I bought a "Killer Whale" driver a couple of years back. Too flexy, actually teed the ball up in line with my little toe.Only ever hit a dozen good shots with it.Threw it in lake.Goodbye £250
Ohhh. The BolMeister is a PS gold member.My clubs are pretty cheap too, although they are a bit stiff, brcause I swing the club like a hockey stick. Happy Gilmore like what?
Flex would be the last thing I would look at trying to solve a swing problem.The idea that the flex somehow stores energy like a spring and releases it is pure garbage. The club head is a pure ballistic object at impact and the shaft might as well not be connected to it at all. By the way, the clubshaft is not bent back during the swing. It bends forward.
Yes, bent forward.Most people have a mental image of the clubhead lagging behind, like a fishing rod bends backward under the weight of the bait when you accelerate the rod forward. It does not. Video clearly shows the shaft bending forward (toward the ball) during the downswing. Two ways to explain it: As the hands decelerate, there is torque applied to the grip. Or, the center of mass of the clubhead is off-center, centrifugal force pulling down is at a slight angle. (I have trouble with the latter explanation, because in the commonly drawn inertial frame of reference, there is no centrifugal force in the golf swing. You can find one if you draw a rotating frame of reference, but I've never seen anyone who could handle the math for that.) Now, could the amount of flex in the shaft vary, and affect the effective loft? Possibly, but I doubt it is the reason for your problem. See, if you are delofted, then a stiffer shaft would increase that problem. What if you drive with a 3 -wood off the tee, how does that higher loft work for you?
I will be the first to admit I am not the world's greatest golfer. Your distances put you well ahead of me in skill level.However, the golf shaft bending forward is not crap. High speed video clearly shows it, physics theory predicts. It doesn't match our intuition but sometimes that's the way it is. I have that Golf Digest book, The Swing, too, but it doesn't show shaft bending like you think it does. It is well known that the shaft does not store energy. The only people who claim it does are the golf shaft salesmen. In fact, the clubhead doesn't even need to be attached to the shaft at impact, as those hinged trainers show. The hands are decelerating at impact. That is likely to lead to a long and contentious discussion - but again both high speed video and mathematical theory confirm it. The term usually used is CoAm, short for Conservation of Angular Momentum. I don't like that term because it neglects the forces involved, bu there is some validity to it in terms of the kinetic chain. The larger heavier links in any kinetic chain decelerate as the end links accelerate. I would guess at your level, since you are making good contact, the way to increase your distance is through retaining the angle longer ala Bertholy. That's what I'm working on and it seems to be helping a little, though I am still erratic. Lost a bunch of balls and survived a cart wreck last weekend!
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