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.

dphatt that Tiffany blue is something special

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.

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?

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

Eddie

ckay reason I ask is if you want to try out the DF I can send it to you.

ckay

Eddie thanks for the offer Eddie, I may hit you up on that later on in the season if you still have it. Very limited golf for me and even less access to ranges here in NY. Thanks so much though, that’s a really cool gesture 🤙

Eddie

DaHOF

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

DaHOF

Eddie Just saw this. Shaft is a different animal than my AD IZ. Loads different and I feel the driver head a lot more than I used to. First couple rounds were garbage and I seemed to be pulling everything. The last two rounds however, holy cow, it's amazing. Adjusted the swing a bit on loading it, able to just swing hard now and it's further than my old setup and more accurate. I have more confidence (as of today, haha) of swinging freely and not losing it. Big fan with a couple of rounds in. We shall see if the honeymoon phase continues or not.

Eddie

I'm a freaking idiot by the way.

So I was bitching about the BF60 turning over too much, especially when I play a hard fade. Well I have it set at one click higher than normal and the SIM weight in the heel.

Set it back to standard, threw the weight up in the toe, and high soft draws, which for me, NEVER happens, I'm king fader. So we will see how this goes, but BF back in the bag. The saga continues.

And for elbow pain people like me, softer tipped shafts definitely make a difference, when you get jammed up with a tip stiff shaft and that thing doesn't kick, it hurts, a lot.

agadawg1717

Eddie How does the BF compare to the Ventus Blue in the SIM? Really wanting the SIM to find a place in my bag but haven't found the right combo yet.

ForeLeft

Welp....with all the speed I've gained from the G box...I'm going to test out an X flex.

Just ordered a Oban Kiyoshi HB 65g X flex. V excited.

Eddie

ForeLeft

Big boy shaft I see you Scoobie haha.

What head is it going into?

Eddie

agadawg1717 How does the BF compare to the Ventus Blue in the SIM? Really wanting the SIM to find a place in my bag but haven't found the right combo yet.

Similar but the tip section on the BF is soft. I made the mistake of not tipping my BF, really wishing I had just a little bit, but otherwise, pretty similar.

ForeLeft

Eddie Ping G410 LST 9°...turned down to 7.5° 😳

ForeLeft

Little bummed. The shaft came in and I failed to realize the G410 is a different adapter than last years model. I had to scramble to find someone to swap adapters. Now I guess I'm stuck with it...and either X flex works or it doesn't. lol!

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Eddie

ForeLeft

Is the new adapter lighter?

ForeLeft

Eddie it’s just different. My g410 goes all the way to -1.5°. The old one only goes -1°. Diameters/screws are different too.

So I put the g410 on the oban shaft and it’s curing now. Should be ready tomorrow.

Eddie

DaHOF

Good to hear, makes sense as it's a soft butt with a stiff tip shaft, typically feel the head more for sure. How are the graphics? Do they look cool at address? Because, you know, that's what I care about LOL.

ForeLeft

Well the Oban Kiyoshi HB 65g X flex might be the ticket! Laser beams and no more right miss! (I’m a lefty)

Eddie

ForeLeft

What's the SW at with the HBP?

ForeLeft

Eddie They look totally bad ass! I will get some pics next week!

Unfortunately, when I told the guy who installed how I wanted it inserted (Big Minus (-1.5º), he didn't understand and now the graphics are facing like 45º to the right. lol!

Eddie

Next up, zf60.

initial trackman sessions were promising 🧐

ckay

Eddie how are you getting along with the ZF? Thinking about going 60TX and eyeballing how it compares to the Tensei PW. The PW is a great shaft for me. The TZ6 is proving to be an excellent shaft itself but I am having an issue with centering the impact as it does play 2-3 SW points higher than my PW.

bigjohntripod

Bought a new shaft and head yesterday. Mail day awaits 🤞. Should be interesting...

Eddie

ckay how are you getting along with the ZF? Thinking about going 60TX and eyeballing how it compares to the Tensei PW. The PW is a great shaft for me. The TZ6 is proving to be an excellent shaft itself but I am having an issue with centering the impact as it does play 2-3 SW points higher than my PW.

So far pretty decent. The bottom half of the shaft feels much firmer than the BF, which is what I was looking for. By firmer I guess I mean less torquey.

In terms of swingweighting, pretty standard. BF, DF, ZF all swingweighted within one point of each other so there shouldn’t be any surprises there.