Last year I thought I had the best driver set up I could ever have with the Callaway Epic Flash Triple Diamond with the Accra TZ6 shaft. At the beginning of this year I tested the TM SIM and I was getting more club head speed for some odd reason. The two clubs both had the same shaft and swingweight. I have had some great driving rounds and sub par rounds and have changed the shaft out numerous times. I know it’s probably the swing but anyone else feel the need to change out a shaft or club head each time they have a bad round? BTW the SIM has a Mitsubishi Diamana ZF shaft now

In the past month I’ve had these three shafts in the SIM and they are all sold and gone. so I’m back to the drawing board. VR shaft performed well but the balance of the shaft always felt a little head heavy and butt stiff, looking for butt soft stiff mid shaft.

I had a short stint with the BF. Really smooth feel and wondered if going softer tip would help turn the ball over with the fade biased sim. It did, but I realized that even though I hit draws on the range, on the course I hit a cut, and the worst thing for a fade is double left, so back to df60.

Currently rocking the Ventus blue 6s tipped 1/2" contemplating the Graphite Design AD XC....

Well, between my various driver heads, I have Ad Iz, ad xc, Ventus blue, Tensei pro orange, Accra tz6. Tensei pro white and HZRDUS smoke. Over last 12 months I have also had Ventus black, accra tz5, t1100 White. Mainly using the ad iz and Ventus blue now.

brushie how did you like the AD XC compared to the Ventus blue?

ForeLeft I'm shaft vain for sure, so the graphics don't do it for me. I guess the slight silver tape towards the tip is cool.

ForeLeft not sure yet. It showed up right before Covid.

Who else is a part of the driver/shaft of the month club?

maxbianchi

dphatt that Tiffany blue is something special

dphatt

Ok. So I am back on the Diamana ZF wagon. I think this is gonna be a love hate relationship.

I have a Ventus that is brand new so I might toy around with that next. I just need to figure how much to tip it.

DaHOF

I've been a driver/shaft month of the club for years. Lately it has been on 3 woods...but of course, just about 3 hours ago I ordered a Maverik with a AD XC shaft. So....I guess my question is, can I be welcomed back into the club?

Craig

dphatt

Craig I haven’t really given this shaft or head a try. What are your thoughts on it? What did you have before this?

Craig

102-104 SS. So far so good

Craig

dphatt I played the evenflow white t1100 I think it was called. I found it boardy. I don’t know if it was too stiff or what. The rogue feels waaay softer. I like feeling the load in my swing. I’m a 4.1 index for reference

maxbianchi

dphatt used this shaft for about two years 70 g X flex (ss 124), tipped to 43.5. it was incredibly smooth. Very underrated shaft imo.

ForeLeft

Not mine, but a buddy of mine is repping an old school Miura Driver and a custom "Baseball Shaft" Accra. Pretty sick I you ask me.

dphatt

So I think I am done with the light X flex experiment. I think the shaft is too stiff for me as it is either really good or really bad with nothing in between.

I still have the new Ventus that I need to try but I need to figure out how much tipping needs to be done.

I will spend an hour today on the range just hitting drivers to see what I like.

Eddie

dphatt So I think I am done with the light X flex experiment. I think the shaft is too stiff for me as it is either really good or really bad with nothing in between.

Dude, yesterday was shit in terms of weather.

So here's my strategy. I have a nice day shaft and a bad day shaft.

I'll always have both. BF and DF.

If it's cold, or rainy, I will use the BF, because on days where the weather is not good, I just don't turn as well, so a softer shaft gives me peace of mind, because I know my swing speed drops to the lower end of the spectrum. Also on days where my left arm is sore I will go with this shaft. Especially on rainy and cold days, wearing multiple layers hinders my move through the ball

When the weather is nice, I go DF because I know I can hit the 110 side of my swing speed.

I say keep the ZF and find an-off day shaft.

dphatt

So I spent 2 hours on the range today and dedicated one full bucket to just drivers. I brought out the Triple Diamond with the Accra TZ6 M4 and the SIM with an Accra TZ5 M4, ZF X stiff and a Tensei white X stiff. I was swinging well today so I knew this would be a great test. Without going into details to bore you the SIM like on the course was either really good or really bad no matter what shaft was in it. The Tensei was about .50in shorter so I wanted to see how that was. Nearly every miss was off the planet right right the SIM. The good shots were smoked.

The Triple Diamond just wanted to go straight no matter what I did with it. The misses were really good as well.

Now I just need to see if this works on the course and I will be set on the driver. (Yeah right)

brushie

The triple diamond is so good.

dphatt

brushie if tomorrow’s round shows me what I saw on the range then I am set for driver for the rest of the year. Famous last words right?

ckay

dphatt I have a feeling we will being another driver/shaft face off right around the start of summer.

Eddie

ckay

I'm guessing we will see an update tomorrow 🤣

I'm taking the DF sim combo to the course today, let's see what happens, will report back.

ckay

Eddie I think the DF is something I can really get along with. It is the new gen whiteboard?

Eddie

ckay

Yeah. What driver head do you play right now?

DaHOF

Well...let's see if this combo works...

ForeLeft

DaHOF Anxiously awaiting Review.

Eddie

DaHOF

NICE. Can't wait to hear about this....

DaHOF

ForeLeft have a birthday round for a good friend Saturday. I'm going to pull the plastic off on the first tee box and see what it does, haha.

Eddie

DaHOF

Well???? Wolff had one of these in his three wood yesterday, I like the tapered look to silver by the tip.