Can I buy 40 more yards with a longer shaft?

[Mike Boatright]

I tinker around with my swing radar all the time and it varies with my driver from 98 to 114 depends on if im tired or not and what driver im swinging. I bought a stock calllaway s flex project x shaft put in on a nike ignite 410 8.5 degree and it's long and heavy,but  on good days I can really hammer it compared to my other standard drivers.. With new technology Getting lighter and stronger will I soon be able to get a max legal length shaft and go after it with a m2 head being it's basically weighs nothing? I have very good hands and a good swing so I can handle anything and as a confidence boost I want to hit it like a tour pro no matter what I do I can't do it with a standard driver they can But I can't! I think technology might be able to prevail right I'm talking 117 to 124 mph speed with little effort and probably a little less control but who cares if I'm hitting it 340 yards vs my 275 ish now.

[SavvySwede]

The answer is still no. Everyone would be doing it if it were that easy.

[pganapathy]

Let us be clear that you can of course buy 40 yards with better equipment, but that requires you to currently be playing ill fitting equipment and once you get fitted, the distance and accuracy will improve.  With an index of 5 I have to assume your equipment is reasonably well suited to your game and hence have to say that unless you are playing wooden woods or some such thing, the difference between today, 5 year old and 10 year old technology will not give you an additional 40 yards

[vangator]

I played with a guy that was 75 years old and was out driving me at times and I'm a fairly long hitter.  The shaft on his driver was 52 inches.  I swung it a couple of times.  Weird, but he had it down.

[arturo28mx]

A longer shaft may give you more distance but you will also get more dispersion.

[vangator]

1 hour ago, arturo28mx said:

A longer shaft may give you more distance but you will also get more dispersion.

That's a fact.  Max legal length is 48".

[pumaAttack]

1 hour ago, vangator said:

That's a fact.  Max legal length is 48".

I think he meant you will be spraying the ball all over the course as the longer driver is harder to control.

[freshmanUTA]

Maybe if your current driver shaft is like 38 inches and you go to a 48" shaft..

Aside from that there are too many variables outside of length and weight that control distance, launch angle, spin, etc.

[vangator]

41 minutes ago, pumaAttack said:

I think he meant you will be spraying the ball all over the course as the longer driver is harder to control.

I know what he meant.  The length comes at a price of accuracy.  You must have a smooth tempo with that long of a shaft.  The flex is unreal.

8 minutes ago, freshmanUTA said:

Maybe if your current driver shaft is like 38 inches and you go to a 48" shaft..

Aside from that there are too many variables outside of length and weight that control distance, launch angle, spin, etc.

Given the same loft on the club head, the length would be the primary element in longer distance.  What will increase the club head speed.  It's the length of the arc, particularly if you are swinging the same way.

 

Guy named Wedgy Thompson won the long drive years ago with a super long shaft.  I think that drove the shaft length limit right there, especially in the LD contests.

[freshmanUTA]

1 minute ago, vangator said:

Given the same loft on the club head, the length would be the primary element in longer distance.  What will increase the club head speed.  It's the length of the arc, particularly if you are swinging the same way.

 

Guy named Wedgy Thompson won the long drive years ago with a super long shaft.  I think that drove the shaft length limit right there, especially in the LD contests.

Im just saying, if he's trying to go from 45 to 48" and thinks he'll go from 114 to 130moh and 275 to 340yds.... He's gonna have a bad experience.

[colin007]

With a longer shaft it becomes that much more difficult to find the sweet spot, also.

[pumaAttack]

53 minutes ago, colin007 said:

With a longer shaft it becomes that much more difficult to find the sweet spot, also.

 

This post could be read in so many ways...

[colin007]

19 minutes ago, pumaAttack said:

 

This post could be read in so many ways...

Lol lol lol. My wife is perpetually disgusted by golfing euphemisms.

[Mike Boatright]

On 3/8/2016 at 0:35 PM, colin007 said:

With a longer shaft it becomes that much more difficult to find the sweet spot, also.

Well I have read everyone post's and see it has a maybe or maybe not proposition? I can hit my 16 deg 3 wood 235 yards vs by stiffer hybrid at 22 deg the same distance when I really go after it. When I'm on fire my hybrid with it's xx flex and performs perfect however 90% of the time I hit the same 16 deg with a reg flex diamana shaft the same yardage with about the same consistency and the shaft is 4 inches longer. So Im talking hitting a 15 yard green vs a 50 yard fairway so maybe a 48 inch ultra light s flex or r flex shaft with 12 deg loft swinging easy will produce an easy 310 yards. Of course this is me and I can hit anything even a one iron I happen to be blessed with perfect hands just not a huge body.

Edited March 12, 2016 by Mike Boatright