I used to have an issue with graphite club shafts. They tended to be "whippy" and not very durable. The "whippy:" part used to drive me crazy. I used to get the feeling that the club head was always to far behind the shaft. As a result, I would attempt to compensate mid-swing and hit some ugly golf shot. I once even snapped the head off of a graphite shafted 2 iron. Needless to say, I hurried back to steel shafted clubs.
Today's graphite shafts are better thanks to advances in graphite shaft technology. Graphite shafts rival steel in durability. Compared to steel, an identical club head on a graphite shaft can give you an additional 2 - 3 mph in club head speed and 6-12 yards in distance.
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Monday, July 14, 2008
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Featured ArticleAre Ladies Golf Clubs All That Different From Mens Clubs ? Around 22 percent of the country's 26 million adult golfers are women. That's a lot of ladies playing a game they were once locked out of -- 5.7 million to be exact. And with the likes of young wonder golfer, Michelle Wei, making an impact, more women can be expected to be seen in the years to come swinging their special ladies golf clubs on the fairways and greens you play on. There are some distinct differences between ladies golf clubs and those men use. There have to be, of course. A woman has wider hips and more mass and weight in the chest, so her swing is going to be different. Also, women are generally weaker, so their clubs need to be lighter with heads that allow for the difference. And so on. Here's a list of the differences you will notice (or not see, because it's hidden in the design and materials) between the clubs of the two sexes. Ladies golf clubs:
It was not always like this. Golf can be said to date from the time of Julius Caesar, when wooden branches were shaped for the clubs and only men played. And there were no women's clubs when the first woman known to have played the game, the lively, Mary Queen of Scots, played in the 1550s. (As a side note, it's from Mary we seem to have got the name 'caddie', and in her day the magnificent course at St Andrews was built. I'm not sure if she ever played there, but if not, then no woman did until the man-only course opened to lady golfers almost 400 years later.) Women began playing in their own golf tournaments in the UK in 1893, and in the US and Australia the following year, and with this rise in women playing it is probable that shorter and more stylish clubs were being made for them. It is no secret that today clubs for women are a major part of all the big brand companies' inventories and sales.
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