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Old 09-14-2005, 09:51 PM
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Re: One size fits all

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Originally Posted by javichanche
That wouldn't be real golf. Golf is the most interesting sport because of its difficulty. Golf is about imagination and that's why we need to think in a lot of variables. To invent a set of clubs with same length of shafts is absurd in my opinion, that'd break the essence of real golf. It's fine to make clubs that can help us win distance but the idea of making the same shafts for every club would distort the golf. Have you ever heard Severiano or Nicklaus speaking about that crazy idea??The answer is No, because Golf can't accept those sort of changes. Can you imaging Seve playing a lobwedge with a shaft of a 7 iron???Please, forget that idea. Thanks
Well... I was just wondering. There's a lot of rhetoric in your reply, but I take it you think that having all the same shafts would make the game too easy? I don't believe that for a minute. You say it's "fine" to make clubs that allow us to hit farther, but not fine to make clubs that make it easier to strike the ball consistently? If that's so, then I guess clubs with cavity backs and peripheral weighting, and all other sorts of "game improvement" clubs should never have been developed either. All of these clubs are meant to make it easier to strike the golf ball.

When I posed the question, I had no idea 1irongolf.com even existed. It was purely speculative, because I couldn't see any good reason why the shafts of different clubs should be different lengths. And as far as that goes, the pros *do* customize shaft lengths according to their own whims.

Those 1irongolf clubs are pretty expensive, but I bet one could get a custom made set of "uni-shaft" clubs made for a very reasonable cost.
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