I would need some help guys.
In the search of new set of clubs after many sessions in American Golf and visiting demo days of different manufacturers (for correct shafts) I decided to get fit with swing DNA today. My results were: 82-4-6-3-8. System reccomended:
Dynalite Gold XP S300 Soft Stepped
Nippon 1150 S
KBS Tour S Soft Stepped
I was surprised I actually generate that much clubhead speed (I thought I was more 70mph) and also that all shafts I was recommended with were mid/heavy weight, at least that's how they felt to me. I'm kind of used to playing lighter shafts (85-105g) and always played Regular stiffnes, mostly whatever was fitted as "standard" in my irons. I carry my 6 iron 155-160 yards, sometimes I get 165 yards on a pure shot.
Is there a way to have lighter shafts as opposed to specified above, but stiffer in flex that would play similar? I didn't ask my fitter about that option (I guess I was a bit extatic about fitting process) and maybe I should. I was thinking about shafts like:
Dynalite Gold XP 95 S
Dynalite Gold XP 105 R/S
KBS Tour 90 S (?)
On the monitor and when testing clubs on demo days I got very consistant results with lighter Dynalite Gold XP's, I even played Mizuno MX 200 with Dynalite Gold XP Reg on them (113g?) - it played nice, but it felt like shaft was really performing when I'm swinging close to 100% and pured it, hence my confussion about being reccomended with S softstepped of the same shaft...
Back to my session: I dismissed Nippons as I never had any success with them (which was confirmed on the screen after few shots). Store didn't have soft stepped shafts so I gave "normal" stiffs a go accordingly. I had good result with KBS but surprisingly Dynalite Gold XP was giving me very poor results. I couldn't load the shaft... if felt like it was laughing at me that I couldn't handle it. It got me worried that even softstepped Dynalite Gold XP 115 S would be too stiff (as far as I understand soft stepped shaft plays about 1/3 flex weaker).
At the end I'm even more confused. I used DNA swing analysis to take out a guesswork, but what I got as recommendtion didn't feel good to me... I can still feel my back right now after 3-4 hours after fitting session! If I absolutely had to pick one shaft out of initial reccomendadtion I would go with KBS, I remember hitting it with Taylormade Burner irons and it was giving me good results back then... I just don't know anymore...
Sorry about my rambling...
Thoughts....?
EDIT (for anyone who managed to read through)
:
The issue bothered me so much so I went back to the fitter to hit some of proposed clubs on the lauch monitor.
I tried Dynalite XP Reg first and was hitting it with a bit of mixed results, good shots went high and far ~160-162 yards, bad shots though were very punishing, pretty much a lost shot to me. I was generating up to 82 mph clubhead speed with my 6 iron (accurate according to Mizuno DNA fitting from yesterday) so softstepping COULD be good option to bring trajectory down a bit, yet don't play full flex harder.
Later I grabbed KBS Tour R... and wow! Either I was just dead accurate throughout the session or that shaft just fit me! I generated same distance as with Dynalite XP R, but more consistant (better dispersion). Shot trajectory was great, very consistant all the way and a bit lower than XP... I was very happy! The odd thing was I was only able to generate 75-76 mph clubhead speed with KBS shaft, but got pretty much the same numbers on the monitor. I was even able to generate a bit of draw trajectory naturaly without actually trying, but couldn't do it as easy with Dynalite XP.
Conclusion:
I think I will go KBS Tour Regular after all that hussle. 75 mph clubhead speed with that shaft is exactly what goes for Regular flex and I don't need to do any stepping. I believe I could find good Dynalite Gold XP shaft that would work with my swing (R105, S95, etc...) but at that point it's not really worth any extra effort as there is no upcharge on KBS for new set of irons and I already know they work for me.
My friend wants to sell his Mizuno MX 200 irons with stock Dynalite Gold XP, I'm tempted to buy them off him and put KBS Tour R in them to maybe save few £££ (new Mizuno JPX EZ forged irons custom fitted for me would be £560)
I had my doubts with Swing DNA fitting session at first but now I'm very happy with the outcome!