hi
i went to get the flex checked and the guy who could do it was not around. the pro in the shop insisted it was because i was using steel and not graphite shafts.
he went on to say that compared to steel, graphite shaft
irons are more acturate than steel shafts and that i should give up on steel and invest in graphite.
i have never heard this before. i knew or heard the graphite were better on the hands and dampened vibration better. he went on to say that on the fair way that given a 20 yard lee way, they were in the middle more and more acurate than the steel
irons and drivers, "thats why they are more exspensive"? heck i thought it was due to there material and the difficulty in making them as apposed to steel.
so he gave me a grahphite shaft club supposedly the same as i have to try out and it did the same, slice, slice slice.
so i gave it back to him and went back to the driving range with my
clubs and started working..
like i said earlier the 3 wood, boom, easy comfortable swing and the ball goes straight
so i pick up the driver and bingo it goes straight then slice. so i experiment with different swings planes and notice that the club feels much heavier over all than the 3 wood though its only 1 inch longer.
in comparson to the 3 wood, the 3 wood looks like and feels the old persimum i learned to play with as a child or teenager. but the driver feels much heavier with the weight balance a little further down the shaft or toward the end than the 3 wood.
does anyone else notice this?
because of the weight balance the back swing feels over extended or harder to keep in balance with the rest of my body.
when all is in snyc the ball goes straight and long, 300 yards +, but 90 percent of the strikes on the driving range are a slice or hook, more slice than hooks.
i guess i need more practice with it. golf is like a penilty game. ya only have one chance at the t box, and if its bad, its really bad, its its good, great. so for me, untill i figure this damn thang out, i will playing with the 3 wood.
pat