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Popeye 179 March 31, 2016 0 Comments

I love the feel and the looks of this combo but I have been struggling with hitting the ball way too high and struggling bit with distance. I know the DBM heads have the lowest cog and the AXE Tour X, S shafts might not be helping me. I have some KE4 tour Plus heads with those shafts and don’t have the ballooning issue. My driver swing speed is 105 and I have an aggressive transition and strike down and through on the ball. I want to stay forged and was thinking of either reshafting with a DG S300 amt or swapping to the MMB 17 heads. Any thoughts, possible different AXE shaft?

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Answer 1 · 2016-04-06T01:14:30+00:00

I would expect the higher VCOG of the MMB-17s to help to lower the launch angle, but you might first consider going with the TTDG S400s in your DBMs. Maybe reshaft just one and see how that works.

You also said you have “an aggressive transition and strike down and through on the ball.” You might check your attack angle because if it’s a bit steep, you’ll get higher launch from the higher spin. Might be the best place to start. See if you can have forward shaft lean through impact with just a brushing of the grass through the shot.

Hope these ideas help you!

maintaining a forward shaft lean usually is not an issue for myself. A sweeping golf swing would require me to REALLY revamp my swing. I have no height issues with the KE4 Plus Head with the same shaft make up so for me I think the very low VCOG is my issue with this setup. Its still a very playable setup as is but far from Ideal. I have some S300s that I will try and well as some FST Pro 115 shafts. I really want to keep the DBM heads in play, its just going to take some trial and error. My bail out set is the KE4s which with some time in the bag might make a strong statement to stay there.