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How about soft stepping a stiff or hard stepping a regular. That's always worked for me. Then your no longer a tweener

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If you can't get the club back to square with the stiff you'll hit everything right. I played regular shafts last year and did balloon shots to the right or pulled way left. I went back to stiff shafts this year. If you're border line you may want to stay with regular.

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larlev Well Established Member

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Since there is no standard for flex, I agree with others in that you need to hit both and get what feels right to you.

elchene Dedicated Member

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Same problem, I'm borderline too. I'm sticking with regular for now because my tempo is pretty slow even though my swing speed is probably 93-95. I figure I'll go to stiff when I get up to 100 mph. Regular shafts just seem lighter and more powerful in my hands right now.

larlev Well Established Member

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Same problem, I'm borderline too. I'm sticking with regular for now because my tempo is pretty slow even though my swing speed is probably 93-95. I figure I'll go to stiff when I get up to 100 mph. Regular shafts just seem lighter and more powerful in my hands right now.

You wanna try light get the GS-75's like I have...I believe they are around

85g's trimmed. Huge diff. from the DG SL on my previous set

DavidFehertysBike Great Member

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I generally think if you swing over 95mph consistantly you should probably go for a stiff shaft.
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Laxplayer201092 Great Member

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M dilema is much like yours..

I am also re shafting, and its almost not how fast you swing, but how you load the club. If you hold the club in a very upright angle for a long time in your swing, you require a different shaft than a "sweeping" swing.

For example, i swing around 95 on a good day, a little less on a bad one.
I went to golfsmith, and demo'd the V2 in both stiff, and reg, when i made a sweeping swing, it went about 240 with the regular flex, but when i tryed to hold the angle longer in my swing with the stiff, i was getting it out to about 265. and if anything, i swung slower with the stiff, so take that into account when you are deciding.

I ended up getting the stiff in my superquad, and will be ordering a 3 wood in Regular, since i am looking for more accuracy than raw distance/

Hope this helps,

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Three Putt Great Member

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For what its worth any club I hit with a weak flex baloons and slices to the right.

I'll vote "yes" on that also.

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