Broke a shaft on my 5 iron

[Chilidipper]

Anyway don't you hate when your clubs are out of commission. I decided to get them regripped so I won't have 3-sw till tuesday. I guess I'll have to practice my woods/driver and putting.


Probably a good thing. Anybody going through this now or have experienced this painful time.

[lamebums]

Anyway don't you hate when your clubs are out of commission. I decided to get them regripped so I won't have 3-sw till tuesday. I guess I'll have to practice my woods/driver and putting.

4 times last year, I was without a driver in my bag, so I had to tee off with a 3 wood.

First time... broke a Big Bertha Warbird on the range after hitting it really fat. I had to hit 3 wood out of the box the next day with my buddies. Second time...an el cheapo Wilson driver that came with a set. The head fell off of its own accord on the 10th tee. I just held the club sideways, and with no force acting on it, it inexplicably flopped to the ground leaving me with a graphite stick. Third time... Big Bertha Warbird, again. I cracked it, but didn't break it entirely. Useless as a driver, though. Fourth time... cheap $20 Acuity driver. Cracked the bottom of the shaft when I hit a power drive really fat. Last year, I also managed to break my 3, 4, and 7 irons. All in one year. Haven't broken any clubs this year though.

[Dent]

Last year i broke my driver by throwing a golf ball in the air and hitting it. Had to play a 3 wood off the tee until i got it fixed.

My Friend this year before the year started took a backswing with his 5 wood and broke the shaft about 3 inches from the top, He broke it where the grip was still covering the shaft.

This year somehow i broke my driver, it was a rare thing where the sweetspot gets indented and its unhittable, which happened to me.

[trutrojan8]

Yeah.. I broke mine/my dad's Big Bertha about 2 or 3 months ago, but we traded that and $150 for the new one.

[supercow]

Caved in a 980F 3W. Didn't think it was even possible to cave in a 3W....

[Dent]

Oh that remindes me also, my same friend hit his 3 iron and indented the face so badly that the club was almost flat, it was amazing how saomething like that could happen.

[powerhitter]

I tried one of my buddies older left drivers (im a rightie) needless to say I hit the club head into the ground and the head flew off almost knocking out a squirrel, i was entertained

[LarryK]

Not much you can do about a broken club but to take it in. As for regripping, I usually tried to do that in the dead of winter right before a major snow storm.

[golfchief]

I've been playing over 20years and never have broken a club. Seen many clubs get broken but the guys don't have a swing, they drive the club head down into the ball and ground. after awhile the head just snaps from being driven into the ground so often.

[CG031]

This year somehow i broke my driver, it was a rare thing where the sweetspot gets indented and its unhittable, which happened to me.

Did you get a new one free? How did that work?

[iacas]

I broke my 7-iron once. It was cold, I hit the shot a little heavy, and then heard this sickening metal twanging type sound (like a dull tuning fork) as the clubhead (which broke right at the top of the ferrule, basically) went down the fairway. The ball went about 80 yards.

[MPS67]

I've been fortunate enough to never have experienced a broken club. My golf instructor at Golf Galaxy was telling me that customers are constantly bringing in clubs for repair and he felt that the number one reason which led to broken clubs was golfers leaving their sets in their car where temperatures can reach 115° Fahrenheit or more. Over time, the epoxy expands, contracts, and weakens from the vast temperature shifts.

[Pete Beau]

The number one reason clubs come to me for shaft repair is not hitting a golf ball- it's the retaliation after hitting the ball. Shafts breaking from hitting trees, golf carts, into the ground (sludge hammer style), misc. objects within striking distance, is common. Many golfers don’t want to admit the cause for the shaft break (not saying that this applies to members of this site ). In one season I repaired 4 of 8 irons for a guy. He admitted that he had anger, golf management problem

[iacas]

The number one reason clubs come to me for shaft repair is not hitting a golf ball- it's the retaliation after hitting the ball. Shafts breaking from hitting trees, golf carts, into the ground (sludge hammer style), misc. objects within striking distance, is common. Many golfers don’t want to admit the cause for the shaft break (not saying that this applies to members of this site ). In one season I repaired 4 of 8 irons for a guy. He admitted that he had anger, golf management problem

I used to slam clubs into the ground when I was a teen. Then I read about some guy who did that and had the graphite shaft snap, stick him in the neck, and he died.

I stopped slamming clubs around that instant. Haven't done so in 12 years or so. I don't see much point in it anyway.