Explain .. iron w/ 120g steel iron shaft felt light as a feather. iron w/ MMT graphite 85 gram shaft felt heavy as lead (extremely head heavy). How can a “heavy” iron feel so light yet a light iron feel so heavy?
Explain .. iron w/ 120g steel iron shaft felt light as a feather. iron w/ MMT graphite 85 gram shaft felt heavy as lead (extremely head heavy). How can a “heavy” iron feel so light yet a light iron feel so heavy?
The lighter weight shaft moved the balance point closer to the head, increasing its swingweight. You can increase the overall static weight of a club by increasing shaft weight but it may move the balance point closer to the handle and decrease swing weight. Even though I’m a fast swinger and play X flex shafts, I play them at 120g. At 130g shafts, I end up losing the feeling of where the club head and face is. 120g shafts allow me to feel the weight at the end of the club towards the head.
maybe i missed something, but are the lengths of each club the same? Also, are you looking at the a club that has the same head and same weight?
In response to your other questions, yes the there could be a weight in the butt of the shaft, and also there could be tip weights in the hosel which could account for a swing weight change.
Thanks for the info and helping to educate me on this subject. Is there a best place for the balance point to be located or is it just a personal thing? For the light shafted club that feels like a sledgehammer .. so to reduce the extreme feeling it would either need a heavier shaft or add some counterbalance type of weight in the handle? And for the heavy shafted iron that felt light as a feather .. is it possible that those irons had some weight in the handle that made them feel this way? Or are some shafts made w/ a lot (relatively speaking) of weight at the tip of the shaft whereas others may have the heft of the weight at the butt end of the shaft? Meaning could the sledgehammer feeling iron w/ MMT shaft have had most of the shaft weight towards the tip end and the iron that felt light w/ the heavy shaft had the weight at the butt end? It just blows my mind that a 7 iron w/ a 120gram shaft (heavy to me) felt like a helium balloon that would float away.