Shorten a driver shaft

Use our fitting wizard to find the right driver shaft for you. Struggling with accuracy off the tee, rickie fowler shaved an inch off his driver length at the honda classic, using a 43. The more often a golfer hits the center of the driver s face, the more consistency they will see in their driving accuracy and distance. Upon further research, i read that cutting a driver shaft will also stiffen the shaft. If you choked down so it plays like a 44 inch shaft, would it go further, the same, or shorter than if you had a shaft cut down to 44 inches and didnt choke down at all. The average driver shaft length on tour is roughly 44. You would actually want to add weight to the club head if you are shortening the shaft.

Personally i think its reasonably harmless to shorten a shaft though i do believe it sometimes affects a persons swing plane or swing attitude initially. In any event it led me to wonder how it would perform if i. For the past few months, ive knowingly been flouting the 14club rule by carrying two drivers. The best 2019 driver and shaft combinations true fit clubs. Driver shaft 315 feet average 31 off line on my andrew rice golf facebook page i asked readers if they had any experience with shortening the shaft of their driver and here are a few of their responses. For this video, weve used the gc quad launch monitor to gather real world data comparing two identical clubs that only differ in shaft length. There are three big issues with shortening the drive shaft ds. Driver shaft length is shorter better than standard. I have about a 97 mph driver swing speed leaving me at the border of a stiff shaft. Tour pros often have their shafts tipped, or cut back from the clubhead end slightly to make the tip of the shaft stiffer. A shorter driver, he said, encourages center contact on the clubface, which leads to longer, straighter drives. When golf shafts are manufactured and shipped to clubmakers and clubmaking companies, they are in what is called a raw, uncut form.

If you want a shorter driver length to test for better consistency and control, start by cutting the length of the present driver shorter from the grip end of the shaft then add some lead tape to the head to get the headweight feel back up to where you can definitely feel the presence of the head as you start the downswing. From this form, the clubmakers have to cut the shaft, often from both the tip and grip ends, to properly install it into each clubhead. The more shaft you cut off, the lighter, more stiff, and effectively flatter the club becomes. The purpose of golf myths unplugged is to challenge the accepted wisdom of golf, but even we have blind spots. Thinking about cutting my driver shaft down an inch. Cutting driver shaft the 19th hole mygolfspy forum. How to cut down your driver shaft length first, you gotta get that grip off.

I am looking to try a shorter driver shaft to add some consistency off the box. And while their most popular nonstandard order is for drivers cut 1. Holding the shaft down with my left hand i cut with my right. The only problem is the f11 felt like it was longer even though it was the same length as the others. Can a shorter driver shafts say from 44 to 42 help or aid in driving the ball more consistent as opposed to longer shafts. Tm r11, titleist 910f, and the adams f11 surprisingly i liked the f11 better. A short driver shaft may help you hit a straight shot better and also hit the center of the face more than you usually do. Moreover, a short shaft helps you gain better control. Typically the rule of thumb is that a golfer with a slower swing speed will benefit from using a lighter shaft, and you would add weight as swing speed increases. These relatively easy steps will help you shorten a golf club in 45 minutes or less. As most people know, the driver shaft lengths from oems are usually in the range of 4514 to 4612 long. I used to shorten my driver shaft to 44 12 but never a 3 wood.

If you are going to shorten a golf club, there are a few things to keep in mind. What is a fair price to pay to have your driveshaft. I have been choking up lately and have seen improvement, but hate the way it feels to choke up on the club. There are too many other things that need to be adjusted if you actually cut your driver shaft down.

