Does adding 6-gram tip weight in shaft to increase swing weight change ball flight as opposed to lead tape?
Britt Lindsey Answered question
Does adding 6-gram tip weight in shaft to increase swing weight change ball flight as opposed to lead tape?
Echo what Tomz stated. Technically it moves the CG, but 6 grams is not enough to move it enough to notice. 10 grams put in the hosel will move the cg a little less than 3/32″.
Britt Lindsey
I was just reading about this: “Weight at the shaft tip will move the CG of the clubhead (and thus the “sweet spot” of the club) upward and toward the heel. This is undesirable, but the move is negligible as long as you don’t put more than about 10 grams there.” Source: https://www.tutelman.com/golf/design/swingwt6.php#incr
The amount of CG movement is affected by the location of the added weight, the weight of the original clubhead, and the weight which is added. Obviously, if you use lead tape, and align it with the cg location of the original clubhead, the CG will not move.
If you are using tip weights, the driver being the lightest clubhead will see the most CG movement. As an example, using a wedge head of 295 grams (heaviest head weight), and a diver head of 205 grams (lightest head weight) and a 10 gram tip weight for each, with an original CG location at 2″ from hosel centerline for each, and looking at horizontal movement only, the new CG location in the wedge will be (295×2)/305 =1.93″. For the driver (205*2)/215 = 1.91″. The CG movement is therefore .07″ in the wedge and .09″ in the driver, hardly a noticeable difference. Roughly 1/12 of an inch, slightly more than 1/16 inch.
To me, not enough to be concerned about until you reach 20 grams or more.