Re: Explain difference in shaft tips, length, etc.?
um.. ya.
i asked golf town if they can order me CFS stiff wedge shafts. Will advise once i hear back.
Originally posted by storm
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Not exactly. TourIQ chime in if I have it wrong, I was just there to swing the club 
I believe all off the rack sets come with .355 tip shafts. Club fitters like to use .370 tip shafts. It allows them to be able to play with the weight and flex vs. the tapers which are a measure and cut to desired flex. You likely have a favourite club, usually a 6 or 7 iron. Well if you had the shaft frequency read, you'd see a gradual increase in CPM as you go to your lower irons, and a gradual decrease in CPM as you go to your longer clubs. Higher CPM = Stiffer, Lower CPM = Softer. I believe they say every 6cpm is a "flex". Generally you will see a CPM gap between your irons around 6cpm, sometimes more. Some of my irons were as little as 3cpm apart and as far as 11cpm apart (Mizuno).
So the fitting process I encountered was I was giving about 12 different PW with different shafts, different CPM's. I had no idea what the shaft was nor the "flex". Whatever one I seemed to like the most, best distance and consistency was my benchmark CPM for the rest of my set. The fitter now had some sort of mathematic formula to get a weight, CPM and length for each other iron. The result is a set of clubs that play to the "same flex". Every iron has more or less feels the same. The results are that I don't have a club I alway hook, I dont have a club that feels soft (generally longer clubs) and my irons really don't have a flex. I believe my irons were 316 CPM which on a tradition scale is above an X stiff?...I believe 306 was the benchmark stiff flex. But that was the CPM in that shaft that gave me optimal results. I ALWAYS recommend this to everyone looking for a reshaft. I paid $40/shaft and did 3-pw/50/54/58 which isn't much considering the price of a set of shafts, and there is no other shaft out here that works better for me.
I believe all off the rack sets come with .355 tip shafts. Club fitters like to use .370 tip shafts. It allows them to be able to play with the weight and flex vs. the tapers which are a measure and cut to desired flex. You likely have a favourite club, usually a 6 or 7 iron. Well if you had the shaft frequency read, you'd see a gradual increase in CPM as you go to your lower irons, and a gradual decrease in CPM as you go to your longer clubs. Higher CPM = Stiffer, Lower CPM = Softer. I believe they say every 6cpm is a "flex". Generally you will see a CPM gap between your irons around 6cpm, sometimes more. Some of my irons were as little as 3cpm apart and as far as 11cpm apart (Mizuno).
So the fitting process I encountered was I was giving about 12 different PW with different shafts, different CPM's. I had no idea what the shaft was nor the "flex". Whatever one I seemed to like the most, best distance and consistency was my benchmark CPM for the rest of my set. The fitter now had some sort of mathematic formula to get a weight, CPM and length for each other iron. The result is a set of clubs that play to the "same flex". Every iron has more or less feels the same. The results are that I don't have a club I alway hook, I dont have a club that feels soft (generally longer clubs) and my irons really don't have a flex. I believe my irons were 316 CPM which on a tradition scale is above an X stiff?...I believe 306 was the benchmark stiff flex. But that was the CPM in that shaft that gave me optimal results. I ALWAYS recommend this to everyone looking for a reshaft. I paid $40/shaft and did 3-pw/50/54/58 which isn't much considering the price of a set of shafts, and there is no other shaft out here that works better for me.
i asked golf town if they can order me CFS stiff wedge shafts. Will advise once i hear back.
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