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Gary Hand

I'm looking at a set of ex demo taylor made tour preffered irons and they are fitted with S300 true temper dynamic gold shafts. I was wondering just how stiff they are?

Obviously i'm not going to buy them without trying them first but I was wondering if anyone had any idea how stiff they are I have done the online fitting guide on the true temper website and they recommend rifle 5.0 and I think they may be a little to stiff at the minute but am wondering if the S300 may be to stiff as well.

 Any help would be appreciated.

David Marshall

Gary. You have only been playing golf for 5 months, you say in your profile you started playing last September. Steer clear of rifle 5.0 shafts, for now. 

S300 are fine for you, for now. Assuming you have a fast smooth swing speed. The regular shafts are designed for slower swing speeds and are very whippy. Stiffer shafts are better for you when your handicap comes down to the mid to low teens.

The only way to know for sure is to try out clubs with different stiffness of shaft to find which is best suited to you. 

Christopher Watmore

Hard to truly offer any advice without knowing what ball flight you currrently have and what your hoping to achieve?

Rifle 5.0 Shafts will launch the ball higher then the S300s, so if you hit a low ball they'd be better then S300s. This is due to the rifles having a different kick point to the S300.

Dynamic Golds are quite heavy shafts as well, probably fair to say the heavyiest steel shafts on the market. S300s will be about 125g, so again depending on what you've used before that could make differences to your game. When I switched to S300 in my last two sets I've found I've lost distance due to losing clubhead speed, because the extra weight means I can't swing the club as fast as with my previous clubs with a 109 gram ZZ65 shaft.

One of the reasons I'm thinking of moving away from S300s this month and moving to a softstepped KBS Stiff shaft in my irons.

Gary Hand

David Marshall

Good luck, Gary..

Enjoy your golf, and may your handicap tumble 

Dave ley

Gary glad your sorted, the s3,s are actually stiffer than the Rifle 5.0's, the 5's are closer to the R3's. As for swinging at your natural speed this is good but important to stay in balance, for a lot of players they need to increase swing speed unfortunately they translate this into a fast backswing, which slows the DS speed.So if you are going to slow anything make it the backswing and the accelerate the downswing.

Chris W, you will love the KBS,s the most stable shaft I have ever used.I have three of my sets with the 5.5's I would be very suprised if you would need to softstep them though.Chris don't discount R400's I have these in my Maruman Blades an perform as good as anything they play alot firmer than reg, and are alot cheaper than the KB's.