Greater impact on launch angle: Loft or Shaft?

**flybub** · March 14, 2009

As you can see in my sig I am playing a Launcher driver. I have never had a high ball flight but I have a very high ball flight with this driver. I went driver shopping a week ago and could not find anything that screamed take me home. So what I am thinking is either find a ti460 with 9.5* loft or change out my shaft. Driver swing speed is 92-95 avg. What are your opinions?

**Titleist Man** · March 14, 2009

Id have to say shaft to a POINT. If you get a 13* driver vs. a 9.5* of course the shaft will do more but between say 9.5* and 10.5* the shaft will have more of an effect.

**andre112** · March 14, 2009

driver loft has the most effect on launch angle and spin

shaft's effect is directly related to the load
late release and aggressive tempo will load a shaft the most
hence, more effect from shaft

a golfer who casts in his/her downswing will not load the shaft enough to see big difference amoung shafts

**McIlroy_man** · March 14, 2009

shaft relates more to launch angle and loft relates more to spin rate

**hrossroth** · March 15, 2009

I first bought the same driver you have now, before my current driver. I also hit the ball high with that driver. Soon after I bought that driver on clearance, my pro fit me for irons. He told me to go with stiff. I did that and decided to find a stiff driver too. They had a 9.5 stiff only (I wanted the 10.5 in stiff- I wasn't able to find one on Ebay though). The 9.5 went a good deal lower, but I gained distance. I am now looking for a balance between the two, with the trajectory higher. Recently the monitor said the launch wasn't high enough with my 9.5. I won't know if I made the right move until I demo the new club that is in the mail. What I am trying is a different shaft and more loft. In addition to that I am going with the Launcher Comp. It has the Epic by Grafalloy in stiff. This Comp driver head probably will give a higher launch then same loft in reg. Launcher. I think that you are right to have the reg. flex with your SS because among other things the stiff will not go a far for you, I could be wrong. You can try a number of different things. 9.5 Ti460's in reg. flex are common on Ebay. It is not a bad way to go. If you went with the same shaft you could get basically predictable results. The ball will go lower. If you will get a pleasing flight or more distance is hard for me to say. I want to say yes because it seems like the 10.5 is going too high for you. I am interested in what you end up doing. Good luck!