[EnglishGolfer]

My driver seems fairly consistently around 95 mph and I tend to hit it about 270 but with a slightly wider arc occassionally nudge through the 300 barrier on a nice day. I've not measured my swing speed of my 7iron but it goes 150yards almost to the inch.

What I don't get is how although i know many people who swing faster than me, they only hit similar iron distances and often considerably less with a driver (the exception being players who are much better than me of course). Clearly there is more to be gained by hitting consistently easily from the sweet spot than by trying to kill it and hitting outside the optimum strike zone of the club face.

You, like me, are in the "no mans land" of shaft flex. Stiff is too stiff and regular is not stiff enough when it comes to stock shafts (or at least the ones that I've tried).