Once again, we feel that the shaft is of critical importance to getting optimum performance out of any club, but especially the driver. The first ones i did i cut through the tube very carefuly with a hand hacksaw cut into the tube till you feel the forged plug turning the tube as you go once youve cut all around the tube heat it with a torch a little and remove the forged end a small plumbers torch will work here. When we realized that we had never tested the concept of shorter driver shafts being more accurate. We do tend to get a bit more aggressive when the shaft gets a bit shorter simply because the shorter shaft is easier to swing. What exactly happens to club if you shorten the shaft. Although a shorter golf club shaft tends to be firmer than a longer one, it is important to understand the changes trimming a shaft will make to a club before making such a permanent change. If the ends are swedged that can make some shafts only possible to shorten a certain amount or need to purchase a different weld yoke for the larger tube diameter. You might be surprised that most pros have an average driver shaft length of 44. If you are doing the work yourself, be sure to leave the grip tape on while you cut it to help keep the shaft from splitting. Check out breeds tip on how to determine whether your driver shaft length is too long or too short. In fact, testing shows an inch of extra shaft length equals roughly 10 yards in distance. If you have to cut it off, use a hookbladed knife like this one, available in the green lantern golf store.

Remove the grip from the driver using a hook blade or a utility knife, as well as the grip tape on the shaft. If you have the red 9g weight in your driver now you would want to put in the blue 11g or maybe even the black 14g weight. The stock driver length of most manufacturers taylormade, callaway ping, cobra these days is 45. Getting the correct weight of your shaft is an important factor to consider as well. Whats the average driver shaft length on the pga tour. The nitty gritty to cutting graphite golf shafts efficiently. If you shorten your shaft the most significant change you might notice is a loss of height which may affect the distance you can hit it. It should only take about 1015 seconds to cut a graphite shaft. Over the past twenty years, golf club manufacturers have been making clubs stronger meaning they have less loft on the face, and longer so that they can sell hopeful golfers the newest hot weapon that will knock the ball unimaginable distances. We immediately set out to fix that and discover whether golfers are helped or harmed by longer driver shafts.

Ive gone through a long series of cobra drivers, and cut them all down to 44. I tried hitting a friends driver the other day that was cut down to 43 and i loved it. This enables them to keep the same length club but have a slightly stiffer shaft. Shorten shaft for better driving accuracy golf channel. For every 12 inch you remove, you will lose approximately three swingweight points. Rickie fowler finds shorterlength driver to his liking. Believe it or not, you can adjust them yourself, without going to a professional. With the new trend of shortened driver shafts on tour right now, a question came to my mind.

Contrary to what some might think, there isnt a run on. The truth about golf shafts that every golfer should know. Also does a shorter shafts allow more consistent control. There are a number of items available to clubmakers to cut graphite golf shafts. Wed jan 15, 2014 by dave phillips drivers generally come standard at 4546 inches in length, the longer the driver shaft the potential exists for more distance, theoretically your swing arc would be wider and therefore you could create more speed. There is a good chance that your golf clubs are too long.

One of those was revealed recently when we realized that we had never tested the concept of shorter driver shafts being more accurate. I have thought about butt cutting the tour 65 but it is an upgraded shaft and dont like the idea of altering it for an experiment, so im looking at buying a. Choke down vs shorten driver shaft golf talk the sand. Shortening the shaft can make the golf club less flexible.

In the march hotlinks, club expert tom wishon wrote that one key to real improvement with the driver comes from a shorter length. As others have mentioned, maybe its the smaller diameter of the grip, maybe its the length, etc. A shorter driver shaft increases the likelihood of a golfer making better contact off the center of the driver s face. The reason is, with a straightblade, you risk cutting into the graphite fibers, which will weaken the shaft. Driver shaft length custom fitting for the correct length to help improve your strike pattern and. If you want to get really technical, score the shaft with a razor first. Proper length shorter is better weight and flex can give you more.

And when we look at their drivers, we typically see one commonality, their driver shaft length. If you dont have the toolsexperience, it might be worth letting a local shop. In fact, over the last 34 years, taylormade has received nearly as many orders for drivers longer than standard length as they have for drivers shorter than standard. Driver3 wood shaft cutting club makingfittingrepair. Michael breed, host of the golf fix, answers a viewers email question on driver shaft length. Has anyone ever tried this and im just curious if you hit more fairways. This raises the immediate question, why is a relatively tall, obviously highly skilled player using a shorter than standard driver. I have a 9 d2, im thinking about shortening my driver an inch to 44. Shortening the length of your driver swing weight and shaft flex you go into the pro shop or to your favorite club maker wanting to get your driver cut down one 1 inch what happens to the swing weight and the shaft flex.