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canadian_man_44 · #5 (**permalink**) 09-04-2006, 07:09 AM

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LowPost,

True, a swing with flaws can be the problem. I'm not argueing that point. However, in my quest to find the perfect combination, I have demoed several drivers with different flexes. Using the same swing with each club here's what I came to find. Regular flex = slice, stiff flex = straight, xstiff flex = draw-hook. You can take any stiffness of shaft and "load it". Although you might not notice it flexing as much as the regular, the stiff or even xstiff shaft will flex, however slight it may be, which will cause it to unload at some point in your swing, which can cause a closed club face if it unloads before contact with the ball. My point is, the wrong shaft flex in my last driver was the ultimate reason for some very intense slicing. Anyway, just for arguments sake jayryan, what is the shaft flex in your current driver? Do you slice with it? If so, take it to the driving range and hit some balls with it. Hit a few balls like you normally would. Are you slicing? If you are, hit a few more balls but swing slower, say around 85% of your regular speed. Are you slicing? If not then you probably should shift to a stiffer shaft. That's what I did and it works great.

As far as the swing speed conversion chart goes, I don't see anywhere on it where it says the driver angle is 16degrees. Personally, I have a swing speed of around 95 MPH. I use a 10.5 degree driver and I carry the ball 250-265 in the air. To me, that seems pretty damn close to the chart. Also, as the chart says, I hit my 7 iron 150 yards. I found this chart online while searching for a chart that might help jayryan with his choice of shaft. Sorry, I checked out quite a few places so don't know the url.

Anyway, Lowpost you might notice what I said just before the chart in my previous post. I'll quote myself,

"Here's a swing speed conversion chart I found online that might help you with your choice of flex. Keep in mind, however, that every shaftmaker is slightly different. Regular flex in one make of shaft might be the same as a stiff flex in another make shaft."

How much more clear than that can I be. Every shaftmaker in the world doesn't conform to exact standards. For example, Penleys stiff flex may not have the exact flex as Aldilas stiff flex. This chart seemed to be the closest to my swing speed = distance so that's the one I copied. It might not be the same for you, however, as far as what flex you should have when comparing carrying distance, most of these charts seem to be pretty close, thank you very much.

As far as this trajectory software that you speak of, I put my stats as far as swing speed, launch angle, etc. into a few of these and they don't come close to the distance I actually hit my driver. I guess they're not perfect either, are they??????