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Tom Wishon on Interchangeable Shafts

Filed in archive Golf Equipment by Chris Henry on February 20, 2008

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Nickent Manufacturing has become the latest club maker to join the interchangeable shaft revolution, the new technology that took the PGA Merchandise Show by storm last month.

Thanks to a rule change by the USGA, shafts can be changed during a tournament.

Well, what's the big deal? The pros can already do this prior to a tournament by dropping in to an equipment van and having someone swap shafts for them.

The manufacturers decided to take advantage of this rule change by creating interchangeable shaft technology and market it to the amateur with phrases like "it's like owning your very own tour van". That phrase actually comes directly from the Nickent press release.

Tom Wishon is probably the pre-eminent custom club maker and club fitter in North America today. There is absolutely nothing Wishon doesn't know about how to make a club and how to fit a golfer with a club - or a whole set, for that matter.

He's done it for top professionals and he's done it for recreational players. He's written books on it - mandatory reading for every club fitter and frankly every amateur golfer, too.

So when Tom Wishon hears the manufacturers selling interchangeable shafts as game improving equipment, he smells a rat a mile away.

I had interviewed Tom last year about club fitting in general and he was clear, concise and just a little controversial. But he made sense.

So I turned to Tom again - this time to make sense of this new technology.

Our conversation runs 15 minutes and it's the best free, no B.S., advice you'll find anywhere.

Click below and allow a couple of minutes for the download.

Tom_Wishon Interchangeable Shafts.mp3

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