more consistent distance. If you look at the picture to the left, these are just a few of the steel iron shafts available and they run the range from 85 grams to grams.
It has a shorter shaft for a better attack angle and more control. A shorter driver, he said, encourages center contact on the clubface, which leads to longer, straighter drives. I am thinking about switching my driver shaft to a heavier model. Driver shaft length is shorter better than standard length. How to cut down your driver shaft length first, you gotta get that grip off. Many have heard that a shorter driver shaft can increase their consistency off the tee by allowing better contact. I found a few studies that showed promising results.
The reason is, with a straightblade, you risk cutting into the graphite fibers, which will weaken the shaft and cause premature and painful failure. Driver head on a 5 wood length shaft toronto golf nuts. Com equipment insider jonathan wall takes a look at rory mcilroys callaway apex mb irons, the rise of taylormades spider putter on tour, the. Now, with shorter shaft on my driver, and then cut 3 wood, and hybrids to make my set symetrical throughout, game is down 10 strokes, and getting better as i shot a 98 just before season ended. I played the pro force v2 77g stiff in my ping g20 driver for several years, and my experiments with shorter shaft length gave me more fairways without any noticeable to me change in trajectory and just a bit less distance. My 910 hybrids have heavier 80g shafts and i love the way they feel. Among our testers, the shortest is 5 feet 1 inch and the tallest is 6 feet 2 inches. Might have to go to a heavier shaft to get some of the feel back, from playing a shorter driver.
Would a shorter driver help my distance and accuracy. The reasonable shaft length makes it much easier to keep the ball in play off the tee. Aug 21, 2007 page 3 of 5 stiffest graphite driver shaft. Far from ignoring shaft weight, some of the big oems have actually built ad campaigns around it. Shortening the length of your driver swing weight and shaft.
Driver shaft length is shorter better than standard. Shaft length also plays an essential part in getting the most out of your driver. Using trackman my idea was to test the same golfer, clubhead and golf ball, but change the shaft length. I have always hit my driver better with a shorter length shaft driver. Best driver specs for those who slice their shots golf tip slicing the ball with the driver is one of the most frustrating and common faults among amateur golfers.
When fitting a driver, its important to get loft, lie, shaft, and grip sorted, but better driving may be hiding in a shorter shaft. Those elements are affected by the stiffness design of the whole shaft from butt to tip, what we call the bend profile of the shaft. With the shorter 44 shaft you have greater confidence and can cut loose with your swing. The quest for a more accurate driver practical golf. How to measure and adjust driver lie angle flat vs upright. The shaft is actually black not sure why they call it white. I have a tm 320 regular version with a prolite stiff. Also does a shorter shafts allow more consistent control. That will keep the swing weight high at shorter length. Cutting driver shaft page 3 the 19th hole mygolfspy forum. Or there may be a slightly better flex for you, though that influence is likely less important. A shorter driver doesnt give up as much swing speed as people think, but even if its a few mph, its negligible. It may seem surprising but the average driver length on the pga tour is slightly less, at 44.
Now if youve been paying any attention to our labs. Help with epic driver shafts wow, the responses you have gotten have blown me away, espically from the callaway rep at a demo day. Importance of shaft weight in fitting dlance golfd. I think the player who went from, say, a 50 gram driver shaft to a 90 gram fw shaft would be a significant outlier. Theyve tried to brain wash you into thinking that picking the right weight is simple. So a new driver isnt the answer for me i hit a 10 degree with a launch angle of 9. Aug 29, 2019 shaft length is only one factor and the gx7 has a 43 shaft length for better accuracy. Im 56 tall and seem to really for well with those two clubs lengths, and considering trying a shorter shaft to see if it helps with clean hits on the driver head. Department of health and human services, the average woman in the united states is 5feet4inches tall and the average male is 5feet9inches tall. I took my current driver, which is the titleist d3 8. It is totally possible to find different bend profile stiffness designs among any of the levels of shaft weight that are out there.
You will make more consistent contact and have more control. Now, after my 2ball putter, the club i have the most confidence in is my driver. Jul 28, 2019 the other unique factor about the design concept is that the club length is several inches shorter than that of your average driver. Driver lie angle is the measurement between the shaft and the center of sole on a driver. The driver lie angle will either be in the standard, flat or upright position. Players with a higher swing speed should opt for a stiffer shaft. Go get fit and if an astute fitter believes that you will do better with a driver shaft thats an inch shorter by all means do it. I am am a little shorter than the average golfer but have long arms for my height so i was fit into a 0. Anyone ever shorten their driver shaft for more control. Better yet, he didnt sacrifice distance jims yardage with the gx7 came within a couple clublengths of his driver. So the mini is kind of a tweener that cant offer the same amount of moi and forgiveness as a driver but definitely has more than most fairway woods, and with a shorter shaft should be. The reason is, with a straightblade, you risk cutting into the graphite fibers, which will.
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