Idiot shaft question time on my epon FW

[swisstrader]

Ok, so I could not resist picking up two near perfect 3 and 5 epon 202's. Only kicker is they are both about 15 grams heavier than I'm used to gaming (75 grams vs 60). I normally hit stiff 60

Question: will I feel a great deal of difference in weight and not be able to turn the club over and start hitting everything to the right??

5 wood shaft: quadra fire express 75s

3 wood shaft: Miyazaki kusala blue 72s

Driver swing speed is 94 mph if that helps.

Edited May 29, 2012 by swisstrader

[wmclarenf1]

For me, there is a distant difference in feel and incase in stiffness flex for flex when you move from 50 to 60 to 70 plus gram shafts. It is probably due to the shaft walls getting thicker and the kick profiles and tip stiffness getting higher and stiffer.

Performance wise, just harder for me to load consistently which can mean the ball can go anywhere...

[Duffer19]

I am not recommending any one particular shaft but rather recommending you to consider using dedicated fairway wood shaft rather than cut down driver shaft. I personally find that FW shaft performs much better than using driver shaft for fairway woods.

[supo]

i would expect u will find , the quadra fex at 75 g will cause u problems if u dont turn ur hands over hard

, if ur consistant at htis then ur fine, u will just need t oget down into the ball harder. the FEX is an asomwe shaft ,but if u dont get down and dirty on the ball ball every single shot ur headed way right every single shot ..

[swisstrader]

I definitely hit the ball hard, but 95 mph driver swing hard:)

Will see how they play his weekend. The 3 wood has been behaving from the fairway with nice long bombs but def a tendency to go right when I tee it up on long par 3's of 210-220. Might be because I tend to aim and baby the ball more on par 3's. Haven't hit the 5 wood...that sucker is brand spanking new.

Stu: did you get my PM??

[Spoon]

Im110 mph and will not use moe than a 75s

Stew is right the leap between the 60 s and 70 s is much more significant

Than 50-60. Go what your comfy with. Sell the shafts

[swisstrader]

A response from the man himself, Tom Wishon, from another board on my question:

the clubfitting factor that most typically affects how quick you are with your tempo is the swingweight before it would be the total weight (shaft weight is the most contributory element to total weight). if the golfer senses that he cannot feel the presence of the head weight enough, he has a tendency to get too quick, especially in the start of the downswing and even in the takeaway to start the swing. So if you sense that you keep telling yourself to slow down, add some more weight to the head using lead tape and keep doing that until you start to feel enough lag or headweight that you are not fighting the proper timing of the start of the downswing.

TOM

[wmclarenf1]

A response from the man himself, Tom Wishon, from another board on my question: the clubfitting factor that most typically affects how quick you are with your tempo is the swingweight before it would be the total weight (shaft weight is the most contributory element to total weight). if the golfer senses that he cannot feel the presence of the head weight enough, he has a tendency to get too quick, especially in the start of the downswing and even in the takeaway to start the swing. So if you sense that you keep telling yourself to slow down, add some more weight to the head using lead tape and keep doing that until you start to feel enough lag or headweight that you are not fighting the proper timing of the start of the downswing. TOM

Great Info. This comment I believe applies to my swing weighting question for shorter clubs as well. Thanks.