www.Go To The Mountain - Musings of a Potential Guru

Many golf experts consider the golf shaft the engine of the club. If you were to walk in and buy any golf clubs from the shelves without understanding your swing and other details of your own swing speed, etc. it is no wonder you may be struggling with your shots. There is also no uniform specification for what constitute a regular shaft. Furthermore, the American and Japanese or Asian specification for 'Regular or Stiff' are different. Moreover, you have to contend with "stock" shafts mass produced just to fit the club heads to be sold. Even if quality has improved over the years, these shafts could never compare with 'after-market' shafts that are manufactured and sold separately as shafts for the individual. It is the same as your hi-fi whether  your set is generic or are you a purist? It is also similar to eating at an army camp's mass or at a higher end restaurant where the food is individually prepared and cooked. I used to play with 'regula...

I have not been golfing as much as I could. However, as I have always mentioned my quote: ''Golf as in life, play as it lies'', I am not done with experiments in life and golf. You have to keep going. So as I reached the next plateau, I have to make decisions like that of an eagle after 40 years. Fly to a corner of a mountain, use its beak to peck away its claw, wait for new claws to grow, use its claw to claw away the beak then wait for a new beak to grow, then peck and claw away its old and heavy feathers for new ones to grow and finally fly away like new and live with excellence for another 30 years. I have decided to go on to forged clubs with yes, steel shafts. Many social golfers have swing speed of 75-85 mph. If you have 95 and above you can play with steel. The goodness of steel has its own draw back. Steel provides more feedback to the discerning golfer which also draw its ire - it also gives more vibration that could cause golf elbow (like tennis elbo...