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Sarzar's Driver Fitting

Nippon Shafts
 
 
8:51 - 6:05 = 2:46, or about the time it should take to play 11 holes.

It really shouldn't take this long to find out if the shaft and the clubhead are both new. It's THP - of course they're both new! :cool:
 
New for all the things. The new combo with a slightly slower swing surpassed the old combo by enough to make the change worth it.
 
 
Can't wait to hear about it!
 
I had some errands to run... Blame Den's brother for getting married this Friday 😅
Then we had to stop & get dinner cause I was getting hangry & not cooking...
We are home now and I'm trying to figure out how to get all my data off the trackman app/website.

They don't make this easy.
 
Here is the head/shaft combos I tried .. in order:
Stealth 12* Accra FX 140 M1
Stealth 12* MC C6 Red
TSi1 10* Aldila Ascent 50R
TSi2 11* Aldila Ascent 50R
TSi2 11.75* Aldila Ascent 50R
Rogue ST Max (men's) 12* Aldila Ascent 50R
Stealth 12* Aldila Ascent 50R

He explained that the only difference between the "men's" and "women's" club heads was the weight.
They didn't have the women's weighted Rogue head for me to try.

These options were picked because we were trying to stick with stick options.
 
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Sarzar said:
Here is the head/shaft combos I tried .. in order:
Stealth 12* Accra FX 140 M1
Stealth 12* MC C6 Red
TSi1 10* Aldila Ascent 50R
TSi2 11* Aldila Ascent 50R
TSi2 11.75* Aldila Ascent 50R
Rogue ST Max (men's) 12* Aldila Ascent 50R
Stealth 12* Aldila Ascent 50R

He explained that the only difference between the "men's" and "women's" club heads was the weight.
They didn't have the women's weighted Rogue head for me to try.

These positions were picked because we were trying to stick with stick options.
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Just guessing but I'm going with one of these for you. Seems like a good fit for some reason. Maybe because I am playing TSi2 right now.
 
Sarzar said:
Here is the head/shaft combos I tried .. in order:
Stealth 12* Accra FX 140 M1
Stealth 12* MC C6 Red
TSi1 10* Aldila Ascent 50R
TSi2 11* Aldila Ascent 50R
TSi2 11.75* Aldila Ascent 50R
Rogue ST Max (men's) 12* Aldila Ascent 50R
Stealth 12* Aldila Ascent 50R

He explained that the only difference between the "men's" and "women's" club heads was the weight.
They didn't have the women's weighted Rogue head for me to try.

These options were picked because we were trying to stick with stick options.
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ROGUE!!
 
+1 for Rouge! Can't wait to hear
 
Oh the intrigue! My guess (as others have already guessed) The Rogue ST Max.
 
hadi05 said:
+1 for Rouge! Can't wait to hear
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Make that 3 votes for the Rogue. In all seriousness I can't wait to read how your fitting went!
 
So I started my fitting by warming up .. hit a couple of my irons a few times then jumped into hitting my driver to get some base numbers.
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Here is my dispersion for my driver showering total yards:
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The numbers were consistent with what Den and I assumed for carry & total yards. We found out my swing speed, ball speed, smash factor, launch angle, and spin rate.
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From this data we were looking to increase smash factor and lower spin rate.
 
Davidhibler said:
TSI2 11.75*
is that a normal thing? Seems super specific. I'm voting for that one.
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I like your analysis and am going to jump on the bandwagon.
 
Info time!!
 
Ooh. Are we guessing the winner? Stealth 12* Aldila Ascent 50R. Most hit head and most hit shaft.
 
Trying the first club: Stealth 12* Accra FX 140 M1

Photo of me going through my driver stance setup after hitting the first one:
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First hit with this club:
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This was definitely an adjustment... The setup was a decent amount heavier than what I was used to and the shaft was longer.
From esthetics... The shape of this was different, I didn't mind it but it was a little weird looking down at. Mind you this was a shiny black verse my gamer, a light grey I was used too.

Statistics wise:
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My average distance decreased by almost 25 yards even though my average club speed was about the same. Also, we didn't notice any difference in spin rate here which is one of the numbers we need to lower for the increased distance.
Because this was heavier and longer, I just couldn't get the face around quick enough to make contact with the ball square.

This was a no go for me.
 
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Second club on the list: Stealth 12* MC C6 Red

Here we changed up the shaft and tried the same head again to see what kind of differences we would get.
This shaft was shorter and lighter than the Accra FX 140 M1. It was very close in length to my gamer but slightly stiffer.

Getting some swings in:
View attachment YouCut_20220428_001229927.mp4

This felt a lot better than the first shaft but not a significant feel difference from my gamer.

Statistics:
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As you can see by the lack of numbers listed, we didn't hit this one very long because after four swings (2 complete misses - bad swings deleted from data) we knew just changing the shaft here wasn't going to make a huge difference.

This was better than the first try, but not the winner.
 
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