Longer shaft in a 7 wood?

[golferdon]

Anybody playing with a 5 wood length shaft in a 7 wood?  I am considering this due to the tight winter time lies in Florida. 
Any advice?  What should I expect?  

[cnosil]

11 minutes ago, golferdon said:

Anybody playing with a 5 wood length shaft in a 7 wood?  I am considering this due to the tight winter time lies in Florida. 
Any advice?  What should I expect?  

My opinion, the lie shouldn’t influence shaft length; that would be sole design consideration.   
 

what are you retrying to accomplish?  If I were to generalize, what you would see is a harder to hit club due to increased length and potentially more distance on good strikes due to a potential for increased club speed due to increased shaft length.  

[golferdon]

One could also call it pulling a 5 wood head and replacing with a 7 wood head.  The point being to get more loft hitting off such tight lies while trying to keep maintain distance.  

[03trdblack]

I play my 5 and 7 wood with the same length shafts. I needed the 7 wood to go a little further to hit my gaps. 

[RickyBobby_PR]

I don’t play a 7 word that way but do play 4/5 woods with 3w shaft length.

each persons results will vary based on how they react to the length of the club, weight and feel.

I get more distance due to slight increase in speed and my launch characteristics don’t change much

[CarlH]

On 3/3/2023 at 8:39 AM, golferdon said:

Anybody playing with a 5 wood length shaft in a 7 wood?  I am considering this due to the tight winter time lies in Florida. 
Any advice?  What should I expect?  

That's essentially what my Heaven Wood is.  You will maintain the launch characteristics of your 7 wood and add a bit of length (in theory, anyway)

[Weekend_Warrior]

I think the only potential issue could be the increase in swing weight. 

[Kenny B]

On 3/5/2023 at 6:26 AM, CarlH said:

That's essentially what my Heaven Wood is.  You will maintain the launch characteristics of your 7 wood and add a bit of length (in theory, anyway)

Exactly why I play the HeavenWood.  It's my goto club for longer distances from not-so-good lies.

[Teapop]

On 3/3/2023 at 9:54 PM, cnosil said:

My opinion, the lie shouldn’t influence shaft length; that would be sole design consideration.   
 

what are you retrying to accomplish?  If I were to generalize, what you would see is a harder to hit club due to increased length and potentially more distance on good strikes due to a potential for increased club speed due to increased shaft length.  

Because of that, do we need to consider the length of the shaft?

[Beakbryce]

Story: needed a stiff shaft in my Epic driver so ordered just the shaft from Callaway pre-owned. Put the driver regular shaft in the 3 wood, the 3 wood shaft in the 5 wood, and the 5 wood shaft in my heavenwood. This added a few yards and fixed the yardage gap between my 4 hybrid and my 5 wood. Plus, for some reason and just me I guess, but they were straighter. Nice thing about the Epic club line that you can buy shafts and change them in about 1 minute.

[Kenny B]

30 minutes ago, Beakbryce said:

Story: needed a stiff shaft in my Epic driver so ordered just the shaft from Callaway pre-owned. Put the driver regular shaft in the 3 wood, the 3 wood shaft in the 5 wood, and the 5 wood shaft in my heavenwood. This added a few yards and fixed the yardage gap between my 4 hybrid and my 5 wood. Plus, for some reason and just me I guess, but they were straighter. Nice thing about the Epic club line that you can buy shafts and change them in about 1 minute.

I have a Callaway driver, 3W, Heavenwood, and 9 Wood.  I thought the Heavenwood was a strong 7W with a 5W shaft in it.  I was told that the shaft was 1/4" longer than a 5W shaft.  I love that club!