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Re: Is the bend in the shaft in this picture real ?
the pictures speak for themselves the shaft you use is too flexible for your swing speed and release. Ideally the shaft should bend or load during the downswing and this bend can be quite significant but the perfect position to optimize speed and control would be for the shaft to return to basically straight at impact. This would indicate that the shaft is in mid recovery and the club head is in a similar position as address. When the shaft bend recovery is this early club head speed may actually be increased slightly but some control is lost. The most rare is a club head that lags behind the hands at impact and can be attributed to a fairly late release. These type of players will generally slice a shaft that is too weak as opposed to most of us who will hook a weak shaft. It is not a photo trick, the golf shaft bends much more than we think it does. I really like the slow motion we see on tour now the impact of the ball has a marked reaction to the shaft and it immediately begins a rapid oscillation due to impact.
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