Component Weight Matching

Golf Grips

You will want to start with your grips.  Grips of the exact same style and size can vary in weight, sometimes by as much as 9 grams.  Everything else being the same that could change your swingweight by 2.5 points.

You will want to weigh them carefully on a good scale.  Within the same set of golf clubs I would only let your grips vary +/- 1 gram.  This will help ensure that you can much more easily swing weight your clubs.

Golf Shafts

One shaft can vary as much as 10 grams from it counterparts from the same shelf.  It does not matter if they have the same flex and length.  Just because the catalog says a shaft weighs 75 grams does not mean it really does. 

Manufacturing processes cannot hold a tolerance any tighter than that, at least not without charging an arm and a leg. 

Again, you will want to weigh them carefully on a good scale.  +/- 1 gram would be a good tolerance here as well.

Another thing to remember is that with a golf club shaft the weight could be distributed differently throughout the shaft even if the totalweight is within an acceptable tolerance.  This is where the use of a frequency analyzer, a deflection board, or just using your swingweight scale to balance them would be a good idea to further sort your shafts.

Golf Clubheads

With golf clubheads the story is a little different.  You will want to measure them all carefully as you have done with the other components in the component weight matching process. The difference here is that you are not looking for the total weight of each clubhead to be the same, but you are looking at the difference in weight from head to head.

For instance, if there is a 5 gram difference in weight from your 5 iron to your 6 iron, then you will want that same 5 gram difference from your 6 iron to your 7 iron.  Here is what a typical set of irons might look like:

You will notice that these weights are all incrementally different by 7 or 8 grams.  This will give you much more consistency when swingweighting clubs.

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