----- Original Message ----- From: Carl McKinley To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 8:41 AM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Fall and Spring clubs
[ Doug, You've hit on part of it. I play at mostly muni courses that aren't in the greatest shape, particularly in the fall and spring. That and the ground is either dry and hard or frozen and hard. The heads I used are low center of gravity style heads with a cambered sole. The other factor is graphite shafts. Due to the condition of the ground I was experiencing some minor pain in my elbows and wrists, mostly wrists. The shafts have softened the blow. This has been my experience anyway, YMMV. Carl ] OK, that lines up with my experiences too. And it sounds like several others agree. Thanks, now I can be optimistic that maybe I'm not as complete of a hacker as I was beginning to think I was. :-) I always poo-poo'd graphite shafts for irons. I thought you didn't get anything except more expensive, longer, harder to control clubs with more dispersion. And as a hobbyist I didn't want to have to learn a whole nother set of parameters for my clubmaking. But this year I played a lot of golf and my lead elbow and wrist were really getting beat up. I started playing a set of graphites and now I'm hooked. They are as accurate as my steel sets have been, plus the body parts are no longer hurting. Sometimes I think I know a lot about this hobby, then I find out I don't really. :^/ DC
