fairway wood re-shaft

[imtomtomim]

So, I bought a nickent 4dx fairway 4 wood and it's beautiful. Love it, just one problem. I got it with the stock stiff shaft which I thought I could get away with. I thought wrong. First few strikes, huge duck hooks, kinda cool because it was low trajectory and it just pierced through completely flat, got to use it on a couple of holes where the hook was real useful bending at 180 stopping at 250. Anyways, I brought it to Dicks and they guy told me that I really shouldn't be looking at x-stiff shafts unless I'm swinging 115 mph. Since a friend of his referred me there, he put me on the launch monitor with the fairway wood. Wouldn't read me. Anyways, Dicks doesn't carry x-stiff shafts and they need to be ordered. He told me to go get it cheap online and he'll put it in for me. Are there any cheap fairway wood shafts that you guys would recommend? Nothing fancy, just something that I can get to fly true instead of whipping around on me. Thanks.

P.S. Just to add, I swung on the monitor the first time without a ball at full speed. I've never done that before without a target and hurt like hell. It's just like dry firing a bow without an arrow. It's hard to believe that all the energy you produce goes into that ball, but without that ball, all that energy just goes right back into you. Lesson learned, do not full swing without putting that energy into a ball.

[Leftygolfer]

I really like my UST shafts. I am not sure if they come in X flex but the one on my 5 wood is the 75 gram competition stiff and it is cheap. I've heard alot of good things about the v2 UST and how it plays stiffer than the flex but that is about 65 dollars.

[Gioguy21]

um, i'd suggest until you get actually read on a monitor to wait on buying an xstiff...just an opinion but, unless you know yo'ure numbers it's kind of a waste of money to invest in something without knowing anything about it.

[RocketSauce]

aaah, i love the Nickent fairway woods too. i need to replace my Sonartec 3 wood with the Nickent to match my 5 wood... i know whatcha mean about the stock shaft though. its the SR3 shaft, correct? as far as good, affordable shafts go, i too like the UST shafts and the Aldila NV fairway wood shafts. both can be bought brand new for under $75...btw, i LOVE the clubs in your bag imtomtom. i would play that set-up in a heartbeat

[Power_fade]

I agree with rocketsauce. V2 or NV since you said you like a low trajectory.

[imtomtomim]

I'm pretty sure my swing speed is somewhere around 112 ish, probably whips just over 115 on my looser days. Got measured last year for kicks. I didn't think I could be that fast but I guess I can turn a lot faster. Didn't translate because I was thinking, I can't even throw an 80 mph baseball! And I do flirt with 300 at least once a round, maybe not past, but definitely 290 on those lucky hits. I just don't want the club to whip so badly. I probably generate most of my torque right before impact instead of in the swing. This club is so easy to hit, I want to be able to depend on it to go where I point it and not judge for a hook.

I'll definitely give those ust v2's and aldila nv's a look. I don't actually play a lower ball flight as I hit extremely high because I like to play the ball up in my stance but I wouldn't mind something to cut through the wind for me. Even if the shaft is too stiff, I wouldn't mind something high and to the right. I could definitely go for the green with a ballflight like that.

And for RocketSauce, I just put those irons and fairway wood in a few weeks ago as a prize for finishing my thesis. Feels great to have confidence over every single club in your bag. Those ARC blades are the on par with the best forgings I've hit. Absolutely love them. Love them so much, I took out the hybrids for the long irons.

Thanks for all your help guys.

P.S. Actually, does anyone know the weight of the stock ust sr3 shaft in that fairway wood? It's not written on the shaft, weird.

[Jenks465]

At that sort of speed i'd be considering a steel shaft to get the dead weight of the club up and improve overall tempo. Dynamic gold x-100 could be a good option and cheap too!

[miller72]

  Jenks465 said:

At that sort of speed i'd be considering a steel shaft to get the dead weight of the club up and improve overall tempo. Dynamic gold x-100 could be a good option and cheap too!

Yea try Dynamic gold or Project X. They have a low trajectory and steel is plenty more accurate than graphite! I am planning on putting steel in my hybrid, actually.