low deflection shafts?

theyonger said:
"However, when he did not upgrade his equipment in the following years (insisting upon the use of True Temper Dynamic Gold steel-shafted clubs and smaller steel clubheads that promoted accuracy over distance),[136] many opponents caught up to him. Phil Mickelson even made a joke in 2003 about Woods using "inferior equipment", which did not sit well with Nike, Titleist or Woods.[137][138] During 2004, Woods finally upgraded his driver technology to a larger clubhead and graphite shaft, which, coupled with his clubhead speed, made him one of the Tour's lengthier players off the tee once again."
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Are you reading old press reports???

Tiger's swing speed was too great for graphite shafts back then....Tiger "opted" for a steel shaft for personal reasons....same as he opted for a smaller club head and slower face....He tried Nike's driver and did not like it...(which would be just like a modern day pool pro trying a predator and not liking it) ...It was not the right set up...."for him".....Sure it was in the hands of many other players...."all being paid to use it"

What is also not publisized is that the smaller head was still a customized "for tiger" club head....not something that he bought off a shelf.

It was not like he was still using persimmion woods and hickory shafts.
 
TATE said:
Yes, the statement regarding 14mm tips in the past stat is incorrect. The typical cues I encounter from the early 1900's to the 1950's are 12mm with a typical straight taper. Later on it became 13mm. I don't know who started the 13mm standard but I remember Joss and Gina were big on the thicker shafts.

I always figured the old American cues were simple - 1 1/2" butts with half inch tips (12.2mm) with an even taper all the way down - who needed miillimeters anyway?

14mm is a pretty thick tip. If you're just playing center ball tip size doesn't matter anyway.

Chris
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The first 13mm I got was when I ordered a Meucci from Bob's first catalog. And, both shafts came that way, I did not specify the diameter.
 
theyonger said:
Lol my bad i meant 13mm.
Forgot what standard size was. Playing 11.75 wayyy to long LOL
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I don't remember even 13mm being popular until the late '70s/early '80s. There were three of us who tried 13 1/2, one {the former owner of the room} still played with hers last I knew. Personally, I play with 12 1/2 to 13 because I have short, stubby fingers and with the weight I've gained over the years it's much easier for me to sight on the cue ball and control the cue ball than with a larger shaft. A 13 1/2mm shaft appeared to give more hitting surface of the tip on the cue ball but even using center ball this was an optical allusion, at least to me.
I've tried Predator shafts but they didn't play anywhere near as well as my standard shafts. I could do things with the standard shafts that I could not do with the Predator or at least just as well. The shafts of most of the cues I have owned seem to have very little deflection. These were all custom though, not production, which seem to me to have more deflection, at least in my experience.
 
BRKNRUN said:
Are you reading old press reports???

Tiger's swing speed was too great for graphite shafts back then....Tiger "opted" for a steel shaft for personal reasons....same as he opted for a smaller club head and slower face....He tried Nike's driver and did not like it...(which would be just like a modern day pool pro trying a predator and not liking it) ...It was not the right set up...."for him".....Sure it was in the hands of many other players...."all being paid to use it"

What is also not publisized is that the smaller head was still a customized "for tiger" club head....not something that he bought off a shelf.

It was not like he was still using persimmion woods and hickory shafts.
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Oh i guess its probably old then sorry!
Not a super super golf fan. Just started actually :grin:
Thanks for the information
 
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