Ok gang, a little help. I am looking for suggestions on replacing my driver shaft. Here's my situation.

1) Male 50+
2) Club head speed 108 mph.
3) Current driver Adams Speedline Super S set at 11.5.
4) Current shaft Aldila NV 75g in 'stiff' trimmed to 45 inches.

The Problem

1) Have a very high spin rate and working on correcting strike on the face of the club.
2) Have a natural fade BUT the shaft is an 'anti-hook' shaft and therefore biases to fade the ball as well. So hit a fade, with a fade type shaft, and there she goooooeeessss into the trees.
3) Takes a fair amount of swing gymnastics to keep the ball in the fairway.
4) Best swings see total distance of 250-270 depending on rollout.
5) Can't hit a draw with the club. Several people have tried.
6) Reducing loft on the club gets a lower ball flight, but no real distance gains due to high spin rate.

Requested Solution

I'm looking for anyone who can suggest a driver shaft that has some of the following characteristics, OR has had similar problems/stats to mine and has found something useful as a solution.

1) Low spinning shaft.
2) 60-70 gram weight range.
3) Torque value of say 3.4-4.1
4) Doesn't cost $400. (lol)

Thanks!

MikeyB

Well since no one replied in two weeks, I went to Kijiji.com. Searching the ads I found a Cleveland Launcher SL290 12 degree driver with a Miyazaki 43g Stiff shaft.

Price? $25. Um, the shaft itself is worth $250! Seller even threw in a dozen Titleist ProViX used balls.

The thing hits bombs! Getting 230 yrd carry with range balls which normally only fly 75-80% of regular ball distance. So gimmie another 40 yrds of carry and a little roll out and we're hitting the 300 yard mark. Should get it on the course this week to verify distances.

Thinking if I could find the 10.5 degree version of this club with same shaft 300 yards is completely doable.

I would have replied, but you went past my golfing abilities with the first sentence.

Hmmm 12 degree driver is a borderline 3 wood... 10.5 all the way!

the 45" is standard length, i suspect at the point of impact(because of swing speed) your graphite club hasn't quite caught up, especially in hot weather this has been a factor for me this year. I compensated by closing my club more during impact and front footed it, i'm always going for the draw on straight aways.

close your club and crack it or get a "off set" driver, that might help!

I've tried a couple offset head drivers, and hook them as a general rule. At address, I have an image of needing to drag the club head through the hitting zone in order to keep the club face square down the target line. Instead, I wind up with a closed club face, and a nasty ball going left into the forest at high speed.

I can always use a little downward angle of attack on this club, and try to reduce launch angles to see if I can maybe get more rollout.

Going to try ProV1X balls based on swing speed and desire to get more backspin on approach shots and chips. Also hoping the swing weight on this combo of shaft and head can reduce spin off the tee.

I radically changed the swing weight on my current driver when I went from a 50 to a 75 g shaft, going down one class from D2 to C2. I needed the extra stiffness based on swing mechanic. Could try adding some lead tape to driver head but it might become a baseball bat at that point.

The 'new' driver was a very inexpensive solution. I might even swap heads as they are both .350". We'll see. A bit late in the year to fiddle around now.

it is a bit late to fiddle, but i have been doing just myself.

replaced my taylor made with this years nike vapor volt speed driver. it has a lot of different settings, but i have kept everything on neutral and i couldn't be happier.

good luck in your trials...

Slow your swing down, like the big easy, Ernie.

Effortless power instead of powerless effort.

You would think I was Rory reading this, truth is I'm rubbish but I love the game.

Talking of drivers though, I got a Taylormade burner a couple of years ago in a sale, I hated it at first but now I don't want to get a new driver.

I've stopped listening to people giving advice unless they are Pro's, it all get's confusing with all the info.
I know people mean well but it's like the blind leading the blind sometimes.

Having said that, there are some great online tuition classes on youtube, Luke Donald's was a good one I watched.

I appreciate the point on technique versus equipment. North Americans are equipment hounds looking for the newest, shiniest toy promising sports nirvana if you buy it. Spend money on lessons instead of buying a new club.

