Category: Club Making
Making your own clubs is both a good way to save money and to have fun. Despite the naysayers out there, there are a wide variety of top quality golf components out there, including products from GolfSmith, Snake Eyes, Ralph Maltby's Golfworks, and Tom Wishon golf. With care and forethought, golf hobbyists can produce clubs that are easily the match of the big boys at a fourth of the cost. This section is dedicated to posts on clubmaking, fitting and repair.
Shaft Fitter
True Temper has an interactive shaft fitting program.
Rifle Flighted Shafts
I just recently built a set of shafts with Rifle Tour Flighted 5.0 shafts and after a couple of rounds, I am a believer.
I have to admit that I was a little skeptical at first. Royal Precision promised "more efficient" energy transfer and soft feel. At the same time, the long irons were supposed to fly higher and the short irons a little lower.
Sounded too good to be true. But I don't it is. The shafts on my other set are Dynalite Gold w Sensicore. I liked the Sensicore because of the dampening effect on off-center hits. I am sure that I am hitting just as many off center as with my old set; I don't feel them any more than I did with the Sensicore.
As for ball flight, the promise also holds true. I always hit my long irons a little too low, and my short irons way too high. Both tendencies have, to a certain extent, corrected themselves.
The other advantage of the Rifles is that they are properly balanced. The clubs did not require any additional weighting or other trickery to bring them all to a D2 - D2.5 swingweight.
All, in all, a good thing.
Torque
A scientific explanation of torque from Jeff Sheets.
Rain, Rain Go Away
I was all set to go to the course today, but it rained. Rainy and 45 in Michigan just doesn't cut it. So I stayed in and got to work on a new club. I'm going to try out some stuff from the GolfWorks. Ralph Maltby is kind of the mad scientist of golf component designers. Some of his designs are just weird. They are, however, designed to make them more playable. And that's exactly what I need.
I'm building a 7 wood with an Outburst Plus head and a Maltby Distance Master Filament Wound Fairway Wood Shaft.
As a part of my goal of breaking 80, I'm going to replace my long irons with high lofted woods. This will be the first of several that I'm going to try.
