Swing weight

[walfice]

Do most players (especially better players/pro's) play the same swing weights in all of their clubs to keep a consistent feel or do they vary the weights between the woods, irons and wedges? Is it even important?
Just checking my clubs I have D4 for driver and 3 wood, D3 hybrid, D2 irons and D5 wedges.

[Jay-Bird]

Swing weight is an often overlooked piece of the puzzle to being fitted correctly. It's personal preference to a degree, but having the right or wrong swing weight on a certain club - matched with the way YOU swing it - can be the key to constant contact on the sweet spot vs misshits -- and as a result has an impact on distance and accuracy.

I like my driver at D2
4 wood at D2
hybrid at D2
irons at D2
wedges at D5

[Shanks A Million]

Most people keep the swingweight pretty similar from driver to 9 iron or pitching wedge. The sand wedge is nearly always heavier, and the lob wedge will be about the same. Some people prefer the PW to fit with their wedges, others with their irons.

[Steve Keeler]

  Jay-Bird said:

Swing weight is an often overlooked piece of the puzzle to being fitted correctly. It's personal preference to a degree, but having the right or wrong swing weight on a certain club - matched with the way YOU swing it - can be the key to constant contact on the sweet spot vs misshits -- and as a result has an impact on distance and accuracy.

Jay-Bird has it right. You need to determine when and where you load the shaft. Typically pro's like all their woods and irons to be the same swing weight, with the wedges heavier due to having more control on the shorter shots. I'll never forget getting my 975 D Titleist with the gasp (BiMatrix) shaft...well after the first round I fn hated it (the demo I used in the Illinois Open Qualifier was a monster, I couldn't miss a fairway and it was long)..found out it was C-9 which proved to be too lite for my style of swing. Needless to say the club ended up getting dumped...so try zeroing in on what weight feels good, and have a professional "eye" your swing.

[Shanks A Million]

  Steve Keeler said:

...gasp (BiMatrix) shaft...

Someone not Bi-curious? That's a great shaft.

[rebby]

My swingweights vary throughout the set. My woods come in at D3, 3-9 are D2, PW D3, SW D4, GW D5, LW D6. For me it's all about how the club feels in my hand. After much tinkering, these are the weights that I prefer, YMMV.

[jhawker23]

Can any correlations be made from swing problems related to weight? For example, could a change from heavier swing weight to lighter correlate to hitting fat shots? I'm trying to educate myself on swing weight and I'm finding it more difficult to find a lot of information on the topic by traditional searching. Preference must be the result of performance so what performance changes have you experienced going from heavier to lighter, vice versa?

The most info I've found specific to swings and swing weight is a slower, smoother swing would benefit from higher swing weight.

[ronaldkuntoro]

A clubmaker once said it's better to have the same swing weight for all of your clubs. The exception is for Sand Wedge. It needs a really high swing weight such as D5 to digging out the sand.

Standard swing weight for most irons are D2....