When I say stiff, that's the way Precision sells the rifle airlite.
Regular and stiff. I went by Golfsmith's RSSR 75-85 but I had heard they
played a little soft. Now I read Dynacraft's shaft charts and they
explain a soft tip tends to cause a draw bias. I believe this is what
I'm seeing with these shafts. I'm a pretty good ball sticker...usually
shot in the mid seventies, so my swing I think is sound.
tflan wrote:
When you say "stiff" what do you mean? 5.5's, 6.0's. I installed 5.0's
in a set of BeCu Ping Eye 2's. I selected 5.0's simply because I got
them from a guy pretty cheap. In the world of Rifles, 5.0's are pretty
stiff. If there were a "standard" flex, 5.0 would be R+. 4.5 would be
"R". If you're swinging it ay 75 mph, "stiff" seems to me to be the
wrong flex. But then in the world of "empiricists", assuming flex vs
swing speed doesn't really fit the golfer.
RE: the Cleveland Launcher, I recently acquired via trade a 10.5
�Cleveland Launcher 460 w/standard 55 gm, gold Fuji "R" flex shaft,
and I hit it a lot longer than the Titleist 983K I was using. The 983
is also a 10.5� w/stock "R" shaft. In fact, the Launcher is the
longest driver I've hit in a long time. I now have a deal working on a
10� Ping G2 w/Grafalloy Launcher shaft. One of the nice things about
where I play (and do occasional repairs is that guys buy clubs and
dump them really cheap, so I get to hit a lot of OEM stuff as well as
component builds.
In any event, no matter what a machine tells you about your
swingspeed, launch angle, etc., you still have to hit the clubs to
find out what works and what doesn't.
TFlan
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Joyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 5:48 AM
Subject: ShopTalk: rifle lite
Has anyone tried these shafts. I placed a set of stiff in my new
Wishon irons. I have a swing speed of 75 with my 5 iron. I can't
seem to control these at all. I usually draw the ball nicely, but
with these they hook, hook hook. Does the low kick point have
anything to do with this.
On another note a friend of mine when to have a launch monitor
fitting fora new driver. After half an hour, he was fitted with a
Cleveland launcher 10.5 with a Aldila NV in stiff (106 mph ss).
This was the launch and spin that the vector said was best not a
chart or the employee. We played a round yesterday.He hit this thing
sooo hit any short it was unbelievble. A have a driver ss at 100 and
was out driving him with my HiCor by 20 yards. You should have heard
him.....$579...*&[EMAIL PROTECTED]@
Al
