Shaft Weight

Overall Weight and Balance Considerations
If you have been sticking with our evolving arguments, you will begin to see our strategy in utilizing new materials and techniques to produce clubs with "breakthrough potential".

If you are a steel player and don't plan on changing much, there is very little value in moving down from your S-400's to S-300's. If you want to make a minor change just to see if what we're talking about makes sense in practice, change from rubber grips to Winn grips. That will give you an interesting and relevant data point. If you like your current clubs, but want to make them as good as they can be, you should consider having them SST PURED ™. There is no risk to that.

If you are truly interested in trying something new, then you should be thinking about trying graphite shafts in your irons. The improvement in quality and consistency as graphite manufacturers have begun to turn their focus to iron shafts to expand their markets has been dramatic in the last two or three years. Some graphite shaft manufacturers are claiming that their products are "more consistent than steel". But more important, the advent of SST PURE ® technology has made it possible to harness the inherent inconsistency of graphite and turn graphite shafts into consistent performers, at least equal to steel. In our opinion, the feel of graphite, at least for amateurs, is superior to steel.

We have had good results in the 115-gram weight range, with UST Tour Weight and Apache MFS 115 graphite shafts. In the 100-gram weight range, we have had good results with Apache MFS 40+. The jury is still out on our Penley Stealth 70's in the 75-gram weight range. At some point, the shaft simply gets too light to deliver enough "punch" to the shot. We'll post it to news as soon as we learn more from our personal testing and from our clients.

If you want to "drill down" into what we've been saying about head weights, we have some of our charts that we'd be happy to email to you. (Certain information we like to keep a little proprietary.)