Broken Club

[C-Tech]

I had the shaft come loose on my PW once. The head did not come off, but you could twirl it around the shaft. Really funny the first time I hit it before I discovered the twirling thing. I hit the ball and it went sideways, the head went around in a circle...

 

[royalwulff]

I have never broken a club but I played in a 3 man scramble this last Saturday and say two clubs broken during the round. the first was a putter. One of the 20 somethings on another team missed a four foot put for eagle and he picks up his ball, throws it in the air and swings his putter at it like a baseball bat. He made good contact, the only problem being is that the putter head went further than the ball. This kid played college baseball so he has a good baseball swing. Later in the round it was a 5 iron. Another 20 something kid hit a really fat shot off a par three tee and the ball only goes about 50 feet. He throws his club at a tree, like swinging a baseball bat, and sure enough it snapped right in half. He also plays baseball.

 

[alf174]

I've thrown the ball into the woods because it wasn't cooperating. Otherwise I'm not good enough to get mad.

 

[C-Tech]

Friend of mine swung his wedge at a sapling. The shaft wrapped around the tree, the shaft broke and sent the head straight into his sternum. He lost the desire to break them after that.

 

[C-Tech]

Never broken a club intentionally or unintentionally.. When angry I simmer quietly in the background muttering about the stupid shot.. Then go through a breathing routine in an attempt to exercise the demons. When that doesn't work, I rotate my head 360 degrees spewing green liquid all over my playing partners..:rotfl:

I think we may have played together.... One of the lower handicappers in my men's club was in my foursome on the last day of the club championship and was having a terrible day. This poor performance was accompanied by club throwing, jumping up and down, very interestingly colorful language bordering on jibberish, AND I am pretty sure his head actually rotated 360. If we had any advance notice of this performance, we could have sold tickets.

 

[Thorpeto]

I had a Zebra driver that I snapped the shaft on back in college. I use the head as a paperweight.

 

[C-Tech]

I finally figured out what happened!!!

I was puzzled because I really didn't throw it hard enough to affect a good shaft. It finally dawned on me tonight what happened....I had tried the Super Stroke putter grip on that particular putter. To install it, you have to drive a set screw through the shaft to lock the grip in place. I later changed the Super Stroke for a Jumbo Winn putter grip. That left a weak spot under the grip on the original shaft. That is right where it broke. Mystery solved. I knew I didn't throw it hard enough to damage it that badly. Now it makes sense.

 

[Wiley]

I've broken two clubs, neither in anger. I've snapped the shafts of my 8 & 9 irons - the 8 on a practice swing in heavy rough, broke roughly in half, and the 9 on a stroke out of the rough, broke just under the grip sending the head and most of the shaft further than the ball. Maybe my swing plane is a bit steep?

FYI - True Temper Dynalite Superlight S300 shafts w/ Sensicore - next time I will go for something more robust than the Dynalites, perhaps Dynamic Golds. Both shafts appeared rusty on the inside.