Why lengthen golf clubs

Installing longer shafts in wedges and short irons will almost always result in more distance, as most players have little trouble swinging the shorter clubs. As you move toward the longer clubs in your bag, however, the increased length can actually result in less distance because lengthening your shafts alters other aspects of the club's performance.

As a general rule, lengthening any club's shaft will reduce your accuracy with that club. The longer the club, the more difficult it becomes to hit the ball solidly. This is especially true when the ball is on the ground rather than on a tee, since hitting the ball fat is more likely.

Hitting the ball off-center with a longer shaft creates more unintended side spin. Swing weight isn't an actual weight so much as a comparison of the difference in weight between the club head and the butt end of the shaft. It's expressed as a letter-number combination, such as C9 or D2. Lengthening the shaft increases the swing weight, which makes the club head feel heavier. Does adding shaft extensions have a negative? Money well spent and no negative side effects. I am six three and needed the length as well.

Good luck. I don't think so. I've had to do that very thing in the past and as long as it's done by someone who knows what they are doing, you should be fine. It will make the club a little heavier, but i never thought that was a bad thing anyway. That was my first experience with a shaft extender and I didn't notice anything different. I would say to go for it. It's a cheap and easy way to get yourself the fit that you need.

I'd say go get fit. I'm 6'5" and mine are 1" long too. Even if it costs you a few bucks for new shafts, you're still out less than buying a full set. Going up a half inch or a full inch will not hurt performance. When you choose to go off the beaten path the customer tends to resist. But what is that single-length or non-traditional-length demographic breakdown? Is the current 2 percent Golf Datatech has recorded a fad or the early moments of a tipping point?

What may be more telling is this: Several major manufacturers who do not make single-length irons were contacted for this story. Aside from one, all declined to offer comment. Are they trying to kill the momentum or simply hedging their bets in case the opportunity to pursue single-length becomes too obvious to ignore?

Vindication of a sort, albeit belated. We might not have to wait that long for a consensus on single-length irons.

Full Leaderboard. News Single-length irons: Can one size fit all? Component company Sterling has a set, which is also offered by Tom Wishon Golf because Wishon was a co-designer of the clubs , that has drawn good notice. In , DeChambeau signed with Cobra Golf , and Cobra has since become the first major manufacturer to get into the single-length game. As of this writing, Cobra remains the only major manufacturer in the one-length market.

Another option that we might be seeing in the future is iron sets with a limited number of lengths. Rather than all the irons being the same length, they can be grouped into subsets so that, for example, the 4-, 5- and 6-irons are the same length; the 7-, 8- and 9-irons are shorter but the same as each other; and so on for the wedges.

A company called Equs makes such a set and the point, like with true one-length irons, is simplifying the setup and swing. It might be the event that turns single-length from a curiosity into a more mainstream option. Will it spur any of his fellow pros to try single-length? But what might cause more major manufacturers to get into the market is if any kind of demand, even just a small amount, comes from recreational golfers.

No major manufacturer wants to miss out on anything that has even a whiff of "next big thing" about it remember when they were all rushing to make square-headed drivers? Could single-length irons some day rival - or even overtake - traditional irons in the marketplace? Experimentation in design, materials and tech should, over time, address the current issues with single-length irons.

It could go the way of metal drivers. In the early days of metal woods, better golfers tended to avoid them because their tech was just emerging and their benefits were mostly for weaker players, who got much more forgiveness out of them than with persimmon drivers.

As metal woods matured - the technology, materials and designs improved - they started having appeal to the best golfers, too. Over time - 15 years or so, a relatively short time in golf's history - persimmon drivers disappeared from golf.

Traditional-length irons will never disappear, but we do believe that single-length irons have at least a chance of being the future of golf. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile.