Is a shaft like a hockey stick? eh!?

[enis750]

ok, Canadian jokes outts the way......

help me out w my though process here
when i cut the shaft on my hockey stick, it get's stiffer
an 87 flex, cut approx 2", will become a 102 flex....essentially

so..what effect will cutting 2-3" off my golf shaft, have on the club?

i have a Diamana BB 65g 4.3* torque shaft sitting in my garage, measures standard driver length (i think 45")
it was pulled from my driver and replaced w the shaft in my sig
reason i pulled it, is i needed a shaft that would produce a lower ball flight and a stiffer tip - hense 1.9* of torque and 77g

now, the Diamana shaft is also a stiff shaft, but a weaker tip at 4.4* of torque, with a mid to mid-high launch

the club i want to put it in, is a Titleist 975F 16.5 FW metal (4W)
amazing cub, but only has a REG shaft in it

i was thinking of cutting the Diamana down to the same length as the stock shaft in the 975F (i think its approx 42")
so i would be cutting 3" off this shaft...what will this do to the shaft (other than make it 3" shorter!! haha)

will it make it stiffer, like my hockey stick when i cut it?
would you not WANT a higher trajectory (than a driver) off a FW metal, as it would be hit off the deck 90% of the time?
this way, when it comes into the green, it will sit, instead of roll on by the flagstick
where is it cut? at the top or bottom of the shaft?

or am I losing it and by cutting it, it wont change it's characteristics, like a hockey stick?

thanks for your help and helping clarify things

[iacas]

There are other reasons why that wouldn't work. For one, swingweight will be really screwed up. You're dropping the weight of a shaft that's already much lighter than a fairway wood shaft should be.

My driver shaft's about 76g. My fairway wood shaft is about 88. My hybrid's about 102, IIRC. You'd be going in the wrong direction.

But yeah, cutting a shaft will make it stiffer. So does gripping down a little. People will soft-step or hard-step shafts to do this kind of thing in irons.

But no, you shouldn't cut a driver shaft down and put it in your fairway metal.

[enis750]

There are other reasons why that wouldn't work. For one, swingweight will be really screwed up. You're dropping the weight of a shaft that's already much lighter than a fairway wood shaft should be.

makes sense so would the same shaft i have in my driver (the UST PF V2 77g), do the trick in my FW metal? or would i need a heavier shaft yet? driver swing speed is approx. 110-113mph they had a STIFF 86g shaft there, but i think it was for a hybrid it didnt say anything on the shaft that it was though are hybrid shafts typically shorter than FW metals? according to the WEBSITE it would have to be a TOUR wood shaft, that only comes in a 46" length by cutting this to 42 or 43", would this not change the charactisitcs of the shaft?