Put new shafts on Titleist AP1 714 in December 2021. I have had 6,7,8 break of inside the hosel. What can be causing this problem?
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Put new shafts on Titleist AP1 714 in December 2021. I have had 6,7,8 break of inside the hosel. What can be causing this problem?
Difficult to tell without seeing them. What kind of shafts were they? Could be short shafted, meaning that the shafts did not get all the way to the bottom of the hosel, which puts mores stress on them. Could be they were over prepped (sanded) resulting in thinner walls, which can lead to breakage. If the shafts were graphite and too much epoxy was used, inside the shaft the epoxy can cure above the top of the hosel, which creates a shear point. Not as much of a problem if the shafts are steel, but you still don’t want to use so much epoxy the inside of the shaft is filled above the top of the hosel. Those are just educated guesses. Again without seeing them, I couldn’t give you a definite diagnosis.
Britt Lindsey
XP95’s are definitely different than the Dynamic Gold. Those could work, but you still might want to consider R flexes of soft stepping based on the information you gave. You can post pictures on this forum, but not sure I could tell even from pictures why they failed. Generally would need to pull them apart and examine both pieces of the shafts where they broke to get a good idea as to what happened.
Britt Lindsey
Shafts were True Temper XP95. Were would I send photos.