What’s the right length?

Easy, whatever works! In all seriously though, it actually has to be that simple at the end of the day. There are a lot of prescriptions for what someone “should” be. Taking myself for instance; I’m 193 cm tall and using the “old school” static measurements I “should” be playing irons that are 1” long. […]

An iron shaft adventure

Shafts are a big deal. They are the key component that has to work within your individual swing characteristics, in order to bring that club face back to the ball at the moment of impact, consistently. In order to do that the weight (primary importance) and bend profile (the way in which the shaft loads) […]

Some truths about shaft length

We’ve been experimenting with a lot of driver / fairway shafts in the last few months, both both myself and my wife. Aside from the obviously different shaft characteristics like weight, profile, stiffness, one of the key aspects is length. The old “standard” (there are very few standards in golf) for a driver was 45.0 […]

Miura rebuild for the most important customer, the wife

I’ve been playing these beautiful Miura TC-201 irons and Milled Tour Wedges since the beginning of the year (more in an earlier post). I had them built with the same Mitsubishi MMT irons shafts, at 105 grams in a stiff flex. These have been amazing clubs and I absolutely love them. So you may reasonably […]

Mizuno MP-32 iron rebuild, yes they’re raw!

I’ve had these MP-32 heads kicking around for a while. I’ve had a few goes at finishing them over the last few months but hadn’t managed to get them to a point I was happy with. Today that finally changed. As you’ll see I bought these in pretty average shape. The idea was that if […]