It seems , when it comes to golf, that the more things change, the more they stay the same. I like to call it "shafts golf", and it applies to that elite group of players whose results can actually be affected by the golf-club shafts shaft with which they play.

Back in the days of Hickory Golf, when wooden golf clubs were the only option, a player's game was guided by the characteristics of those golf-club shafts. For instance, the torque of a wooden shaft would be much greater than that of today's graphite golf shafts and steel shafts. This equipment dynamic guided the Hickory Golf player into a smoother swing, aimed at eliminating jerkiness or too much quickness in the swing. The swing plane which produces the highest success with a wooden shaft(Hickory) is much flatter than the swing plane used to maximize the effects of modern golf club shafts. So, those players who concentrated on "shafts golf" during the Hickory Golf era learned very quickly to swing slow and swing low.

The concept of "shafts golf" carries through to today and will into the future as shaft design evolves and the player evolves with it. Whereby that wooden shafted golfer had to eliminate his jerky swing in order to compensate for the shaft, the modern player can simply increase the flex until it maximizes the outcomes of his swing. Your natural distance or how far you hit the ball, is also often used to help determine the appropriate golf shaft for a particular player. The rule of thumb is that as your natural "distance" increases, so does the stiffness of your ideal shaft. The wooden golf club shaft had, and still does, a distance limiting aspect which required players to play shorter than modern players, concentrating very much on effective course management.

We find ourselves today with a couple of premier golf shaft manufacturers who continue to introduce new golf club shafts with technologies that offer more distance and more accuracy, even for the casual player. We have experience with one specifically who have a PGA Major to their credit, yet have kept their prices very affordable to the weekend golfer.

You can read more about the specific brand we recommend, at our website, at the "Shaft Central" link.

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