Swingweights Gone Wild: Thanks Shreveport Golf!

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Many of you know I purchased a set of CB201s not too long ago. I really love the clubs. They're just beautiful and the Miura forged feel is nothing short of spectacular.

Shortly after, I began to notice a trend while playing them. They all had DG S300 shafts. They all were D2 Swingweight. Sure they launched lower, but the feel was 'all wrong.' I can best descibe it as the long irons felt as though I were 'swinging the club through water."

I've demoed these with Nippons before, so I called up Paul Manco down at Shreveportgolfonline.com. We talked about installing 1050s, which are a nice mid weight shaft that's easy to load. I don't like swinging harder than I have too -- hey, why should I? It's all about accuracy.

I was discussing how I disliked the long irons but they were all D2. Getting a set of Nippons at D2 would help the ballflight, but not the sluggish feeling during the swing.

In order to get the feeling I desired, we agreed to try progressive swingweighting. Starting at D0 for the 3 iron, Paul suggested we increment it at 0.5 to the pitching wedge. What the heck, let's go for it.

Paul turned around the clubs in a day. I just got them back. The specs read (standard Miura loft/lie):

Club / SW

3i / D0

4i / D0.5

5i / D1.0

6i / D1.5

7i / D2.0

8i / D2.5

9i / D3.0

PW / D3.5

Just got back from maiden voyage to the range.

:nos**t: These are the best feeling clubs I ever owned. :love:

Paul was incredibly patient with me and my dozen or so phone calls and was more than willing than help me out. If you have trouble handling longer irons, I suggest you try this idea out.

Feel free to ask me any questions about the clubs or Shreveportgolf.