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What is SensiCore? |
| What is flex? |
| What is sub-flex and what is the difference between the
sub-flexes? |
| How can you make a shaft play stiffer or weaker? |
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What is swing-weighting? |
| What is a high bend point (or flex point, or kick point)
and when would I want a high bend point instead of a low bend point? |
| What can I do to hit the ball farther? |
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What can I do to hit the ball straighter? |
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What can I do to hit the ball higher (or lower)? |
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How do I reshaft my current golf clubs? |
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What is SensiCore?
SensiCore is a vibration damping mechanism which reduces vibration/shock 70% better
than other steel shafts and 25-30% better than graphite shafts. It is 14" long and is
inserted 10" down from the butt end of the shaft. It does not effect the playability
of the shaft. A club maker does not have to worry about cutting into it when tip or butt
cutting. The only drawback is that you cannot swingweight the club using lead powder
because you can’t cork it from the inside.
To find out more about SensiCore, click here.
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What is flex?
"Flex" is the relative stiffness of a shaft. True Temper's flex designations
are (from most flexible to most stiff):
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L |
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R |
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X |
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Junior |
Ladies |
Action |
Regular |
Stiff |
Extra-stiff |
To find out what flex shafts you should have with your clubs,
find out about fitting
yourself for shafts.
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What is sub-flex and what is the difference between the
sub-flexes?
Sub-flex is the relative stiffness of a shaft measured to a finer degree within a flex
category. That is why you'll see flex designations like R200, R300, R400, etc. Weight is
the major difference -- 200 is lighter, 400 is heavier. R300, S300, X100 are the standard
flexes. About 3 grams is the actual weight difference. For example an R200 may play a
little more flexible than the R300 and the R400 may play a little stiffer than the R300
only because of the weight.
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How can you make a shaft play stiffer or weaker?
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 | Parallel tip shafts: Trim more off the tip end; increasing the amount trimmed off the
tip by 1/2" will change the shaft about a sub-flex. |
| Tapered tip shafts: "step the shaft down"- since tapered tip shafts come in
different lengths, a person can put the 3 iron shaft into the 2 iron club and so on,
therefore shortening the tip to 1st step section and increasing the stiffness about a sub
flex. |
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| To play weaker:
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