My driver shaft broke....

[msd3075]

I was back in Houston (where I used to live) this past weekend and was out playing golf with my dad. Ever since the first hole my driver had been acting funny. I had two or three drives that I know where good swings,but on each the ball "popped up" to the right and only wen about 200 yards (normal drive is 280-300 yards). When I got the the 13th hole, I teed up my ball and hit another pop up. I walked back to the cart, got another ball, and as I was bending over to tee up I put the slightest amount of weight on the butt-end of the club. Snap. My clubhead was just laying on the ground. The weird thing is that the part of the shaft that was still in the hosel was flush with the end of the hosel but the ferrel (the little black "cap") was a good inch and a half above where the break was on the shaft. It's almost as if the shaft had backed out of the club head and then snapped off. Either way, the club is on it's way back to Titleist to be repaired/replaced. It's a Titleist 909D2 with a Voodoo X-flex shaft, and it's only about a year old.

Anyone ever have anything like this happen to them before?

[stacks04]

Thankfully it did not break mid swing and injure someone. I hope titleist takes care of it for you.

[JWL1957]

The hosel in that driver might not have been CONED properly. Coning is a slight bevel for the first 1/8" to 1/4" into the hosel. That bevel prevents the sharp edge of the hosel from cutting into the shaft. It sounds to me that the hosel may be the culprit your your breakage.
Its not real common....... but every now and then a batch of heads will have this problem. I have coned about 40-50 hosels for people over the years.

[msd3075]

The hosel in that driver might not have been

I'd take pictures of it and post them if I could so you could see it, but I had the pro send it back to Titleist for me right away seeing as I was heading back up here to AR a few days later and didn't know anyone up here that could either send it in for me or replace the shaft.

What gets to me is how it looked like the shaft had pulled out of the hosel before it broke. I had noticed a few weeks ago that there was a 1/8" gap between the hosel and the ferrule but didn't think anything of it. Maybe that had something to do with it. Either way, that shouldn't happen to a club that's only a year old.

[rjfan91]

I had a driver shaft break (Stulz) at the end of my swing. It sounded like a tree cracking because it was right behind my ear....

[Greg]

I had my driver shaft break last week, though it was a cheap driver. So im not even going to bother fixing it. I was at the range and all of a sudden whoosh, the head flew about 50 yards. I went out and picked it up a few minutes later and its sitting at home on my coffee table. Ive got 3 other drivers anyway, ill just pick which one i like best and use it.