I haven't looked at DT's site yet, but is it trial and error for me to figure out my ideal overall weight? How would I know if D1 was better than a D5 besides taking it out to the range?
"tflan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What's most important? You'd get a lot of argument but consider this. You >can conceivably achieve a swingweight of say, D2, with a telephone pole for >a shaft. SW is a relationship between headweight, gripweight, and shaft >weight at the tip end. However, it would be pretty tough to swing a >telephone pole no matter what the swingweight. So, I believe that SW is a >relatively unimportant factor in golf club design - as long as there isn't a >large difference from club to club. Some folks seem to think that the ideal >SW is D2. Others like D0, and still others are devotees of SW's in the E >range. I remember the "ADVP" clubs of a few years ago. The metal woods were >in the high "E" SW range. They didn't feel any different than did heavier >clubs with SW's in the "C" and "D" ranges. In fact they felt considerably >less "head heavy" than did many other clubs. There was a line of clubs >developed by Dave Pelz; they were ultralights with SW's in the "C" range. >The relationship between head and butt end seemed to be o.k. but since the >shaft was so light and the heads relatively light, you could feel the head >even though the SW was in the "C" range. SW really doesn't mean much in the >great scheme of things. Overall weight is considerably more important, IMO. > >Trial and error for SW? Well, depends upon how you define it. If you have a >particular SW in mind then it is, in a sense, trial and error unless you >have a system to calculate it. Fortunately for clubmakers, Dave Tutelman has >provided just such a program on the Clubmaker-online website. DT's program >gives you all the info you need to calculate SW based upon shaft weight, >length, etc. Check it out. > >TFlan > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "LilCallaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 12:13 PM >Subject: ShopTalk: Swing weight > > >> Is it only by trial and error that someone figures out proper >swingweighting for a particular club? �What would be more >important--swingweight or overall weight? >> Thanx.... >> >> P.S. �This is what I really wanted to know. �I got confused when I asked >the shaft length question..... >> >> -- >> And you only hit it how far?..........Try the VFT >> >> >> __________________________________________________________________ >> The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! >http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp >> >> Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at >http://webmail.netscape.com/ > > -- And you only hit it how far?..........Try the VFT __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
