Shaft recommendation to help reduce ballooned drives

[erock9174]

Now that my swing is more consistent I am hitting straight drives however my distance is suffering because of a ballooned flight path.  I went to Golftec today and the confirmed this on their monitor.  Lauch angle and efficiency numbers were really good for my swing speed.  But backspin was about 3900-4000.  They said it was shaft and not head issue.

I currently play a Callaway FT-IQ 13* Driver with Mitsubishi Rayon 60 Shaft (R) flex.

Shaft specs: T 3.6  Low kick   58g

Swing speed with controlled swings about 84mph, Swing speed with more agressive shoulder turn about 90.

Looking for a shaft that could control the ballooning.

I would like to keep with the I-mix system and callaway offers these shafts.

here are some options...Any recommendations?

UST ProForce V2 HL  3.8T; Low Kick

Aldila NV65  3.6T; Mid kick  68g

Aldila NVS 55  4.7T; Low kick

Fuijukura Speeder 686  4.2T; Low kick; 66g

Aldila Black Voodoo 60 (couldnt find specs)

Graffaloy Axis Blue 4.0T; Mid kick

Graffaloy ProLuanch Blue 65  2.8T; Low kick

Fujikura ZCOM65 Tour  2.8T; Mid kick; 67g

Mitsubishi Rayon Fubuki 63 Tour    3.7T; Mid/High Kick;    62g

[inthecup]

Are you sure it is the shaft?  What did they say about your angle of attack?  A downward blow would give a high spin like that.

[erock9174]

I am just going by what he told me.  I didnt have an opportunity to write down any of the numbers.  I believe he said my angle of attack and swing plane looked really good.  That I impacted the ball with my club on the upward swing.

He said the numbers below looked good as well as far as the efficiency of my swing speed and how it related to my Ball speed.

Roughly off the top of my head, I remember these numbers:

Swing speed 90

Ball speed 128

1.42 ratio

Launch Angle: normally in the 15 to 17 range.

Backspin: 3900-4000.

I asked if I could try an r11 12*  R flex and my backspin came down to like 2200 but my launch angle was only 9*.

He said my Callaway clubhead was working for me but the shaft was creating that extra backspin.

I figured he was the paid professional I would take his word for it.

[colnago1331]

You probably want a shaft with a mid or mid/high kick point.  That will help keep your ball flight down.

[jpalermo]

Big fan of the Comp NT 65g shaft. maybe that in a regular flex? probably a crazy combination of things going on there. look into that 39g Miyazaki gold shaft, I tried it today and it was wicked light... I was ballooning balls 260. it was definitely not right for me but it's worth a look to some of the lower swing speed guys out there

[erock9174]

So far I haven't made a shaft change but I did get a chance to hit balls on the simulator the other day.  One thing I noticed was, they had 2 tees set up in the bay.  On the higher tee the ball rested about halfway above the clubhead and the lower tee placed the ball just a tick above the head.  I was always under the assumption that if you play the ball of your left heel that you need to tee the ball up very high.  Curiosity got the best of me and I gave the lower tee a shot and immediately gained 20-25 yards, slightly lower launch angle and much less backspin.  Granted this was on the simulator but it actually seemed to be working right that day (at least the distance was ballpark).  Plan to try out the lower teeing of the ball on the course asap.

[drglew]

the good old green Aldila NV65 is still a great low-launching shaft.  Used to play it in both a Cleveland Hibore, and before that a Titleist 983k.

Love it & miss it...hmm, might have to try to pull one from my older drivers and put it in a Nickent Evolver hosel and try one out.

[Scottgolf2003]

Pro force v2 is a great shaft for the money. You will notice a lower more penetrating ball flight. You still see these on tour.