STEEL SHAFTS.

Northern Advocate, 16 June 1930, Page 9

STEEL SHAFTS.

FAVOURED BY STARS. “■ LONGER DRIVE. . Steel-shafted* golf clubs have hot ~j been in use in Sydney long, enough ', tq get definite dat.a, as to ; . whether they give, greater distance or accuracy, or both, wrifes Hector Morrfeon * in Sydney “Guardian.” I l ' Eat definite. ipforpiatioii ' as- t-o"• steel-shafted dubs giving much greater distance than hickory is avail' ; able from Great Britain. V At the Mote Mont Club, near Mill - Hill, .recently, Phillip Elliott covered 2,400 yards in, eight tee shote during • one round, averaging 300 yards a drive. One drive measured 320 yards. Leading players here are 'unanimous as to steel-shafted, dubs giving greater length. C. H. Fawcett is using, a, steely shafted driver and considers that i|has put about 30 yards on. to; • hl|* drive. F. G, Murdoch and Nigefe Smith are both convinced that with . , both woods and, iron steel shafts giyeV, not only greater length,, . but . alspVJ; greater accuracy. - yj; HARSH ‘‘FEEL.” According to Murdoch, no maft^;/' whether a ball is hit on toe or heel y : of the club face it still goes straight, .-' though, of course, it is still a weak - -■ sort of a ; shpt. ; This peculiar feature of the 'metalshafted club can be explained by the... • absence of torque, compared, with the hickory shaft. y My own, experience with, all-metal dubs, although I have had; only a ft-W shots with them, is that there, is.:# certain “harshness” compared witV hickory. l;