shaft upgrade costs

[Deleted member 18121]

stick around until the winter :thup:

I took preventative steps last week....the ignore feature has already made the forum a much nicer place to be. Ignorance is bliss 'n' all that.

 

[bluewolf]

I likes a bargain meself... My current Driver was £80 and I love it.. I doubt I'd ever go down the route of having a full blown custom fit..

That said, if it's something you want to do then I fully support you.. There's something very satisfying about taking a wad of your hard earned and blowing it on a luxury..

 

[tugglesf239]

If i had the opportunity to have an experience of getting then VIP driver fitting then i would absolutely do it.

How many of the people who object or dispute the expensive shaft option as having no benefits for a handicap golfer actually practice what they are preaching? How many of you are currently using off the self Donnay clubs?

after all what possible advantage would us mere morals gain from having a set of 500 quid irons or a 'basic' 300 quid driver.................

Cost is irrelevant if you can afford it

To answer the OP, the most i have spent on a driver was £110 on a Ping i25. Personally i love the 'sport' of bargain hunting on eBay to much, hoever the appeal of getting the big time pro type custom fit is absolutely on my bucket list

 

[3565]

Ive got a (full retail price) £399 Nippon Regio blue and white shaft sitting at home waiting for a nice none OEM (my personal preference to be different from the normal TM, Ping, Titleist, Callaway etc) Geotech head £153 plus p&p from Japan (plus import/vat duties) to be glued in by myself in a position that has been pured (by myself) with a nice expensive cow hide grip from Core golf, to be one of a kind........... Have I tried this combo out before buying? Hell noooooo! Is it a lot of money, yeah, will it work? Im not as confident as Alex1975 as he's tried his out, am I having fun looking helllllllllllllll yeahhhhhh....... And the unknowing just heightens this whole self custom build even more.

 

[Swinger]

He who dies with the most toys wins.

 

[patricks148]

no agenda ,here a simple question was asked.

no judgments made just a question ....


i was at a Tm day this year and was fitted for an R15 with and aftermarket shaft and that would have come to over £400, it was too much for me, so didn't buy it.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Is a faster car going to get me to work quicker? Read the post, I do not state what I spent for a reason... THIS REASON! Its ok for other people to have nice things. It was also a gift and at the very begining of the post it states this this is an idea that has been in my head since 2012... It is ok if I realize that dream? I work hard, I look after a wife and child.... Pretty sure I am due what I am due....

Don't let them bring the experience down for you mate. Predictable, perhaps inevitable as you said in your previous post. Look if it works and you enjoy belting the driver with the new shaft then great. If not, you're hardly going to regress in that department and nothing a 30 minute tweak with a pro won't cure. You have the new toy you want. Go out and have fun with it

 

[Leereed]

We have a lad who is a big taylormade fan and gets all the latest gear drivers, irons, balls. He pre ordered the m1.
the best I have ever seen him hit a driver was with his tm super deep.hes had all the white ones and sldr and none as good as the super deep.

 

[One Planer]

He who dies with the most toys wins.

:rofl:

 

[Piece]

If i had the opportunity to have an experience of getting then VIP driver fitting then i would absolutely do it.

How many of the people who object or dispute the expensive shaft option as having no benefits for a handicap golfer actually practice what they are preaching? How many of you are currently using off the self Donnay clubs?

after all what possible advantage would us mere morals gain from having a set of 500 quid irons

This, in a nutshell. Donnay irons from Argos £200. Mizuno irons £650. Performance difference, probably minimal. Why aren't we all playing the cheaper irons?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Grown men arguing over an internet forum, I thought these things were reserved for young lads?!

Stick around. It gets a lot bumpier and out of bounds and the football threads in particular usually sees the handbags fly. However behind the keyboard warriors there is a lot of sane and sensible stuff on here. Think I wrote something (sane and sensible) along those lines around June 2014! Tried it once and it didn't agree with me :rofl::thup:

 

[Deleted member 15344]

This, in a nutshell. Donnay irons from Argos £200. Mizuno irons £650. Performance difference, probably minimal. Why aren't we all playing the cheaper irons?

I had cheaper irons and upgraded them and the difference is massive, I had a set the cost £140 called big bombers and have borrowed a set of donnays once - ( was amusing to watch an iron head go tumbling down the fairway )

 

[Pin-seeker]

I had cheaper irons and upgraded them and the difference is massive, I had a set the cost £140 called big bombers and have borrowed a set of donnays once - ( was amusing to watch an iron head go tumbling down the fairway )

This happened to me at the range with a Donnay 5w when I started playing.