fatshot Lately I've been experimenting with some higher lofted fairway woods,

Me too. Built a set of 7-8-9-pw-sw Heater hybrids but they're SO light, like 240 grams for a 7H compared to the normal 270. I like that they are all the same size though.
edit: oops I see now you said FW's not hybrids.

    garyt1957 I will choke up on my driver to the very end of the grip to avoid teeing off with a 3 wood.

    Off the tee I choke down a bit on driver, 3/4 backswing and saw off the finish. More of a 12-9 o clock swing and it hits a low bullet dead straight. Normal tee height

      scotts33

      scotts33 Senior males as they lose distance with shorter playing length mid-irons with jacked up lofts (don't have high enough club head speed with an average playing length 5i 38"/loft 23 - 25 deg. or a 6i of modern variation) as an example)

      Scots33, in your experience then, what's the lowest loft # that a normal senior can handle in a middle iron....?
      Asking for a 78 year old friend......🤣 🤣 🤣

          30* KE4 Max was not enough loft for me. I could play it, but it was not much use. I did not have the loft checked so it could have been lower actual. Back to 32* in the STi2 and the flight is perfect. It seems odd 2* of loft would make that much difference but it did. With the 34* KE4 Max 8i it goes high and straight. I could easily have the lofts tweaked in the current set 32* - 48* to take an iron out, IMO 5* of separation would suit me fine. Next club up from 7i is a 26* hybrid!

          Reshafted a L1.XW 52* with an s400 8i shaft (shimmed a .355) and have same model 60* that I ordered new and put in same shaft. I have never technically tried the 8i spinner trick like this, but have ordered wedge specific shafts which may be the same concept. I have the 56* with a TT Spinner Wedge+ model in which tracks at about the same weight as the 8i s400 shaft.

          Anybody ever try the Integra I-Win single length hybrids?

          LogicalOne Unfortunately, I don’t have any options at this time. Sorry. 😞

          Gotcha, I'm just wondering would less tipping work? Tip a 9iron like an 8 iron?

              garyt1957 I've done this with several shafts/builds, steel & graphite. iirc, 'they' say that is just 1 soft step. 'They' also say it would take 2 soft steps to equal a full flex. Never done the 2 though, just always added a tip weight to help things along. 2-3g.
              And it has always worked as I wanted.

                  garyt1957

                  I feel that for 98% of folks, soft-stepping an R to an A with the LogicalOne graphite iron shaft wouldn’t hurt anything/would be fine.

                    fatshot We usually have enough wind that a fairway wood greater than 24 or 25 degrees can be hard to control the distance. I would say that my swing speed is still too high for the 29, 33, 37 degree XDS Fairway heads I bought. But they could be great for super seniors.

                    A hybrid should be the right choice for me. But I’ve been using long, light ones and I get fairly big misses left and right. Especially left