After owning a Rapture 10.5 driver (the original one) for a few years now and only taking it out of the bag for the two widest fairways on my local course I decided to cut the shaft down to 43'' from 45''.
Even at the range where there's no pressure I could only manage 20%-25% accuracy, just couldn't control it at all...
So after reading several posts on here about driver lengths I decided to remove 2'' from the butt of the shaft.
Armed with solvent and a tool similar to the V-Groove Grip Remover I safely removed the grip, cut the shaft and recycled the old grip. (This was last weekend)
So, yesterday I took the "new" driver out on the course and I couldn't believe how much easier it was to hit the "beast". The ball flight was so much more penetrating and I gained 20-30 yards (although this is simply because I can now control the driver and actually hit it! Before I was unable to generate clubhead speed and if I did, the clubhead definitely wasn't square at impact.
Ok... so it's only been one round but I can't argue with the results, I still have shots which do go right...way right...but with much less frequency than before.....
I was contemplating getting a new more "forgiving" driver and was looking at the latest sticks hoping to get better results, although what would be the point of getting a new driver and coffing up upwards of £200 for a new stick which would again be too long for me?
I don't want to advocate people cutting down their driver shafts if they can't control their shots although as it's been widely discussed, the older shafts used to be 43'' before marketing ploys by the big manufacturers claiming longer distances with longer shafts, why should amateurs such as myself have to use longer more difficult to control drivers? It's been said tour pro driver size averages are around 44.5'', why should the rest of us use longer drivers than the tour pros?
Anyway just wanted to share my feedback on here as I've learnt a lot simply by reading forum posts.
Cheers
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