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Graphite VS Steel
The Question
I am a 24 handicap, and I hit it 200-220 off the tee. I’ve been playing 20 rounds per year for eight years, and I’ve always played with steel shafts. My friends are going with graphite. I thought that graphite was for women and children, not male golfers. Could graphite be for me, too? ...
Graphite shafts are about half the weight of steel shafts, therefore you can swing them faster. ... Lower quality graphite shafts generally possess more rotational torque than most steel shafts. But better quality graphite shafts have tremendously reduced rotational torque so that a good quality graphite shaft can be as torque free as a top quality steel shaft. (1)
The Costs
Before the days of graphite, there were relatively few types of steel shafts on the market. ... Now, graphite shafts are manufactured all over the world and there are dozens of companies making these shafts. The production costs can be low and the sales price can be high, hence it is economically more feasible to make graphite shafts. ... (2)
Today graphite shafts can be found in a very wide price range. Just because a club is sporting a graphite shaft does not mean that it is more valuable or more desirable than a steel-shafted club. A low quality set of graphite clubs may be purchased very cheaply, but may not behave consistently from one club to the next.
Approximate Word count = 1180
Approximate Pages = 4.7
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