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RECOMMENDED PGA INSTRUCTOR

Brent Snyder — PGA Director of Golf Instruction at Troy Burne Golf Club

Jeff Sorenson – PGA Teaching Professional at The Minikahda Club

[email protected]  763-229-6443

Jon Reigstad – PGA Teaching Professional at Keller Golf Course

[email protected] 651-335-2510

BUILDING AND BLUEPRINTING SERVICE

The following is a good description of the “Full Blueprint “ building process only available through independent club fitters and builders as myself.

Irons first, if using taper tip shafts they are all “pre-trimmed” at the factory, strictly to speed up the assembly process. Nothing wrong with that. Each shaft regardless of length weighs about the same. When using parallel tip shafts, my personal preference, I can create a more consistently performing set of clubs. Each shaft weighs about the same and when trimmed at each end of the shaft to obtain a general frequency and length fit to the individual swing.

I take each shaft and letter them A thru F, G, H, etc, lightest to heaviest as there tends to be a 2 to 3 gram variance. Then tip frequency is checked to make sure they are all the same. I then use a 454 gram weight on the tip of the shaft and measure the stiffness of the shaft at 15”, 25” and 35” from the tip with a frequency machine and measure in terms of frequency (stiffness). I then use a proprietary frequency sorting program, sort the shafts from softest to stiffest. The softest shaft goes into the longest iron, the stiffest into the shortest iron. Remember they are the same flex but in the real world they vary by about a half of flex. This method will yield a very consistent frequency’d set of irons. Taper tips are a little more inconsistent compare to proper tipped parallel, but it is nothing to stress over. I prefer to be in control of the shafts final stiffness, just my preference. I will use a taper tip shaft if the golfer performs better with it during the fitting process which does happen. If any parallel shaft is off by more than 3/4’s of a flex I will not use it. It is rare with the shafts we use in our fitting system. Most shafts tend to vary no more than ¼ flex as we only use high quality components.

Then I find the single spine in steel shaft. When using graphite shafts there are 2 spines usually 180* apart. I put the soft side toward the target initially. This is called “spinning”. I then find the FLO or “Flat Line Oscillation” of the shaft. Many call this “Puring” When performing this function, which I always do in my builds. I can insure that each shaft bends the same way every time! I did not say you would swing it the same every time, that is up to you. Properly fitted clubs are easier to swing more consistently when this function is performed. This process is not performed in mass produced equipment.

Here are some labels from from FLO’D and not FLO’D shafts. The inconsistent impacts are mass produced installed shafts. The more consistent impact clusters are the same head and shaft after spining and FLOing has been performed and reinstalled.