About a month ago I bought a nike SQ driver clone (Sv2) fitted with a
harrison striper titanium shaft. This was a fantastic feeling club.
It was so much fun to hit and I could just rip at it knowing it was
going long and straight. Then one day on a heel hit the head
cracked. I've never had any problem with clone clubs in the past so
this incident seems anomalous and nothing to discourage me from
clones, but I digress...
I received a free replacement head from the place where I bought the
club and had it reassembled with the old harrison shaft at a local pro
shop. Here is where my question(s) comes in, now with this club,
presumably it should be the exact same thing, and behave the same way
right? But it's all I can do to NOT hit a hard fade with it now.
With the old one that cracked if I made any mistakes they were
slightly left, never right, although with my past drivers and other
woods my more natural tendency was to have a slight fade. What could
be happening here with this club?
Here are the things I'm considering:
1) my swing has freaked out, it's not the club.
- I really don't think this is it. I still have my old Ignite clone
and still hit it with the same controlled fade I always have had with
it. Plus, none of the compensation adjustments (grip, swing plane, alignment, etc..) I know to work with my
swing prevent the slice with this replacement Sv2. There is nothing I
can do to stop the fade/slice. With the original head I had to make a
very deliberate effort to get any fade at all. I'm reasonably
confident it's not my swing.
2) the club head is somehow different and flawed.
- I've got nothing to lead me to believe this, it looks just the same,
but could there be a variance from head to head that would produce
such different results?
3) the guy who assembled it did something wrong.
- I don't know much about club assembly, it looks pretty straight
forward. But is there anything that one might do wrong which could
cause the club to perform like this?
4) is the ferrule to blame?
- this may be grasping... but I did notice right away that the ferrule
used by the local proshop guy was longer than the original. The
original was 1/2" as it appears to be on all my clubs. The one this
guy used is 3/4". Is it possible that the extra length somehow
interferes with the flex and/or kick of the shaft? This shaft is
touted as being "fast recovering" to reduce lag. 1/4" doesn't seem
like much, but could it be an issue?
I'm both perplexed and disappointed, because I assumed that I'd have
my great feeling club back, but I can't even put this in the bag the
way I'm hitting it now. If anyone has anny ideas for cause and/or
solution I am all ears.
harrison striper titanium shaft. This was a fantastic feeling club.
It was so much fun to hit and I could just rip at it knowing it was
going long and straight. Then one day on a heel hit the head
cracked. I've never had any problem with clone clubs in the past so
this incident seems anomalous and nothing to discourage me from
clones, but I digress...
I received a free replacement head from the place where I bought the
club and had it reassembled with the old harrison shaft at a local pro
shop. Here is where my question(s) comes in, now with this club,
presumably it should be the exact same thing, and behave the same way
right? But it's all I can do to NOT hit a hard fade with it now.
With the old one that cracked if I made any mistakes they were
slightly left, never right, although with my past drivers and other
woods my more natural tendency was to have a slight fade. What could
be happening here with this club?
Here are the things I'm considering:
1) my swing has freaked out, it's not the club.
- I really don't think this is it. I still have my old Ignite clone
and still hit it with the same controlled fade I always have had with
it. Plus, none of the compensation adjustments (grip, swing plane, alignment, etc..) I know to work with my
swing prevent the slice with this replacement Sv2. There is nothing I
can do to stop the fade/slice. With the original head I had to make a
very deliberate effort to get any fade at all. I'm reasonably
confident it's not my swing.
2) the club head is somehow different and flawed.
- I've got nothing to lead me to believe this, it looks just the same,
but could there be a variance from head to head that would produce
such different results?
3) the guy who assembled it did something wrong.
- I don't know much about club assembly, it looks pretty straight
forward. But is there anything that one might do wrong which could
cause the club to perform like this?
4) is the ferrule to blame?
- this may be grasping... but I did notice right away that the ferrule
used by the local proshop guy was longer than the original. The
original was 1/2" as it appears to be on all my clubs. The one this
guy used is 3/4". Is it possible that the extra length somehow
interferes with the flex and/or kick of the shaft? This shaft is
touted as being "fast recovering" to reduce lag. 1/4" doesn't seem
like much, but could it be an issue?
I'm both perplexed and disappointed, because I assumed that I'd have
my great feeling club back, but I can't even put this in the bag the
way I'm hitting it now. If anyone has anny ideas for cause and/or
solution I am all ears.