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bue1945 26 October 12, 2016 0 Comments

I’m thinking about soft stepping the shafts in an older set of irons that I have. They are regular flex, and I would like to have them play closer to a senior flex. I was thinking about taking the shaft from the 4 iron and 5 irons (which I no longer use) and putting them into the 6 and 7 irons, and so on down the set. While this would undoubtedly make each club play 2 shafts softer, would that be enough to achieve a senior flex? I don’t have a frequency machine, so I have no way of measuring this……

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Answer 1 · 2016-10-13T13:39:52+00:00

Assuming the head weights of the heads are 7 grams apart, you would be putting 14 gram heavier heads on the shafts. In general terms, 2 grams equals 1 cycle of frequency. So, you would be looking at shafts that would play 7 cycles more flexible. 10 cycles is considered a full flex, so you would have clubs about 3/4 of flex weaker than the R flex. That’s pretty close to an A flex.

Britt Lindsey