Hard to hit balls now for a while outdoors around here anyway. Just curious if you have been in a local golf shop testing clubs lately? It is nothing like just hitting a ball into a net with some tape on the bottom of your club. Maybe the latest computer swing analysis software is just a gimmick. I for one don’t think that it is. If you play enough golf and have a low handicap, you know if you hit a bad shot or not. You should also know when you miss hit it, what the ball is doing. While I was testing clubs, if I miss hit a ball the computer showed the ball going where I thought it was going almost every time. In fact the one thing that it helping me fix was I tend to hit my driver really high. It showed I was getting a high backspin causing the high ball flight. I was able to alter my swing in time and correct the problem. As far as the yardage while hitting on the machine, I thought that it was showing further than I really hit the ball. While testing new clubs, depending on the different model clubs I was hitting the 5 irons on an average of 194 yards. between the four models I was demoing the range of the four clubs varied from 191 yards to 197 yards. I felt this was a little long because I always hit my ping 5 iron about 185 yards. After my purchase, in my first round it seemed that I hit all the new clubs almost one full club length further than I did the year before with my old irons. Maybe the additional length is due to a change in the head angle. That is possible. While I will agree that the best scenario to test clubs is outside on real grass, sometimes it isn’t an option. The biggest drawback to hitting off a mat is that if you tend to hit the ball fat, the mat definitely can make your shots look better in air flight, but I would think that the computer would see the club path and account for it. The club shafts that he has now in most cases won’t improve his game that much if he were to change them. That is unless his swing is way outside the realm of normalcy. If his club head speed is 25% higher or lower than an average golfer then I think it could then have an impact. If his handicap is really what he says it is then he should know if the shafts are not right. Wow I was a little long winded there. Sorry about that.
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I used to be very serious, not so much anymore. Was a +1 when I played every day, ballooned up to a 5 now that I only play a couple times a month. You won’t gain much with different shafts in that 25-100 yard range you struggle in. You typically aren’t taking a big swing from that distance so shaft variations only account for a couple yards difference at best. The eye 2 was a great iron in its day, and that day was somewhere around 1995. Putting new shafts in those clubs would be like putting a Shimano Stella on a bamboo cane pole. Go to a decent club fitter and get fit for new irons, including all your wedges.
edit: And by decent club fitter, I’m not talking golf smith where you hit some balls off a mat with tape on the club. You need to hit balls OUTSIDE where you can check distance, ball flight, launch angle, etc. and get completely fitted.
