Soft flex driver shaft?

[Vegaman]

Im a bit confused.

I use the Nippon Blue SPs in Xstiff in my irons. They are also lengthened and come out at D9 (!) for SW..I know it sounds crazy, but I hit them really well, even the 3-iron that is something like 39.75 inches long. So, the irons are heavy and very stiff, and I dont have any problems hitting them.

Ive been going heavy and stiff in my driver as well, use the Miyazaki kusala black 72X in one driver and a Roddio W7WA also in X in another. I get on with them good at times but driving the ball is definately my weak point, even though I go through periods of really excellent driving too.

The thing is this, I recently had to borrow a set while on hoilday in Sweden and the irons where Cobra FPi or something like that, incredibly oversize with R graphite shaft and thin grips..They felt like toys, just really weird (of course) spongy and I had no distance control whatsoever with them. The funny part though is that the driver was an older TM burner from a few years ago with a spaghetti-like R that felt like L or something. And I hit it consistently well throughout the round..I had no trouble timing the hit at all and hit some really good drives. I thought it maght be a bit of a fluke and the infamous "honeymoon" syndrome, but any way.

So I tried my friends wifes driver last week, 14 degrees Ping with a pink L-flex shaft, and hit like 3 straight sweet drives that didnt even fly THAT high..Something I thought was EXTRA weird with all that loft and soft shaft since I am a high ball hitter with a swingspeed right around 114 MPH normally. Ok, I lost some distance of course but anyway..?

Then I tried my friends japanese Superman driver yesterday, fitted with the original blue coloured shaft these drivers come with. The Superman is very popular among some rich folks here in Thailand usually older guys so the shaft is super soft. I tried it for fun on a short par 4 and hit a soft high draw and carried the green, around 295 yards out. Weird. Now, I can hit that long with my TS 703 with the Roddio too, but have to swing quite hard at it.

Is there anybody that uses a softer shaft in the driver and Xstiff in their irons? Sometimes I feel like hitting driver is a totally different game altogether, ha ha. I also use a heavy and Xstiff shaft in my 3 wood with excellent results, while when I try my friends soft shafted faiwaywoods they usually just fly just about ANYWHERE and super high, as if I skyballed it. But a spaghetti shafted ultralight driver? No porblem.