To get the "perfect" club we can optimize a lot of parameters (head type, loft, lie, headweight, shaft type, shaft weight, flex, shaft length, grip type, grip size, grip weight, swingweight, MOI, tipping. I believe what I see in my own experience more than what I hear, even from the experts.Īs I learned with three different new and expensive shafts spine orientation is an important parameter for trajectory optimization (3/6/9/12 o´clock). It is like being in school and learning from professors and then getting out in the real world and finding what you learn does not cover all that there is out in the world. If you had ever had any experience in pulling shafts and trying to see if they have a spine you might be more open to what I am saying. So yes spine alignment may still be important. You act as if today's shafts are perfect and they are not. My point is when your experts say most do not have spines, they are saying some have spines and that is all I am trying to show you. It just seems odd that the few I have done at least 3 have had spines. I no longer am in the business so I have not pulled a shaft from any OEM clubs but my own. Some of those shafts had spines that I found. The Mizuno clubs I have are also about 5 years old and there had graphite in them. The last shaft I found a spine in was a callaway driver that was 3-4 years old. No I can not show you just as you can not show me that most of the shafts today have no spines. drivers (shaft rotation), because of the spine effects (see product description of Miyazaki). Miyazaki offers the Dromos shafts for adjustab. It was very easy for me to see the difference spine orientation make. Very easy to release the club.Ĭompared my distance, spine at 6 vs spine at 12, I gained 15 yards (measured with LM)! Spine at 6: Stable feel in hands, more piercing trajectory, more draw, much more roll-out. Perfect impact pattern on clubface (smashfactor up to 1.5). Spine at 12: Stable feel in hands, straight as an arrow, high trajectory with not much rollout. Spine at 3: Inconsistent ball flight, shaft feels like a noodle I tested spine at 3, 6 and 12 o´clock (driving range with launch monitor and on course). So in theory the spine should have no effect on trajectory. The shaft is one of the high-end, hand rolled 50 t japanese shafts, very expensive. I know it was me when I miss a shot, me alone and not my equipment.Īfter reading a lot about spines I decided to make an experiment with my new driver shaft (I´m a senior player with slow ss, but repeatable swing.). To me it only makes sense and it takes the thought that the misshit was the equipments fault. If you are going to get fit for you equipment why not go that extra yard and have the shafts spined. You spend a couple thousand dollars on the equipment you use why not spend a few dollars more to ensure it will react the same assuming you swing the same most of the time. So in answer to this thread spining is not as relevant today as it was 10 years ago, but what is the harm in having it done. I find no difference between the two sets on the course playing day in and day out. The other set I just installed the shafts with the manufacturers label at 12 0'clock. The spines were very small or non existent, but where I found one I spined that club. They were both reshafted with the same spec shaft from the same manufacturer. Both sets of irons were the same manufacturer and the same model. This past year I reshafted two sets of irons. 5-10 years ago they were terrible and had multiple spines, some small, some very prevalent. They are so well made the are close to seamless. Most of today's graphite shafts do not have heavy spines.
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