Why Are We Break Driver Shaft at Hosel?

[baseballbbcor]

Hello all, new to the gathering and generally new to golf too so thanks ahead of time for any answers/exhort. A few companions and I chose inside the most recent couple of months we'd take up the game inline with plate golf, providing us with a ton of choices for outside exercises here in TX. I needed to introduce my next assertion with exactly that we are so new to golf yet in addition that we aren't quite as terrible as I would've expected and we practice, a LOT. We play 18 holes one time per week and multiple times at the reach, explicitly off grass (versus mat) and we have encountered (nearly scratch) golf players playing with us about one time each week. I for one got bit by the "I should attempt different clubs to perceive how they hit" bug. Thus, I have somewhat of an interest in a scope of pardoning clubs, each of the a piece expensive.

As of late, I've some way or another wrecked three driver shafts, practically all at the hosel, on very great swings. Or then again so I thought. These have occurred at on the course. Every one of them right off the tee. What appears to happen is I tee up, go for a decent delicate backswing and controlled finish and what feels like a decent strike, just to peer down at my club head hanging off the shaft, actually joined by strings of graphite/shaft. None of the drivers included had contacted the ground, which was effectively perceptible by the reality the tee was practically immaculate and ground undisturbed.

The three drivers being referred to were a Callaway XR16, Callaway GBB (2016) and a Ping G SF Tech. One was penniless last week at the reach off grass and two in succession (in a real sense) at the course, once more, none hit the ground. Is it perhaps my swing on the completion? Could finishing off the ball with a specific swing be my issue? My club head speed tried ran somewhere in the range of 100 and 110. I could trust a little break in the shaft from moving the clubs around however one of the drivers (GBB) I recently purchased that evening and was moved separate in my rearward sitting arrangement with nothing close to it.

I value any criticism and assuming somebody has experienced this since everybody at the course that day said they hadn't seen anything like it. I certainly need to chip away at my swing and numerous different things, so if that *could* be the reason, without crushing the ground (or in any event, contacting), I'll quit purchasing drivers and utilize an old G5 I got in vain until it's better. Yet, obviously, I'm a piece meek on going to my neighborhood PGA Store and purchasing another GBB Epic, Ping G400 or M1/M2 assuming I will break it. As a side note, I have a more seasoned Callaway Rawr X Black that was my first buy and hasn't had a solitary issue. It's likewise been swung the most and was purchased extremely utilized.

Much appreciated all!

[iacas]

You're most likely hitting the ball quite near the hosel/shaft.

That, or the shafts are already weakened in some way before you hit it.

[Pretzel]

I've seen two different causes for driver shafts snapping at the hosel.

The first, as mentioned by @iacas, is hitting the ball off the extreme heel of the club. The second is hitting the ground before the ball, particularly if it's been cold out and the ground is frozen hard.

Beyond that I haven't personally seen it happen on a swing with good contact, but I wouldn't say it's necessarily impossible. Unlikely unless the shaft was already damaged, is it possible that you're applying pressure to the driver while storing or transporting your clubs? I've had a driver shaft failure due to club storage before (Bi-Matrix shaft left in a hot trunk all summer, two of them, that later separated where graphite meets steel). In this case just having pressure applied would be your point of concern since it's not an issue with an epoxy bond weakening and later failing.

 

Edited April 13, 2022 by Pretzel