Attention Golfers Of Almost All Proficiencies – The Shafts Really Matter
It seems, when it comes to go golfing, that the more things change, the more they stay the same. I love to call it “shafts golf”, and it is applicable to that top-notch group of players whose results can actually be affected by the golf-club shafts shaft with which they play.
Back in the times of Hickory Golf, when wooden golfing clubs were the sole option, a player’s game was steered by the characteristics of those golf-club shafts. For instance, the torque of a wooden shaft would be much bigger than that of today’s graphite golf shafts and steel shafts. This equipment dynamic guided the Hickory Golf player into a smoother swing, directed at dumping jerkiness or too much briskness in the swing. The swing plane which produces the highest success with a wooden shaft (Hickory) is much flatter than the swing plane used to maximise the results of modern golf club shafts. Therefore those players who concentrated on “shafts golf” during the Hickory Golf age learned extremely quickly to swing slow and swing low.Hickory Golf Clubs, as a result, became the hottest area of antique golf club accumulating.
The concept of “shafts golf” carries thru to today and will into the future as shaft design evolves and the player develops with it. Whereby that wooden shafted golfer had to eliminate his jerky swing so as to compensate for the shaft, the modern player can simply increase the flex until it maximises the results of his swing. Your natural distance or how far you hit the ball, is also regularly used to help define the proper golf shaft for a particular player. The rough rule is that as your natural “distance” increases, so does the rigidity of your ideal shaft.
The wooden golf club shaft had, and still does, a distance limiting aspect which required players to play shorter than modern players, concentrating much on effective course management. I'm of the opinion that there are several who are constantly on the lookout for the most recent and greatest golf club technology that would disagree strongly that advanced technology has in many ways, become a crutch to improvement in one’s core golf game. For those that need the latest and the best, there are actually new and better clubs being unveiled all of the time.
We find that we are today with 2 premier golf shaft makers who continue to introduce new golf club shafts with technologies that offer more distance and more precision, even for the casual player. We have experience with one particularly who have a PGA Major to their credit, yet have kept their prices terribly affordable to the weekend golfer.
Andrew Shea has been concerned in Antique Golf, both on a private level, and in a pro capacity for a number of years. If you have got a question or are interested in vintage golf clubs generally, you're often welcome at his site.

