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FredP
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Hi all,

New to this forum and I need some suggestions about shafts.  I'm 56 yrs old, only been playing for a year or so.  I started out with a borrowed set of Ping Eye 2 knockoffs w/TT-Lite Stiff shafts that I liked but had to return them. I found a set of Ping Eye 2 Blue Dots on EBAY and bought them. The heads are mint but the shafts and grips are in bad shape. I want to reshaft & regrip.  I got Ping fitted and they told me I was a regular flex shaft w/a Ping ID8-White grip.  I borrowed by brothers set of Ping G15's w/regular flex shafts and I'm all over the place. My swing tempo is a bit faster than average so I'm guessing that I need a stiffer shaft. When I hit the 7-iron with the stiffer shaft I hit it 155 yds, with the regular shaft I get maybe 145 and erratic.  Someone recommended a TT Lite XL but I'm thinking it's is too stiff.  Can anyone recommend a nice steel shaft that's somewhere between regular & stiff ?  Something just a bit firmer than regular.

Thanks,

Fred

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Fred,

Try calling Ping, their customer service is pretty good.  They recommended a pretty novel approach for me.  I had a set if ISI-K's that were given to me, the regular shafts were a bit too floppy.  Instead of putting in stiff shafts that would have been too stiff they recommended their CFS Regular flex shaft but "Hard Stepped".  This means moving the shafts up one club for all shafts in the set.  It resulted in a flex about 1/3 stiffer than regular.  If you wanted to make the shaft exactly half way between R & S you can "Hard Step Twice" or move the shafts up two clubs instead of one.  The benefit is keeping with the high degree of shaft consistency that Ping has in their shafts.  The downside is that it lowers the mid shaft trajectory but only slightly, no big shakes.

Good luck...

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My first boss once told me:  if you are going to pay someone for their advice, you should take it.

At your age and having played only a year, I would be cautious before disregarding the advice the person that fit you for clubs gave regarding a Regular flex.  Based upon the distances you are hitting it, you certainly would fall within what is "expected" for someone that needs an R.  There are a lot of potential reasons you didn't hit your brothers clubs that well, and the fact that they have an R shaft is not necessarily the reason.

That having been said, to answer your question directly, Project X 5.5 play stronger than Regular, but not as strong as stiff, in my opinion.  But, I also like the advice of Georgex to call customer service.

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Fred,

You might try irons with a Uniflex shaft. These shafts normally weigh in at about 110 grams, and have a flex between R and S. Some Uniflex variants are midkick (midlaunch), while others are flighted (long irons get extra lift on launch, short irons less lift to prevent ballooning of shots).

Most Uniflex are actually made by True Temper, and appear as the stock metal shafts on irons such as the Callaway RazrX and X.Hot, the TM Burner Plus, and the Wilson Ci11 and Di11.

Many "sophistocated" players badmouth the Uniflex, but a fair number of average golfers really like it.  I played Uniflex for two seasons in my X20s - shaft was fine, but I wanted a little smaller head and switched iron models.

Also, watch the stiffness on the Project X shafts. These are probably the stiffest to flex of all mainline shafts. A problem us everyday golfers have: there's no industry standard for shaft flex. One way of comparing different companies' shafts is the Frequency Coefficient Matching (FCM)  rating. The TT Dynamic Gold S300 has FCM = 5.8, but the PX 5.5 has FCM = 6.0 (actually a bit stiffer then the S300).

If you're on the line between R and S, you might consider NS Pro shafts. These are soft to flex, so you could possibly hit an NS PRo S flex quite well.

Test 'em out and find the best one!

Focus, connect and follow through!

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