Shaft Weight vs Flex

[sethro5hc]

I'm finally getting a driver suited to my own specs, I just recently got the irons and this is the last step for my new clubs (driver). My SS with the driver is 120-123 as of a few months ago, so I'm looking at X-stiff shafts. My current S flex shaft is just too flexible for me, it's a 60 gram S fujikura I believe. Anyways I've got some deals I'm ready to pounce on, but I notice the X-flex Taylormade Ozik Matrix shaft in the club I'm looking at is just 55 grams. Other shafts I've seen were 70, even 80 grams in X or XX flex. What difference will this lighter shaft make? Will it effect swing speend, flight trajectory, lauch angle, or maybe all of the above?

Just for the record the club is the Taylormade R7 CGB Limited (8.5 loft), if anybody has any experience and would like to throw out a comment on that I'd be happy as well.

[Gezzy72]

I was told one time to get that lightest shaft that you could still control to be accurate and long at the same time. My swing speed is about the same as yours and I have always liked the heavier shafts because I am a big guy. Some of the smaller guys I play golf with hit the ball about the same distance with just a regular 65 x flex shaft. I prefer the 75 or 83 gram shaft. Right now I had a fuji that is 75 grams. Good luck in finding the right club. I have a good friend that has that CGB TP driver from Taylormade in 8.5 with a x flex shaft and he loves it. I can hit it pretty good but not as good as some.