Back from the dead - what's up in the land of JDM clubs?

[K2_2]

Hey guys,

Apologies to everyone who PM'd me with random Japan and Roddio questions here or around the golf forum world. I dropped off the map as I got swamped with work and didn't touch a club for a long, long time.

However... I snuck away for my first round of the year to celebrate the Fourth of July. With no practice or play for 6 months I have to say I came away happy (few birdies, drives down the middle, great dinner afterwards etc :).

Now onto the equipment

Irons, wedges and driver were brilliant, and will hang around for a bit.

Fairway and hybrids need new shafts or a rotation to the backup bag. All were shafted pretty soft, but I am healthy, swinging well, and the softer fairway and hybrid set up does not complement the I-10's. I drove off well off the tee and nailed irons with a moderate draw but landed every hybrid or fairway shot way out to the left and my pro agrees the shafts don't flow. I got away with it before with a bit of practice I guess. So...

Utility shafts - other than the Diamana Thump and the Crazy, anything of note to try?

I'm leaning towards a new fairway, however, I am on the fence about what to shaft it with. My not so current thoughts are; Graphite Design Tour AD SF, Roddio BA, or an Ali'Islei because it 'almost worked' in my driver (bit too much spin which might have worked for a fairway) and looked so good sitting in the bag.

[supo]

Hey guys,

Apologies to everyone who PM'd me with random Japan and Roddio questions here or around the golf forum world. I dropped off the map as I got swamped with work and didn't touch a club for a long, long time.

However... I snuck away for my first round of the year to celebrate the Fourth of July. With no practice or play for 6 months I have to say I came away happy (few birdies, drives down the middle, great dinner afterwards etc :).

Now onto the equipment

Irons, wedges and driver were brilliant, and will hang around for a bit.

Fairway and hybrids need new shafts or a rotation to the backup bag. All were shafted pretty soft, but I am healthy, swinging well, and the softer fairway and hybrid set up does not complement the I-10's. I drove off well off the tee and nailed irons with a moderate draw but landed every hybrid or fairway shot way out to the left and my pro agrees the shafts don't flow. I got away with it before with a bit of practice I guess. So...

Utility shafts - other than the Diamana Thump and the Crazy, anything of note to try?

I'm leaning towards a new fairway, however, I am on the fence about what to shaft it with. My not so current thoughts are; Graphite Design Tour AD SF, Roddio BA, or an Ali'Islei because it 'almost worked' in my driver (bit too much spin which might have worked for a fairway) and looked so good sitting in the bag.

ive got a cpl of Ali'isleis , a 73s and 73x in my 15 and 18* diablos

and they do work well in fws....,

much better than in a driver i think. off the deck they seem to be pretty low launching with a small upward kick towards the apex then good roll out, i find they are not the best for landing on greens tho. i find them much better for hitting towards the green that landing on it. From a tee , ( a really low tee) they get a lot more rise and less roll . not overly keen on hitting these from tees.

BUT..., my trusty old diamana blue 73x is my best performer. (gotta hammer it a bit off the deck thats granted, as its an X , but from a tee , its easily the best.) ive got them in my Royal collections 15* 17* fws and they work brilliantly for me. no bias just super solid instills total confidence for any shot i need.

the others set ups ive got are an ozic xcon 6 in a TM burner tp 13.5* and a big bertha a 18*( that thing is superb) the xcon has a nice high launch profile, and is absolutely prefect for landing on greens .easily the best shaft for that, and the xcon seems to have a small fade bias with not a lot of roll(for me anyway) so i can go dead at a target and it stops dead.

i have a kaili 70 s in a birth 15* which im liking ,but not as much as the blue. ( im still r testing that set up)

ive treid a few graphite design ev6 s and x in my roy colls, and found them harder to get in air with ease. i found i was swinging hard to launch it but its gets a lot of roll these things just go, i think they are very good for very hard swingers, i see a lot of these in fws in used bins here.