Question:
What is the effect of adding lead to the butt of a shaft. I recently regripped a Callawy graphite shaft (stiff) in a Bobby Jones deep face driver with four strips of lead tape at the butt and added the same to a steel shafted S2H2 Callaway 3 wood. The 3 wood is about 1 1/2 inch past regular length. The driver is about 1 inch past regular. I find that I can almost shank the 3 wood if I don’t catch up with the club at the bottom of the arc but I don’t have the same problem with the graphite. Does the butt weighting add swing weight, change the shaft flext point, make the club head feel lighter, or what?
Adding weight at the butt end of a club increases the overall weight of the club & will reduce swingweight. One effect of reducing swingweight is to make the club feel lighter in the head, which may explain your sensation of needing to let the clubhead catch up during the swing. — Norman Unsworth, Owner Clark Systems Custom Golf http://home.earthlink.net/~clarksystems/ ‘…the reconciliation of infinite hopes and limited means.’ – Michael Murphy
Response:
What is the effect of adding lead to the butt of a shaft. I recently regripped a Callawy graphite shaft (stiff) in a Bobby Jones deep face driver with four strips of lead tape at the butt and added the same to a steel shafted S2H2 Callaway 3 wood. The 3 wood is about 1 1/2 inch past regular length. The driver is about 1 inch past regular. I find that I can almost shank the 3 wood if I don’t catch up with the club at the bottom of the arc but I don’t have the same problem with the graphite. Does the butt weighting add swing weight, change the shaft flext point, make the club head feel lighter, or what?