Anyone switch to graphite shafts recently?

[keither5150]

I was at Golftown today buying more gloves and I couldn't help but test a set of taylormades steel blades with graphite shafts. I only hit the 7 iron. It felt lighter and not as stiff as my clubs. I could hit it just as far but 80% of the shots had a slight to moderate draw to them when I thought that I was hitting pretty straight. The ball almost hit the same spot in the center of the screen every time. I have hit steel shafts on the same bay at golftown before with most of the shots going relatively straight. One spectator said " I wish that I could draw the ball like that..... I said.... so do I. Does anyone think this has to do with the shaft or maybe the GC2 was a little off? It might be because my current irons have a little of a offset to them. If those clubs are that easy to hit draws with, I might buy them. I am going back on Sunday for a longer test drive. My doctor suggested that I switch to graphite to help my stage 1 arthritis. Seems like a good reason to buy new clubs.

[doublebogey]

Looking for some insights from guys who are using or have switched to graphite shafts. I was fitted w graphite shafts for my irons (thru to PW) years ago, but recently am replacing my old wedges. My PW is 44* so adding new 50* bent to 49* + 54* + 58* wedges. However, these wedges (like my old wedges) are steel shafts (True Temper Dynamic Gold's) w big difference in shaft weights (119-129 grams for the steel shafts vs. 69 grams for the graphite shafts). I swing the steel shaft wedges ok (in fact still swing my old set of Ping G5 steel shaft irons ok as well). Should I be changing my wedge shafts to graphite to match the rest of my clubs? Or do people commonly go w graphite shafts in all clubs but steel shafts in wedges? Thanks.

[wbond]

I switched all my wedges to graphite shafts and love them. I use recoil 95's in my irons up through PW. Then i use Recoil 110 8 iron shaft one flex up in my 50 degree and Recoil 125 8 iron shafts one flex up in my 54 and 58. This gets you a heavier shaft in the wedges similar to steel, more spin and flexes out the same as your irons. You can read up on the other forum about this.

Looking for some insights from guys who are using or have switched to graphite shafts. I was fitted w graphite shafts for my irons (thru to PW) years ago, but recently am replacing my old wedges. My PW is 44* so adding new 50* bent to 49* + 54* + 58* wedges. However, these wedges (like my old wedges) are steel shafts (True Temper Dynamic Gold's) w big difference in shaft weights (119-129 grams for the steel shafts vs. 69 grams for the graphite shafts). I swing the steel shaft wedges ok (in fact still swing my old set of Ping G5 steel shaft irons ok as well). Should I be changing my wedge shafts to graphite to match the rest of my clubs? Or do people commonly go w graphite shafts in all clubs but steel shafts in wedges? Thanks.

[keither5150]

Wbond...... do you think that graphite offers a better feel or feed back than steel? I switched to graphite last year but still have steel for the wedges.

[doublebogey]

Thanks for the insights wbond. Have read various other forums and I think my problem is the difference in weights between the graphite shafts on my irons thru PW and the True Temper steel shafts on my wedges is too wide (69g vs. 119-129g). But like keither5150, am just wondering "do you think that graphite offers a better feel or feed back than steel (in particular on wedges)?" I am just somehow more used to heavier weighted steel shafts on wedges in particular for short pitches and chips around green.

[wbond]

I play mostly partial shots on 54 and 58 and mainly full on the 50 degree. I much prefer the feel of graphite, but i don't know if it provides better feedback. I ended up picking up a backup set of wedges that matched mine and they had the spinner shafts and when switching between the two, I preferred the graphite. Although i never liked the spinner anyways. It is definitely a different feel that some may not like.

[tkotts]

I switched to Aerotech Steelfiber shafts a few months ago after dealing with some wrist/elbow/shoulder issues from hitting on the sim... my god. It's a revelation.

I get better feel out of every iron /wedge in the bag and in terms of left/right dispersion on shots, I can put a pretty tight grouping out on the range with all my long irons (with my old DG S300's i'd be all over the place). I use i95's on all my irons 3-pw and i125 in my 3 wedges.

I do get some funny looks from friends/other golfers who see a 32 yr old low handicap player playing with "old man" clubs... but my wrists and elbows are back to where they were last summer when I wasn't hitting off a mat and my scores are lower... see last weeks score They stop talking once the scores are posted.

[tkotts]

I should note, that I did add some tungsten weights to the tip of the shaft to bring the swingweights up to d-2 in my irons and d-4 in my wedges, so the overall feel of the club is similar to my steel irons, but the overall weight is down.

[longhornlove]

I just ordered a set of ping G irons and glide wedges with poriject x shafts. I tried about 10 shafts.

[MainStGolf]

Play graphite since returning to golf 2.5 years ago. Hands hurt too bad for steel especially if I'm having a bad day pain wise. I've used Pings graphite shafts. I have a set of Cobras with Steelfiber that are really nice as well. Vokeys have the Kuro Kage graphite shafts in them.

[wbond]

I also added tip weights to mine to get desired swingweight

[Boo Radley]

Recoil. You will never look back. I even replaced all my wedge shafts with Recoil shafts. Get fit and they will be as accurate as anything you've got now and way easier on the joints. You can also look at steelfiber, very good, but a very different feel and different profile. I have both, Steelfiber in a set of Wishon 560's and Recoil in Apex. I prefer the feel of recoil.

I second the Recoil shaft.....going on 3 years now

[doublebogey]

Thanks to all for the inputs. Looks like I should seriously consider putting graphites on my wedges - in fact probably should replace all shafts on my clubs from hybrids to wedges w Recoil shafts of various weights.

[wbond]

There are quite a few good graphite iron shafts out there. I've now got a set of miura's with recoil and man does that combo feel great.