Yes, total weight is a much better feel criteria. A swing weight is the weight of a dime, so of course feeling changes are very difficult. swing weight is a little nebulis, but, if the head on the shaft doesn't balance with the tip of the shaft then weight is added to the tip to create a balance. (Fulcrum). Key word here is weight is added, they are not likely to shave the head. So, will a D5 feel heavier than a C5, of course.
Put 10 dimes in your hand and you will feel a difference from 1 dime.
Shaft flex is far too complicated, as there is no standard. The flex is constant thru one manufacturer but not the next. The club makers don't make the shafts. They are contracted to make their heads feel and act the way they want. A Ping stiff is different from a Callaway Stiff from a Titleist stiff. Mostly due to flex points. And when you change shafts you risk the head not acting like it was designed. Answer is to find your flex within the ones offered by the company whose clubs you bought.
People are not MOI Swing monitors, and thats who swing the clubs. It's like saying the Iron Byron Machine is the best tool for hitting research. If you put legs and a brain on that machine it would hit them just as crooked. LOL
We keep going back to the same thing. Get a swing before you buy clubs. Watch the demo days someday. 90% of the folks doing the demo, don't have a golf swing. Isn't it a great business!
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Originally Posted by BrianL99
Swingweight is probably the least relevant of any golf club characteristic. It has zero basis in science. It's simply a calculation of the weight, based on a 14" fulcrum, which was a number Robert Adams picked from the sky. The average person could never tell the difference between a Swingweight of C-6 vs C-9.
Overall weight, weight distribution, shaft weight vs clubhead weight, flex characteristics and balance point, are all much more important than Swingweight.
Archimedes once said, "Give me a place to stand and I can move the earth", which perfect illustrates fallacy of Swingweight as a measurement. You can give a Telephone Pole a "swingweight" of C-9 if you wanted to. It means nothing.
If you really wanted to quantify a club's "feel", the only way to do it, would probably be a MOI Swing Auditor, which could theoretically match clubs to "feel" the same.
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