Shot Shape

[9wood]

12 hours ago, Dave325 said:

 I agree 100%.... It really feels good when you get that straight ball off the tee with a perfect trajectory heading straight down the fairway. It don't get much better than that!  Every once in awhile, you may need to bend one around a tree... It would be nice to have that tool in the box, but that will come some day, maybe.

I can easily slice a ball around a dogleg to the right if I need to, but it's not easy for me to hit a hook around a dogleg to the left

[SavvySwede]

12 hours ago, vangator said:

Amen.

If you hit it straight 90% and the other 10% doesn't move that much, I wouldn't change a thing.  That's a recipe for good scoring.

I have a theory on this.  I typed it out in another post a little while ago.

For conventional irons, each club is tipped 1/2 longer as the loft decreases.  Typically, the 7 iron is fitted correctly and most hit it the best.  As you progress toward the wedges, the shaft is tipped 1/2 inch shorter making it stiffer.  As you progress toward the long irons, the shaft is tipped 1/2 longer making it more flexible.  Changing a stiff shaft by soft stepping by 2 inches results in a regular flex shaft.

Therefore, for someone like myself that thinks they have all stiff shafts, the shaft flex for the wedges are x-stiff, the mid irons are still and the long irons are regular.  The wedges would be inclined to hook, the mid irons straight, the long irons fade.  That was my shot shape.

That's why I now play Single Length irons.  All my irons have a soft draw.  Confidence has increased 1000%.

The effect of shaft stiffness/torque on the clubface-path relationship is tiny at best and most would claim the exact opposite relationship of what you're proposing.(Softer shaft is generally regarded as draw biased, stiffer shafts fade biased. Relative to SS) The pattern the OP is experiencing is best explained by the D-plane. 

[iacas]

9 hours ago, SavvySwede said:

The effect of shaft stiffness/torque on the clubface-path relationship is tiny at best and most would claim the exact opposite relationship of what you're proposing.(Softer shaft is generally regarded as draw biased, stiffer shafts fade biased. Relative to SS) The pattern the OP is experiencing is best explained by the D-plane. 

It's probably not even that. People swing longer clubs differently. More likely to come over them, pull and slice them.

[vangator]

13 hours ago, SavvySwede said:

The effect of shaft stiffness/torque on the clubface-path relationship is tiny at best and most would claim the exact opposite relationship of what you're proposing.(Softer shaft is generally regarded as draw biased, stiffer shafts fade biased. Relative to SS) The pattern the OP is experiencing is best explained by the D-plane. 

I think that could be the case, but I think that the extra tip flex tends to make the ball more in the direction it was going to move anyway.  Meaning, if you draw the ball, it will draw more.  If you fade the ball it will fade more.

I agree that people do tend to swing their long irons OTT.