"It really was an amazing education
for me. You really can't pigeonhole anybody's swing or what they do with
different clubs until you actually get on the launch monitor and see the
numbers."
Not surprisingly, the new, heavier callaway diablo edge irons shafts,
reduced his clubhead speed with the 6-iron slightly, but they increased his
distance by as much as a full club through the set.
"It feels like I have a metal ring
around me on my swing plane. It just seems like the club just stays there
through my whole swing."
Here's how that idea played out for
Goldsborough, who plays to a 10.6 index: His current irons, TaylorMade's Tour
Burner, feature a stock graphite shaft that weighs just 65 grams. But
Goldsborough was fit to TaylorMade's R11 irons with a KBS Tour C Taper shaft
that weighs discount golf clubs nearly twice as much.
Today I had a conversation with Glenn
Goldsborough, a physics and astronomy teacher and golf coach at Pennsbury High School
in Fairless Hills , Pa.
Goldsborough said the opposite was true
with his fairway woods and driver, where the lighter shafts produced the better
results.
The mission of the Golf Digest-Club
Ping G20 irons Champion clubfitting study is to take players who had not been fit for clubs
before and see if a clubfitting changes their game. The range of players
participating in our project includes low single-digit players as well as those
who have a difficult time breaking 90. We'll continue to track the performances
and perceptions of the participants in our clubfitting study throughout the
summer.
"Even though I'm not swinging as fast,
I'm still seeing a bigger distance gain because I'm hitting it more squarely
and I also think the shaft is maximizing the energy that I'm putting into
it," Goldsborough said.
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