WTB: rifle or Project X 5.0/5.5

[Scottt]

As above. 3-LW preferably, or 3-PW if that's all you have.

Pulls are fine, but want 5i to play 38".

Let me know what you have and we can talk price.

[virge666]

Proj X 6.0 ?

:)

[3oneday]

Why don't you buy the High Launch ones on ebay ? Last I looked they were reasonably priced.

Is A flex too much you think ?





:lol:

[Scottt]

Virge,

From what I have read, they'd be too stiff.

I'm reading that:

R300 - 5.0
S300 - 5.5-6.0
X100 - 6.5-7.0

So anything over 5.5 for me (six iron flies 150m/165y) would be too much shaft.

[Jarro]

Why do you want Project X shafts specifically ?

[Scottt]

Why do you want Project X shafts specifically ?

lower spin, lower launch, smoother feel than R300.

[Jarro]

lower spin, lower launch, smoother feel than R300.

:-k .. all the PX shafts i've tried felt a lot 'harsher' than DG's.

[virge666]

Scott... YOU NEED SPIN.

Proj X is really the last thing I would put you in. Maybe 5.0 Flighted at a push, Your hands are just not steep enough to warrant them.

I would be pushing you towards Nippon 1050 and 950 in REG for Aussie conditions and STIFF for Euro conditions.

My 2c worth.

[virge666]

Why don't you buy the High Launch ones on ebay ? Last I looked they were reasonably priced.

Is A flex too much you think ?


I love this for marketing...

Project X HL in 6.0 is actually 5.5.

Very clever.

All rifle shafts start out as the same piece of pipe... Where they cut it is how you get the differences.

[Matt 3 Jab]

Wow, my 5.0's make me feel a bit less of a man now, is it bad im using 5.0's for my swing speed?

[Scottt]

Virge, what can I say... I feel admonished :lol:

I was thinking the rifles would be good for UK conditions because they fly lower..

[virge666]

Virge, what can I say... I feel admonished :lol:

I was thinking the rifles would be good for UK conditions because they fly lower..

Don't be...

Lower is not a problem if you have a high spin rate to fight through the air and stay above the ground.

The reason Tiger's stinger is so good is that he is one of the only people in the world who can hit a ball that low and keep it in the air. The rest of us choppers can't keep the ball spinning high enough to keep it in the air and it just falls to the ground and bounces...

You have seen me hit my stinger with my driver as it is the only club I can get steep enough with to get the spin rate up. Other wise you may as well just skull it with a 7 iron.

Low launch comes from "trapping" the ball - you will lose too much distance doing what you are trying.

Make sense ?

[virge666]

Wow, my 5.0's make me feel a bit less of a man now, is it bad im using 5.0's for my swing speed?

You could easily go up a notch for some more control... it would bring your spin rate down. (read that SIDESPIN down also)

You would lose some height, but you may have some trouble turning the ball over as easily as you do now.

[talbo]

lower spin, lower launch, smoother feel than R300.

My switch to a S300 shafted MP32 from R300 MP32 has achieved the above, except maybe the spin cause I can still get decent balls to spin of the front of a green! (Anyone wanna buy near mint MP32 3-PW R300's....?)

I always thought that I didn't have the strength or swing speed for S300's but it's like night and day now between the sets and I now know why I struggled with controlling the R300's having come from TM irons with factory S-90 Rifles (don't know what flex this really is). I thought DG's would bring the ball flight down and assumed R300 would suit..... S300's have now given me the ball flight I'd been looking for with immense control.

The low stinger that Virge mentions above is now a shot I can control too, whereas with the R300 it never quite stayed down enough. I'm not saying S300 is definetely for you, but it's certainly the single biggest improvement I've made with irons since I got rid of my MP33's around a year ago (and YES I regret it everyday since).