Golf equipment companies live on the premise that a couple more yards of distance and a new coat of paint will prompt you to drop most of a weeks pay for that new driver. The one which upon contact with the ball will elicit the sound of angels singing as your nuclear powered, dolphin safe, glow in the dark, bent grass seeking, GPS guided, titanium wound ball launches itself into the atmosphere at a speed just below that of a bullet fired from a sniper rifle. Leaving the faint smell of ozone in it's wake, it lands on the turf of your favourite fairway carrying enough RPM's that allow it to effortlessly climb over boulders, and scorch any sand trap into a thin line of melted glass in it's wake.

As you produce the wedge from your bag, it's electro formed nickel cobalt face eager to produce a surface on your ball similar to a cheese grater, your ball is spun at 10,000 rpm and wrinkles the surface of the green like a cheap carpet, and your ball sucks back the 20 feet you hit it past the hole,leaving mere inches for your first birdie putt of the day.

Yeah, that's the dream companies sell us four days a week when we watch televised golf. If we actually had technology that really gives the average golfer 10 more yards each time they released a new driver, we should be hitting the ball 500 yards now. With the first metal driver coming out in 1980, we have been supposedly adding yards every year. So if I hit my driver 200 yards back then, at 10 yards a year for 35 years, where is my 550 yard driver? lol

Case in point on the equipment thing. Mizuno now making pre-sell ads for 2016 clubs. For 2015, the had the JPX-850 driver. 440 cc club head and 2 weights of 8 grams each you could move around to dial it in.

Now for 2016, the same driver is 460 cc, and has only 1 weight of 10 grams to move around.

The 'commercial' video has club designer telling a pro how cool the new club is. The pro hits it, and the ball is like 20 yards shorter than the 'old' club. The designer then goes into this whole techie explanation about how spinny the head is, and how pros are probably too good for it, but how Joe Lunchpail can benefit from the extra spin and launch angle.

The designer grabs the new club and gives it a whack. His swing is 20 yards better than the old club. So the message is if you are a good golfer with an above average swing, then walk right past this club at the store! (lol) If your game needs help, maybe this club will get you some distance.

Lessons at like 1/3 the price of the club would likely get you the 20 yards the miracle club will give you.

The only suggestion that I can come up with is this: Please don't go out looking funny.

So the newest 'miracle' driver has been announced by Taylormade. The M1...I guess the 'M' stands for 'Money' because in Canada this will be a $600 golf club! Again it's the longest, best, blah blah yadda yadda.

For those familiar with the R15, TM put two weights that travelled on a track across the bottom of the face. The weights could be placed at various locations on the track to try and establish the best possible draw/fade power/control geometry for delivering your swing to the ball. Result? No one I know could hit this club effectively, but TM apparently sold a boatload of them.

TM has continued with this dual weight system in the M1, BUT with a twist! One weight continues the draw/fade adjustment a la the SLDR. The second weight is set at 90 degree angle to the first, and travels front to back to modify the spin rate of the club face.

The tracks the weights travel on make a 'T' shape on the sole of the club. There will be three stock shaft options, but no word if these are the 'real' shafts, or a tweaked OEM version of the Fujikura PRO 60, Aldila Rogue Silver 70, or the Kuro Kage TiNi Silver 60.

The club will also feature a full 4 degree loft adjustment as well.

All of this techie talk means that TM has given the average golfer a club that has 12,960 possible settings!!!!! Oh yeah, and did I forget the club has a partially carbon fibre head, and that there is both the 460 cc and 430 cc head available???

I just want to know when TM is going to put a small nuclear reactor in the club? I also think this explains why the U.S. space program has suffered. All the rocket scientists are designing f&%$ing golf clubs that are comparable to the space shuttle for complexity!!!

The question is, will I buy one? Highly doubtful. I wouldn't buy one unless it goes 300 yards consistently. Will I try hitting one when the local store gets demo clubs? OF COURSE!!!! lol What golfer passes up the chance to hit the club that just might be the 'magic bullet'? Does that make me a hypocrite? Nahhh, it just makes me a golfer. lol