Matrix Reloaded

Provisional I like to use heavier grips on lighter shafts to balance out the SW a bit. I know “conventional thinking” say you are just fooling the SW scale, but all a sw really is about is feel of balance anyway. The clubs feel different, ask Ping why they use counterweighted shafts in more weight up high doesn’t mean anything .

I have a quick tempo, so weight matters a lot in my world, I like heavy shafts. I have Callaway XHot Pros shafted with Steelfiber 125 shafts and a regular golf pride wrap grip. Earlier in the year I bought a Pinhawk head to try and stuck a Matrix Kujoh 95 in it, knowing that it was going to be lighter and having the notion that I like to make things more complicated than they need to be, I went with the tackimac unified grip on that. I never did get around to scaling it out because I gave it the waggle test and liked it, went out and hit it and hit it well.

My thought was if I get to wedges, I’d want to choke down on them, the unified grip would be ideal for that. I love the grips, it feels so much more natural than a taper, I wish I had found these years ago. Plus, having the lighter shaft isn’t all that bad when the grip brings the total weight of the club back up 15-50g depending on what you are used to. I learned about the heavy grips years ago from BigDaddy (Chuck) on FGI, he has bear paws so he used oversized grips and 7-8 wraps under them. They were a hair too big for me, but the balance of his clubs was always awesome for me. Point of my rambling here is you might want to try a heavier grip to go with the lighter shafts, it works out well for me.

Provisional Go for the whole set in graphite. It might take a minute to get used to, but as we know golf is 90% mental, the other half is physical.

Provisional I put those arthritic grips on a set once for another guy, how do you like them?

Provisional

I wondered what those serrations would do to gloves; I like the size, wasn’t sure about the feel of them. Thank you for the feedback.

It sounds like you have something creeping in on the swing to be losing distance each time out. I have definitely been there, coming up way short on everything, turned out I was hitting “to the ball, not through”, once I made sure I wasn’t targeting the back of the ball, boom right back to normal. Might be something similar for you, might be that you need all new clubs to get that swing back where it belongs .

On the soft stepping 1/4”, I wouldn’t be shy to give it a shot, I have built some demo clubs that I leave a little extra on the butt end to ensure I have the length I was in a finished club in case I need to tip it more. If not, blow the grip off and finish the set to length. I put a little tape on the grip to represent proper length and choke down accordingly. Doesn’t bother me, but I know some people grip right to the end of the club so YMMV. Good luck!

Provisional Oh boy, you are overthinking, that yields over spending every time haha. Good luck!

Provisional My cut and tipped shaft turned out 70g,

You better stop right where you are! Those shafts are supposed to be 82 gr. and no way did you take off 12 gr. by trimming. Weigh the remainder of the shafts. You may have a huge problem.

Provisional That “fun” is why I stopped building clubs and sold most of my equipment. I couldn’t just build a set and enjoy it, oh no, I had to make everything “perfect”. I would spend an entire day laying out sets, then sell them for $65 here, ya know, back when Steve was offering more than $12 shipped.

It was stupid, I now go with the slightly better than cut and glue approach because what I found is it never actually mattered on the course. Fitting is a science, but also an art, which means no matter how perfect they may be, there is still a good chance you painted with the wrong damn brush anyway. I still take the time to weigh things out, match sets up as well as possible, but I can knock a set out in 2 hours, when I have the tools laid out. The end results are just as good once you go hit them, those few grams and millimeters of trimming I would worry about don’t honestly translate to much at all. Essentially, I make sure things aren’t crazy off spec and compensate for variance as well as reasonably possible, then I go play golf, end of the day, that’s what we are trying to accomplish. If I ever feel I need another absolutely perfect set, I’ll pay someone to go through the hassle haha.

I’m going Pinhawks with some slight modification for next season, but the beautiful part is, I’ll just pay Value Golf to do all the hard work and I’ll basically just glue them.

sdandrea1 I have to buy them first, then you can have dibs . I’m probably going to look for slightly more than $12 shipped, but ya never know!

In fairness, it’s not that fitting doesn’t matter, but after years of playing, if you are into the idea at all, you know the approximate formula to succeed. You might screw around to try something new, but in reality, clubs are built to standard specs, there’s only so much you can do to make them more for you. As long as you are in the right style club, with an appropriate shaft for your game at a comfortable length, I don’t think sweating the details down to the very last .1 of an ounce is worth it.

DC300 I once bought a set of Titleist heads off FGI. When I got them, I weighed them all out. EXACTLY 7 gr. diff from head-head, 3-PW. Did it a couple times to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing. I had bought a set of shaft pulls off Ebay and they had come in EXACTLY 3 gr. diff from shaft to shaft, 3-PW. I put on new grips, all weighing exactly the same! Most beautiful looking set of irons I ever assembled, and felt just as great, club to club.

Played them 1 round. Couldn't hit them. Sold them for over twice what I had in them. Buyer was nearly crying when they were delivered. Not me.

There's a moral there somewhere. I'm sure of it.