[quote=aftford]I find this thread most alarming.
How many people must have bought a " off the peg " driver etc, expecting it to perform to its proported design specs , only to find problems with their expected results and therefore thinking that they must be at fault and not the extremely over priced club....Are there any governing bodies in force in the uk and usa ???????

Aft


There has always been talk that TaylorMade and Callaway stock shafts play 1 or 2 flexes soft. That they do it on purpose because a lot of golfers like the idea of hitting "stiff shafted" clubs, but really can't. So, their flexes are soft to basically trick golfers into playing the flex they need and end up hitting the ball farther with their equipment.

I know when I visit my Dad and do not have room for my clubs and borrow and old set of his, I play with an TayloMade 320 with purports to have a regular shaft. Now my swing speed is somewhere around mid 90's maybe 100 on a good day. So a regular shaft should be OK and right now I am hitting a regular fujikura shafted Adams driver, but that TM plays more like a senior flex.

As for governing bodies they are concerned wether the equipment conforms to usga/European rules of core etc. not on any terms put on the equipment.