Swingweighting I5's

[radforas]

Are hosel weights OK?

I want to get the swingweight up on some i5's I'm getting for Xmas.(the wife won't let me have them early but I've swung them in the yard behind her back. LOL) The shafts are the Ping DSGs which I believe are Dynamic Gold S400s made for ping. I think they are 0.355 taper tips.(please correct me if I'm wrong) My question is will these accept the standard hosel weights or am I stuck sending them back to ping wrx to get the swing weight up? Are the end of the shafts cut square or angled like the hosel? Thanks for any help.

[radforas]

Well... looks like I'll be finding out the hard way. Story of my life.

[elv434]

Square On Bottom, Best Way Is Add Lead Powder

Down The Shaft, Then Add Cork Or Wood Plug

This Will Add Sw And Give Great Feel!

[LowPost42]

No, you cannot use hosel weights. To the best of my knowledge, only GolfSmith and Wishon heads have hosel weight ports.

 

You could use tip weights, however (unless you've dowelled your clubs).

[radforas]

Thanx for the replies. I plan to pull the heads and install shaft tip weights if I can't get used to the lighter feel.

[eagles1]

Note that if you do it yourself you will void your Ping warranty. For what it's worth.

[eagles1]

I just prucahsed i5's myself off the rack from ebay 3-pw for 400.00. Pretty god deal I think. Anyhow, the swingweight is D0 which is much too low. The shafts are CS Lite stiff.

 

Anyhow, I went out today and bought lead in 3.5gram increments. I wound up putting 3 peices on each for a total of 10.5. Does anyone know what that will change my swingweight to. They still seem pretty light.

 

At the end of the day, I am either going to send back to Ping to have weight canged (for 14.00 per club or have then reshafted with ss-65 stiff for 32.00. Included in that 32 they will change your weight to what you want so unless I really fall in love with these shafts, I'm going to change the shafts. Playing with them for the first time tomorrow. I will report how I do. I'm a 10 handicap.

[Skydiver22]

First of PING has no warranty program. It the club is defective or breaks during routine use it will be repaired or fixed... bottom line all charges are at the discretion of the repair dept.

 

Second... more than likely the I5's were re shafted my the previous owner. I5's were standard with CS lite shafts, although there might have been a wrx shaft upgrade. Calling their customer service line and giving them the serial number will tell you the history of the clubs.

Last as for the clubs... pay the money and get the port weights changed to the swingweight you want... that is the best way to do it, all else is monkey work. Also the ZZ65 shaft has beaten all other shaft on consistency test and dynamic testing, they are more expensive to make than a Dynamic Gold... that is why the S 57's went to the DGS, cost savings