The single most conclusive way to test a club is through empirical means. Both I and no doubt the vast majority of clubmakers here have built the "perfect" club, tested it every way possible and found it unhittable. As I said, SW is but a small factor in the overall scheme. Somehow, way back in the past, someone decided that "D-2" is/was the ideal SW. I don't dare to try to recall all the customers I've had who insisted they "needed" a D-2 SW for all clubs. No matter how many times I challenged golfers to tell me the difference by feel between say, D2 and D3, virtually every one of them insisted that they had to have a pre-determined SW for their clubs. That still happens to this day. In fact, while playing last Wednesday, one of my partners asked to try out my latest set of irons. His first comment? "Wow, these are really head heavy, what's the SW - must be about D-6, huh? Man, I could never hit clubs with that kind of SW." When I told him the SW was D1 he didn't believe me. I had to take the clubs and the partner to the golf shop, place the clubs on their SW scale, and prove it. The guy then said he'd probably be able to hit the clubs as long as he knew what the SW was!
So, make your own blindfold test. Hit some clubs - drivers, irons, whatever, and choose one that feels right. Check the SW. That's probably the one for you. TFlan ----- Original Message ----- From: "LilCallaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 5:58 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Swing weight > I haven't looked at DT's site yet, but is it trial and error for me to figure out my ideal overall weight? How would I know if D1 was better than a D5 besides taking it out to the range? > > "tflan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >What's most important? You'd get a lot of argument but consider this. You > >can conceivably achieve a swingweight of say, D2, with a telephone pole for > >a shaft. SW is a relationship between headweight, gripweight, and shaft > >weight at the tip end. However, it would be pretty tough to swing a > >telephone pole no matter what the swingweight. So, I believe that SW is a > >relatively unimportant factor in golf club design - as long as there isn't a > >large difference from club to club. Some folks seem to think that the ideal > >SW is D2. Others like D0, and still others are devotees of SW's in the E > >range. I remember the "ADVP" clubs of a few years ago. The metal woods were > >in the high "E" SW range. They didn't feel any different than did heavier > >clubs with SW's in the "C" and "D" ranges. In fact they felt considerably > >less "head heavy" than did many other clubs. There was a line of clubs > >developed by Dave Pelz; they were ultralights with SW's in the "C" range. > >The relationship between head and butt end seemed to be o.k. but since the > >shaft was so light and the heads relatively light, you could feel the head > >even though the SW was in the "C" range. SW really doesn't mean much in the > >great scheme of things. Overall weight is considerably more important, IMO. > > > >Trial and error for SW? Well, depends upon how you define it. If you have a > >particular SW in mind then it is, in a sense, trial and error unless you > >have a system to calculate it. Fortunately for clubmakers, Dave Tutelman has > >provided just such a program on the Clubmaker-online website. DT's program > >gives you all the info you need to calculate SW based upon shaft weight, > >length, etc. Check it out. > > > >TFlan > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "LilCallaway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 12:13 PM > >Subject: ShopTalk: Swing weight > > > > > >> Is it only by trial and error that someone figures out proper > >swingweighting for a particular club? What would be more > >important--swingweight or overall weight? > >> Thanx.... > >> > >> P.S. This is what I really wanted to know. I got confused when I asked > >the shaft length question..... > >> > >> -- > >> And you only hit it how far?..........Try the VFT > >> > >> > >> __________________________________________________________________ > >> The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! > >http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp > >> > >> Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at > >http://webmail.netscape.com/ > > > > > > > -- > And you only hit it how far?..........Try the VFT > > > __________________________________________________________________ > The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
