David, I don't want to disagree with Arnie, because he has a TON more real life experience than I do, but I had a similar discussion with Tom Wishon, who at the time had a .370 hosel hybrid (i.e., camel toe, hack stick, utility club) and a matching .370 shaft.
I have a Tour Edge #3 hybrid (.370 hosel) and reshafted it with a Mach 22 iron shaft I had. I couldn't get it off the ground.
Tom's catalog stated that his shaft was specially designed to "allow the clubhead to exhibit greater bending influence on the shaft's tip half and to generate a higher launch angle." The shaft was dropped because of some naming problems and I e-mailed him to see if I could get some with the name removed (couldn't).
Anyway, Tom said that a normal .370 iron shaft wouldn't give the high launch angle I wanted. He did say that I'd be better off with a .335 wood shaft that I shimmed. (Another possibility is an Olimar .369 wood shaft).
To date I haven't reshafted the club, so I don't know if his advice is going to work.
/Ed
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In a message dated 6/26/03 12:51:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
These "new" clubs are easier to hit because the lengths are shorter than woods yet with a "wood" shaped hollow head they give the "wood results" favored by people who are not successful hitting long irons.. Be sure to purchase heads that use shafts made for irons
Hi Arnie,
Why be sure to purchase these type of heads that use iron shafts as opposed to wood shafts?
David
