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I work two jobs, I am a senior manager at a now shut down uranium enrichment plant. X health physic manager and x maintenance manager. secondly: Own and operate a Golf custom fitting shop, repair facility and driving range with Mrs McGolf

I does appear the grip provides the counter balancing, You can a replacement PING 15" grip and build up the grip for a larger size. You could also get the counter core SS grip. I would weigh the grip when you take it off to make sure you get the approximate same weighted grip to replace it. You could get a regular larger grip and put in a balance certified weight or tour lock. or you could put on some lead tape along the shaft an d the regular grip

I have P2 grip on my flat stix. Although thinking of the SNSR red next

The new design that Barbajo put on is far superior to the original model. The initial idea behind the grips was the sized allowed the grip to lower and allow for great hand action/ movement. whatever your belief. The grip is heavier than a regular grip for sure. However the weight of the club moves to the hands and you can track the club that way. They have a sm grip that Jumbo users will certainly like. The XL hmmmmm I dunno

That's the way we have been building them for years and for the reason you posted. Enjoy

I am in agreement with jaskanski. It would greatly depend on velocity of the club head mashing against the ball and then where the impact occurs. If you are hitting say near the crown with a higher than average club head speed then failure is bound to happen. however if you are hitting in the middle fairly consistently then it should be a very long time before anything noticeable happens to the club head. and yes I would expect the shaft to fail first.

Take a look at the "HIGH LAUNCH" x flex. even if the flex is mega stiff the profile of shaft can certainly change the way the ball comes off the club. v2 HL is a tip flexible shaft that adds well launch and spin. I'm guessing when you put a tighter shaft say an AXIV black or VTS tourspx xflex black too stay in the UST company would be a great choice

The graphite did not melt per-sey however you weekend it when you applied heat and then went to twisting the shaft. That separated the graphite strands and did not a transfer the force to the outer layer. much like bending a coat hangar until it breaks you did that to the inside portion of the shaft where the outside was still stuck to the wall of the hosel. Think how hard it was turning off the steel shaft and now doing that to a pencil. The above advice is spot on, a puller is needed using about the amount of heat.