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Equipment & Fitting · Equipment Insight

Shorter can keep ball speed

After shortening the shaft, the instructor says clubhead speed went down because of the shorter length, but ball speed held because the player got the club back to impact. The fitting lesson is that a shorter driver can trade some speed for better strike without necessarily losing ball speed.

Channel: Club Champion

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Why this context matters

Driver shaft-length tradeoff during a fitting.